Music

The Weeknd’s new album, “After Hours,” lost 69 percent of its sales in its second week out, but in another slow week for new music it still had enough to...

For the past five years I have lived a mile from the Brooklyn Hospital Center — though I’m a bit ashamed to say that I did not realize it until...

Bill Withers always sounded like he was strumming the guitar from a seat at his kitchen table — or maybe, at his most luxurious, an easy chair in the living...

The music of Bill Withers radiated a quality that’s rare in pop songs and, really, anywhere else: selflessness. It’s in the subjects that Withers, who died on Monday, chose to...

Bill Withers always sounded like he was strumming the guitar from a seat at his kitchen table — or maybe, at his most luxurious, an easy chair in the living...

Bill Withers, a onetime Navy aircraft mechanic who after teaching himself to play the guitar wrote some of the most memorable and often-covered songs of the 1970s, including “Lean on...