Date: March 9, 2019 Venue: Encore Theater (Las Vegas) It is not too far in the distant past that Las Vegas concert residencies were associated with fading pop stars that were way past their commercial...

30 years is quite the milestone for a band that was put together as a British response to New Kids On The Block and hence not necessarily designed with longevity in mind. In an age where the shelf lif...

This concert review is by guest blogger Lax Madapaty Date: November 2, 2018 Venue: Moody Theatre (ACL Live – Austin, Texas) Tour: Walk Between Worlds Tour 2018 In the US, the Scottish band Simpl...

We take pride in being one of the first broadcast radio stations in the US to feature music by Clean Bandit before they started to bask in the limelight of the US mainstream music scene. While we are ...

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 ...