Author: Andrew Clayman Archives: 06/2026

A song for song power-pop showdown.

Two number one hits, both written and produced by Smokey Robinson.

“We just started playing the stuff we liked”.

A 50-year pop art project built around one increasingly plausible premise.

The soul legend and six others died in a 1967 plane crash.

“Solving every cybernetic problem under the sun”.

The technique took off after one famous 1978 record.

Recorded shortly before his death this past January.

A format that Jools Holland later adapted for the UK audience.

“We thought it was cooler not to do it than to do it”.

Grunge and Britpop took a backseat to a new wave of the internet age.

In politics, it’s simply called lobbying.