Just because bands and musicians are one-hit wonders, doesn’t mean that can’t leave an important mark on pop music history. These four artists shined bright and fizzled out pretty quickly, but their ...

The veteran journalist Barry Walters’ new book, Mighty Real, is an extensive history of LGBTQ music from 1969 to 2000, spanning from the Velvet Underground to RuPaul. But the work is more than just a ...

Music history is dotted with records that actually made it out, but the shadow history underneath it is just as compelling. Across rock, pop, soul, and beyond, there's a shadow history of records that ...

From iconic albums to genre-defining moments, certain years shaped the landscape of music forever! Join us as we count down the most influential and memorable years that defined pop music across ...

More than 60 years ago, Brian Wilson accomplished a seemingly impossible feat, completing a Beach Boys album almost entirely ...

Justin Lewis has set out to tell a history of pop music not chronologically, but day by day from 1 January to 31 December, uncovering important – or sometimes delightfully unimportant – things that ...

Today marks a milestone in pop music history. Forty years ago, on January 23, 1985, Madonna released “Material Girl,” the second single from her groundbreaking album Like a Virgin. The song, with its ...