When pop icon Harry Styles announced the end of his four-year hiatus on social media, fans across the world immediately started predicting what it would be like. A common consensus was that the sound would be something viewers had never seen or expected before by Styles: groovy and dancefunk. When the...

Forty years apart from one of the best-selling musical acts of all time leaves much to be desired. But ABBA steps up to the challenge, and while they may not believe that an “Ode to Freedom” is “worth remembering”, the band themselves are worth celebrating. ABBA consists of members Anni-Frid...

With the punctual drop of a seventh studio album, Blue Banisters on Friday, Oct. 22, singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey has certainly proved her prowess as a “Living Legend”.  Released seven months after her previous album, Chemtrails over the Country Club, Blue Banisters is the behind-the-scenes...

77.3 million.  That is the number of Google search results that appear when I type “pop music is getting more repetitive” into the search bar. Everything from impassioned articles and video essays to data-driven algorithms seek to examine why this phenomenon exists. In spite of washed-up stories...

If one were to approach any stranger in the tri-state area with seventeen to twenty-five years on his or her back, and utter a simple question about The Shins, he would be almost immediately greeted by a distant gaze of nostalgia. From tattooed Greenwich village hipsters, to Columbia University graduates,...