Friday, December 19, 2025

Nico Santiago

California’s ‘Souldies’ Scene Puts a Fresh Spin on a Beloved Sound

For decades, a soft-touch style of soul music has found a strong Chicano and Latino audience in Southern California. A record label based there is helping it bloom. Source link

Want to See Opera in the Home of Baseball? Get a Room.

In Cooperstown, N.Y., fans of the Glimmerglass Festival, a celebration of music, are finding it hard to compete for hotel space with other fans there to watch a legend — their 12-year-old. Source link

Amaarae Blends Desire With Ambition, and 8 More New Songs

Hear tracks by Ashley Monroe, Ethel Cain, Anand Wilder and others. Source link

Beyoncé Isn’t Giving Up on America: Cannonball with Wesley Morris

The Cowboy Carter Tour was her most political yet. But it’s also, somehow, for everyone. Source link

5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Roy Hargrove

This virtuoso trumpeter bridged jazz, hip-hop, R&B and soul on his own records and in collaborations with D’Angelo, Erykah Badu and the Roots. Listen to 13 selections. Source link

British Opera Company Cancels ‘Tosca’ Collaboration in Israel After Criticism

The Royal Ballet and Opera said it was scrapping performances in Tel Aviv next year, after nearly 200 staff members signed an open letter criticizing its stance on the war in Gaza. Source link

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’s Ex-Girlfriend Supports Bail Release in Letter to Judge

Once part of the government’s case against the music mogul, a former girlfriend wrote to a judge in support of Mr. Combs’s request for bail ahead of sentencing. Source link

‘Dalibor’ Review: A Gently Ravishing Score, an Awkward Plot

The director Jean-Romain Vesperini cleverly tied together the loose strands of Bedrich Smetana’s opera at Bard’s SummerScape festival. Source link

Jeannie Seely, Who Pushed Boundaries at the Grand Ole Opry, Dies at 85

She blazed a trail for women in country music with the candor of her songs and her bold fashion sense. She was the first woman to host a segment on the Opry. Source link

Chappell Roan Guts Out a Breakup, and 10 More New Songs

Hear tracks by Hayley Williams, Kehlani, Tame Impala and others. Source link

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