The Pop Corporation

WORDS ABOUT MUSIC + POP CULTURE

  • BEGIN TRANSMISSION

    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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  • GOTHIC DOOM FROM LEILA ADBUL RAUF

    We don’t know everything and daily, we stumble across things completely new to us and think “OH! THAT’S INTERESTING!” Today, is one such day with a piece of music that is almost completely alien to us, but we listened to it half a dozen times and figured it needed sharing. The artist is Leila Abdul-Rauf…

  • CONCERT FOR BANGLADESH RETURNS

    George Harrison accidentally invented the charity concert when he did his ‘Concert For Bangladesh’, which means he is accidentally responsible for Bono singing ‘tonight thank god it’s them instead of you’ for Band Aid. Still, these are good things all told and in 1971 he got a bunch of pals together for a big show…

  • KYLIE + BLESSED MADONNA + BRAT SUMMER

    It seems like there’s something of a collision between the marketing campaign led BRAT SUMMER and a genuine need for a bit of loose hedonism after years of austerity all over the world. Recreational drugs, disposable cameras, smart-trashiness, alcopops, ruining your shoes and dancing, dancing, dancing, dancing. Whether you think this has been ushered in…

  • MDOU MOCTAR LIVE FILM IS GREAT

    Mdou Moctar is making some seriously exciting music at the minute and there’s a new gig film they’ve shared which you need to see if you like loud rock ‘n’ roll, psychedelic music or, excuse the term but it’ll do now, world music. You know what we mean. The new thing is called ‘The Agadez…

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