Nearly 20 years into their career, the California pop-punkers keep leveling up ...

The relevant split isn’t rock vs. pop (both are “pop” artists) but expressive vs. functional, always the key distinction in how pop music presents itself. Austerlitz’s article was indeed a hissy fit ...

Even many superfans will tell you that K-pop's pageantry has often masked a troubled business model, where impressionable young trainees commit to a life run entirely by their agencies. Signing on the ...

A great way to ruin a party is to put on a Taylor Swift playlist. The Swift fans in the crowd will stop what they’re doing to sing along, but pretty soon the non-Swifties will start to complain—about ...