Air brought their dazzling Moon Safari tour back to North America for a second time, and that run, and the finale of the whole tour, ended in NYC with a three-night run at Brooklyn Paramount. I went ...

There’s a particular niche of sophisticated, loungy music that thrived from the late ’90s into the mid-2000s. It grew out of ELO’s regal rock and Serge Gainsbourg’s loucheness, taking on bits of U.K.

In 1998, electronic pop royalty Air released their debut album, “Moon Safari,” which gave them instant mainstream success, allowing them to compose and produce the score for Sofia Coppola’s “The ...