On May 11, Fox Television Group executives Dana Walden and Gary Newman officially announced that the 2015-2016 Fall season of American Idol will be the final one. A run of 15 years is pretty impressiv...

Earlier this year, we reviewed “Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs that Defined the 1980s” by Lori Majewski and Jonathan Bernstein. This book is a “must have...

Back in February 2013, we published an article titled “The rampant trend of ageism in modern pop music”. Of late, we have seen a resurgence of interest in that article and most of it seems to be c...

Last year, we made a post about the back-story around George Michael‘s timeless classic “Careless Whisper” to celebrate 30 years since the song went to #1 in the UK. It got us thinki...

Around a year ago, we published our annual post for “Veteran artists to look out for in 2014”. There was a lot of excitement around that post. Some of that excitement was warranted. Some c...

This post is by Guest Blogger Jeffrey Perkins Some say I’m old fashioned but I prefer to say “retro”. However, I am something of a “luddite”. We didn’t have colour TV in our house until 1...

Back in 1981, MTV paved the way for a whole new art form – an art form that would become one of the defining blueprints for an entire decade’s pop culture. The music video enabled a layering of im...

As music lovers, we have heard the term “Street Team” several times. Musician-centric street teams are groups of evangelists for a specific artist or band. The goal of the street team is to boost ...

“Cracking America” is the illusory dream of every non-American artist. For many, it is the pinnacle of stardom and a pathway to affluence and perhaps even life-long financial freedom. In t...

This blog belongs to Radio Creme Brulee – an internet music radio station that broadcasts globally. 2013 was an interesting year for pop music if not one of the more eventful years in pop music...