On his pristine new album, “Ride Lonesome,” rock’s chameleon revisits his most pensive, stately sound.

A FEW days after Sept. 11, Bruce Springsteen was pulling out of a beach parking lot in the Jersey Shore town of Sea Bright when a fan rode by. The man rolled down his window, shouted, ''We need you!''...

Splattering figures like Bill Gates, Jean-Luc Godard and Bernard-Henri Lévy, he perfected the art of using whipped cream as a form of protest.

Splattering figures like Bill Gates, Jean-Luc Godard and Bernard-Henri Lévy, he perfected the art of using whipped cream as a form of protest.

Two of her defining hits — “Jolene” and “I Will Always Love You” — were perhaps written in the same day. In different ways, they found sturdy melodies for precarious emotions.

Two of her defining hits — “Jolene” and “I Will Always Love You” — were perhaps written in the same day. In different ways, they found sturdy melodies for precarious emotions.

The Statue of Liberty is caught between the sublime and the souvenir, our critic Jason Farago explains. Look again: She’s much stranger than you think.

On his new album, the ex-Beatle revisits his past and revels in simply continuing to create.

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The Grammy Award-winning singer and star of the movie “The Harder They Come” died of pneumonia, his wife said.

The multicultural awards ceremony hinted at rediscovered roots and ways forward as Karol G, Paloma Morphy and Liniker also earned big wins.

In 1975, she transformed poetry into punk. Neither would ever be the same. More than 20 artists who made and admired the album share their memories.

The soul singer, songwriter and producer, who died on Tuesday at 51, released three studio albums of meticulously constructed, vocally ambitious, genre-crossing music.