Barbie and the plasticity of pop
The biggest cultural moment this summer belongs to Barbie. How does the film's soundtrack stack up?
How Louis Armstrong invented the modern pop star
Listening to the legacy of the legendary trumpeter and vocalist 100 years after his first recording
Speak Now (about Taylor's versions)
What is and isn’t working musically about Taylor’s version of Speak Now
What makes a gay anthem?
Kylie Minogue's "Padam Padam" is the queer song of the summer. But why?
Switches Brew : blink-182, Kate Bush, BewhY, The Pointer Sisters, Saint Levant
What our team and community are listening to old and new.
Chartbreakers: Mexican regional y más
From Mexican regional to Taylor Swift: this is Chartbreakers
Listening 2 Daft Punk: Random Access Memories
The robots gain a heart and soul - and self-destruct in the process
Listening 2 Daft Punk: Human After All / Alive 2007
The French duo’s anti-utopian disco-rock record makes us question, are they robot, or are they human?
Listening 2 Daft Punk: Discovery
On their second album Discovery, Daft Punk fully lean into the artificial – singing through robotic vocoders that correspond with their now-iconic robot helmets.
Listening 2 Daft Punk: Homework
On their first album, Homework, Daft Punk stretched the boundaries of electronic music and began wiring the circuits that would become their robot alter-egos, asking a fundamental question: where does the human end and the machine begin?
The Jonas Brothers' Yacht Rock Revival
Nick, Joe and Kevin Jonas channel Hall & Oates, Steely Dan, and The Doobie Brothers
From Westeros-techno to trance metal: Eurovision 2023
It’s May, and that can only mean one thing: it’s time for the Eurovision Song Contest.
BTS goes solo together
BTS has entered a new musical chapter with a seemingly endless array of new solo releases.
This Generation's Caroline Polachek
For Caroline Polachek, "desire" takes many abstract forms on her latest record
The Shakira Conspiracy
Shakira is back on the Billboard Hot 100 and it is all because of a pop music conspiracy
100 gecs and the new sound of hyperpop
Unpacking the eclectic scuzz-rock of the duo’s latest record
Modern Classics: Seal - Kiss From a Rose
Why Seal's masterstroke resonates almost thirty years later