Diallo and LUXXURY, hosts of the One Song podcast, help us recap the year in pop music. We talk about Drake’s beef with Universal, the evolution of sampling in the music industry, and the most ...

A team of computer scientists and evolutionary biologists have published a fascinating study into the evolution of pop music over the last 50 years. The group, which was led by Matthias Mauch, from ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the ...

"Being music," in the all-encompassing sense, seems to be the aspiration of the genre 100 gecs has come to represent: hyperpop. Since the 2010s, that name has been a controversial catch-all for a ...

An important part for the 80s was a television channel called MTV. This played a crucial role in the evolution of pop music as it helped emerging artists propel them to stardom. With its influence and ...

From dance music to jazz and rock ‘n’ roll, Black musicians have been a pivotal creative influence in the evolution of ...

The 1980s pulsed with an electric energy that transformed not just music, but the entire cultural landscape of America. This was the decade when MTV revolutionized how we consumed music, when ...