Don’t you just get lucky sometimes? That’s what Midland ask in three-part harmony on their new song, “Lucky Sometimes,” which contrapuntally heralds the arrival of a new album, Barely Blue. The Texan ...

Daft Punk gave up using samples and returned to how artists recorded in the 1970s on “Get Lucky.” They reverse-engineered a technique they perfected—sampling and looping music from earlier times—and, ...