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 ...

The casual music fan must notice that pop punk is undergoing a renaissance. 2020 brought a slew of artists taking a stab at power chords and aggressive lyrics, but simmering under the surface are ...

Some K-pop performances stood out from the rest this year. Credit: Mashable Composite; Getty / Getty Images Entertainment, ImaZinS, YG Entertainment There was no shortage of moments that cut through ...

Pop music wasn't silenced in the face of a pandemic in 2020. If anything, music fans across the globe turned to their favs' new releases as a distraction from the dumpster fire that defined an ...

2021 was uncharted territory in so many ways. After a tumultuous 2020, many were hopeful that 2021 would bring with it more stability and a return to normalcy. And it did! For a little while anyway.

The sound of pop music shifted quickly and unpredictably this year: In 2021, ’90s club music made a euphoric return, an Afrobeats song cracked the Billboard Top 10, and hyperpop consolidated while a ...

Considering last year was a curveball that no one expected, 2021 seems destined to deliver double the music we hoped for in 2020. That is, if pop stars who are happy to do it themselves have anything ...

As the world spent much of 2020 inside and isolated, disco experienced a resurgence like it hadn’t seen in years, providing escapist joy when reality looked like hell. Now, as the U.S. begins to ...

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 ...

The K-pop acts of 2020 debuted under unprecedented conditions. As the COVID-19 pandemic raged on, artists made their first performances on local music shows in South Korea but without a live audience ...