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Counting Down to 2025 in N.Y.C.

Counting Down to 2025 in N.Y.C. 1

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Sheldon PearcePearce has covered music for Goings On since 2020. You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to…

The Year in Surprises

The Year in Surprises 7

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading The New Yorker’s daily newsletter, a guide to our top stories, featuring exclusive insights from our writers and editors. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. December’s so dramatic.…

The Year in Brain Rot

The Year in Brain Rot 26

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Even as late as November, across the sports fields of our little New England town, you could still hear the call, as if from sparrows chatting in the branches of a…

The Best Pop Songs of 2024

The Best Pop Songs of 2024 33

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Music critics—myself included—have spent much of the past several years bemoaning the decline of capital-“E” Events in music: no new superstars to crown, no more tentpole albums to unify us, no…