Still, it wasn’t hard to come up with many musicians whose extra-terrestrial credentials are more convincing. The heir to Sun Ra, who turned 100 last year, knows better than anyone else that “space is ...

Wiz Khalifa seemingly believes Earth is flat. The rapper joins a small but vocal community of celebrities who have expressed similar views in recent years.

(See dub.sh/folk-noir-gonze.) Gonze’s meditative, ambient work, which he calls “space music,” ambles in the slow lane. Less is more and the microphone captures his breathing toward the end ...

Folding his six-foot-five-inch frame into a booth at the Restoration Hardware Rooftop restaurant in New York City, Solomon says he’s been busy prepping to film the Summer House reunion the next day.