Jon Pareles, chief pop music critic for The New York Times, recommends the reinvention of a classic rock song, a genre-bending musical odyssey, a country revenge song and more:
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, “When The Levee Breaks”
Charli XCX, “Girl, so confusing”
Tems, “Burning”
Carly Pearce, “truck on fire”
Raye, “Genesis.”
On today’s episode
Jon Pareles is the chief pop music critic for The Times.
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Jon Pareles has been The Times’s chief pop music critic since 1988. He studied music, played in rock, jazz and classical groups and was a college-radio disc jockey. He was previously an editor at Rolling Stone and the Village Voice.More about Jon Pareles
