Music

Actress-singer Jennifer Lopez injects some Latin pride — and “Let’s Get Loud” — into Biden-Harris inauguration with a familiar passage in Spanish.

Lopez performed an abridged “This Land Is Your Land” and “America the Beautiful” and added a Spanish-language section from the Pledge of Allegiance.

Wearing a red ballgown and a giant dove brooch, Lady Gaga performed an emotional and theatrical version of ‘The Star-Spangled Banner.’

In his final hours as president, Trump pardoned Lil Wayne and commuted the sentence of Kodak Black. No such luck for “Tiger King” star Joe Exotic.

A look back at the star-studded lineups at previous inaugurations, including performances by Beyoncé, Ricky Martin, Michael Jackson and Aretha Franklin.

Putting a spin on “Seasons of Love” from the musical “Rent,” comedian Randy Rainbow’s latest song skewers President Trump’s most notorious moments.

Alicia Keys, Mary J. Blige, Khalid and other prominent Black musicians detail “17 More Ways You Could Be Killed If You Are Black in America” in a new video.

In his brief but epochal heyday, Spector transformed pop music into teenage operettas and influenced musicians from Brian Wilson to Bruce Springsteen.

Bruce Springsteen described Spector’s music as “violence covered in sugar and candy,” and the abuse suffered by those in his orbit grew inseparable from his art.

Phil Spector was hospitalized after he became ill with COVID-19, said a source familiar with his medical condition.

Sylvain was described as the ‘heart and soul’ of the New York Dolls, as both guitarist and as mastermind of their vanguard style.

A leading maritime music scholar marvels at the virality of #ShantyTok, as a nation of teens and 20-somethings howl about sugar and tea and rum.