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Commercially successful pop music is not always good pop music. Many of us know that intuitively, but it doesn't really sink in until there is a particular song we wish would go away. Here are 10 that I have chosen as the songs...
What this series of The X Factor reveals is that the talent gap between the stars and the wannabes is closing fast. Last week’s performance of You Are Not Alone by the massed ranks of The X Factor finalists proved exactly the...
Best reissues/box sets The year in reissues was dominated by the rerelease of every Beatles album. Big Star “Keep an Eye on the Sky” * Nirvana “Live at Reading” * Radiohead “Kid A,” “OK Computer” and “The Bends” * Isaac Hayes...
The London Times called composer Terry Riley one of the makers of the 20th century. His long-form synthesizer pieces inspired pop musicians (like the Who, who named half a song after him) and his discography documents...
John Mayer 'Battle Studies' Columbia The multitudes root for tousled-hair troubadour John Mayer to break from his tabloids 'n Twitter drama to give us what we've grown accustomed to -- smart lovestruck lyrics and the best...
Video found singer moving from teen pop star to femme fatale. by Jocelyn Vena, with reporting by Matt Elias Up until the release of "Stronger," Britney Spears had not yet truly made the leap from teen pop star to femme fatale....
Pop As Modernism by Robert Rowland Smith The Quietus , November 17th, 2009 08:20 Philosopher Robert Rowland Smith, author of Breakfast With Socrates, explains why pop will always be the perfect soundtrack to our lives Over...
"King of Pop's" Rhinestone-Studded Glove Is Expected to be the Star of the Show Saturday at a Pop Music Auction in New York In this Dec. 3, 1984 picture, Michael Jackson performs with his brothers at Dodger Stadium in Los...
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The multitudes root for tousled-hair troubadour John Mayer to break from his tabloids 'n Twitter drama to give us what we've grown accustomed to - smart lovestruck lyrics and the best blues/rock guita...
