Glass towers crowd the skyline in Manchester, encroaching a bit more each year on the legacy of this northern English city with a musical soul. The sprawl is now creeping toward the Star Garter pub, a slab of Victoriana built in 1877 with checkerboa
On one Friday evening, the conversation in the back room of All Blues in TriBeCa, where about two dozen people sat in leather chairs, was overtaken by the music streaming from three largeepoch game, mid-20th-century speakers. Behind a D.J. booth, Yu
The New York Times’s classical music and opera critics see and hear much more than they review. Here is what hooked them during the past month. Leave your own favorites in the comments. big jackpot‘The Brutalist’ In “The Brutalist,” Brady Corbet’s o
In late 1967, the music journalist Stanley Booth was on assignment to write about the Memphis soul sound for The Saturday Evening Post when he watched Otis Redding and the guitarist and producer Steve Cropper sit on folding chairs at Stax Records in