Rob Sheffield

The Fast Rise, Long Decline, and Agonizing Downfall of the MTV Empire

The Fast Rise, Long Decline, and Agonizing Downfall of the MTV Empire

The audience for music videos is bigger than ever — even as the flagship music video network keeps killing itself…

November 17, 2025

A Toast to Taylor and Travis: This Love Changed the Prophecy

Taylor has sung about weddings and marriages many times, and her engagement to Travis Kelce is the ultimate All’s Well…

August 28, 2025

Drummergeddon 2025: Why We’re Witnessing a Global Percussion Apocalypse

Bands are firing drummers, and trading drummers, and hiring back the drummer they just fired last week. It's a full-blown…

August 11, 2025

How Justin Bieber Pulled Off the Weirdest Comeback of 2025

Just when everyone was counting him out, Bieber surprised the world with the best music he's ever made

August 4, 2025

The Pop Queens Are the New Rock Gods

Today’s biggest stars are creating a new stadium-rock paradigm

May 19, 2025

Clem Burke’s Beat Helped Blondie Conquer the World

Remembering the iconic drummer, whose exuberant energy brightened every song he played on

April 8, 2025

Every Super Bowl Halftime Show, Ranked From Worst to Best

Pop spectacles, Springsteen’s marathon, Left Shark, and loads of soul revues — we’ve seen ’em all

February 10, 2025

Kendrick Lamar Scores a Hip-Hop Touchdown at Super Bowl 2025

The rapper kept it all about the music, a highlight of a Super Bowl that had plenty of weird pop-culture…

February 10, 2025

A Final Bow: Everything That Happened at Taylor Swift’s Emotional Last Eras Show

"We have had so many adventures. It has been the most exciting, powerful, electrifying, intense, most challenging thing I’ve ever…

December 10, 2024

‘Beatles ’64’ Celebrates the Fab Four’s American Invasion — And Their Fans

New Martin Scorsese documentary offers a fresh look at how we became the United States of Beatlemania

November 27, 2024