Adele Formally Announces New Album
Rumors have been circling for a while now about Adele being close to ready to release her follow-up to 2011’s wildly successful 21. Now the singer has confirmed herself that…
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Grimes Says Vote
So do it. Watch a voter PSA the artist recorded on her Tumblr, and read more about her take on Canadian politics and the importance of voting in her recent…
Rose McGowan the Pop Star
Dissatisfied with the sexism of Hollywood, the scream queen has been thinking about a pop career for some time now. Rolling Stone quotes McGowan on the motivation for her switch in creative…
This Week in Posivibes: Jessie Jones
Mid-’60s psychedelia and all its acid and white witches has been mined pretty intensely in the last decade or so, but Jessie Jones’s solo debut exists almost as if to say…
The Case for Bieber
Following his emotional moment at the VMAs, there’s been a lot of vehement talk about whether Justin Bieber’s recent tour has been a turning point in his career, marking his birth…
Rick Springfield Explains “Jessie’s Girl”
Springfield himself appeared in a skit on Jimmy Kimmel Live to tell the origin story behind the song that has launched a million karaoke-involved romantic gestures and romcom montages. Killers…
Drinks Pairing Tim Presley and Cate Le Bon
Looks like Tim Presley isn’t busy enough with White Fence—putting out an album a year, collaborating with various garage rock iconoclasts, playing multiple tours, and managing the label Birth Records—judging by…
Surf Out in Time for Your Next BBQ
In case you missed it, Chance the Rapper and his band The Social Experiment collaborated with Donnie Trumpet to release their joint LP Surf last week and, well, it’s pretty…
Musical Effects
At The Chronicle, Mark Edmundson, English professor at University of Virginia, explains the emotional importance of pop music, as it “suggests, by its easy, pleasurable repetitions,” that our “static inside” makes…
John Wesley in Venice
You look at a John Wesley picture and you feel a thousand things at once. As a part of the Venice Biennale, Prada, or the Prada Foundation, is presenting a…
Nordic Track
My friend Margaret has some good ideas, like DJing a monthly night of Northern indie pop. She might call it Nordic Track. That’s a perfect name, indicating how we would…