The Number Ones: Sean Kingston’s “Beautiful Girls”
In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up Continue Reading
In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up Continue Reading
Rosalía, the acclaimed Catalan pop superstar, and Rauw Alejandro, “The King of Modern Reggaeton,” have been dating since 2019 and revealed their relationship in 2021. Now they’ve teamed up on Continue Reading
Beyoncé and Adidas are parting ways around Ivy Park, the singer’s athleisure brand originally launched via TopShop in 2016. Adidas and Beyoncé first teamed up in 2018 to relaunch Ivy Continue Reading
Some Ohio sheriff’s deputies and sergeants are suing Afroman, claiming the singer is using video and photos from an August raid on his home in music videos and selling merch Continue Reading
Last month, on Valentine’s Day, the art-pop star Caroline Polachek released her album Desire, I Want To Turn Into You. The LP opens with the single “Welcome To My Island,” Continue Reading
Chris Martin was recently the guest on a new episode of the Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend podcast, where he talked about eating only one meal a day — a Continue Reading
Lil Yachty, Soulja Boy, and Lindsay Lohan are among the celebrities charged by the Securities And Exchange Commission for promoting cryptocurrency assets without disclosing that they were being paid to Continue Reading
In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up Continue Reading
President Biden awarded Bruce Springsteen the National Medal Of Arts today at the White House East Room in a ceremony that also presented the National Humanities Medal. Technically, as the Continue Reading
Southeast Ohio’s Nelsonville Music Festival, one of the great regional music fests in North America, is moving on the calendar in 2023. The event used to take place in late Continue Reading
Jack Antonoff and Charli XCX will write original songs for Mother Mary, a new film from The Green Knight director David Lowery that Deadline describes as “an epic pop melodrama Continue Reading
Recently, Tennessee passed a series of bills targeting the state’s LGBT population, restricting things like drag shows and transgender treatment and surgery for minors. Last night, many of the members Continue Reading
Welcome to the Metaverse!(?) Actually, I have no clue if appearing via hologram counts as a “metaverse” thing or an AI thing, but for the sake of this news item, Continue Reading
Columbus power-pop crew Connections are releasing a new album this week called Cool Change via Trouble In Mind. Cool Change follows 2018’s Foreign Affairs and features the already released singles Continue Reading
It’s been a few years since we’ve heard from the Japanese House, the dreamy pop project of English musician Amber Bain. Her last release was 2020’s Chewing Cotton Wool EP, Continue Reading
In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up Continue Reading
Earlier this month, Blink-182 announced that they would have to drop out of a run of shows in South America and Mexico due to Travis Barker getting surgery on an Continue Reading
Mo Troper, the Portland power-pop musician whose most recent full-length MTV was our Album Of The Week, puts out covers with some regularity. A couple months ago, he offered up Continue Reading
“The best teenage band since Squirrel Bait.” Making that your Bandcamp bio is one way to grab the attention of discerning underground rock fans with an ear toward history. The Continue Reading
Taylor Swift kicked off her Eras Tour last night in Glendale, Arizona — excuse me, Swift City — and true to her word, she performed songs off every one of Continue Reading