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Christina Aguilera’s New Album Is Pretty Good. Does Anyone Care?

Along with her fellow ex-Mousketeers Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera proved to be one of the most durable hit-makers of the Y2K-era teen-pop…

Chris DeVille | June 14, 2018 - 12:14 pm

Mandy Patinkin Covers Shawn Mendes In Yiddish

This week is Shawn Mendes week on The Late Late Show With James Corden! The guitar-slinging god of young adult contempo just released his self-titled…

Peter Helman | June 6, 2018 - 10:35 am

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Comparing Shawn Mendes And James Bay, Guitar-Slinging Gods Of Young Adult Contempo

Shawn Mendes will finally exit his teen years this August, but you can't take his youth away. So sang the suburban Toronto native Sunday at…

Chris DeVille | May 24, 2018 - 3:18 pm

Khalid, Shawn Mendes Perform With Parkland Students At BBMAs

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Watch Khalid & Shawn Mendes Sing With Parkland Students At The Billboard Music Awards

The 2018 Billboard Music Awards opened with a speech from Kelly Clarkson calling for moments of action instead of moments of silence in the wake…

James Rettig | May 20, 2018 - 11:08 pm

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Post Malone Doesn’t Care About Rap Music

It's one of my life's great regrets, but I can't deny it: Last Friday I helped Post Malone's new album Beerbongs & Bentleys break the…

Chris DeVille | May 3, 2018 - 5:11 pm

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In His Big Post-Vegas Moment, Jason Aldean Punts

Last October, six days after a gunman killed 58 people during his performance at the Route 91 Harvest festival on the Las Vegas strip, Jason…

Chris DeVille | April 26, 2018 - 4:00 pm

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Lil Dicky Is Making A Career Out Of Being Charismatic And Problematic In Equal Measure

It takes real talent to create a song based on the premise that Chris Brown is the man and end up with something likable. For…

Chris DeVille | March 29, 2018 - 5:05 pm

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So, What’s Popping On The UK Pop Charts These Days?

"God's Plan" rules the world. Drake's dominant single is #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart for an eighth straight week, and its ubiquity extends…

Chris DeVille | March 22, 2018 - 2:23 pm

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Like The Stay Puft Man Before Him, Marshmello Just Keeps Getting Bigger

Who knows how many centuries the fortune under the eastern slope of Mount Davidson went untapped before the Grosh brothers happened upon it. The Pennsylvanian…

Chris DeVille | February 15, 2018 - 4:03 pm

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The Greatest Showman Soundtrack(?) Is 2018’s Biggest Album So Far

We've reached the point where hit movie musicals sound like Imagine Dragons. "The Greatest Show," the opening number on The Greatest Showman's soundtrack album, initiates…

Chris DeVille | February 8, 2018 - 1:00 pm