Earlier this year, my colleague and bud Kelefa Sanneh suggested that music critics, as a lot, have gone soft—becoming submissive, overly agreeable, and, in some cases, nearly servile. He’s right, of ...

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At Hyundai, demand for the Creta and Venue pushed SUVs' share of total sales to over 72 per cent. India's consumer economy has achieved its highest Navratri sales in over a decade, a surge attributed ...

Navratri 2025 enters its ninth and final day on Tuesday, September 30, 2025, with the colour Pink dedicated to the celebrations. During the nine days of Sharadiya Navratri, each day is associated with ...

On day eight of Navratri, also called Maha Ashtami, the colour peacock green takes center stage. It symbolises freshness and hope. Wearing peacock green is believed to invite a sense of calm and good ...

For many devotees, Navratri mornings begin with prayers, fruits, and restraint. Yet in modern households, there is another ritual that sparks confusion: the steaming cup of coffee. Some wonder if ...

What a year it’s been for great music — as opposed to, say, everything else. But we’re almost halfway into 2025, and it’s already crowded with new albums that deliver what we need in terms of ...

I don’t envy anybody who decided to put out an album within the 12 months succeeding Brat Summer, Manning Fireworks Fall, and “Not Like Us” — especially considering that 2025, broadly speaking, did ...

Two decades after digital downloading was supposed to disintegrate the full-length LP, musicians seem as eager to collect and to sprawl — and sometimes to tighten up — as they’ve ever been. Here are ...

Streaming has mutated the album as a format over the past decade, lengthening tracklists, shifting where likely hits get placed, and chipping away at song runtimes. But this year, artists seemed less ...

It can be argued that punk rock started in the '60s, when a bunch of kids holed up in a garage, bashed out two chords on their guitars and shouted into a taped-together microphone. But for our ...

“Transa,” with 46 tracks due Nov. 22, brings together artists including Sam Smith, Sade, André 3000 and Jayne County. By Jim Farber Over a soft piano riff wafts the unmistakable voice of Sade, singing ...