"How much history," the critic Robert Palmer asked in "Deep Blues" (1981), "can be transmitted by pressure on a guitar string?"
Eric Weisbard quotes that question in his new book, "Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music," and he patiently investigates the many ways music critics and other writers have sought to answer it.
This Is Pop Review: Netflix Documentary Unpacks Pop Music - Den of Geek
It doesn't matter how pure a sound is when it catches the ear's attention, someone in the music industry will find a way to infect it. Pop music is infectious by design, and Netflix 's This Is Pop , reveals the delivery system.
Much like the recent Apple TV+ series 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything , This is Pop shows how pop music reflects and influences culture. Music has always been a great unifier, both for listeners and musicians.
Late to the K-Pop Wave?
In case you haven't been paying attention... K-pop is a really big thing in America. Like...REALLY big. But while it may be new to some in the West, K-pop (Korean pop music) has existed for almost thirty years.
From Netflix dramas to ten-step Korean skincare routines, Americans are enamored with Hallyu — the Korean cultural wave. But while television shows and skincare are popular, nothing compares to K-pop with its catchy hooks, difficult choreography and stunning visuals. How big is Hallyu?
'This Is Pop' Netflix Review: Stream It or Skip It?
Take a ride back to the 1990s with the first episode of This is Pop (Netflix), an eight-ep run that will look for the moments when pop found new voices and birthed new trends out of thin air.
Opening Shot: Radio static crackles over a title card drenched in the color palette of 1991 MTV, and the harmonized countdown from “Uhh Ahh,” Boyz II Men’s Cooleyhighharmony single from that year, begins.
All The Best New Pop Music From This Week: Tate McRae, Seventeen
This week in the best new pop music saw some laid-back releases. Tate McRae teamed up with Khalid for a snappy track, Leon Bridges announced his upcoming project with an earnest tune, and HER dropped an anticipated LP to showcase her powerful songwriting.
After serving up some mega-hit singles, rising songwriter Tate McRae teamed up with multi-platinum tastemaker Khalid for the bouncy collaboration “Working.
In Eric Weisbard's Songbooks, a deep dive into American pop music by way of the writers, critics
Songbooks sounds straightforward. Weisbard has gone back and reread more than 150 volumes, classics and oddities of American music writing.
Cover of Eric Weisbard's Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music. Image via Amazon.
"How much history," critic Robert Palmer asked in Deep Blues (1981), "can be transmitted by pressure on a guitar string?"
'This Is Pop' Review: An Entertaining Medley of Music Doc Deep Dives and Familiar Refrains
It's inevitable that a documentary about music will get you thinking about rhythm. What's not always a given is that a project will be able to match the energy of whatever artist they're profiling.
It helps that the show doesn't force its individual episodes to conform to a single style. Some fully embrace their artifice, as with the overview of Sweden's decades-long run as pop hitmakers.
Pop songs inspire ‘Playlist Kitchen’ cookbook that ‘saved’ Surrey
Becky Van Drunen has popped into the world of cookbooks with one that merges dual passions for food and music.
The Cloverdale-area entrepreneur created “Playlist Kitchen” as a pandemic project when other career pursuits hit a wall.
Van Drunen runs meal-prep business Basil and Bacon Foods out of a commercial kitchen, and as a trained musician works as Long & McQuade ’s national manager of music lessons.
Garbage's Shirley Manson Praises Billie Eilish For Transforming Pop Music | iHeartRadio
Garbage recently released a new album called No Gods No Masters , but during a recent interview with NME , the band's frontwoman Shirley Manson took time to praise Billie Eilish for giving a voice to "rebellious girls."
"For so long, it seemed like the rebellious girls were being suffocated," she admitted. "They weren't being given any space or attention.
Best new music: Garbage, Sleater-Kinney, Crowded House - The Morning Call
This week's Now Hear This column features bigger names than usual, but new albums from the acts featured here are always something of an event – and well worth reviews. So here we go.
At times during "No Gods No Masters," I find myself wondering who turned Garbage into Pink Floyd.
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