Music Festivals

This year’s musical gathering was more freewheeling than ever.

The new opera, which anchored the Aix-en-Provence Festival, is a monumental cry against gun violence.

In his fight against Black erasure, the Roots drummer, who has amassed two hundred thousand LPs (plus bags full of “Soul Train” VHS tapes), makes his directorial début with “Summer of Soul,” about the mostly forgotten series of concerts in Harlem, in 1969.

The music star’s directorial début, a documentary about the Harlem Cultural Festival of 1969, knits a wealth of unseen footage into a joyous whole.

This year, the happily chaotic Berlin event was streamed online.

The Southern California festival stretches from back yards to the desert.

Musicians rely heavily on touring to generate revenue. That spells trouble for the climate.

On the fiftieth anniversary of the festival, a thirty-six-hour boxed set reveals some truths behind baby-boomer myths.

As several new events come onto the scene, the genre’s increasing dominance will continue to attract brands thirsty to capitalize on its growing market power.

There was something overwhelming and surreal about watching him as he leapt back and forth, beseeching us to match his boundless energy with our own, until we realized: Oh, yeah, that’s what a leader looks like.

Puzzling out the eternal Coachella question: to tag or to hashtag?

New works tell stories of tortured minds.

Directors confront the composer’s anti-Semitism and give his work a feminist spin.

“I’m ready to play and be gay,” the singer ad-libbed. “And I mean all definitions: be gay, and be merry, but also just be a fucking queen.”

A dispatch from Tyler, the Creator’s Los Angeles carnival.