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June 12, 2026 • Ditching the punchy pop punk of Guts to play with a soft '80s pop and New Wave-indebted sound, her new LP is ...

On a breezy May evening in Los Angeles, thousands of K-pop fans mill outside the Peacock Theater. They’re waiting for rookie boy band Riize’s first US fan-concert — a hybrid mix of songs and ...

Sabrina Carpenter was three months old when Christina Aguilera released her self-titled debut studio album in August 1999. Aguilera celebrated the LP’s 25th birthday by asking a fully grown and ...

Bring Me the Horizon’s newest album, Amo, dropped today (Jan. 25) further cementing the Yorkshire musicians as a full-blown pop act. How did one of deathcore’s biggest bands go pop? We examined BMTH’s ...

In a new podcast, Vivian Yoon dissects her personal stake in K-pop, and how her obscure childhood passion has evolved into a billion-dollar industry. Who is she? Yoon is a writer, performer and ...

Maia, a ukulele-playing 19-year-old, is one of the rising stars of the music industry even though she’s chosen to stay on its fringes. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ...

Olivia Rodrigo dropped the deluxe version of her Guts album, sharing five new tracks for fans in it. The standout is the anticipated “Obsessed,” which Rodrigo had been performing throughout her tour — ...