The Pop Corporation

WORDS ABOUT MUSIC + POP CULTURE

  • RAULT

    Have you heard of Michael Rault? Well, there’s a good chance he released the finest LP of 2022, if you’re into perfect pop that’s cut with all good things like West Coast 70s music, Paul McCartney’s Wings, ELO (aka Beatles: The Musical), Harry Nilsson etc. If you need more modern recommendations, then file Michael Rault

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  • 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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  • BLK ODYSSY HAS A COOL SONG OUT

    Hip hop and R&B has fallen into a small rut lately and a lot of the huge innovation we’ve seen in recent years is mildly lacking at the top end. Well, good news – there’s something new out and it doesn’t sound like it’s been dialled in! BLK ODYSSY has announced an album called ‘Diamonds…

  • TINA TURNER, THE REALEST OF THE REAL

    “Without Tina Turner we have no Beyonce. We have no Rihanna. We have no generation of Black women performers who transgressed all sorts of musical genres and without Tina Turner, we have no reclamation of Black woman’s sexuality in the context of rock and roll.” “Without Tina Turner, we have a new bereft in terms…

  • JULIANA HATFIELD COVERS ELO

    You may know Juliana Hatfield as a solo artist making fun records, you may know her from her stints in The Lemonheads or Blake Babies or Some Girls. You may know her from her tributes to Olivia Newton John and The Police. Well, she’s pay homage again with a really fun cover of ‘Don’t Bring…

  • PLUNDERPHONICS // IT BELONGS TO EVERYONE

    Sampling changed the way people listened to music, where familiar (and often unfamiliar) works could be re-imagined, recycled, spliced, interpolated and chewed up and turned into something all by itself. For years, the musical brain demanded that modernity meant entirely new, but post post-modernism, swathes of people were giddy at the thought of grabbing things…

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