From time to time, it is our constitutional duty to provide an update to the people on the current state of pop music

After 40 years, the Swedish hitmakers are back with new music. Does it match up to their classic hits?

Music-as-medicine

Billie Eilish and Hans Zimmer take on the classic theme

“I find contentment and bliss in a chord progression, but it's fleeting”

Copyright lawsuits are on the rise and changing the music business

How internet trolls and horror icon John Carpenter inspired their new album Screen Violence

“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”