Pop music has come a long way in the public eye, rising to become respected as a genre of music as worthy of analysis and criticism as any other (although Paste has always been of that belief). 2021 ...

It's hard to argue there was a more important — and surprising — musician in 2021 than Olivia Rodrigo. She went from relative unknown to complete superstar, and she did it using, in part, the revived ...

Documentaries brought us closer to musicians this year, and it wasn’t always pretty. By Jon Pareles The pandemic, it seems, sent certain enterprising music lovers into editing rooms. For those still ...

Pop music had a year like no other, beginning 2021 with shuttered venues and ending with an explosion of concerts. Not that music wasn't being made. In the early months of the year, many musicians ...

Rapper-singer-songwriter visionary Lil Nas X is the MVP of Gen Z. Born between the mid 1990s and early 2010s, so-called "Zoomers" have been maligned by naysayers as navel-gazing narcissists and ...

Spotify’s year-end 2021 Wrapped report is officially out! On December 1 local time, Spotify published its annual rankings of the year’s most-streamed artists and songs on the platform. BTS was the ...

News flash: we've had a lot more time to consume music during the pandemic. While many in-person concerts were canceled or postponed, our devices allowed us to stream our favorite tunes, dance in ...

This piece was originally published on “Rolling Stone” India. The best thing about K-pop’s evolution, from its beginnings in the late Nineties to the powerhouse genre it is today, is the increasing ...