Welcome to PopCrush's Daily Break! Here's a breakdown of today's hottest pop culture and lifestyle stories as heard on PopCrush Nights, airing across the country. Continue Reading
Keke Palmer Responds To Backlash Over Comments About EBT Cards and Healthy Food
A suggestion from Keke Palmer about healthy food and EBT cards sent Twitter into a tizzy. "Imagine if your EBT card could only work on Continue Reading
Best Picks for the DOC NYC Film Festival 2020
At one time in the distant-seeming past, DOC NYC was one of the highlights of any self-respecting nonfiction movie geek’s calendar. Sure, American Film Institute Continue Reading
Futureshock: Herbie Hancock and the Body Politics of Pop
“Rockit” by Herbie Hancock, an unlikely sound track in 1983, arrived as a completely tangential entry into the world of pop. But besides reaching the Continue Reading
This Heat's 'Made Available' Is a Near Perfect BBC Sessions LP
On the 28 March 1977, while This Heat were recording their first radio session with producer Tony Wilson and engineer Dave Dade, the Sex Pistols Continue Reading
Travis Sound Exactly Like Travis on '10 Songs'
At the start of the century, in the UK at least, Travis were everywhere. Their brand of earnest, plangent indie rock was a soothing balm Continue Reading
Lambchop's Kurt Wagner Discusses Their New Covers EP and Pandemic Musical Life
Not much has changed for Kurt Wagner since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Nashville native spent most of his time in the house, Continue Reading
Charles Mingus @ Bremen 1964 & 1975
Bassist and composer Charles Mingus used to be a figure of controversy for ten different reasons, some political, some personal, and—though this all seems silly Continue Reading
Doja Cat Conjures ‘The Ring’ After Crawling Out of TV for Rock Performance of ‘Say So’ (Yes, We’re Obsessed)
Sure, Halloween took place last month, but that didn't stop Doja Cat from living out her horror fantasy a few days late. On Sunday night Continue Reading
Katy Perry Consoled Her Pro-Trump Family Members After the Election
Katy Perry put family before politics after the 2020 presidential election. As soon as Joe Biden was elected president on Saturday (November 7), the pop Continue Reading
Justin Bieber’s Ex-Pastor Carl Lentz Reveals He Was Fired for Being ‘Unfaithful in My Marriage’
Welcome to PopCrush's Daily Break! Here's a breakdown of today's hottest pop culture and lifestyle stories as heard on PopCrush Nights, airing across the country. Continue Reading
One of Joe Biden’s Dogs Is Going to Be the White House’s First Rescue Pup
When President-elect Joe Biden moves into the White House, his fur-family will join him. Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, are bringing their two Continue Reading
Can You Answer These Real ‘Jeopardy!’ Questions About Celebrities?
People may not be able to go to the movies, theaters, or concerts as frequently as before as Americans do their part to social Continue Reading
Fave Five: Tunng's Favorite Songs About Death
London’s Tunng are the best band you still haven’t listened to, as since their 2003 inception, this collective have continued to build and folk and Continue Reading
5 Negative Effects of Fandom Nostalgia and How to Overcome Them
If you’ve spent money on merchandise promoting your favorite sports team, logged hours discussing the summer blockbuster remake of a movie you and several other Continue Reading
This Heat's Posthumous 'Repeat / Metal' EP of 1993 Took Extended Play Literally
Compared to the relatively capacious archival revelations of Can, a band with roughly comparable working practices, the posthumous pickings from This Heat have been cautiously Continue Reading
Better Person Moves Away From Darkwave to the Light on 'Something to Lose'
Electropop has many iterations, but possibly the most over-obsessed and tediously written about is the type that evokes the FM pop of the 1980s. Its Continue Reading
Molchat Doma's 'Monument' Echoes the Belarusian Protests
In Minsk, the bust of Felix Dzerzhinsky — founder of the KGB — still stands. On the Island of Tears, the deaths of 771 Belarusian Continue Reading
Little Mix's 'Confetti' Breaks Up with Expectations
If you were happening to wonder who the breakup songs are about on Little Mix’s new studio album, they aren’t so much about a romance. Continue Reading
Scorsese's 'World Cinema Project No. 3' Has a Filtered Gaze
I can’t help but marvel that one of the United States’ most prominent unofficial film ambassadors had once broken his directorial chops working for B Continue Reading