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10 Standout R.E.M. Deep Cuts (Published 2024)

Going to see the R.E.M. cover band play the album I quoted in my high school yearbook with a high school friend tonight 😭 www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/a...

the best of 2025 / better late than never
albums: bit.ly/4plZB9Y
songs: bit.ly/4qytAwj

John Tesh Keeps Bouncing Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba Back

JOHN TESH is somehow exactly who you think he is and completely not what you’d expect. I profiled another Long Island piano man as “Roundball Rock” returns to NBC. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/a...

Watching drag queens wrestle to a remix of Lady Gaga’s “Shadow of a Man”

Panic ate all the conventional snacks 5 innings ago. Going to have to get creative.

Dark Pop Is In. But Gaga Is Mother.

Lady Gaga’s Mayhem Ball is the pop event of the year, so I made Wesley Morris come see it so we could discuss. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...

The Rapture! “House of Jealous Lovers”

Why Is Taylor Swift So Polarizing? And Other Big ‘Showgirl’ Questions

This is turning into the most interesting Taylor Swift album to argue over. So we did, on a crew reunion Popcast. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/a...

Blessed to have spent my 20s inside the “Yes New York” comp

I’m always here to help

VMAs winner Lady Gaga at MSG tonight 😭

Lady Gaga finally found a way to tap into all the things that made her so thrilling and enchanting 15 years ago in her new live show. The Mayhem Ball is 10/10 (but a few notes).

‘Fleetwood Mac’ at 50: A Marvel of Serendipity and Perfectionism

A Critic's Notebook:

‘Fleetwood Mac’ at 50: A Marvel of Serendipity and Perfectionism www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/a...

A pair of kids slayed the Elaine dance contest this year

Bless Weird Al for getting Puddles Pity Party on the MSG stage

You knew this was coming

Were any of those in traffic tho

Grace Jones will not be contained by the Prospect Park curfew

Her Name Is Nicole 😭

Did not have “Jonathan Groff straddles Keanu Reeves” in our Tonys predictions

The rare Popcast / “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” crossover moment www.nytimes.com/2023/08/15/a...

Tracy Chapman Wants to Speak for Herself

🚨 Tracy Chapman interview siren 🚨

@lindsayzoladz.bsky.social with a lovely, illuminating (and rare) conversation: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/a...

Lady Gaga Sells ‘Mayhem’ Hard. But Does It Work? On Popcast, a discussion about the singer’s latest “return to form” album and whether her aggressive promotion of it adds up to anything new.

Parched Lady Gaga fans are willing a sip of the good stuff into … something more.

Talking “Mayhem” with @lindsayzoladz.bsky.social (who doesn’t necessarily agree with me!) and Joe Coscarelli (who sort of does, but there are other issues there) on Popcast. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/a...

A piece of red velvet cake with white frosting jammed into a takeout container.

And yes, it's been a while ... (but it's still here)

BRITNEY SPEARS: PART 3 (with The New York Times' Caryn Ganz) Podcast Episode · Pop Pantheon · 03/13/2025 · 2h 16m

In honor of the piece of Britney Spears's birthday cake that has been in my freezer since 2008, I joined @djlouiexiv.bsky.social on Pop Pantheon to talk about her most chaotic and musically fascinating era.
bit.ly/4iw9bEe (Apple)
bit.ly/3FvX8Ze (Spotify)

Peter Sichel, Wine Merchant With a Cloak-and-Dagger Past, Dies at 102 He played a crucial role in the early days of the C.I.A., as a station chief in Cold War Berlin and Hong Kong, before shifting gears to popularize Blue Nun wine.

Delicious again, Peter www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/d...

Rihanna Is the People’s Pop Star She’s a titan of music, a mother of two, a self-made mogul, and the newly minted face of Dior J’adore. Twenty years since her first chart-topping single, Rihanna just might have manifested her dream l...

Many of pop’s biggest stars have stopped doing interviews, but one woman has picked up the slack*

*to mostly talk about her non-musical ventures, but still!

www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...

After that horrifying Olivia Rodrigo lip sync and this disastrous Snatch Game, nearly all of these Drag Race queens should be fired

Vocals are sterling tonight