JAMES BLONDE – Only Love Can Break Your Heart Love stories gone wrong, heart aches and other reflections on entangled relationships occupy Steph Mercier's brain, as he writes songs with the...
The Coolest POP Songs of 2017 In this new playlist, we've selected the coolest, infectious pop songs that came out recently, in 2017. From huge hits by Lorde, Dua Lipa and Calvin...
LOLA MARSH – The Soft Parade There is something charming about the way Lola Marsh's music gets under your skin. At first, it may sound thin, and maybe some songs aren't...
BRIDGET KEARNEY – Groovy baby Accomplished bass player and backing vocalist for Boston’s acclaimed soul-pop outfit Lake Street Drive; Bridget Kearney steps out on her own for...
ELISE TROUW – Young & Gifted YouTube sensation and 18 year-old talent from San Diego Elise Trouw has made a name for herself as an emerging star online with homemade videos that...
And the Oscar goes to … Max Comeau's look at the five Original Musical Scores Nominated at this year’s Academy Awards When I was a teenager in the ‘90s, before The...
SOLANGE – The Centre of Attention Being the sister of the Diva of soul must not be an easy place to be for Solange Knowles. A bit like Beyoncé's ex-bandmates of Destiny's Child, she...
OSCAR – The Happy Londoner As soon as the song Sometimes starts and you hear Oscar's voice, you go: "OMG he sounds so much like Morrissey!" Oscar's music is much more happy and...
HOT HOT HEAT – The Final Cut It's an exciting and upbeat album that Montreal-based (but formed in Victoria in 1999) band Hot Hot Heat has delivered with this eponymous record,...
HANNAH GEORGAS – Creative Pop is Possible Hannah Georgas is a Canadian singer-songwriter based in Vancouver, which has been noticed in the last few years with Juno nominations. Both her first...
LANA DEL REY – Lost in Melancholy Lana Del Rey is a persona. Most pop stars are. At RREVERB, we don't care what musicians do or wear outside the studio or behind the scenes. We put...
BRITTA PHILLIPS – When the Magic’s Gone If you are a first-time listener to Britta Phillips when putting the needle on her latest LP "Luck or Magic", you might think she's one of the many...
MEN I TRUST – Perfect Beauty For guys and gals who miss the cool loungy feel of the late 90s that bands like Morcheeba used to infiltrate in our bodies, here's Men I Trust. This...
RIHANNA: The Soul Woman, The Badass Chick and The Cheezy Ballad Singer… We all know it. Rihanna is a world-wide pop superstar that seems to spend too much of her time flashing her boobs and smoking joints on expensive...
Remember the pre-weird BJÖRK? To many ears, the Icelandic elf always has been weirder than your average rocker, but in the early days of her solo career, she still created pop...
DAVID BOWIE nails the perfect pop album If this album would have been recorded by anybody else but David Bowie, we would all be in awe. “Let’s Dance” is one of the best albums of the...
EL VY – Up Close at Théatre Fairmount Before beginning this review, one has to put up a disclaimer. I was seduced into going to this gig by a friend, who is a massive Matt Berninger fan....
ZZ WARD – Less Guitar More Legs Talented Southern singer songwriter and guitarist ZZ Ward is back with a 4-song EP in which she shows a more danceable angle of her music. Her first...
HOT MODELS and Actresses That Can REALLY SING In this world where genres and jobs aren’t defined anymore – we call this the “Slash Generation” – a talented person can be seen modeling /...
DURAN DURAN’s SynthPop Disco Vibe DURAN DURAN came out with yet another album. I'll be honest with you, I hadn't even payed attention to them since the early 2000's. And even then,...
IBEYI, The Electro-Soul Twins’ Epic Debut Ibeyi’s self-titled debut album has been on constant rotation on my player since it came out. The impact a couple of twenty year-olds have on me...
Which of these 7 artists will make it BIG? There are great pop songs. You just need to find them, among the many releases every day. At RREVERB, we receive more than 250 albums every month....
20 years ago… ALANIS MORISSETTE, 20, made history (News Release from Warner - Los Angeles) - Alanis Morissette was just a few months shy of her 20th birthday when she started recording Jagged Little...
SMOKEY – The Resurrection of Rock’s Gay Icon This is a puzzling album. One could ask "How Far Will They Go?" in blending genres. Smokey can create pretty funky beats - like on I'll Always Love...
What happened to TAME IMPALA ? Australian youngsters forming Tame Impala have finally launched their long-awaited follow-up album to their successful “Innerspeaker” and...
DOE PAORO: New Album due Sept. 25 (News release from Anti-Records) - “The best of what humans and machines can bring out in each other” is how NPR Music described Doe Paoro’s...
HOT CHIP’s Hot Proposals Half the Time The electro pop band Hot Chip is back with its catchy - almost disco-esque - beats that made them famous in recent years with hits like Ready For The...
2015 EUROVISION Song contest Semi-final 2 With the first semi-final over and done with, 17 more countries will compete tomorrow in Vienna for their chance to perform again in the grand final...
2015 EUROVISION Song Contest Semi-final 1 (pt 2) Now let's take a look at the second half of semi-final 1 of the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest BOJANA STAMENOV Beauty Never Lies...
DJANGO DJANGO, Born Under The Buzz Don't be mistaken. Django Django isn't a gypsy cover band. Based in London, they are a cool indie pop rock band that has an obvious melodic talent....
2015 EUROVISION Song Contest: Semi-final 1 (pt 1) It's that time of year again. The Eurovision Song Contest is back for its 60th anniversary and most countries in Europe take this very seriously. Not...
DEBBIE TEBBS’ catchy new wave tunes Montreal-born musician Debbie Tebbs produced a few months ago a pretty cool album with catchy electro pop songs (like Up!) with a little help from...
MILK & BONE – To New York, and beyond! While I have been pretty quiet on the blogging front lately, there has been one standout album on my Last.fm most listened stats. Milk & Bone is...
VOGUE DOTS reaches the brain’s soft spot Every once in a while a pop artist that comes up with a great album that gets (almost) universal praise. 2013 was Lorde's, 2009 was all about La...
MISTERWIVES: Life can be sunny and simple In the "great pop" alley of the music market, you can find some pretty cool and catchy music. At RREVERB, we don't snob pop music. We don't approve...
No more sparkle in MADONNA’s voice Unlike millions of people around the world, I've never been a fan of Madonna's music. Mostly because I've always found that her success was in large...
The B-52’s KATE PIERSON has made her arrival As a young kid growing up with siblings that were 15/16 years my senior it became very apparent that I was in the midst of musical fulfillment. So...
MARK RONSON – Uptown (Not So) Special I really wanted to like this album. I really did, because the first single, Uptown Funk, got us all up and dancing at the beginning of winter, when...
Are you a fan of the 80s? Here’s a playlist! You've requested it, here it is! The great pop of the 80s cannot be beaten on energy, sunshine and catchy tunes. Let's go back to Cindy Lauper,...
The Best POP Songs of 2014 Playlist POP has bad press. For many, it isn't a "noble" style. They find it commercial, and cheezy. Made to sell. But not ALL pop music is bad. There are...
