Tag Archives: Pop and Rock Music

Subscribe to Popcast!Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music On this week’s Popcast, which was recorded live at S.O.B.’s in New York in December, Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarelli discuss some of the most memorable music moments and characters of the past year, including the dominance of pop star mess, …

▶ Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube 3. J Balvin and Bad Bunny: “La Canción” “Oasis,” Bad Bunny’s 2019 collaboration album with the Colombian reggaeton star J Balvin, wasn’t quite the world-dominating creative team-up it might have been, but it did spawn “La Canción,” a blissfully ethereal duet about …

Lambrini Girls, ‘Company Culture’ All things patriarchal, capitalistic and obtuse are targets for Lambrini Girls, the gleefully obstreperous English punk duo Phoebe Lunny and Lilly Macieira. “Company Culture,” a blast at workplace harassment from their debut album, “Who Let the Dogs Out,” revs up instrumentally for nearly a full minute …

▶ Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube 9. The Chambers Brothers: “I Got It” Before the Chambers Brothers found psychedelic soul glory with “Time Has Come Today,” they flaunted their gospel upbringing with full-throated, raspy-voiced, call-and-response harmonies directly from the Baptist church. “I Got It” is a rocking affirmation …

Near the end of “A Complete Unknown,” the Bob Dylan biopic that centers on his move into rock in 1965, an earnest, slim, bearded, clearly nervous M.C. struggles to pacify a wildly divided crowd that has just heard Dylan sing three plugged-in songs at the Newport Folk Festival. Boomers will …

▶ Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube 3. Johnny London: “Drivin’ Slow” Two years after the studio opened, Phillips launched his own label, Sun Records, out of the same building. Though Sun would come to be best known for distributing rock and rockabilly singles, its first release was this …