Pop Music News
Best of 2008's pop music came out early (The Providence Journal) Did pop music go into hibernation during the last third of 2008? It sure seems that way.
Pop Music on TV This Week (About.com) It's a very slim schedule this week, but the performances are high quality. Check out the artist who just hit #1 for the first time this week on Thursday....
'All You Need': Pop-Music History Comes to DVD (NPR) All You Need Is Love, Tony Palmer's 17-part history of popular music, distilled more than 1,000 hours of footage into just under 15 hours of indelible TV. Now it's been released as a 5-DVD set. Fresh Air 's rock historian has a review.
UK Pop Music Charts This Week (About.com) It's a sleepy week on the UK charts, but that allows a big hit in the US to successfully cross the Atlantic with a hot #3 debut. Read more...
RECENT ITEMS» (Filter Magazine) “I get goose bumps, electrical currents running up my arms listening to them – I love this band,” is just a little testimony from Sara Quin of Tegan and Sara regarding Australian up-and-comers An Horse . The grammatically incorrect boy-girl duo met 1/2 of the wonder twins on tour in their homeland, and were eventually referred to Mom and Pop Music for the release of their debut album Rearrange ...
US Pop Music Charts This Week - Lady GaGa Moves All the Way to #1 (About.com) Lady GaGa roars to the top this week on the pop singles chart with her breakthrough single "Just Dance". Read more about this and other top hits in this...
Fitness Special: The Physique 57 Workout (New York Post) The small roomis carpeted and dimly lit, its perimeter lined with ballet barres. Twenty or so people in scruffy exercise clothes and stockinged feet mill around, waiting expectantly. You can feel the energy level rise when a pretty, petite blonde enters the room, smiles at her devotees and cranks up the stereo with loud and fast pop music. Shelly Knight, a former dancer and gymnast who is ...
Five hot pop music events for 2009 (New York Daily News) Whether youre a classic-rock fan, a jazzbo or an electro-hipster, 09 promises plenty of treasures. The following albums and concerts promise the most.
Forecast: Pop music in 2009 (San Francisco Chronicle) Glasvegas (Jan. 8) Its self-titled first album topped the year-end charts in Britain, and now this storming Glasgow four-piece band is playing Popscene the same week it arrives in the United States. Think Phil Spector's snowstorm production paired with Sam...
Harristown teen plans missionary work in Ethiopia (Herald & Review) HARRISTOWN - Most 12-year-olds, when asked what they want to be when they grow up, have glamorous dreams: a basketball player or a pop music star.
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