What is and isn’t working musically about Taylor’s version of Speak Now

Kylie Minogue's "Padam Padam" is the queer song of the summer. But why?

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From Mexican regional to Taylor Swift: this is Chartbreakers

The robots gain a heart and soul - and self-destruct in the process

The French duo’s anti-utopian disco-rock record makes us question, are they robot, or are they human?

On their second album Discovery, Daft Punk fully lean into the artificial – singing through robotic vocoders that correspond with their now-iconic robot helmets.

On their first album, Homework, Daft Punk stretched the boundaries of electronic music and began wiring the circuits that would become their robot alter-egos, asking a fundamental question: where does the human end and the machine begin?

Nick, Joe and Kevin Jonas channel Hall & Oates, Steely Dan, and The Doobie Brothers

It’s May, and that can only mean one thing: it’s time for the Eurovision Song Contest.

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BTS has entered a new musical chapter with a seemingly endless array of new solo releases.

For Caroline Polachek, "desire" takes many abstract forms on her latest record

Shakira is back on the Billboard Hot 100 and it is all because of a pop music conspiracy

Dan Tepfer turns to Bach to unlock the heroe’s journey in free improv

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Why Seal's masterstroke resonates almost thirty years later

The globalization of “Take Me Home, Country Roads”

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