December is always a bit of a dead zone for big pop albums, unless it's 2013 and your name is Beyoncé Knowles-Carter. So for this month's column... Some notes: The boundaries of "pop" grow wider and ...

The New York Times’s pop music critic Lindsay Zoladz shares five of her favorite songs from 2023, and the reason she has them on repeat. See her longer Best Songs of 2023 list, as well as others from ...

2023 was an interesting year for music. The past twelve months saw the resurgence of old favorites, controversial acts rising to the top (for whatever reason), and national treasures playing the role ...

Where do songs come from? For now, they come from us — from our needs, our wants, our regrets, our scorn. Next year, they might come from a box brought to near-sentience by all the songs that came ...