When The New York Times Magazine (NYT) put out a list of “The 30 Greatest Living American Songwriters” in April, they were ...
"You hear these guys competing for the worst take?" says musicologist Rick Beato, whose channel has 5.6 million subscribers ...
Rick Beato examines a podcast featuring New York Times music critics discussing their recent list of the 30 greatest living ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a critic, it’s not exactly encouraging when you’ve been assigned to review a documentary called The Last Critic. Given the ...
If you’ve ever found yourself tapping your foot to the smooth, haunting melodies of Fleetwood Mac, you’re not alone. Their 1977 album “Rumours” has just been crowned the most “nearly perfect” album of ...
For the music critic John Rockwell, Soho was an ideal home base. He could walk to see performances by Meredith Monk or Steve Reich in lofts that didn’t look so different from the one he lived in at ...
Rodrigo’s not the only one with new music out; the first quarter of 2026 has already seen album drops from Harry Styles, Robyn, A$AP Rocky, and others. We caught up with Amanda Petrusich, a critic for ...
Two music critics unknowingly bookended Prince’s live career, from a $4 Minneapolis show in 1979 to his final concert a week before his 2016 death.