The year 1999 was a great one for pop music. These are three pop music videos from 1999 that live in our heads rent-free.

Modern pop music emerged in the mid-1950s in the United Kingdom and the United States. In its true form, pop music is a combination of musical types or genres. There are influences from the jazz era ...

The year is 2008, and the Great Recession has settled in. With the bursting of the housing bubble, the collapse of major investment banks like Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns, as well as the rise in ...

This summer’s “Trap,” from M. Night Shyamalan, works hard to turn its fictional star — and her fans — into heroes. By Robert Rubsam Last fall, I went with friends to see a popular British rock band at ...

The Grammys have always been more than a bit old-fashioned. The ceremony typically consists of exciting new artists covering the songs of yesteryear, interspersed with awards going to established acts ...

Over the last decade, pop’s sonic spaces grew isolated and claustrophobic. But this year the pendulum started to swing back toward solidarity, and even a glimpse of optimism. By Jon Pareles Music ...

Pop music is back in a big way, with artists like Dua Lipa, Little Mix and Ariana Grande topping the charts the world over. Then again, did pop ever go away? While rock music, R&B, dance, rap and ...

Partnering with the team at Virgin is positively the right fit for us — they’ve been the most flexible and respectful of our ethos and independence," Mom + Pop founder Michael Goldstone said. By Ethan ...

Sasha Geffen’s first encounter with a trans person was listening to Wendy Carlos, the A Clockwork Orange composer who helped develop the synthesizer as a musical instrument. The first time Geffen (who ...

The head of the record label Pop Smoke was signed to recently confirmed more posthumous music will be coming from the late Brooklyn rapper. On Friday (Jan. 22), Steven Victor, head of Victor Victor ...

When pop fans look back on the 2010s, they should celebrate its lack of a singular identity. The past 10 years have created music’s least homogenous era in history, thanks to internet fan culture and ...