We didn’t see this coming: Zeal & Ardor mastermind Manuel Gagneux has unveiled a yacht rock side-project called Soft Captain. The group has offered up the vintage-looking video for the song “Too Long.” Heavy Consequence […]
Exo, whose many albums released under the SM Entertainment banner are becoming available to NetEase Cloud Music’s users. Photo Credit: mang2goon China-based music streaming service NetEase Cloud Music has officially inked a licensing deal with […]
Dave Smith, center, photographed attending the 2015 North American Music Merchants convention in Anaheim, Calif. Pete Brown/Wikimedia Commons The sound of pop music in the ’80s was shaped by synthesizers – and one of the […]
In 2016, the Queen was canvassed for her favourite music to mark her 90th birthday, and her selections felt like those of a regular British nonagenarian: show tunes from Oklahoma!, Fred Astaire’s Cheek to Cheek, […]
Photo Credit: Mark de Jong The BBC’s Platinum Party at the Palace celebrates Queen Elizabeth’s 70th year on the throne. Here’s who is performing at this Platinum Jubilee concert. Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations […]
Stranger Things revels in the nostalgia and the aesthetic of the 1980s — but that nostalgia is presented in a very limited scope. Throughout its four seasons, the Netflix show celebrates what little boys who […]
The Berlin via London pop enigma Perera Elsewhere has announced her new album: Home is out September 30 via Friends of Friends. The album features the lead single “Hold Tite,” which Sasha Perera described in […]
Katy Perry has joked that she has been sent countless country music songs over the course of her career. The Firework hitmaker started out as a gospel singer in Nashville, Tennessee before pursuing pop music. […]
Bruce Hornsby has enlisted Danielle Haim on his new single “Days Ahead.” “Remember how we used to be/ Connection that our friends could see/ Remember when we tried to learn German/ I told you what […]
3 New Albums Out This Week You Should Listen to Now: Harry Styles, Porridge Radio, and mxmtoon Harry Styles image credit via Kevin Mazur/Getty Images May 23, 2022 There’s so much good music out in […]
Image Source: Getty / Kevin Mazur Pop music, particularly the type as globally successful as what Harry Styles makes, has a unique responsibility. By nature, it’s supposed to soundtrack a wide variety of experiences — […]
Greek pop music of the 1960s is not an area of musical history where anyone who doesn’t fondly remember it first-hand is advised to dwell. There are a few exceptions – garage rock collectors have […]
Photo Credit: Ray A recent study has found that at least one in three people from Gen Z don’t know who the Beatles are. Roberts conducted a study to see how pop music travels through […]
Vangelis, the Greek composer and musician whose synth-driven work brought huge drama to film soundtracks including Blade Runner and Chariots of Fire, has died aged 79. His representatives said he died in hospital in France […]
The BBC and Buckingham Palace have unveiled a glittering group of performers from the worlds of music and dance set to perform at the Platinum Party at the Palace concert which takes place on Saturday, […]
30. Keep on Going (1973) A fantastic curio from the Mystery to Me album. Written by Bob Welch, Keep on Going sets Christine McVie’s voice against an arrangement audibly influenced by the soul music coming […]
Sam Gendel and Antonia Cytrynowicz are two of experimental pop music’s most unlikely creative partners. Gendel, 35, is the Los Angeles saxophonist who has lent his talents to records by Vampire Weekend, Maggie Rogers and […]
Photo courtesy of Becky G. As a teenager, Becky G, born Rebbeca Marie Gomez, was told she’d never make it as a musician. But the Inglewood native wasted no time proving her doubters wrong. By […]
Jarvis Cocker says modern pop music is bad because the industry has been “hijacked” by people more interested in advertising than songs. The Pulp legend – who has penned new book ‘Good Pop, Bad Pop’ […]
From radio stations in Islamabad to the nightclubs of Delhi and house parties in Kathmandu, it is a song that in recent months has been impossible to avoid. As soon as the distinctive opening claps […]