Tagged Pop

As the 2010s enter their eighth year, I’ve taken considerable time to reflect upon the decade’s most influential artists. Bands like Beach House came in strong, put out consistent LPs with only minor variat...

When you’ve been following the independent music scene for long enough, you start to see the same story-lines play out over and over again.  There’s the classic “first album was solid, got signed to a bi...

For most of us, Disney and Pixar animated movies take us back to our childhood. For Jon Bellion, these movies represent more than just that -- they are the core of his inspiration and his artistic evolution. Th...

After a quick live equipment check, Brooklyn songstress VÉRITÉ (real name Kelsey Byrne) hit the Fillmore stage before an impressively energized post-Folsom Street Fair crowd. The second opener for fellow Eas...

Following the disappointment and criticism that followed her experimental pop album ARTPOP, Lady Gaga took a substantial amount of time off from the pop music scene. Despite having hinted at new music in Janu...

By coincidence, we are perhaps starting to associate Savoir Adore with the end of (holi)days. The last time lead song architect Paul Hammer and company were in town, we were trying to make the most of the final...

Commonly compared to a young Madonna, Aleksandra Denton (as Shura) is, in personality, much more inconspicuous. With a sweet demeanor and dyed ends, Denton blends in with today’s alternative crowd. And her br...

“Do you need a reason we should commit treason and bring into this world a son?” Andrew Bird asks on “Valleys of the Young,” the penultimate track on his newest LP, Are You Serious, out last week via ...

In February, dream pop machine M83 put out a public call for a new touring keyboardist in light of Morgan Kibby’s departure from the group. A month later, a news release announced seventh LP Junk and the addi...

Quirky singer and Portland native Grace Mitchell has been making waves in the music industry since she was thirteen. This weekend she played two shows as an opener for St. Lucia at The Fillmore and The Indepen...

Seattle should be proud of its hip hop scene. A roll call of contemporary notables would summon names like Blue Scholars, Grieves, Sadistik -- ‘conscious’ and experimental hip hop artists who proudly wear t...

Wet’s debut was a long time coming. Kelly Zutrau, Joe Valle, and Marty Sulkow have been creating and playing music together in different incarnations for nearly a decade. After coming together in Brooklyn...

Thanks to the Internet, the careers of many young artists such as Lorde, Halsey, and The Weeknd have been catapulted from anonymity to pop stardom. Troye Sivan is no exception in the social media / pop culture ...

After much anticipation, the singer-songwriter who has enraptured possibly every last person who is not completely tone deaf has finally come out of her four year long sabbatical with her third studio album, 25...

Sweden continues to be a pop music powerhouse, having paved the way for iconic artists from the likes of ABBA, Robyn, and most recently Icona Pop, Say Lou Lou, Little Dragon, Tove Lo, and many more. Twenty-o...