Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the ...

The year is 2008, and the Great Recession has settled in. With the bursting of the housing bubble, the collapse of major investment banks like Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns, as well as the rise in ...

This story is the first installment of a three-part series discussing major changes in popular music throughout the course of 2024. Today’s story focuses on the current state of pop music. This year ...

When Sabrina Carpenter was six, she watched Disney’s Hannah Montana and realized exactly who she wanted to be. From 2006 to 2011, it was impossible to avoid the phenomenon that was Hannah Montana and, ...

It’s Australia’s Great Poptism Era. After decades of our rock stars commanding the world’s stages and airwaves, and industry ...

The world of music is constantly changing. Genres such as folk-pop, indie-folk, and country music are currently experiencing a real cultural hype. The folk-pop scene in particular seems to be gaining ...

Pop punk is an interesting genre. So many millennials look back at the golden age of pop punk with a sense of longing and nostalgia. Those bands, however, seem to want nothing more than to escape the ...

This post was updated April 3 at 8:28 p.m. Now more than ever, male pop stars are hard to come by. Female artists are taking the reins and defining the current pop landscape. Pop stars such as Taylor ...

The line, long and winding but orderly, stretched around the corner from the venue, with concertgoers dressed in everything from rave apparel to dad sneakers. Young women with glittery eyelids and ...

Western pop music has always been influenced by artists and styles from around the world. A new book aims to give those varied influences — all of them — their due. Special correspondent Tom Casciato ...

Streaming services are helping revive America’s most old-fashioned, undigital genre. Charley Crockett, a rising star in the roots-music field, performing in Nashville, Ind., in May.Credit...Kristine ...