It’s often been said that pop music is formulaic — or, more recently algorithmic, because the zeitgeist — but when a Twitter user posted a video of himself playing songs from The Weeknd on a ...

I don't usually participate when someone invites me to play along with some social media game. So when Reade Mitchell tagged me in a Facebook post on April Fool's Day, I considered it a joke. Reade's ...

Over the past week, I've soaked in James McMurtry's new album, "The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy" (2025), the way I once soaked in a new Jackson Browne or Leonard Cohen record: on headphones, ...

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 ...