No Grammy nominations for Bob Dylan or Morrissey. Van Morrison gets ostracized, and Scotland’s health minister called his latest recordings “dangerous.” That’s the despotic liberal response to 2020 ...

As this limbo year finally burns itself out, let’s make clear what a best-music-of-the-past-365-days list should do. I think it should tell the story of the listmaker’s annual listening experience, ...

2020 has been a uniquely difficult year to enjoy pop music—dancefloor-packing anthems hit different when the dance floor is just your living room, and you’re the only one in it. Such is the hard ...

With the year coming to a close, many are taking a look back at their streaming history in 2020. Spotify unveiled their annual Wrapped series which confirmed the late Juice WRLD had the most streams ...

“It’s like The Beatles were here,” Ellen DeGeneres said of the K-pop boy band BTS’ 2017 arrival at LAX ahead of their first-ever US tour. She may not have realized it at the time, but DeGeneres’ ...

Americans have a checkered history of dismissing things they don’t understand — the metric system, universal healthcare, and of course, K- pop. Until the last few years, the colorful world of Korean ...

Not every album released in 2020 was made during the pandemic. But every one of them was heard during it — context that couldn’t help but shape the way music sounded or what it seemed to say. Here are ...

In 2020, pop learned how much simple physical proximity affects music, and how to cope with isolation. By Jon Pareles The last time I applauded live music with a roomful of strangers was sometime back ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jeff Benjamin is a New York-based writer covering global pop music. Earlier this year, NCT opened up about the process of creating ...

The impact of Korean pop music (most commonly shorthanded as K-pop) on global music trends over the past few years is undeniable. Take BTS, for example. Since their debut in 2013, the Korean septet ...

The Rise of a Populist Influencer in the Age of Print Media A Master Observer’s Timeless Ridicule of Radicalism Elites’ Long War Against the ‘Deplorables’ Audio By Carbonatix A few notable dissidents ...