Music
Pop Blasts Away
Head-banging new music by 100 Gecs, Amnesia Scanner, Haru Nemuri, and Machine Girl.
pop music
Music
Dancing in Place
Some music has perked up, even within the strictures of chill.
Books
The Art School Roots of Pop Music's Legends
In How Art Made Pop and Pop Became Art, Mike Roberts charts the extraordinary reciprocal relationship between art schools and pop musicians.
Music
The Intentional Fallacy Is Evil: Festival Anthems, Fifty Shades Darker, Workout Motivation, 35 Hits from the ‘70s & ‘80s
With any number of noncanonical, shelf-filling compilations released on the market every day, the failure to review them makes sense, as they're rarely any good — but rarely doesn’t mean never.
Opinion
The Pope Turns to the Devil's Music to Spread His Word
The Pope himself is looking to join the Beatles and Oasis in the pop canon with an LP of his own, Wake Up!
Music
Justin Bieber, Ideal Lover
The most remarkable moment of the Justin Bieber concert I saw July 20 at Boston's TD Garden occurred before the singer even showed up.
Opinion
Joseph Beuys Likes New Wave and New Wave Likes Him
When I hear of German performance artist Joseph Beuys, I think of felt, fat and riding in an ambulance to live in a New York apartment with a coyote in "I Like America and America Likes Me." I certainly don't think of a hilarious attempt at New Wave pop.