Music boasts many powers, many special abilities. One of those is its chance to transport the listener back to a different time. Want to feel the vibrant 1960s? Put on early Bob Dylan. The strange ...

Over the last few weeks, “Old Town Road” — a strutting and lightheartedly comedic country-rap tune by the previously unknown 20-year-old rapper Lil Nas X — has lived an improbable number of lives. It ...