7 Songs From My L.A. Record Haul

7 Songs From My L.A. Record Haul

▶ Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube 3. The Pretenders: “Message of Love” From 1981, “Pretenders II” — which I gladly added to my haul — is the final Pretenders album featuring the band’s original lineup; the guitarist James Honeyman-Scott and the bassist Pete Farndon would both die of …

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Tyla Avoids a Bad Romance, and 9 More New Songs

Tyla Avoids a Bad Romance, and 9 More New Songs

Following her worldwide 2023 hit “Water,” the South African songwriter Tyla has now released her self-titled debut album, merging African rhythms with English lyrics and R&B delivery. The album’s songs toggle between approach — like “Water” — and avoidance. In “Safer,” Tyla pulls away from temptation. The song harnesses the …

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Ella no es Catalina: una doble de la princesa de Gales aclara dudas

Ella no es Catalina: una doble de la princesa de Gales aclara dudas

Aclaremos algunas cosas. Heidi Agan no es Catalina, princesa de Gales. Nunca ha conocido a Catalina, antes conocida como Kate Middleton. Nunca ha sido contactada por el palacio de Kensington, ni está trabajando en secreto con la familia real como parte de un encubrimiento ideado para ocultar a la princesa …

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Julianna Margulies and Peter Gallagher to Star in Broadway Play

Julianna Margulies and Peter Gallagher to Star in Broadway Play

The actors Julianna Margulies and Peter Gallagher are set to star in a stage adaptation of “Left on Tenth,” Delia Ephron’s memoir about a late-in-life romance. The producer Daryl Roth said Friday that she intended to bring the play, adapted by Ephron and directed by Susan Stroman, to Broadway next …

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Woman, 25, announces her own death from cancer in viral letter

Woman, 25, announces her own death from cancer in viral letter

Stay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletter Stay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletter A 25-year-old woman had pre-written her own eulogy to be posted on all of her social media accounts …

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The Philharmonic Adds 2 Premieres to a Diet of Classics

The Philharmonic Adds 2 Premieres to a Diet of Classics

Both lean on film-score tropes. A racing pulse out of Bernard Herrmann finds its way into the first section of “To See the Sky,” and “Three Muses in Video Game” aspires, in its middle, to John Williams-esque melodic sweep. But unlike Williams’s best, this stuff never took flight; Tan’s piece, …

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