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The Times's pop music team on music news, new songs and albums, and artists of note.

The Times's pop music team on music news, new songs and albums, and artists of note.

  1. The Best Albums of 2021? Let’s Discuss.

    Our critics spar over their year-end lists (and agree on Olivia Rodrigo and Tyler, the Creator) in a wrap-up of the year in LPs.

  2. Remembering Stephen Sondheim, Musical Theater Visionary

    A conversation about his legacy, his engagements with pop music and whether he has any true inheritors.

  3. Adele Returns, From Beyond Space and Time

    Will we ever see a star who unites audiences like this British musician again?

  4. The Emotional and Financial Business of Taylor Swift’s ‘All Too Well’

    What does the rerecorded song from “Red” say about how power and the past have shaped her career?

  5. Remembering the Velvet Underground Through the Mirror of Film

    A conversation about how the band was experienced in its time, and how Todd Haynes’s new documentary explores the world that birthed it.

  6. How the Mosh Pit and ‘Raging’ Came to Hip-Hop

    The tragedy at Travis Scott’s Astroworld turned attention to how rap festival performances are increasingly oriented toward the rowdy.

  7. Popcast Mailbag! Halsey, Nicki, TikTok and, of Course, Taylor

    Answering your questions about pop’s big names, the state of the music video and more.

  8. glaive and Hyperpop’s Breakthrough Moment

    A conversation about one teen’s rapid ascent, and what the future might hold for a singer and sound evolving in real time.

  9. The Music Lost to Coronavirus, Part 3

    Remembering Jacob Desvarieux, John Davis and Chucky Thompson.

  10. Reporters Who Covered R. Kelly on His Trial and Conviction

    A conversation about the testimony, the meaning of the verdict and the long quest for proper recompense for the singer’s victims.