Pop and Rock Music

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The producer and performer’s short but influential career had a profound impact on the way modern pop music sounds. She died after a fall in Athens. Source

The producer and performer distilled speed, noise, melody and clarity, working simultaneously at the experimental fringes of dance music and the center of pop. Source

Hear tracks by FKA twigs, Jupiter & Okwess, Prettymuch and others. Source

The independent company Primary Wave Music acquired recordings by Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and other pioneers — but not the music of one of Sun’s biggest stars, Elvis Presley. Source

Hear tracks by Weezer, Camilo, Deb Never and others. Source

The 20-year-old British singer and songwriter makes music that captures modern-day misery in a way that feels improbably heartening. Her debut album is due this month. Source

The debut single from the 17-year-old Disney actress became a TikTok smash, broke Spotify records and topped the Billboard chart thanks to a “perfect storm” of quality, gossip and marketing. Source

He was convicted of murder and died an inmate in California, but the producer’s work in the early 1960s is an inextricable part of pop music history. Source

One of the most influential figures in popular music, he was serving a prison sentence for the murder of a woman who was fatally shot in his home in 2003. Source

Hear tracks from Lana Del Rey, Aly & AJ, Drive-By Truckers and others. Source


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