Need a few synth-pop records to put you in a delightfully weird headspace? These four classics are some of the very best.

By Jon Pareles Ever so self-effacingly, Garth Hudson breathed history into songs. At his magisterial ... Jon Pareles has been The Times’s chief pop music critic since 1988.

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If you're new to Baez's catalog, below are 10 essential songs ranging in topic and release ... Baez's version was actually the more commercially popular version of the two, going to No. 3 in ...

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But they might also be easily dismissed as pop artists from the 1960s who made fun songs. That would be far too simplistic of ...

Coldplay's concert will take place in Mumbai at DY Patil Stadium and in Ahmedabad at Narendra Modi Stadium. The band are ...