The Life of Pablo debuted at Madison Square Garden with a mixture of joyful chaos, careful choreography, and boredom.

Both—and the confusion over Frank Ocean’s album title is sign of a wider rebellion from the artist-against-music-industry conventions.

Bruno Mars’s retro pop swept the big categories after a night of blazing performances and of-the-moment causes.

Students’ weeklong occupation of an administrative building may be a harbinger of tenacious pushback at other colleges.

The streaming service dropping R. Kelly and XXXTentacion from playlists is one of the very few signs of a #MeToo reckoning in the music industry.

Sorry, Drake.

Artists are shaping the gun-violence discourse, and the fascinating reaction to their political speech has demonstrated the specific reach they can have.

A new book, from the hosts of the Switched on Pop podcast, approaches the genre with laserlike focus and palpable enthusiasm.

Adobe’s app was once synonymous with fake images online. Then came generative AI.