popular music Archives

Here’s our list of 10 young, contemporary artists on the fringes of the pop world, that have developed a sound like nothing we’ve ever heard!

We’re breaking down a whole bunch of our favorite lyrical lines from the top of the pop charts in 2021, take a look and a listen!

Here’s our list of our favorite breakout pop songs of 2021, can you claim to have listened to all of these artists?

Song titles are most often copied from the hook, or complete afterthoughts, it’s time to pay closer attention when we finalize them.

In Ep. 36 of Themes and Variation, we bring back an old friend of the pod to talk about songs from the recent past and not-so-distant future.

One of the biggest pop songs of all time, and the most “boy bandiest” of boy band hits, “I Want It That Way” features some savy theory…

Modern songwriters, producers and artists are reinventing the way jazz idioms and foundations are applied in modern pop. Let’s break it down!

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.

In this Guest OpEd, we explore the plethora of ways Chuck Berry tackled race and societal issues with humor and relatability in his lyrics.

In today’s music landscape, attention spans are at an all-time low. Grab your listener’s attention right away with lyrical immediacy.

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