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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  • 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…

  • DJ SABRINA THE TEENAGE DJ // LIP BALM, BANGERS, VINYL

    Listen, getting way to obsessive about a new act is the best thing about music, right? You excitedly yell about them to just about anyone who’ll listen and the more disinterested they are, the more fervent you become. That’s what we’re like about DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ. Why? It’s the music mainly – dreamy,…

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