“They're all these little secrets and surprises that pop up...it's like bespoke, maximalist, power pop.”

“I think a lot of childhood is crisis mode and if it's not crisis mode its auto-pilot”

"How cool to have a summer song that can just make people happy”

The Pact fights back against artists who steal publishing

How Japanese pop of the 1970s and 80s became the sound of our digital present

A rapper at the top of his game tries to keep himself in shape

Improvised music isn't just virtuosity and technique, it's fighting racism and injustice

The emo/pop punk track "Transparent Soul" makes us ask why we we didn’t take Willow seriously

The story of the hitmakers behind Lil Nas X’s “Montero” Sheck Wes’s “Mo Bamba” and many more

The story of the hitmakers behind Lil Nas X’s “Montero” Sheck Wes’s “Mo Bamba” and many more

Lil Nas X has a talent for creating productive controversy.

Musicians confront the climate crisis

Dan Wilson shares his ground rules for collaboration through the case study of Teddy Geiger’s “Love Somebody” as part of On Air Fest 2021.

Anderson Paak and Bruno Mars have joined forces as the duo Silk Sonic, and their first release “Leave the Door Open” suggests that their collab is as natural as peanut butter and jelly.

Andrew, Jack and Ryan Met, better known as AJR, started playing gigs on the streets of New York City. Now on their fourth studio album, OK Orchestra, they’ve honed an ear-stopping sound that combines modern pop with broadway bombast.

The guitar rhythms that power pop’s biggest hits

While the Grammy ceremony horse race can be as much a commentary on commercial worth as musical strengths, the ceremony has much to teach us about what pop music means in 2021.

Reflecting on “Somebody I Used To Know” a decade later, Kimbra discusses how this unlikely hit song inspired her to pursue her singular musical vision, and how it feels to be yet again co-nominated for a 2021 Grammy for her collaboration with Jacob Collier and Tank and The Bangas on “In My Bones.”

Kaytranada has what every producer strives for: an in demand signature sound. His records glide fluidly between house four-to-the-floor beats, hip hop samples flipping and P-Funk style 808 bass lines.

JP Saxe wrote the song “If the World was Ending” with acclaimed songwriter Julia Michaels in 2019 about a fictional cataclysm that presaged the pandemic.