Mikael Wood writes about pop music in all its ever-quickening splendor. Prior to joining the Los Angeles Times in 2012, he was a freelance contributor to Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Spin and the Village Voice. He grew up in Little Rock, Ark., graduated from Northwestern University and knows every word to “Mo Money Mo Problems.” He was named pop music critic in 2016.
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AC/DC’s two-hour Power Trip set stacked classic after classic, each delivered at deafening volume and with precisely the right blend of rawness and finesse.
Oct. 8, 2023
Guns N’ Roses headlined the first night of this weekend’s Power Trip hard rock festival with a show that lacked spectacle and mayhem.
Oct. 7, 2023
‘I love setting the bar higher and higher,’ says Pink, who brings her hit-filled, acrobatic show to SoFi Stadium on Thursday.
Oct. 4, 2023
Survival has been a central theme of Dave Grohl’s career, in the wake of Kurt Cobain’s death in 1994 and Taylor Hawkins’ in 2022.
Oct. 2, 2023
On opening night at the $2.3-billion Sphere concert hall, the visuals projected onto the high-def walls behind and above U2 were a show unto themselves.
Sept. 30, 2023
La estrella de R&B Usher, en medio de una aclamada residencia en Las Vegas, actuará en el partido por el campeonato de la NFL el 11 de febrero en el Allegiant Stadium de Las Vegas.
Sept. 24, 2023
R&B star Usher, in the midst of an acclaimed Las Vegas residency, will perform at the NFL’s championship game on Feb. 11 at Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium.
Sept. 24, 2023
Fifty years after opening the venerable L.A. club, Neil Young and Crazy Horse reassembled, in all their ragged glory, to perform two of their classic albums.
Sept. 22, 2023
Morris’ feud with Jason Aldean and his wife over trans rights helped ignite Nashville’s current culture wars. Now, she’s kicking off a new chapter in her career.
Sept. 15, 2023
Olivia Rodrigo’s flair for melodrama has grown only more vivid since 2021 ‘Drivers License,’ as has her ability to craft a rock sound all her own.
Sept. 11, 2023