Many pop music enthusiasts considered the return of Culture Club in the late 90s with the classy and sophisticated “Don’t Mind If I Do” album (unreleased in the US) to be the return against all ...

Date: September 8, 2018 Venue: Forest Hills Stadium (Queens, New York) Tour: Automaton Tour 2018 The isolation of America from the global pop/rock music landscape dates back to the mid-90s – when c...

This review is by guest blogger Bjorn Thomassen Following the now infamous messy split over a jacket in 2001, and a disappointingly stumped return five years later with the ska- and reggae-infused ...

Date: April 27, 2018 Venue: Indigo (O2 complex) – London (UK) “The chapter has ended a story; That only just begun; First the rise and then the fall“. These are lyrics from “Do...

It appears that the divergence in the trajectory between the common definition of pop music (i.e. music that is popular) and music with immense promise of commercial viability started as early as the...

I have generally believed that greatness in a pop song is a function of an artist’s or band’s ability to make the most of the standard pop song structure that has become commonplace and a ...

In our post listing artists/bands returning with new music in 2018, Aussie pop princess Kylie Minogue was at the top of that list. In a music career that spans almost 30 years, Kylie Minogue has not n...

Date: December 6, 2017 Venue: O2 Arena (London) Tour: Automaton Tour 2017 Jamiroquai is undoubtedly one of pop music’s most unlikely phenomenons. What seemed like it could have been a momentary ...

This concert review is co-written with US-based Debbie Martinez – our guest blogger and an ardent a-ha fan that traveled far to make sure she could be ours eyes and ears on the ground. Dates: ...

I have always questioned the rather prevalent trend of labeling “The 80s” as a genre of pop music for all music that was created in the 1980s. This single (and rather unwarranted) label to...