19 h. ago 'Recession pop' and new Christian music surge in the US as streaming growth slows

More music is being streamed than ever before, but the rate of growth has slowed

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42 h. ago Pop music still has a role in political protest, says author of new version of Live Aid poem

In an interview with ‘The Independent’, Rhidian Brook also revealed Bob Geldof’s tongue-in-cheek four-letter reaction to the poem filled with famous song lyrics

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42 h. ago Pop music still has a role in political protest, says author of new version of Live 8 poem

In an interview with ‘The Independent’, Rhidian Brooke also revealed Bob Geldof’s tongue-in-cheek four-letter reaction to the poem filled with famous song lyrics

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5 d. ago Fergie's "London Bridge" Revisit Signals a Climbing Trend in Pop Music and Nursery Rhymes

Fergie's "London Bridge" Revisit Signals a Climbing Trend in Pop Music and Nursery Rhymes  Collider

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5 d. ago Justin Bieber: Swag review – inane lyrics undermine a gorgeously produced R&B passion project

(Def Jam) The surprise seventh album from the former tween idol is musically expansive, abetted by a host of star producers. If only he’d thought about the words a bitIn the mid-2010s, pop music changed. Instead of hounding the listening public with focus-grouped, machine-tooled crowd-pleasers, the biggest stars began releasing expansive, experimental albums that played to their own tastes and interests. These were records that were artistically self-indulgent, mostly in a good way: Rihanna’s sleazy, sultry Anti, Beyoncé’s densely referential Lemonade, Lady Gaga’s soft-rock-heavy Joanne, Miley Cyrus’s psychedelic Wayne Coyne collaboration Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz (I may be the only person who holds that example in such high regard.)With his fourth album Purpose, Justin Bieber was adjacent to this shift. Leaning into the ascendant tropical house genre, collaborating with Skrillex and pursuing a sound you sensed a 21-year-old might actually like, it spelled the end of Bieber’s ...

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6 d. ago 'Fake lesbian' pop duo look unrecognisable more than two decades after finding fame with VERY provocative music video

The controversial pop stars burst onto the scene in the early noughties and quickly went to number one in the UK with their debut single.

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7 d. ago Oasis shock fans with song release days after Cardiff reunion gigs as fans demand album

Oasis are back and better than ever, with their first headline reunion shows under their belt, the band have released the live version of Slide Away onto all streaming platforms

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9 d. ago Norman Tebbit death: Prominent minister in Thatcher government and champion of Brexit dies aged 94

The Conservative grandee was Margaret Thatcher’s enforcer nicknamed “the Chingford skinhead” and played a key role in Tory politics for a generation

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2 w. ago PATRICK MARMION reviews Evita: So sassy and cool, Rachel Zegler is a knockout as Evita

The 5ft 2in, 24-year-old Zegler may be a diminutive diva, but with a delicate yet rich voice, she takes to the role of the Latin American political idol like a pair of Ferragamo shoes.

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2 w. ago Michael Sheen says NHS has been ‘integral’ to his life as he plays its founder

The actor also revealed he had to ‘put on a bit of weight’ to embody the role of Welsh Labour Party politician Aneurin Bevan.

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2 w. ago Nile Rodgers and Chic at Glastonbury review – pop’s most reliable band bring the party to the Pyramid

Pyramid stageWhile you might quibble that Chic’s set has become more reliable than revolutionary, you can’t argue with the effects of the greatest pop music ever made on the crowdSunday at 6pm is a point in the Glastonbury experience what you really need is something dependable. You are sunburnt. The heat is still brutal. You are exhausted. The state of the toilets is unspeakable, and you crave a certain straightforward reliability. And, despite his attempts to reboot the Chic brand with a new album a few years back and a handful of fresh production gigs, Nile Rodgers seems largely content to see out his days in the business of straightforward reliability, simply touring the world playing his old songs. In fairness, if you’d written the catalogue of material he has, you might be inclined to ensure people don’t forget about it.The initial shock you may have felt at seeing a reconstituted version of the greatest disco band of all playing Glastonbury’s West Holts stage in 2013 has long...

