Under the Radar

13 Best Songs of the Week: Ratboys, Anna von Hausswolff, Melody’s Echo Chamber, and Magdalena Bay

They follow two new songs the band shared in September, “Second Sleep” and “Star Eyes.” Both made our Songs of the Week list.

43 Years Ago, This Legendary '80s British Pop Cover Became a Massive Hit and Outshined Its Motown Original

Case in point, the British synth-pop group Soft Cell, which comprised members, vocalist Marc Almond and instrumentalist David ...

How ‘Nobody Wants This’ Season 2 Locked in One of the Most Star-Studded Soundtracks of the Year

Simon Tikhman, CEO of music company The Core and husband to showrunner Erin Foster, corralled stars like Selena Gomez, Chris ...
UPI

Nmixx releases 'Blue Valentine' album, music video

Oct. 13 (UPI) --K-pop girl group Nmixx dropped their debut full-length album, Blue Valentine, on Monday. They also released a music video for the title track. The video for "Blue Valentine" features ...
American Songwriter

3 Pop Songs From 1990 That Still Get Us Dancing and Singing

When you think of the early 1990s, it’s probably not pop music that comes to mind. For most music fans, the early 1990s is about the heart of grunge music, the rise of rap, and the lingering ...
Soompi

Here Are The K-Pop Songs That Made Rolling Stone's List Of "The 250 Greatest Songs Of The 21st Century So Far"

Rolling Stone’s list of “The 250 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century So Far” is out, and several K-pop songs made the cut! With the first quarter of the 21st century winding to a close, the American ...
AOL

The Song That Launched a Pop Icon—And Almost No One Remembers It

Before "Like a Virgin," the iconic cone bras, and way before thatSuper Bowl moment, Madonna’s career started with a song you’ve probably never heard. The funky, synth-filled dance track lit the fuse ...
American Songwriter

3 Pop Songs From 1989 We Love as Much Today as We Did Back Then

Pop music in the 1980s was something special. The decade provided a time when things seemed stable but also new. It’s hard to put a fine point on it, but there was no worry about the oncoming new ...
Yahoo

Max Martin is the mastermind behind some of pop's greatest hits. Here are songs you may not know he wrote.

Max Martin, a Swedish producer and songwriter, is the mastermind behind numerous mega-hit pop songs. He's won five Grammys for songs including "Since U Been Gone" and "Can't Stop The Feeling." Taylor ...
Rolling Stone

The 50 Best Max Martin Songs

Max Martin is one of Taylor Swift’s favorite collaborators — as on her soon-to-be blockbuster The Life of a Showgirl, where he and Shellback co-produced and co-wrote the whole album. Martin, the ...
AOL

8 popular ’80s songs that take us back

The 1980s pulsed with an electric energy that transformed not just music, but the entire cultural landscape of America. This was the decade when MTV revolutionized how we consumed music, when ...
Yahoo

From fandom to force: How K-pop finally broke through in the U.S.

It's Netflix's biggest movie of all time, with 314 million views and counting. Its soundtrack hit No. 1 on Billboard's album chart and is the first to ever have four songs hit the top 10 of the ...