Pop Music

Many pop songs have guitars in them. Ditto drums and piano and synthesizers. Fine! That’s fine. I am not here to…

Jesus, this is terrible. Just terrible. Prince is dead. There’s no way to wrap your arms, or your head, around it.…

When Coachella opens its gates at the Empire Polo Club today, it sounds the bugle for Festival Season, now a…

What the world needs now is a great Kanye West song: no less and please, God, no more. Enough with the delays, the…

Can we start with “Under Pressure”? Is that too obvious? Eh, who cares. We’re starting with “Under Pressure.” Get a…

You could’ve seen this LCD Soundsystem reunion business coming if you’d looked hard enough—if you’d looked anywhere,…

Music! Everyone loves music. Lists! Everyone loves lists. Hit the deck.

The truth is that all sorts of weirdos get to be pop stars nowadays, and that should excite you whether you like pop…

Don’t bore us, get to the chorus: John Seabrook’s The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory (Norton) is one of the…

Sorry, but the Jay Z you all worship might not be as good as you think. Or maybe it’s just that he’s easily dwarfed…

Credit where credit’s due: The New York Mets are very good this year, and they wholeheartedly earned the NL East…

Embrace the moment: One of the most feverishly anticipated hip-hop
albums of the year is finally here, and it’s made…

Speedy Ortiz are a noisy, lurching, acerbic, ’90s-channeling rock band from Northampton, Mass., whose loudest…

So Donald Trump took the stage at an anti-Iran-deal rally to the strains of R.E.M.’s “It’s the End of the World as…

So what we’ve got here is Miley Cyrus singing a morbid piano ballad called “Pablow the Blowfish.” She’s wearing…

Popular music becomes harder to wrap your head around as you get older, but shit’s so weird these days that you…

Dr. Dre has enjoyed one of the most remarkable careers in hip-hop history. In music’s most youth-dominant genre, not…

It’s a little after six on a sultry Tuesday evening, and the Champions sports bar nestled inside the Long Island…

“Hi, we’re Third Eye Blind from San Francisco, California, and we’re high as kites.” Stephan Jenkins beams at the…

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