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2 w. ago Sing along with the common people: Saturday at Glastonbury with Raye, Pulp and pop punters – photo essay

Raye wowed with her old-Hollywood glamour, Pulp did 90s nostalgia at its best and everyone tried to hide from the heat – see the best Guardian photography from a big SaturdayThe sun hit hard on Saturday until late afternoon, and proved too much for some people.Festivalgoers struggle in the heat by the Other stage. Photographs: Alicia Canter Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Glastonbury's Welsh language pop star who is playing alongside Charli XCX and The 1975 after catching the eye

Cardiff's Mali Haf will play the BBC Introducing Stage

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2 w. ago Pop star Lydia Night on leaving The Regrettes and going solo: ‘Being messy is excused

From teenage punk prodigy to solo alt-pop risk-taker, the former Regrettes frontwoman is embracing uncertainty, romantic chaos and creative reinvention. She talks to Hannah Ewens about interpersonal band drama, cosplaying being a pop star and her debut album ‘Parody of Pleasure’

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2 w. ago Pop star Lydia Night on leaving The Regrettes and going solo: ‘I wanted to walk away rather than flog a dead horse’

From teenage punk prodigy to solo alt-pop risk-taker, the former Regrettes frontwoman is embracing uncertainty, romantic chaos and creative reinvention. She talks to Hannah Ewens about interpersonal band drama, cosplaying being a pop star and her debut album ‘Parody of Pleasure’

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2 w. ago Pop star Lydia Night on leaving The Regrettes and going solo: ‘Being messy is excused – but only if you write about it’

From teenage punk prodigy to solo alt-pop risk-taker, the former Regrettes frontwoman is embracing uncertainty, romantic chaos and creative reinvention. She talks to Hannah Ewens about interpersonal band drama, cosplaying being a pop star and her debut album ‘Parody of Pleasure’

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3 w. ago Pure pop perfection in the pouring rain as Dua Lipa dazzles fans at Liverpool Anfield

The 29-year-old's mesmerising two-hour show brought rain-soaked euphoria to the football ground

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3 w. ago ‘Pop music can be so scared to offend’: Ca7riel and Paco Amoroso, the Argentine duo subverting machismo

After going viral with their Tiny Desk concert, the impish pair are heading to Glastonbury. They explain their ‘no shame, no fear’ approach – and their ridiculous muscle suitsOver impeccable jazz-funk arrangements and Latin percussion, a man in a furry blue trapper hat raps like he’s inhaled a Benson & Hedges multipack, while his partner brings lip-curling, hair-twirling attitude to his own lyrical delivery. This is Ca7riel and Paco Amoroso’s Tiny Desk Concert, an online performance that turned the two Argentine vocalists into global sensations almost overnight after it came out last October. It has now racked up 36m views and Rolling Stone has called them “the future of music”.Some eyebrows were raised, though, by the English translations of their lyrics: crude, daft, often hilarious tales of parties, sex and girls – even, accidentally, goes one punchline, the same one. “We’re always having fun and trying to confuse people,” Amoroso explains on a video call from Madrid, during ...

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3 w. ago Add to playlist: James K’s downtempo dream pop and the week’s best new tracks

Right on time for the return of the chill out era, the New York producer traces a hypnotic path on an album that bobs along on sleepy breakbeats and angelic atmosphericsFrom New YorkRecommended if you like Caroline Polachek, Voice Actor, Vegyn Up next New album Friend released via AD 93 on 5 SeptemberPull up your beanbag, light a lava lamp and crack open the Vicks VapoRub: downtempo is back. New compilation Telepathic Fish documents the 90s south London ambient night; Logic1000’s latest DJ-Kicks mix would barely register on an ECG; there’s none more languid than even the summer’s flagship pop album, Addison by Addison Rae. New York producer and musician James K has been dabbling in trip-hop – and various shades of experimental pop and club music – for more than a decade, but nonetheless, her new album, Friend, arrives right on time for summer’s wind down. (What is autumn if not the chill out room to escape the year’s most hectic season?) Continue reading...

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