It’s time again for the annual tone-setter for my summer: the official summer playlist of 2016. This year, I’m predicting that this summer going to be hot. Like, really hot. And before you give me a gold star for predicting the ...
Thanks to social media and the power of a generation that understands marketing better than any of its predecessors, pop music is free to explore new frontiers. YouTube doesn’t pick its pop stars from the Disney Channel, nor do you ...
This Latvian is about to completely mess up and rearrange the way you see disability. Her name is Viktoria Modesta and she, at 20 years old, had an elective lower leg amputation due to an neglectful doctor’s accident at her birth. But ...
I was introduced to Elle King through a friend’s Facebook post, in which she was criticizing all of us – the people on her friends list – for forcing her into the uncomfortable position of having to listen to the ...
Lana Del Rey's last album was sweet. Sickly sweet. It was syrupy and viscous and while it was rich with luscious depth, it didn't have much in the way of variety, or emotional variance. Her latest release, Ultraviolence, is still ...
Since 2014 seems to be the Year of Contemporary Pop Music Appreciation for me, I’m just going to roll with it. That means that I definitely allowed myself to rock out and sing along to “I Think I Like You,” the ...