Ten Billie Eilish songs that reshaped the sound and emotional core of modern pop. In a pop landscape long defined by polish ...

We lift the bonnet on a foundational piece of synth genius, and demonstrate how you can achieve its distinctive sound ...

Who doesn’t love the synthesizer? Once considered the newest, hippest piece of tech to enter the world of music, this electronic musical instrument has evolved and changed quite a bit through the ...

Sounds from the 1980s appear in modern pop songs all the time. Everyone from Lady Gaga to Taylor Swift has made hits with the vintage synths and drum machines that defined the neon decade. Chasing ...

How Japanese ingenuity transformed Western music from within. Tina Weymouth and David Byrne of Talking Heads, performing in front of a Roland Jazz Chorus amplifier in 1980.Credit...Gie Knaeps/Getty ...

2024 was a banner year for new and new-ish artists to break out — take the smash success of stars like Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter as proof. Thanks to touring being back and a free-for-all ...

If you haven’t been listening to pop radio in the past few months, you’ve missed the rise of two seemingly opposing trends. In a medium in which mediocre singing has never been a bar to entry, a lot ...

Seth Gilliard, 22, of Charleston, S.C., definitely knows how to pull some strings, or rather, play them. The southern violinist, who just graduated from Furman University in May, is taking the music ...

As 2025 rolls in, it's time to look back and celebrate some of the nostalgic pop songs you may have forgotten about that turn 25 this year. (Yes, we feel old.) These tracks defined the sound of 2000 — ...

Demi Lovato attends the 2024 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony in October 2024. (Sara Jaye/Getty Images for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) Demi Lovato is ready to return to pop. The 32-year ...

On these shores, Korean pop music—more popularly known as K-Pop—is perhaps most identified with the club-ready electronic beats and slickly tuxedoed look of global phenomenon (and newly crowned “King ...

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