Concert Review: EMIA Is The Essence of Pop At Knitting Factory

Tarots, jewelry-making, and raffles were abound at EMIA’s Debut Ep Release show for Little Secret. It felt like a mini-fest of the unabashed “girliness” of…

Concert Review: Hembree Bring You The Mechanics of Electro Pop

At Mercury Lounge, Hembree adorned the stage like a pack of mechanics suited to build, hammer, drill, and drive an electric car of sound. They…

Concert Review: Zealyn Is A Pop Star To Pull For At Knitting Factory

As Zealyn zipped and zagged across the Knitting Factory stage, she felt zapped by a music bug. Her gleeful love to simply perform felt warming…

Concert Review: BENEE Is The Keanu Reeves of Pop

BENEE is going to be MASSIVE because she has something that should never be undermined: personality. While the Billie Eilish comparisons will occur, because they…

Concert Review: AJ Mitchell Is Pop’s Future At Gramercy Theatre

I would NOT be surprised if AJ Mitchell sells out MSG like Shawn Mendes or Justin Bieber. He has an angelic voice that makes young…

Concert Review: Zara Larsson Is The Definition Of Pop At Irving Plaza

Zara Larsson brought silver dresses, dancers, and full on pop THEATRICALITY to Irving Plaza, and the crowd was left GAGGING! If there had been a…

Concert Review: Run River North Serve Positive Punk-Pop

If there was one message Alex Hwang wanted every member of the crowd to receive is that each of them is amazing. While most songs…

Concert Review: Teen Experiment With Pop At Elsewhere

Watching Teen is exciting because they understand that details solidify the connection between an artist and a crowd. No audience is too small or venue…

Concert Review: Nightly Revamp The EMO of Pop To Mercury Lounge

If there are two things that, consistently, shock native New Yorkers every year, it is meeting people that have dreamed, all their life, to come…

Artist Close-Up: Charlotte OC Is The Raw Soul of Pop

Playing a show at The Standard, Charlotte OC was the equivalent to a lioness roaming a skyline. She feels féroce in delivery; raking and rasping…

Concert Review: Astrid S Is Good Pop At Rough Trade

There are moments in your life when you realize you are doing well, and you do not fight it. These moments are the rarest because…

Album Review: Benny Sings To Make The “City Pop”

Benny Sings is a one man Bee Gees in new album, City Pop. The entire record sounds like a a 70’s pop soundtrack made for…

Album Review: Anemone Surfs Pop To “Beat My Distance”

“Merrily! Merrily! Merrily! Life is but a dream!” Yes, this is the lyric of the lullaby “Row Your Boat,” but it is also how I…

Concert Review: Saint Marilyn Serve Arcade Pop At Union Pool

Saint Marilyn turned Union Pool into an arcade of pop music. With a packed crowd, their sound felt like the Say Anything, “boombox” scene on…

Film Review: Mary Poppins Returns Triumphantly

Mary Poppins Returns is one of the happiest films of the year. I cannot recall another movie from which I walked out feeling so exuberantly…