Amanda Petrusich

The singer-songwriter and Weezer front man on the making of the band’s new LP, the Gold Album, his relationship with his father, and the stories we tell about ourselves.

From the daily newsletter: the musician, who died today, at the age of eighty, leaves behind a legacy of enormous warmth and tenderness.

Ella Langley’s chart-topping lament is about what everyone wants to do in mid-August: give in and let go.

On their new albums, Charli XCX and the Strokes flirt with the idea of “rock music.” But it seems more like they’re inhabiting the machine than like they’re raging against it.

His new album, “Oh Yeah?,” marries the offline charms of nineties R. & B. with the disaffection of a life lived through a screen.

The World Cup halftime show, which also featured Justin Bieber, BTS, and Shakira, was premised on the idea that music—and celebrity—can serve as a cross-cultural panacea.

What to do this week, in New York City and beyond.

After my husband’s death, I had never been more pliable, tender, open, or raw. It was then that I tried E.M.D.R. therapy.

Olivia Rodrigo’s third album charts new sonic ground for the 23-year-old pop singer, inching away from frisky, impish pop-punk and leaning more toward New Wave, with its melodic synthesizers and velvety yearning.

The polymath musician, formerly of Vampire Weekend, likes to push our idea of what a pop song can be.