Ethel Merman sang it first, in the 1936 Cole Porter musical “Red, Hot and Blue,” which became the title of the 1990 AIDS awareness album “Red Hot + Blue.” On a starry compilation of pop covers of ...

Welcome to our weekly music post, where we spotlight our favorite new songs and albums. Hop in the comments and tell us: What ...

In St Etienne, it is usually Bob Stanley who suggests the band’s tightly defined album concepts. What if you graft folk ...

The late Elliott Smith’s songs moved a whole lot of people, and they continue to pop up in unexpected places. This summer, we ...

Your average cult band might make a handful of great, overlooked albums, split up in frustration, and eventually reunite to ...

Forty years after Soft Cell turned a Northern Soul club classic into an electro-pop hit, ‘Tainted Love’ has hit a billion ...

The emo/pop punk band also have upcoming tour dates, including a Brooklyn show with Oso Oso and Wakelee this week.

Take Me Back” is a jaunty tune, a ’90s-inflected sound in the vein of Sheryl Crow or the Indigo Girls, which feels especially thematically appropriate given the contents of the lyrics. Also ...

And what a delight it is. Pure loveliness from start to finish, electro-art-pop that lies somewhere between Robyn and Brian ...

Grace Jones and Janelle Monáe’s coheadlining summer tour is an intergenerational celebration of gender-expansive Black women for the ages.

Ava Max ‘s “Lovin Myself” tops this week’s new music poll. In a poll published Friday (May 30) on Billboard, music fans chose the pop singer’s latest single as their favorite new release of the past ...