Making Popular Music: Musician, Aesthetics and the Manufacture of Popular Music
TREND HUNTER Magazine (Free subscription) | yesterday
(TrendHunter.com) The Taipei Cicada pop music center proposal of taking a nearly extinct sound producing insect in Taipei and roughly translating it into an architectural form to exhibit the Pop music culture of Taiwan…
Music Is The Heart Of Our Soul (Free subscription) | yesterday
Wanessa is a Brazilian singer and songwriter of pop music who have just released her fourth studio album called "Meu Momento". "Não Me Leve a Mal" is the second single of it . Enjoy!!!!! :: Download :: Wanessa - Não Me Leve A Mal (Let Me Live) :: Download ::
andPOP.com News (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
When the phrase “pop music” is put in the same sentence as “Sweden,” not much comes to mind other than the 70’s phenomenon foursome ABBA. Erik Hassle is out to change that. While the 21-year-old pop singer has already had success in Sweden and is quickly gaining momentum in the United Kingdom, he has bigger dreams: North [...]
Shiny & New (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
Today's discussion point, beloved readers, is why Janet Jackson's album artwork has become so fucking shit. We've only really got into Janet in the past twelve months, so we're still very new fans and still introducing ourselves to the entire spectrum of her musical offerings. Already, we are noticing a dangerously close correlation between the quality of artwork and the music on the...
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
Cheesy Actors? During the recent release of the new "Twilight film" I was sent a link to an America celebrity website and amongst the pictures of variously sexed lovelies wrestling with towels and swim suits I was struck anew by the weirdness of American actors names. Fairly soon it seems every young American actor is going to be named after a recently revived variety of English blue cheese...
Idolator (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Esmée Denters released the cover art and music video for her second single "Admit It," and while it's no "Outta Here," the track still has a good beat for all your workout needs. In the vid, Es dancers around with her two gals pals on either side of her—unfortunately, in a much more generic fashion than "Single Ladies"—while a semi-cute dude...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
The Rev. Ron Vanderwell, whose church The Gathering meets at a Natomas Marketplace theater, presented a Metallica-based sermon several years ago and will do the same with Michael Jackson's music this Sunday. Last week's service was based on the Beatles. The Rev. Ron Vanderwell preaches about salvation. Michael Jackson sang about it. This weekend, the Sacramento pastor will turn to the work...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Helen Brown gets down with the year's grooviest pop books. Michael Jackson's memoirs are here, as are a Morissey miscellany, Jah Wobble's Tube-driving experiences and the battle for the soul of The Beatles
NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
It's not clear exactly when the formal memo was circulated, but at some point, television realized that pop music was the perfect complement to football over Thanksgiving weekend.
Band Weblogs (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Mr Fogg's Pop-up Shop - 'FOGG SHOP' December 9th - 12th, 2009 Oxford's solo electronica Artist Mr Fogg will open his own pop-up shop, named 'Fogg Shop', in Central London for 4 days just before Christmas. He will sell only CDs, T-shirts, badges and other Mr Fogg merchandise, while also performing throughout the day and night.
The Daily Swarm - Headlines (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
The Guardian : Finding has recently completed a PhD thesis entitled Give Me Myself Again – Sexual Violence Narratives in Popular Music. The first part of that title is taken from a song by Tori Amos, whom she describes as “the patron saint of sexual violence”, having written a song about her own rape. Finding has spent a lot of time travelling to gigs in the US and the UK...
Backseat Cuddler (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
PopEater is getting us ready for the next decade by taking a look back at this past decade of pop music. There has been a lot of hits (and misses) that we have grown to love and/or hate. I think this has been a great decade of music and I am excited to see waht [...]
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
It’s almost Christmas and I’m starting to worry as I’ve not yet been asked to form a supergroup with either Josh Homme or Jack White. My concerns are further compounded by the fact that sadly also even though I took a number at the counter I’ve not yet married Patsy Kensit. Anyone else had the call yet?
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
As a testament to his star potential, Wayne links up with three of Nashville's hottest producers - a common strategy in pop music, but unusual in Nashville, where artists almost always work with one producer per project. Collaborating with Mark Bright (Carrie Underwood), Nathan Chapman (Taylor Swift) and Dann Huff (Rascal Flatts, Keith Urban), Wayne achieves a consistent quality through "Sara...
Electroqueer (Free subscription) | yesterday
by Adam Tyler Being a U.S. native, I've never been completely satisfied with the amount of pop in this country! Sure, we have great music, but a pop music lover sometimes can't quite get a fix from what we have...
