Annie Clark’s 70s Show
St. Vincent’s latest album, the 70s-themed Daddy’s Home, is releasing in a wave of bad P.R. It’s so good you’ll listen anyway
Underneath the Velvet Underground
Todd Haynes turns to documentary to get at the heart of Lou Reed’s 1960s New York City band
Mann, Uninterrupted
Aimee Mann, who provided the songs for Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia and was one of the Big Lebowski nihilists, has a new album
Bowie’s Back
A never-before-released David Bowie album hits the airwaves
Bass Instincts
Ron Carter, the most recorded bassist in history, turns 85 at Carnegie Hall
Hey, Genius
Cécile McLorin Salvant sings art songs for the new 20s
Lynn Goldsmith Has the Password
The American photographer infiltrated the world of music’s greats. Her portraits of Aretha Franklin, Cher, Bob Dylan, and countless others are collected in a new, 80s-themed coffee-table book
Suzanne Vega Is Watching You
The singer-songwriter performs her folk-pop hits at City Winery in Greenwich Village
Fine-Tuning
In an interview, the pianist Víkingur Ólafsson discusses his affinity for Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto, which he’s playing around Europe