pop music Archives

With the seasons changing, we wanted to put together a collaborative playlist to welcome in the autumn, and cozy up in some musical sweaters.

We dive back into the pagebooks of Hollywood blockbuster history to tell four stories of how some of the most massive pop hits came to be.

Listening back to David Bowie’s 1977 albums “Low” and “Heroes” gives both producers and songwriters ideas of how to experiment in the studio.

Thoughts on Lorde’s new single, a familiar ’50s rock groove, and the hyper-litigious state of the music industry’s copyright law.

Today we break down Olivia Rodrigo’s smash hit “Drivers License” to show how she uses much more than lyrics to tell her heartbreak story.

A sampling of single- and multi-chord progression songs between the 1980s and 2010s reveals a disheartening trend. How to fix it?

We’re talking songs dominated by vocals in Episode 16 of our podcast, “Themes and Variation” with our very special guest, Kimbra.

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