The Pop Corporation

WORDS ABOUT MUSIC + POP CULTURE

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What’s the deal here? A music blog, being launched in a time when blogging is absolutely dead, especially trying to cover music? What’s the point in that? Well, call it a labour of love. Call it foolhardiness. Call it what you want, but the chances of this making any money is basically nil, and thankfully,…
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Dec 4

SPOTIFY WRAPPED SZN IS HERE

Spotify Wrapped 2024 is upon us and, obviously, spare a thought for those people who pushed all their chips into those dreadful puritans over Apple who are gamely looking at whatever Apple Music equivalent their is, while Apple music impose increasingly draconian rules about what is allowed on their marketplace, and thereby taking all vague…
Dec 3

KNOCKED LOOSE FRIGHTEN AMERICA

We reckon a thousand hardcore bands have just been formed in the US. See, Knocked Loose performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and, as they were taking no prisoners, they played HARD. As such, a number of Americans – remember, for all the ways the US is cool, it is a country full of pearl clutching…
Dec 2

2024 BEST OF? NOT YET

We have noticed that The Quietus, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, NPR and others have released their Best Albums Of 2024 lists already, and that is far too early. The fact that we’re in the window for SURPRISE DROP! albums, and there’s a strong rumour that Kendrick will have a follow up to ‘GNX’ before…
Dec 1

SKELETEN’S NEW ONE IS A VIBE

We don’t know much about Skeleten, but apparently they’re from Australia from the cursory search we just did. They have an album coming out early next year called ‘Mentalized’, and we’re sharing a track from it called ‘Bodys Chorus’, and honestly, it’s a vibe. In promo for it is a smidge pretentious, so we’ll just…

THERE’S NO MONEY IN THIS GAME ANYMORE, BUT IF YOU WANT TO WRITE SOMETHING FOR THE POP CORPS, YOU ARE WELCOME TO GET IN TOUCH. HAPPY HUNTING.

POP CULTURE IS WORTH TALKING ABOUT.

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