Cassie currently has a top 30 hit on iTunes with a song she released in 2006! "Me + U," the diva's slinky debut single, has been brought back to life by Diddy's Can't Stop, Won't Stop: The Bad Boy Story documentary and a prominent placing as one of the digital retailers Hot Tracks. I'm not complaining. This song is still icy R&B perfection with silky smooth production and a hauntingly precise vocal....

Christmas came early for Lana Del Rey fans this morning (June 27) when the sad chanteuse's V magazine cover story arrived. Photographed by Steven Klein, the pictures are quintessentially LDR in their ability to evoke old money and faded glamor. With huge hair and a riding crop in tow, she poses next to a race horse and vintage car while pink cherry blossoms glow in the background. And once you pour...

After grabbing our attention with a series of Instagram posts, Calvin Harris rolls out his "Feels" visual tonight (June 26). It's the first track from his Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1 LP (due June 30) to get the video treatment, which explains the elaborate set-up. The clip, which was directed by Emil Nava, begins with Pharrell Williams chilling in a row boat, while the Scottish DJ plays bass in the background....

In today's random pop news, Austin Mahone is huge in Japan. The 21-year-old's 2015 bop "Dirty Work" recently dethroned Ed Sheeran's "Shape Of You" as the country's top-selling foreign pop song thanks to a viral comedy routine. Local funny-woman Blouson Chiemi used the track as part of a skit about being a career woman, dropping zingers like this in time with the music: "Men are like gum. Once they...

Fridays can be overwhelming for pop fans. Every week you're bombarded with a glut of new music, which can lead to ear candy falling through the cracks. I'm hoping to circumvent that tragic scenario with The Drop — a cheat sheet (of sorts) to get you through New Music Friday. By now, you’ve probably heard Marina and the Diamonds & Clean Bandit's surprise collaboration "Disconnect" and possibly checked...

In this franchise, we look back on songs that deserved a little more love and attention.In 2007, Hilary Duff was pop royalty. With the release of her third LP Dignity, the former Disney actress went through a metamorphosis to shed the pristine image of her youth for something more evolved. Debuting a darker hair color (the defining symbol of maturity amongst pop starlets) and embracing her sexuality,...

Well, that didn't take long! Adam Lambert only revealed that he was releasing new music yesterday (June 22) and we already have the title, cover and live performance. Co-written with Ferras, Sarah Hudson, Big Taste and Trey Campbell, "Two Fux" is a defiant pop/rock anthem about living life on your own terms. "If you think what I'm doing how I live's too much, I don't really give two fux," he sings...

The world of pop music moves fast, especially for those who enjoy the sounds of the East and the West. Keeping up with the Hot 100 is hard enough, let alone knowing what’s going on in Japan and the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it K-Pop scene. To help you stay on top of Asia’s hottest pop music, I’ve put together East Beat — a handy guide of the best K-Pop and J-Pop (and beyond!) songs of the week....

The pop landscape was thrown for a loop when Lorde rode in from New Zealand on a wave of frosty synths, armed with a chilling critique of the excesses of fame. At a time when her peers were soaring high on those very excesses, she exposed some of the darkness that remains when the lights come up in the club. The teen and her velvety voice served as the counterweight to the traditional pop star, and...

"Sua Cara" is the summery, exotic highlight of Major Lazer's Know No Better EP and, quite clearly, their next single. Featuring Anitta (the star of Iggy Azalea's "Switch") and Pabllo Vittar (who is hailed as Brazil's number one drag queen), the catchy banger is getting a big-budget video set in the Sahara Desert. The collaborators have been sharing stills from the shoot on social media and they are...

And the next single from Katy Perry's Witness is... "Save As Draft." At least at adult pop radio. The electro-ballad, which was co-written by DJ Mustard and Noonie Bao, will hit the airwaves wherever polite bops for Gen X-ers are played on June 26. It's not my favorite mid-tempo on the album (that would be "Miss You More"), but the subject matter is relatable and the track should satisfy fans/radio...

Years from now, pop historians will look back on Katy Perry's Witness era and wonder what the hell happened. It started uneventfully enough. The diva kicked things off with catchy, reggae-tinged bop "Chained To The Rhythm" and promised to usher in an age of woke-pop. That was met with a certain amount of eye-rolling, but the song was a hit and everything seemed to be going as planned. But then she...