My 2025 10-best list is heavy on storytelling songwriters of all stripes, from country to rock to hip-hop to dance-pop. The ...

There is no credible evidence that “recession pop” actually indicates a recession. So why do music fans keep tossing the term ...

Midnight Sun by Zara Larsson is 2025’s overlooked pop gem, full of irresistible singles that deserved way more attention.

Debating the merits of today’s popular music versus the hits of the past is largely a matter of taste. But regardless of your opinion on the subject, one thing is clear: pop music is objectively ...

The year is 2008, and the Great Recession has settled in. With the bursting of the housing bubble, the collapse of major investment banks like Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns, as well as the rise in ...

Everyone knows these three '00s pop songs for their choruses. Far fewer know the rest of the words. How much do you know of ...

These pop albums might have "flopped" critically and not commercially, but the hate they got back in the day was totally ...

Philadelphia concert stages were busy in 2025, from the South Philly sports complex to the Mann Center in Fairmount Park, and ...

What was the greatest decade in pop music? Well, we think that’s easily the ’60s. Motown, the Beatles, and psychedelic rock, are all game-changing moments in popular music. But the greatest single ...

The band’s label said it had dropped one of the girl group’s five members. NewJeans’s legal battle has drawn public scrutiny ...

Blending haunting visuals with undeniable pop soundscapes, horror-inspired music videos have become a staple of the Halloween season. From unsettling imagery to gothic aesthetics, these videos use the ...

Katy Perry’s breakout moment, in the late two-thousands, had a type of frivolity and irreverence that feels difficult to summon now. Her début single, “I Kissed a Girl,” from 2008, is just what it ...