Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2025 inductee Cyndi Lauper in New York, May 20, 2024. (Thea Traff/The New York Times) By BRIAN RAFTERY The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has long been known as boomer mecca, where musicians of the ’60s and ’70s are feted and lionized. But its 2025 induction ceremony made one thing clear: Now, it’s Gen X’s time. The concert-slash-coronation, which took place Saturday at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, honored several acts whose careers started

A mariachi band, Mariachi Sol de Acapulco, plays a tribute song to the Mexican singer and songwriter Juan Gabriel in front of his portrait at a restaurant, in Mexico City, Aug. 29, 2016. (Brett Gundlock/The New York Times) By ANNIE CORREAL They had come on planes and buses, in pedicabs and on scooters. Some navigated the crowd in wheelchairs or pushed babies in strollers. They were there, in Mexico City’s central plaza, to see the singer known as the “Divo of Juárez,” or simp

Lady Gaga performs at Madison Square Garden in New York on Aug. 22, 2025. She is among the top nominees for the 68th annual Grammy Awards in February 2026. (The New York Times) By BEN SISARIO Rap will be front and center at the 68th annual Grammy Awards in February, with Kendrick Lamar; Bad Bunny; Doechii; and Tyler, the Creator among the top nominees. Lady Gaga, Sabrina Carpenter, Billie Eilish and Chappell Roan are also in competition for the most prestigious awards, accord

By JASON BAILEY ‘Little Men’ (2016) Director Ira Sachs, whose new film “Peter Hujar’s Day” is getting raves on the festival circuit, is particularly adept at telling stories situated at the intersection of personal relationships and real estate concerns. It’s a peculiar specialty, but it describes both his lovely 2014 film “Love Is Strange” and this follow-up, which concerns two Brooklyn middle schoolers who find their close friendship threatened by a painfully protracted con

Jack DeJohnette onstage in New York on Feb. 28, 2014. The drummer and pianist, who died on Oct. 26 at 83, was a master of many styles and an ever-evolving innovator. (Tina Fineberg/The New York Times) By KEN MICALLEF Jack DeJohnette, an early member of Chicago’s experimental collective the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), developed an adaptable style that shaped his career as one of jazz’s great instrumentalists. Originally a pianist, DeJohnette,

Rosalía in New York, Sept. 10, 2025. The Spanish musician pushed herself to make “Lux,” a labor of love exploring the feminine divine and the brutalities of romance. (Chris Maggio/The New York Times) By JOE COSCARELLI and JON CARAMANICA There is no pivot too sharp for Rosalía, the pathbreaking Spanish pop star. She emerged a decade ago as a disruptive star student of flamenco, and has since become pop’s leading avant-gardist and one of its most convincing omnivores. Last Frid

Anthony Ramos as Maj. Daniel González in “A House of Dynamite,” the new nuclear war thriller from Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow. (Eros Hoagland/Netflix) By ALISSA WILKINSON Certain premises make for perfect movies, so they keep being repeated. Boy meets girl. Rags to riches. And another that seems remarkably durable: nuclear holocaust has been triggered. We may or may not know why, and we may or may not be able to do anything about it. This is the setup of Kathryn Bi

Most of Radu Jude’s “Dracula” consists of numbered chapters that include loads of garish AI images and bring together, more or less, elements from the vampire legend. (Saga Film/Nabis Filmgroup/Paul Thiltges Distribution/MicroFILM) By MANOHLA DARGIS For “Dracula,” Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude has turned his attention and a cellphone camera on the title vampire in Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel and come up with a gleefully crude and vulgar go-for-broke provocation that is as grindin