An 18-year-old who was charged in the death of Pop Smoke confessed to killing the rapper amid a home invasion on February 19, 2020, as the Los Angeles Times reports. He further confessed to other […]
Dolly Parton has announced a genre switch to rock music, and has tapped what will surely be the starriest supporting cast for any album this year. Her new album Rockstar – a 30-track epic with […]
Musical pastiche can be dangerous. When you go beyond having influences to embodying those influences, artists can easily slip into self-parody. You need spectacularly good songs to pull it off. The Lemon Twigs, a US […]
In January, pop star Mae Muller wrote a song she thought would be perfect for Eurovision. A few days later one of her managers called asking for an urgent meeting over a cup of tea. […]
Gillian Gilbert’s story as a musician – along with the numerous unseen women who worked for Factory Records – started well before the label became a sensation in 1983 with New Order’s Blue Monday. Gillian […]
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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 […]
Eslabon Armado and Peso Pluma made Latin music history this week when their ballad “Ella Baila Sola” (She Dances Alone) skyrocketed to No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, becoming the first regional Mexican […]
A few years ago, if you were an artist in need of a recording studio to create your next big hit, the process for searching and booking that space was kind of antiquated. You’d have […]
Mark Stewart, co-founder and singer of the UK post-punk act The Pop Group, has died at the age of 62. As a teeanger, Stewart formed The Pop Group alongside guitarist John Waddington, bassist Simon Underwood, […]
Blackpink, the K-pop superstars who became the first Asian and all-female band to headline Coachella on Saturday night, are a testament to the increasingly porous language and cultural barriers in pop music. The group’s members […]
Mimi Webb knew she wanted to make music when she chose her stage name. The 22-year-old pop star was born Amelia Anne Webb but shortened her name whilst she was studying at music college and […]
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Doja Cat is officially entering her emcee era. Over the weekend, the Grammy-winning performer took to Twitter to tease possible track titles from her upcoming fourth album, “Hellmouth.” She posted a screenshot of the song […]
You’ll never believe who sings the theme for Phineas and Ferb… View Entire Post › Share This Article
A 20-year-old man has pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter for the murder of Pop Smoke, The Associated Press reports. The man, one among four others charged in the killing, also pleaded guilty in Inglewood juvenile […]
Thank You, Next is definitely a bop! View Entire Post › Share This Article
Ryuichi Sakamoto was not a man cut out to be a pop star. As a teenager, he liked the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, but his abiding passion was New York’s underground avant garde art […]
The dynasty of the British girl group has been having a crisis of succession. After Little Mix abdicated the throne there have been a string of claimants, but none have really been fit to wear […]
When Katie Gately emerged in the mid-2010s, bedroom pop still felt like a distinct genre born of circumstance, rather than a stylistic umbrella under which even megastars now operate. But the intricacy and audacity of […]