Ah, the week between Christmas and New Year’s Eve. A time when new releases ground to a halt and pop stars take a well-earned break. Given that there’s nothing new…

In this franchise, we highlight album tracks or B-Sides that should have been released as singles. A decade later and I’m still mad that “Better Than Today” was released as…

Mariah Carey’s all-conquering “All I Want For Christmas Is You” has soared to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for the third time. The holiday anthem first reached the…

It’s one thing to reinvent yourself decades into your career, it’s another to do it after your debut album. But that’s exactly the feat Pink pulled off on 2001’s superstar-making…

Christmas might be over for another year, but Mariah Carey’s duties as the high priestess of holidays aren’t quite done. In addition to providing the soundtrack for Christmas, Mimi also…

Depending where you live, the movie-going experience became either impossible or highly dangerous in 2020. That resulted in studios holding on to the good stuff and dumping everything else on…

Although it was recorded at the end of 2019, just before the pandemic made its big move, Ben Harper’s Winter Is for Lovers echoes the solitude so many are experiencing…

At one point, the album felt like a dying art. In the streaming age, singles are king and there’s little incentive to craft a cohesive listening experience when the project…

If there’s one thing that Jennifer Lopez is going to do, it’s serve an epic video. The ultimate triple threat upped the ante with a blockbuster double visual for “Pa…

The music industry (live musicians and crew workers excepted) survived 2020 relatively unscathed. After some initial confusion in March, artists continued releasing songs and albums as per normal. In fact,…