Peppermint on the Perfect Pop of Janet Jackson: Podcast

Peppermint on the Perfect Pop of Janet Jackson: Podcast

Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Amazon Podcasts | Pocket Casts | Radio Public | RSS Drag performers have long looked towards pop megastars for inspiration; since the dawn of the lip-sync, the exaggerated emotionality of parodying female singers was always a perfect […]

What’s going to pop big at Sundance? We have thoughts

A man and woman drive in a car in the documentary "Will & Harper."

Jordan Peele had trudged through the waist-deep snow to the Park City Library for a “secret” midnight screening of his directorial debut, “Get Out,” a secret in name only, as everyone sitting in the theater […]

Taylor Swift fans furiously slam ‘rigged’ Golden Globes as pop star is ‘robbed’ of new award that was ‘invented’ for her

Taylor Swift attended the 2024 Golden Globe awards

TAYLOR Swift fans were left shocked after the star didn’t win at the Golden Globes. The pop music sensation was nominated for a new award this year titled Cinematic and Box Office Achievement for her […]

Women make the best pop stars – and it’s about time the industry recognised it | Lauren O’Neill

Sabrina Carpenter.

Madonna, Beyoncé, Britney, Whitney: if you think about the most iconic names in mainstream pop history, you’ll probably come up with a list of women. And this week, we have solid confirmation of female artists’ […]

Female pop stars celebrate record-breaking year on UK singles chart | Music

Elton John making his retirement from live performance by headlining Glastonbury, 25 June 2023.

The last 12 months proved a record-breaking year for female musicians in the British music industry, according to new figures from the British Phonographic Institute (BPI). Women spent an unprecedented 31 weeks atop the UK […]

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 […]