His brother struck a different tone. “You might have wondered what it would be like to sing this next song with 60,000, 70,000 of your fellow Oasis fans,” Noel Gallagher said, setting up “Don’t Look Back in Anger” as the night wound down. “Well, you’re about to find out what that feeling is like.” After…
At 65, Weird Al still commands the stage like a natural-born rocker, with high kicks and the panache to pull off what few other artists can (including a fat suit). During “Eat It,” a riff on Michael Jackson’s “Beat It,” audience members — many in Hawaiian shirts and sporting curly locks — were on their…
As a teenager, Brian was a fan of Chuck Berry’s rock ’n’ roll but was especially entranced by the close, melting harmonies of the jazz-influenced vocal group the Four Freshmen; he led his brothers in careful recreations of their songs. By 1961, the three Wilson boys were playing rock music with Mr. Love, a cousin,…
In the new romantic dramedy “Materialists,” about 21st-century dating, Dakota Johnson loves cigarettes. Playing Lucy, a New York matchmaker, she’s puffing when she gossips with a pal during a work party. Later, she holds a lighted cigarette near her face while flirting with an ex. There’s no hand-wringing over her smoking. She’s just a smoker….
“Landscape” is just one of those words. It’s lost all mouthfeel. It implies a sort of vastness — “the landscape of history,” “the landscape of man,” “the commercial baking landscape.” As craft, it connotes comeliness: “landscape painting.” In action, it exacts beauty through order: a city’s landscaper. Sly Stone died on Monday, at 82, and…
Jin: check. J Hope: check. And on Tuesday, RM and V: check. That leaves only three members of the K-pop boy band BTS still doing their national service: Jimin, Jungkook and Suga. And when they too are discharged this month, their fans’ long wait will be over. BTS will be civilians again, and a vastly…
Several cities played outsized roles in the life of Sly Stone, the musical innovator who died on Monday at 82. There was Denton, the northern Texas town where he was born; Los Angeles, where he spent his later years; and even New York City, where he played several memorable concerts, including a Madison Square Garden…
▶ Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube 4. Doja Cat: “Paint the Town Red” Doja Cat said what she said. And I’m all ears. This 2023 track from her fourth studio album, “Scarlet,” was her first No. 1 solo smash, and it’s easy to see why: the laid-back bravado, the sharp-edged verses, the ultracool…
