Joan Armatrading world premiere review – how did a brilliant pop melodist produce such a baffling mess? | Classical music

Chineke! Orchestra with Andrew Grams at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London.

Even pop geniuses have a patchy record when it comes to writing for an orchestra. For every success (a Jonny Greenwood or a Randy Newman, for instance) there is at least one dud (a Paul […]

15 Facts About Canadian Pop Princess Tate McRae

15 Facts About Canadian Pop Princess Tate McRae

15 Facts About Canadian Pop Princess Tate McRae After a knockout performance on the coveted SNL stage this past weekend, Tate McRae has proven once again that homegrown Canadian talent can compete on the world […]

What Billboard Music Awards 2023 bust means for future pop prize nights

What Billboard Music Awards 2023 bust means for future pop prize nights

Barely a week ago, the 2024 Grammy nominations were announced. But even as top contenders SZA, Taylor Swift and Olivia Rodrigo were already getting fitted for gowns, something was amiss. The fact that the nominees […]

‘I’d rather be boring than mysterious’: Bar Italia on anonymity, originality and disliking Pulp | Pop and rock

Bar Italia.

Bar Italia are tired of being a mystery. The trio – who have spent their brief existence breathlessly feted as London’s most exciting new band, as well as its most enigmatic – are very much […]

Gilberto Gil review – farewell London concert for a joyful musical great | Pop and rock

Celebratory mood … Gilberto Gil.

Political prisoner, exiled psych-rock idol, reggae pioneer, cabinet minister, reality TV star … the English-speaking world really doesn’t have an equivalent of the Brazilian polymath Gilberto Gil. Aged 81, he has declared that this show […]

Pop artist Post Malone wants you to be happy and “eat those chicken nuggets.” : NPR

Pop artist Post Malone wants you to be happy and "eat those chicken nuggets." : NPR

Post Malone Alfred Marroquin/The Lede Company hide caption toggle caption Alfred Marroquin/The Lede Company Post Malone Alfred Marroquin/The Lede Company It’s hard to describe Post Malone as anything other than a rockstar. He’s lived like […]

What a bummer — where are all the summer pop hits in 2023?

Morgan Wallen

Exactly one year ago, the top of the Billboard Hot 100 was bumping with chart-busting beats from Beyoncé’s “Break My Soul, Lizzo’s “About Damn Time” and Harry Styles’ pogo-pop powerhouse “As It Was.” There’s no […]

Why can’t pop musicians go on strike? No unions, to start

SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher at the Netflix picket line.

Every day, Joey DeFrancesco hears from fellow musicians who see actors and screenwriters on strike, and wish they were on a picket line too. “A lot of musicians are really angry now. I get messages […]

‘On reflection, it’s very uncool’: readers’ scrapbooks of pop fandom | Music

Simon Davis’ metal scrapbook.

‘I heard Roxy Music at a Scouts gathering and was hooked’ I was obsessed with Roxy Music as a teenager. I heard their first two albums at a Scouts gathering and was hooked. Every week, […]

Billie Eilish dropped ‘What Was I Made For?’ and pop queen Glüme has never felt more seen

Billie Eilish dropped 'What Was I Made For?' and pop queen Glüme has never felt more seen

Billie Eilish dropped “What Was I Made For?” and child actor-turned-pop queen Glüme Harlow has never felt more seen. Eilish has been teasing the new sob-inducing track she wrote with her brother Finneas O’Connell for […]

From nightmare ticketing to online abuse, being a pop fan is becoming miserable | Music

Robert Smith of The Cure performing in New Orleans in May – the band have put a price cap on tickets.

This week, hundreds of thousands of Taylor Swift fans around the UK, Ireland and Europe have been desperately trying to get tickets to the Eras tour, which kicks off in Paris in May 2024. When […]