Concerts

Rediscovered archival concerts—and one recent one—offer important revelations.

Swift is a melodramatist in the best sense, distilling what’s extraordinary in ordinary life, but the movie falls short of her fascinating aesthetic.

For tweens and teens, the film “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” is an opportunity to embody all the emotions and personae of their favorite star, together.

The pop star’s Eras Tour has been inescapable even for the uninitiated. Are we entering a new age of monoculture?

No one could have imagined in 1984 that the concert documentary represented not only the culmination but the conclusion of Talking Heads as a performing band.

Jonathan Demme’s 1984 Talking Heads film is the rare concert movie that is itself a successful work of art.

In his New York début, he was stiff at first, but the crowd loosened him up, and his voice soared.

The staff writer discusses the latest ethical questions about the judge. Plus, the bipartisan effort to rein in Presidential military power; and the music writer Hanif Abdurraqib.

Dance music is full of divisions. But a recent show with Skrillex, Four Tet, and Fred again.. felt like a big coming together.

At Bowery Ballroom, the indie trio continues its holiday tradition of featuring unannounced surprise guests.

At Madison Square Garden, sequinned concertgoers were unfazed by the tabloid news cycle. “I hope he sticks to music mainly,” one said.

In a subculture that thrives on spontaneity and obscurity, Sunny Singh’s video library stands out as a lovingly curated record.

A pair of concerts toward the end of the jazz musician’s life capture his quest for new styles.

The adventurous vocal ensemble turns precision into wonder.

A retrospective for the artist known for designing the creature in Ridley Scott’s “Alien” pairs a metal concert with tentacle-porn-adjacent works.

A night out in Brooklyn with the psychedelic-punk band’s frontmen, Andrew Savage and Austin Brown, just before the release of their pandemic opus “Sympathy for Life,” which, naturally, was recorded before the pandemic.

The singer-songwriter tries to hold down an uncertain moment.

If no mask wadded up toilet paper just as good or nah?

Learning to love music—and to hate it, too.

The queer performance artist has improbably become one of Bulgaria’s most famous singer-songwriters.