A far out weekend at the Vegas Sphere
Dead shows, whether Grateful or & Company, bring a bunch of disparate people together
Music
Monday
Thursday
Back to the birth of the Greenwich Village music scene
David Browne’s latest book pivots around 1961
Bud Powell should be a household name
He cherished the few joys in his life and celebrated them through his innovative approach to the piano
Monday
Back to 1984 with Robert Dean Lurie
‘My forty-five-year-old self is inhabiting my nine-year-old body’
Monday
The evergreen, ageless Rolling Stones
How did the band achieve this curious headlock on our affections?
Wednesday
The individualistic talents of the Pet Shop Boys
The eccentricity and idiosyncrasy of Britain’s most commercially successful duo should be cherished and extolled
This month in culture: June 2024
Our guide to what should be on your radar
Thursday
Peter Duchin makes us happy
He is the classiest of class acts
Sunday
An unvarnished insight into the mind of Sonny Rollins
Even if jazz has developed stylistically in ways the jazz saxophonist might not have foreseen, its founding attitudes are enduring
A look into Billie Holiday’s final year
Paul Alexander is on a mission to correct what he sees as misrepresentations of the singer’s life and personality
Monday
Bob Marley: One Love and the surefire success of music biopics
They provide the unmissable opportunity for an up-and-coming actor to become a star
Tuesday
Relive Lou Reed’s wild, contradictory life
In Lou Reed: The King of New York , Will Hermes seems unusually well attuned to his subject, while resisting any temptation to soft-pedal
John Densmore on protecting the Doors’ legacy
The drummer seems to have settled for the role of a wise elder statesman of rock ’n’ roll
Wednesday
Jerry Miller’s tale
Moby Grape could have been a contender but never quite were
Monday
Stereophonic is a love letter to creation
It’s the story of a mid-Seventies rock band coming to terms with success
Tuesday
Britney Spears’s much-anticipated memoir is a desperate cry for help
Once again, America owes the singer an apology — just not for the reasons she suspects
The birth, death and rebirth of American Psycho: The Musical
In the year 2023, improbably as always, the musical proved a success
Friday
The great Marty Stuart, possessor of one of popular music’s legendary guitars
He stands five-foot-seven in his stocking feet, but with Clarence White’s Telecaster slung around his neck, he looks ten feet tall
Age is catching up with our much-beloved musicians
In our increasingly secular age, we worship rock stars as our deities, as figures who inspire our hopes and dreams and fantasies of excess
George Harrison at eighty
Of the four Beatles, Harrison was the most attuned to, and wary of, the mania side of Beatlemania