The best pop and classical music to look out for in 2024 | Music

Endlessly inventive … Margo Price

Sleater-Kinney – Little Rope It seemed questionable whether Sleater-Kinney would ever record another album – their last, 2021’s Path of Wellness, attracted the usual critical acclaim but was marked by the departure of longstanding drummer […]

Billboard Names Their Top Pop Stars Of 2023, Taylor Swift On Top

Billboard Names Their Top Pop Stars Of 2023, Taylor Swift On Top

Getty Image / James Devaney With just over two weeks left in the year, plenty of year-end lists are coming out across any topic. It’s Billboard’s turn, and they have released their full list of […]

‘I just loved to sing!’: Brenda Lee on inspiring Elvis, Lennon and Taylor Swift – and topping the chart at 78 | Pop and rock

Brenda Lee rehearses for the ITV show Oh Boy! on the street in Islington, London, in 1959.

Recorded in 1958, Brenda Lee’s Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree has long since joined the select group of festive songs that boom out of radios, shops and pubs at this time of year. The song […]

Tate McRae, triple threat, is poised for pop stardom

Tate McRae, triple threat, is poised for pop stardom

Performing with poise on live TV is a rare skill, but it’s one that 20-year-old Tate McRae learned young. As a 12-year-old from Calgary, Canada, the dancer and budding singer-songwriter won third place on the […]

Philip Glass on Moondog, Pop Music, and Mahatma Gandhi

Philip Glass

Philip Glass, courtesy of Pace Gallery. Last month, Columbia University Press published Transfigured New York by Brooke Wentz. As an undergrad, Wentz hosted a radio show interviewing experimental musicians and avante-garde artists of the 80s […]

Tyla Tells Trevor Noah Her Plan for Pop Stardom

Tyla Tells Trevor Noah Her Plan for Pop Stardom

Tyla wears Jacket and Shorts Coach. Bra Stylist’s Own. Earrings Tyla’s Own. Tyla has drip. The sultry South African singer has been dead set on pop stardom since well before she emerged as one of […]

Myles Goodwyn, frontman with Canadian classic rockers April Wine, dies aged 75 | Pop and rock

Jim Clench, Brian Greenway, Myles Goodwyn and Gary Moffet of April Wine, performing in 1979.

Myles Goodwyn, who fronted the popular Canadian classic rock band April Wine from its formation in 1969 until earlier this year, has died aged 75. His death was announced by his publicist, who did not […]

Girls Aloud are back – and pop will be better and weirder for it | Girls Aloud

Girls Aloud celebrate their first ever number one.

It came late last week; the news every pop fan worth their salt had been waiting for. The news every pop fan who recognises that Biology is one of the greatest bangers of the 21st […]

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 […]