Features tagged with pop

A year after the accident which proved fatal, No Ripcord looks back on the life and career of SOPHIE: a singular artist whose influence on the current musical landscape stretches far and wide.

Gabbie Nirenburg relives her days of running a college record label and catches up with an old friend who has a novel approach to keeping the songwriting process fresh.

We all know about Pet Sounds, but Angel Aguilar has the story of another of The Beach Boys' records - one that's largely ignored when considering their extraordinary canon.

In this resurrection of an almost-forgotten series of features, Joe Rivers looks back at an album that failed where other, inferior records succeeded.

If guitar groups are on the way out (Mr. Epstein), why is the nation's most popular new music station forcing us to listen to them? Will any of them ever make a song as good as Call Me Maybe?

When reality TV star Farrah Abraham released her debut album, a bizarre mixture of heavy autotune, unstructured songs and dead-eyed lyrics, it was largely ignored or, worse, openly laughed at. However, in recent months, it's begun to receive praise as a challenging piece of outsider art.

It's only two weeks to Christmas, and yet the singles charts are still looking decidedly un-festive. Can your hosts at The Singles Bar find their holiday spirit and rediscover the meaning of Christmas? Probably not, so we'll just have to make do with the new tradition of picking apart the latest X Factor winner's single instead.

It's been a bit of a gloomy day all round, not least here in The Singles Bar, which was left temporarily rudderless thanks to Joe being otherwise detained. But fear not, as we've still managed to put together something to guide you through the week's singles releases.

Make your way past the half-hearted Halloween decorations that adorn The Singles Bar this week, and you'll find reviews of the latest tracks by Justin Bieber, Robbie Williams and Seb Rochford's amazing afro, and seven others!

Here it is, a little later than planned, the most comprehensive weekly singles review that you'll find anywhere on the web (that we know of)!