Pop and Rock Music

October 16, 2019

Floating Points, Electronic Music’s King of Pain

Since he emerged as one of the standout D.J.s at the London club Plastic People in the late aughts, Sam Shepherd, who makes slow-building, deliberate electronic […]
January 26, 2018

Up Next: Meet Jaimie Wilson, a Transgender Activist With Guitar in Hand

Advertisement Name Jaimie Wilson Age 22 Hometown Howell, Mich. Now Lives In a two-bedroom apartment in the East Village of Manhattan that he shares with a […]
December 26, 2017

The Avalanche of Rock ‘n’ Roll Death

Andre Calilhanna, like countless kids before him, fell hard for rock ‘n’ roll. It was the early 1980s in suburban Maryland and his parents were Middle-Eastern […]
October 30, 2017

Encounters: Rostam Batmanglij, Formerly of Vampire Weekend, Gets Lost in Brooklyn

Encounters By MAX BERLINGER Three years ago, Rostam Batmanglij moved to Los Angeles from New York. Then he left Vampire Weekend, the popular band he helped […]
September 19, 2017

The Least-Known Most Influential Man in Fashion

These days Rihanna is a designer. So is Kanye. So is Pharrell. So is Selena. Musicians have gone from fashion muses to fashion makers in the […]
June 16, 2017

Vows: Don’t Fall in Love With Me, She Said. He Wouldn’t Listen.

Vows By LOUISE RAFKIN When Devin Peralta and Lindsay Howard met more than a dozen years ago, neither could have predicted a future that involved waking […]
December 30, 2016

George Michael’s ‘Freedom’ Video, From the View of Its Stars and Fans

Pop music and fashion never met cuter than in George Michael’s “Freedom! ’90” video. Sure, other catwalk favorites starred in music videos during that era, and […]
December 2, 2016

Night Out: Joe Jonas Finally Feels Like Himself

Night Out By VALERIYA SAFRONOVA Wearing red Dior sneakers, black Dior jeans and an olive pullover, Joe Jonas swept into Clockwork Bar on the Lower East […]
November 10, 2016

How the Rolling Stones Became Fashion Icons

On May 4, 1963, the Rolling Stones, then a scrappy quintet known mostly for banging out Chuck Berry covers, gathered for their first official photo shoot […]
September 14, 2016

Alicia Keys and the ‘Tyranny of Makeup’

It was the Friday before Labor Day, and Alicia Keys, the 35-year-old pop star, was on the “Today” show performing for the program’s summer concert series […]