“Being collaborative is risky on some level...but it’s the most important thing”

Why every song about Manhattan is a pop song

Darkside’s Dave Harrington and listeners recall their best festival moments

What we can learn from one of the most controversial, and most misunderstood, music festivals

Dissecting the commercialization of festival fashion with The Cut

The "Uptown Funk" hitmaker breaks down the innovations behind pop's biggest smashes

“The things that pull me to write are when I feel something that scares me or fills me with joy or mystery.”

“I realized that Classic Soul can exist with everything and somehow not lose its potency.”

“It feels important to me as a black woman musician to set on my own terms how my music is being looked at, to not fit neatly into any one box.”

For rap duo City Girls, twerking is more than a dance move - it's a reclamation

Is Lorde's new summer song a banger or a dud?

“The narrative was always girls were bad and they never had names”

“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