As a one-time disc jockey who played easy-listening music, I appreciate Mike Kerrigan’s “Easy Listening = Alternative Music + Time” (op-ed, Feb. 29). He is right: The definition of easy listening has ...

The sound was uniform and universal: lush string arrangements (almost never with vocals) of popular songs and show tunes, with minimal announcements. The stations called it "beautiful music" or "easy ...

A film critics' roundup of the 10 films contending for Best Picture, including American Fiction, Anatomy of a Fall, Barbie, The Holdovers, Killers of the Flower Moon, Maestro, Oppenheimer, Past Lives, ...

More than three years before the release of her debut album Messy, British singer-songwriter Olivia Dean caught my ear with a song called "Crosswords." It was a straightforward and simple acoustic ...