Taylor Swift Midnights Easter Eggs

Taylor Swift in the Anti-Hero video

Image Source: Youtube user Taylor Swift Taylor Swift’s “Midnights” is here! The 13-track album — that actually has seven surprise songs on the special 3 a.m. edition — also includes music videos that she wrote […]

Usher ‘My Way The Las Vegas Residency’ Review: Issa Rae, Stokley and More

Usher is just a few weeks away from ending the first leg of My Way – The Vegas Residency, and he’s going out on top.  More than 5,000 people came from all over the world […]

Usher ‘My Way The Las Vegas Residency’ Review: Issa Rae, Stokley and More

Usher is just a few weeks away from ending the first leg of My Way – The Vegas Residency, and he’s going out on top.  More than 5,000 people came from all over the world […]

Column: I’m playing an Art Laboe album to counteract the noxious vibe from L.A. City Hall

Memories of El Monte

In 1993, my parents saved up enough money to buy a massive Kenwood home entertainment system complete with gigantic speakers and a five-CD player. I remember the exact year because the first CD I ever […]

Art Laboe death: L.A.’s radio community pays tribute to icon

Art Laboe death: L.A.'s radio community pays tribute to icon

Los Angeles’ music and radio communities are mourning the loss of prolific “Oldies but Goodies” disc jockey Art Laboe, who died on Friday. The Instagram page for his syndicated show, “The Art Laboe Connection,” announced […]

Ozuna Talks New Album OZUTOCHI, FIFA Song “Arhbo”: Interview

Ozuna Talks New Album OZUTOCHI, FIFA Song "Arhbo": Interview

Ozuna worked on a lot of songs for his new album, Ozutochi, out today (Friday, October 7th). “I took two years to prepare,” Ozuna tells Consequence, “And I had 75, 65 songs. I get only 18 songs for […]

Best artists in country – Digital Journal

Best artists in country - Digital Journal

Stacker explores the best artists in the country music genre. – Michael Ochs Archives // Getty Images Betsy Vereckey Best artists in country Where do the best country music artists get their start? Many began singing […]

‘I’ve got to stop somewhere!’ How Steve Roud compiled his epic folk song archive | Folk music

Ralph Vaughn Williams 1951

When Steve Roud was young, he began collecting records. Hardly unusual for a child of the 1950s – but this boy from south London was different. Not content with just listening to LPs, Roud began […]

100 Gecs review – wizards of hyperpop hellbent on fun | Electronic music

Dylan Brady at SWG3, Galvanizers, Glasgow.

The stage is invisible, a wall of fog lit by strobes. Two figures bounce out of the mist, one wearing a giant yellow wizard’s hat that glows fluorescent in the UV light. So dense is […]

The National review – dependable dose of broody euphoria and empathy | The National

Matt Berninger.

Are the National the most important American alternative group of their generation? Perhaps, though it would be as much from their members’ activities outside the parent band as because of their own music. Bryce and […]

Why Jean Smart is fighting off becoming jaded

Why Jean Smart is fighting off becoming jaded

Jean Smart just pulled her car over to the side of the road. She needed a moment. Whitney Houston’s soaring power ballad “I Have Nothing” is playing on KOST-FM (“love songs on the Cooooast”), a […]

‘If the dustmen sing my songs, I feel honoured!’: Heather Small on 90s pop, racism and embracing her Britishness | Music

Small with fellow M People (from left) Mike Pickering, Shovell and Paul Heard, in 1996.

Heather Small used to tell herself: if she could just have one song that everyone knew and expected her to sing over and over again, she would be happy. That she has many is a […]