Archive: Station Noailles Marseille, Thames News, Rinse FM ContributorsLloyd Bradley – music journalistSandra Cross – singer and songwriterD Double E – Grime artist MusicLord Invader – Teddy Boy Calypso (Bring Back The Old Cat-O-Nine) (1992, […]
John Waddington, the founding guitarist of post-punk band The Pop Group, died Tuesday. He was 63. The band announced Waddington’s death Wednesday on Twitter, though a cause was not mentioned. “An influential musician, and an […]
“It’s nearly impossible to escape this world untouched by pop culture: moviegoing, TV watching, music listening,” writes pop culture critic Aisha Harris in the introduction to her book, “Wannabe.” “It doesn’t all just happen to […]
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A contestant on the quiz show ‘Mastermind’ has put their scene knowledge to the test, choosing the specialist subject ‘Pop Punk Of The Early 2000s’. The episode aired on SBS Australia as copywriter Lucy Valentine […]
In 1983, Cyndi Lauper’s debut solo single, “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” was flopping so badly that her record company had given up on it. But the singer and her then-manager and boyfriend, David […]
Framed by a huge heart-shaped mirror, as if she’s one of Greta Gerwig’s Barbies, Sabrina Carpenter steps into the spotlight. “Back then I didn’t know who I was, not even in the slightest,” she sighs […]
The Weeknd’s 2023 stadium tour – postponed so many times that its title features not just the name of his most recent album, Dawn FM, but its 2020 predecessor, After Hours – is nothing if […]
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Lisa Scott-Lee has teased that there is “more to come” for Steps. The 47-year-old pop star shot to fame as part of the pop group in 1997 alongside Faye Tozer, Claire Richards, Lee Latchford Evans, […]
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Photo Credit: Christian Wiediger Amazon introduces a $40 ‘Echo Pop’ smart speaker, $50 ‘Echo Buds’, and new versions of the ‘Echo Show’ to offer customers more access to Alexa and Amazon Music. Amazon announced an update to […]
Bad Bunny is back with a new single called “Where She Goes.” Despite its English title, “Where She Goes” is sung in Spanish. It begins with a dramatic, percussion free intro, on which he sings […]
An aurora as seen from Abisko National Park in Sweden, where prominent artists have generated Spotify royalties on almost 270 billion streams since 2008, according to a new study. Photo Credit: David Becker How much […]
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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