Cupid’s arrow: how Fifty Fifty became the rare K-pop band to pierce the UK Top 40 | K-pop

Aran from Fifty Fifty.

K-pop often appears to be thriving in the UK: prior to their hiatus, BTS had back-to-back No 1 albums and acts such as boyband Ateez fill arenas, while girl group Blackpink are gearing up to […]

Ed Sheeran: The Sum of It All review – a surprisingly moving, intimate view of marriage, loss and mental health | Television

Sheeran with his wife, Cherry Seaborn.

Cheekier viewers than me might wonder how this Disney+ documentary is going to manage to fill out an entire four-part series about the singer. Sheeran is massive, the biggest male pop star in the world, […]

Grimes AI Project Launches in Beta As Artificial Intelligence Booms

grimes ai project

The Grimes AI project has released in beta, enabling users to make vocals sound as though they’ve been recorded by the Canadian artist. Photo Credit: Jordan Uhl As a growing number of artificial intelligence tracks […]

Jessie Ware: That! Feels Good! review – 21st-century disco packed with personality | Jessie Ware

The artwork for That! Feels Good!

In the wave of glitterball-dazzled pop-dance albums that sparkled a little light into 2020’s gloom, Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia was the world-beating monster smash – No 1 in 15 countries, 10bn streams and counting on […]

‘A true genius’: Denniz Pop, the late Scandi-pop architect behind Max Martin, Robyn and NSync | Pop and rock

Dag Volle, before he became Denniz Pop, DJing at the Ritz in Stockholm.

In producer Denniz Pop’s old studio in Stockholm, above the mugs of coffee and overflowing ashtrays, sat a cherry red light that he would trigger when he knew he had made a hit. In the […]

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor review – the best Star Wars game in 20 years | Games

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor’s opening sequence is spellbinding. Amid the sprawling megastructures of the city-planet Coruscant, a daring heist ensues. Having escaped the clutches of Darth Vader’s Imperial inquisition in the last game (Jedi: Fallen […]

The face of PlayStation: Shuhei Yoshida on the joy and future of video games | Games

At 59, Yoshida still plays everything.

In early 1993, Shuhei Yoshida joined Sony’s nascent PlayStation division as a business development guy – the first member of the team who didn’t have an engineering background. When he was working with Ken Kutaragi […]