Jon Pareles has been The Times’s chief pop music critic since 1988. He studied music, played in rock, jazz and classical groups and was a college-radio disc jockey.

The Japanese pop star stepped off a plane in 2008 with little but the clothes on his back and his small Dachshund, named Peace. His destination was the New School's School of Jazz in New York City ...

In fact, "J-pop," the word originally used to describe only Japanese pop music but which now encompasses all the country's cultural products, is big business in Japan, with domestic sales of ...

Horan describes this track as the strain of new age J-Pop that is more popular among Gen-Z listeners. 23-year-old singer-songwriter imase found success after "NIGHT DANCER" went viral on Tik Tok.

Ko Tanaka, the first Off-Broadway Japanese composer known for his fusion of jazz with American musical theater and Japanese musical traditions, is composing a ballet rendition of the ...

Project Pabst is returning to Oregon’s Waterfront Park in Portland with an indie- and punk-heavy lineup. The 2025 edition of the two-day festival features Iggy Pop, Devo, The Damned, and ...

New York singer-songwriter Mei Semones mixes jazz, indie rock, bossa nova and more, with lyrics that toggle between Japanese and English By Jonathan Bernstein ... February 15, 2024 ...