Willow: Coping Mechanism review – powerfully dynamic genre-crammed pop | Culture

The artwork for Coping Mechanism.

Few 21-year-olds can claim to have enjoyed a pop career as long as Smith’s, which is now in its 10th year. Certainly, few can claim to have covered so much musical ground. Even leaving aside […]

TMZ Presents – Prince: Fatal Secrets Explores Pop Star’s Intensely Private Struggle (Exclusive Trailer)

TMZ Presents - Prince: Fatal Secrets Explores Pop Star's Intensely Private Struggle (Exclusive Trailer)

New TMZ documentary uncovers the mystery that led to one of pop culture’s most shocking deaths. TMZ broke the news of Prince‘s death and the real story behind his emergency plane landing six days prior […]

Serj Tankian Announces Perplex Cities EP, Unveils “Pop Imperialism”: Stream

serj tankian perplex cities ep

System of a Down singer Serj Tankian has announced the new EP Perplex Cities, arriving October 21st. In advance of its release, he has unveiled the single “Pop Imperialism.” The new song sees Tankian exploring […]

Ramsey Lewis, the pop chart’s favorite jazz pianist, dies at 87 : NPR

Ramsey Lewis, the pop chart's favorite jazz pianist, dies at 87 : NPR

Ramsey Lewis, seen here performing at the Ontario Jazz Festival in 1981, died Monday at his home in Chicago. Ron Bull/Toronto Star via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Ron Bull/Toronto Star via Getty Images […]

Sudan Archives: ‘In so many places in the world the violin brings the party’ | Pop and rock

Sudan Archives performing at Coachella in 2018

Brittney Parks is on a mission “to show the Blackness of the violin”, she says. As a child in Ohio, she learned to play the instrument by ear. She moved to Los Angeles in her […]

End of the Road review – post-punk, cosmic jazz and weirdo pop offer a genuine alternative | End of the Road festival

Miles Romans-Hopcraft of Wu-Lu performing at End of the Road.

All festivals have a USP: Reading, for instance, is an assault course marking the end of childhood; Boomtown is a purpose-built warehouse party in the English countryside for those too scared to visit an actual […]

Lewis Capaldi review – poignancy and profanity from the class clown of pop | Music

Lewis Capaldi performs in London

‘Fuck me, this is high.” Lewis Capaldi and his piano are sitting atop a gigantic screen at London’s O2 Arena. The 25-year-old Scottish singer-songwriter is in the middle of performing his multi-platinum ballad Bruises and […]

Nina Nesbitt: Älskar review – honest electronic pop confessionals | Pop and rock

Nina Nesbitt: Älskar album cover

Scottish singer-songwriter Nina Nesbitt unintentionally made it into millions of homes when her former boyfriend, Ed Sheeran, wrote a song about their relationship – Nina, on 2014’s X. But she herself has spent a decade […]

Darius Campbell Danesh obituary | Pop and rock

The Popl Idol finalists of 2002. From left: Gareth Gates, Zoe Birkett, Darius Campbell Danesh, Hayley Evetts and Will Young.

The Scottish singer Darius Campbell Danesh, who has died suddenly aged 41, burst into the early world of reality television when he appeared on the talent show Popstars, the first of its kind, in 2001. […]

7 notable product placement milestones in pop culture

7 notable product placement milestones in pop culture

Giving Assistant collected seven notable examples of product placement through media history, from books to movies to video games. – Kevin Winter // Getty Images Abby Monteil 7 notable product placement milestones in pop culture Over […]

‘Better late than never’: how Brian Eno and David Byrne finally laid a musical ghost to rest | Pop and rock

Dunya Younes in the 1970s

In early 1970s Lebanon, a young singer from a hill town north of Beirut was on the up. Before the civil war in 1975, the capital was the Arab world’s thriving artistic centre, where folk-dance […]