In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Book Bonus Beat: The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music.

Back in March, just a few months following their last album Wearing Out The Refrain, the great power-pop band Bad Moves announced that they’d be breaking up amicably following a farewell tour. That tour wrapped up last night at the Black Cat in the band’s Washington, D.C. hometown, with openers Light Beams, Adult Mom, and Lee Bains. Bye bye, Bad Moves! …

Tom Lehrer, the influential musical satirist and educator, died on Saturday at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His friend David Herder confirmed the news. Lehrer was 97.

James Gunn’s new Superman movie features an Iggy Pop song, but probably not any of the Iggy Pop songs you’d first guess. In the final scene, during a conversation between David Corenswet’s Clark Kent and Rachel Brosnahan’s Lois Lane, you hear “Punkrocker,” Iggy Pop’s 2006 collaboration with the Swedish band the Teddybears. As the story often goes with superhero movie …

Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter Tour has been an eventful one. The three-month jaunt promoting her album of the same name wrapped up in Las Vegas Saturday night, and she went out with a bang by bringing out Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams onstage to do a couple of their biggest Destiny’s Child hits together. It was the last time the three …

“Last Day Of The Miner’s Strike” is a Pulp deep cut the band included on their 2002 compilation album Hits. It’s been over 20 years since then — and about 40 since the events that inspired the song — but last Friday night at Tramlines Festival in their Sheffield hometown, Pulp played it live for the very first time.

Last month S.G. Goodman shared her new album Planting By The Signs, and this weekend she returned to Newport Folk Festival — having first performed there in 2023 — to play some of those new songs on the fest’s Harbor Stage. But the Kentucky-born singer-songwriter didn’t just play new songs! “Hope you like the ’90s,” she told the audience after doing …

On Friday HBO Max aired Part II of the Billy Joel documentary And So It Goes. Shortly after, Joel treated fans to a massive, surprise-released accompanying album of the same name, collecting over 150 tracks from across the Piano Man’s extensive career. Along with some beloved hits and fan-favorite deep cutes, there are also studio outtakes, remastered demos, live recordings, …

Global superstar Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye has been profoundly honored by his hometown, receiving the prestigious Key to the City and a citywide proclamation designating July 26–27 as “The Weeknd… The post The Weeknd Honored with Key to Toronto and “The Weeknd Weekend” Proclamation appeared first on .

On this day in 1988, Eric B. & Rakim dropped their critically acclaimed sophomore album Follow the Leader, proving to the world that Paid in Full was only the beginning.… The post Today In Hip Hop History: Eric B. And Rakim’s Sophomore LP ‘Follow The Leader’ Dropped 37 Years Ago appeared first on .