Katy Perry, dressed like "country Wonder Woman" according to Twitter, teamed up with Dolly Parton at last night's ACM Awards in Las Vegas. The pop star joined the country legend to perform Parton's hits "9 To 5," "Jolene" and "Coat Of Many Colors" as part of her honor for the Tex Ritter Award. The absolutely devastating "Jolene" had an odd bubblegum feel with KP in the mix, so if it's a proper heartbreaking version...

Backtracking is our recurring look back at the pop music that shaped our lives. Our friends may come and go, but we’ll be spinning our favorite albums forever. While Pink's turn-of-the-millennium magnum opus Missundaztood shifted the public's preconceived notions of what constitutes as "pop music," in its wake came a flurry of pristine, run-of-the-mill pop starlets glossed under the guise of...

Keeping viewers entertained while Taylor Swift predictably won all the statues at the 2016 iHeartRadio Music Awards, artists like Justin Bieber, Meghan Trainor, Zayn Malik, G-Eazy, Bebe Rexha, Fetty Wap and Iggy Azalea hit the stage at L.A.'s Forum and belted out their latest hits. Demi Lovato was also on hand to perform her somber ballad "Stone Cold," complete with backup guitar work by country crooner...

Kesha doesn't appear to be open to cutting any deals when it comes to untangling herself from her contract with Dr. Luke and Sony's Kemosabe Records. The singer dropped a bombshell on Instagram on Sunday (April 3) afternoon when she posted an update that states, "so. I got offered my freedom IF i were to lie. I would have to APOLOGIZE publicly and say that I never got raped. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS behind...

Gwen Stefani last performed Saturday Night Live with backup dancers and drumline players. Then, the No Doubt member gone solo was an alternate universe cheer captain in a leopard print bodysuit. When she did SNL again last night (April 2), however, playing it cool was the least of her concerns. Gwen sang "Make Me Like You" and "Misery," off her new chart-topper This Is What the Truth Feels...

Individual stans can be utterly hilarious and biting (as we saw when we ventured deep inside the Bey Hive). But en masse, they are insufferable and humorless, a phalanx of delusion and not-actually-clever recycled tweets barking "mom," "delete it," "extra," "YAASSS," "tea," "sit down" and that one Rihanna GIF with the car window. They display — to use one of their own favorite charges to levy...

Two months and 21 days after Bowie’s death, it’s still hard to believe he’s really gone. At the Music Of David Bowie At Radio City tribute last night (April 1) — the second of two such events in two days (the first was at Carnegie Hall) — I couldn’t have been the only one fantasizing that the legend might casually stroll out onstage to join one of the acts (the Flaming Lips, perhaps?),...

It goes without saying that the Pet Shop Boys have never been ones to follow the conventional rules of pop. And with the British duo's latest studio album entry Super (out today, April 1), Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe even find themselves bucking their own longstanding tradition of reacting to a previous LP with a record that sounds completely different. Super is, generally speaking, an extension...