Sticking to a winning template
- 21 Sep 2012 00:37 - Dorian Lynskey
- Three decades and 11 albums in, the Pet Shop Boys still feel like they are renting their place as unlikely pop stars.
Adele adds more trophies to her cabinet at Brit Awards
- 22 Feb 2012 09:47 - Mike Collett-White
- The biggest awards night in British music honoured artists often left out of other international ceremonies.
Learn how to dance like Lady Gaga
- 18 Nov 2011 13:12 -
- There is a fine line between dance that suggests surrendering to the spirit of pop, and movements that prompt passers-by to dial emergency services.
Lady Gaga steals the show (again)
- 07 Nov 2011 10:59 - Mike Collett-White
- Lady Gaga was the big winner at last night's MTV Europe Music Awards, while Justin Bieber brushed off allegations that he had fathered a fan's child.
K-pop rocks Japan
- 07 Oct 2011 15:55 - Justin McCurry
- South Korean bands strike gold in the world's second-largest music market.
Power pop
- 06 May 2009 06:00 - Lloyd Gedye
- Lloyd Gedye is enchanted by Dear Reader's new album, Replace Why with Funny, and takes a listen to some great new international compilations.
'I've always been the outsider'
- 13 Oct 2008 07:56 - Caroline Sullivan
- She was a pop powerhouse whose songs lit up the 1980s. And now Cyndi Lauper is back, writes Caroline Sullivan.
Buoyant clairvoyants
- 17 Sep 2008 06:00 - Lloyd Gedye
- Every now and then a spectacular musical force rises up from the landfill of throwaway hooks, sexy poses and layers of cheese.
