Lindsay Zoladz
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10 Songs that Explain My Year
A playlist of songs from artists including Liz Phair, Drake and John Cale that explain our critic’s year.
What Older Song Did You Discover This Year?
We want to know why it resonated with you.
Doja Cat Makes the Leap From the Internet to the Arena Stage
The extremely online 28-year-old singer and rapper’s Scarlet Tour accentuates her flair for big statements.
Brenda Lee, a Queen of Christmas and So Much More
“Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” has been a holiday staple for 65 years. But Lee, who recorded it at 13, has never rested on her...
Taylor Swift’s ‘“Slut!”’ and the Evolution of a Pop Star Feminist
The bonus track from “1989 (Taylor’s Version)” revisits a moment when she was carefully calibrating her public transition into adulthood and superstardom.
PinkPantheress on Her New Album, ‘Heaven Knows’
The 22-year-old British singer and producer learned to do things for herself early on. With “Heaven Knows,” a new album out in November, she’s preparing...
Enough About Gram Parsons’s Death. It’s Time to Celebrate His Music.
The country-rock pioneer died 50 years ago at age 26 with two influential solo albums to his name, leaving a legion of “what if”s behind.
Jamila Woods Puts Herself at the Center of “Water Made Us”
“Water Made Us,” a new album due Oct. 13, achieves the musician’s greatest synthesis yet between her voices as a poet and as a songwriter.
Are We Finally Ready to Take Tammy Wynette Seriously?
The unsung godmother of so-called “sad girl” music — and one of pop’s most wrenching chroniclers of feminized pain — has long been misunderstood.
Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga Dueted. Their Stars Were Reborn.
The crooner and the pop star seemed like unlikely collaborators when they joined up in 2014. But the two masters of reinvention inspired and bolstered...