Singer-Songwriters

A rising star of sad-girl pop talks disability, public personae, and just going for it.

The late singer-songwriter rarely felt at home either in her native Texas or in the music industry, but her nostalgic ditties of girlhood captured a potent sense of place.

A major figure of New York City’s cultural life for more than half a century, Blades brought a New York-born musical style to the world at large.

The singer-songwriter speaks about her new album, life in the spotlight, and the power of four-letter words.

The singer tells the staff writer Hanif Abdurraqib about chronicling the end of a marriage in real time. Plus, the novelist Hernan Diaz, and Robert Samuels on figure skating.

The singer-entrepreneur created a world that many wanted to live in forever.

The staff writer talks with David Remnick and the singer Adeem the Artist about the increasingly polarized politics of Nashville. Plus, James McBride on his new novel.

The singer talks to the music critic Amanda Petrusich about her most recent album, and the writer Alex Kotlowitz makes an annual pilgrimage to the northern woods of Minnesota.

The staff writer reports on the chaotic situation created by the political impasse over immigration; and the singer-songwriter on how Tracy Chapman changed her life.

In the late seventies, I fell in love with the poet Frank Stanford. His suicide would leave an indelible mark on my music.

On her début LP, “Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?,” the poet and singer-songwriter makes music that is spare yet expansive and able to surprise.

Merchant, who’s releasing a new album, never wanted to be a pop star. Her passion is for forgotten people, problems, and sounds.

The first full-length album from Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker, and Lucy Dacus evinces a preëmptive nostalgia for the honeymoon phase of creative collaboration.

The singer-songwriter believes that we are deeply flawed, impermanent creatures who can sometimes do extraordinary things.

The singer-songwriter talks about growing up in the South, trusting your teen-age self, getting divorced and getting exhausted, and the search for a home.

A thrilling performer with a volatile persona, Lewis always knew he was playing the devil’s music.

There is always more to say about the music that means the most to us.

The Foo Fighters front man tells stories from a life of rock and roll. And Mann, a singer-songwriter, discusses her latest album, “Queens of the Summer Hotel.”

The singer turned actress turned musical-theatre virtuoso discusses her role as the Baker’s Wife in the Sondheim musical “Into the Woods.”

It’s a lovely tune, but it didn’t do me much good at a housewarming party where I was completely out of ice.