Maia, a ukulele-playing 19-year-old, is one of the rising stars of the music industry even though she’s chosen to stay on its fringes. Just two years after uploading her first song to the internet ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on Sept. 15, 2024. The original video can be viewed here. Plenty of teenagers want to become pop stars, but few convince their parents to let them ...

Partnering with the team at Virgin is positively the right fit for us — they’ve been the most flexible and respectful of our ethos and independence," Mom + Pop founder Michael Goldstone said. By Ethan ...

A few, like “Amy” or “The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?,” are popular and vital enough to have carved out a place in the culture — and, in the case of both those films, to have inspired ...

Pop’s middle class enjoys loyal online fan bases. For these artists, pop stardom isn’t a commercial category, but a sound, an aesthetic and an attitude. By Shaad D’Souza On certain corners of the ...

My interest in rock music never ventured much past the edge of the pop world. The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, or U2 never resonated with me on a personal level. Growing up I would hear them on the ...

Sasha Geffen’s first encounter with a trans person was listening to Wendy Carlos, the A Clockwork Orange composer who helped develop the synthesizer as a musical instrument. The first time Geffen (who ...

“Cupid” by Fifty Fifty (stylized as FIFTY FIFTY) has become the little K-pop song that could. Released by independent label Attrakt (stylized as ATTRAKT), the irresistibly bouncy lament on modern love ...

When pop fans look back on the 2010s, they should celebrate its lack of a singular identity. The past 10 years have created music’s least homogenous era in history, thanks to internet fan culture and ...