Pop Music
Natalie Maines, Mother: Album Review

Natalie Maines, Mother: Album Review

A Dixie Chick goes solo…check out our review of Natalie Maines’ “Mother.”

Popblerd's New Release Report 5/7/2013

Popblerd’s New Release Report 5/7/2013

Brooklyn stand up! Your own Talib Kweli has a new album out today. He’s far from the only one, too! Check out the highlights of this bountiful new release Tuesday!

Note for Note: A Complete Guide to the Discography of LL Cool J (Part One)

Note for Note: A Complete Guide to the Discography of LL Cool J (Part One)

This Note for Note retrospective of LL Cool J’s career is HARD. AS. HELL.

Vampire Weekend Get Obtuse with Lyric Video for "Ya Hey"

Vampire Weekend Get Obtuse with Lyric Video for “Ya Hey”

Pop bottles-in REALLY slow motion-with Vampire Weekend!!

LL Cool J, Authentic: Album Review

LL Cool J, Authentic: Album Review

Champ? Might be time to hang those gloves up.

"Jerk Ribs": A Tasty New Morsel from Kelis

“Jerk Ribs”: A Tasty New Morsel from Kelis

Kelis, shouldn’t the meal come BEFORE the dessert?

Os Mutantes, Fool Metal Jack: Album Review

Os Mutantes, Fool Metal Jack: Album Review

Consistency is an appealing trait in an album. Versatility is, of course, encouraged, but the best records have a common unifying thread linking one song to the next. Nudge too far in one direction, and your record is disjointed, schizophrenic; too far in the other and it’s staid and unexciting, and some jack-off music critic is tut-tutting your artistic vision. Reformed Brazilian psych-rock band Os Mutantes’s new record, Fool Metal Jack, threatens to careen off the rails several times. Perhaps […]

Fantasia, Side Effects of You: Album Review

Fantasia, Side Effects of You: Album Review

One of the most dependable R&B singers in the game returns.

Beyonce & Andre 3000 Cover Amy Winehouse; Amy Rolls Over in Her Grave

Beyonce & Andre 3000 Cover Amy Winehouse; Amy Rolls Over in Her Grave

Beyonce and Andre 3000 cover Amy Winehouse. The result? Well, just listen.

Snoop Lion, Reincarnated: Album Review

Snoop Lion, Reincarnated: Album Review

Snoop Dogg? Snoop Lion? Whatever the hell you call him, he has a record out.

Deep Cuts 02: "My Favorite Girl"

Deep Cuts 02: “My Favorite Girl”

Oh, shut up. You know you like a New Kids song or two.

Phoenix, Bankrupt! : Album Review

Phoenix, Bankrupt! : Album Review

“List-o-mania, my testes, see ’em grow… like-a-rhi, like-a-rhino!” These are, the internet tells me, definitely not the lyrics to Phoenix’s breakthrough hit, “Lisztomania”. I never actually thought that the Parisian indie-rockers were narrating a peppy, Kafka-esque tale about growing rhinoceros balls, mind you — but the absurdist image never failed to make me chuckle, and anyway, why futz with something that was probably way cooler in my brain? (Actual lyrics: “Think less, but see it grow; like a riot, like […]