Jam to the best modern Christmas songs in 2025, including new songs from artists like Kesha, Ariana Grande, Mariah Carey, and ...

The birth of modern K-pop is often dated to 1992, when Seo Taiji and Boys, a dance-oriented trio led by an ex-metalhead, performed their song “I Know” on the South Korean network MBC. Not only did the ...

In a year of conspicuous, big-budget samples and career-spanning concert extravaganzas, pop music kept pulling us back to the past. But we also got some glimpses into a fresher future, whether in the ...

Cat & Calmell are inseparable. The pair have been friends for over a decade and do basically everything together. Calmell ...

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 ...

Few of Swift’s songs are as outspoken as “Shake It Off.” The song was released when Swift was transitioning from country to pop music, and it was a decided change in tone for her. In this fun, upbeat ...

The year in pop pivoted around a trio of artists — Charli XCX, Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan — whose music hinged upon assertions of creative ambition and admissions of romantic weakness. This ...

The last half-decade of Western pop music has been dominated by whisper-singing: a deliberately dry, almost ASMR-like performance style popularized by the likes of major label "indie pop" artists ...

Jessica Winter is recalling the questions she posed herself as she was making her first album, drolly called My First Album. “Why do I love pop music? What is it that makes pop great? And what do I ...