Pop music

Library honors Carole King with US pop music prize

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Library honors Carole King with US pop music prize

Reviews of new pop music releases

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Reviews of new pop music releases

Daft Punk goes outside comfort zone for new album

1 day ago

"Human voices in pop music are becoming more and more robotic," Bangalter said.

Singapore church on trial in pop star scandal

6 days ago

The prosecution's opening statement ridiculed the contention of church leaders that pop music was a tool of evangelism that would help spread God's message.

Instead of 'jazz,' trumpeter says it should be called Black American Music

22 days ago

""The world's first pop music was black music, was what they call jazz," Payton explained.

David Bowie, Justin Timberlake are stars of pop music's spring

72 days ago

The spring 2013 pop music season promises grand returns, highly anticipated debuts and assured follow-ups.

'The Next Day' is David Bowie at his best

77 days ago

"The day before those concerts, Bowie sat down with Robert Hilburn, then the Los Angeles Times' pop music critic, at a Beverly Hills hotel.

The Riff Report: New music this week

78 days ago

Like others before, he booked Royal Studios, where Willie Mitchell and Al Green recorded the most beautiful pop music ever made by anyone at any time in history.

Nicholas Altobelli gives music a second chance

89 days ago

"Preston Jones is the Star-Telegram pop music critic, 817-390-7713Twitter: @prestonjones

Beyonce documentary to premiere Saturday on HBO

96 days ago

LOS ANGELES - Beyonce says that HBO's new documentary, "Beyonce: Life Is But a Dream," was the outgrowth of her sense that despite more than a dozen years in the public spotlight, first with the...

Matchbox Twenty tours behind 1st album of all-new material in a decade

96 days ago

In the 21st century world of pop music, that is the equivalent of an epoch's worth of shifting musical trends with a gaggle of brightly, if briefly, shining pop stars, and the increasing...

Commentary: Frank Ocean always does things his way

99 days ago

Any recognition for Ocean - he won Grammys for urban contemporary album and shared in the rap/ sung collaboration award for Jay-Z and Kanye West's "No Church in the Wild," which he co-wrote and...

Mumford & Sons' 'Babel' wins album of the year

99 days ago

"One of the best reviewed albums of the group's career, "El Camino" was praised as "a party record, a driving down the highway, 'I'm in love with rock and roll, and I'll be out all night' record"...

'Backbeat' a stage take on the early days of the Beatles

112 days ago

Based on Softley's 1994 film of the same title, "Backbeat" takes up the gritty pre-history of the band that would go on to change pop music.

A hunt for tickets and celebrities, set to music

112 days ago

Sales reps, mom-and-pop music store owners from Wisconsin, Florida, Tokyo and other far-flung locations as well as hard-core music geeks swarm as excitedly around company namesakes such as Chris...

Song barkers: Cutting through the 'Heys'

116 days ago

CHICAGO - There's a question that someone paying close attention to contemporary pop music would not be considered crazy for asking:

Blur, Phoenix, Red Hot Chili Peppers to headline Coachella festival

116 days ago

So what do you do for an encore to one of pop music's biggest magic shows?

'Love Me Do' now in the public domain, but the law is about to change

132 days ago

Though the world has been anything but stationary, pop music isn't as disposable as it was once assumed to be - one reason why the laws are on the verge of changing.

Madonna's MDNA is top-grossing 2012 tour

142 days ago

LOS ANGELES - Madonna was queen of the world in 2012, at least as far as touring pop music performers, delivering the highest-grossing concert tour of the year and raking in nearly $300 million at...

Benny Blanco strikes a balance between comfort, weirdness to make hits

151 days ago

Blanco is one of the most consistent rainmakers in pop music.

Rock Hall of Fame names new president and CEO

169 days ago

"Before joining the rock hall in 2008, Harris spent 14 years at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. Anyone curious about his rock music credentials need only look back to the 1980s,...