CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

The Spice Girls' song Wannabe made just about every catchy song list out there. They wanna really, really, really wanna zigazig ah! How come some songs make us want to sing along and dance, while ...

THE ART OF THE DJ. ONE OF THE FOUR ELEMENTS OF HIP HOP. I LOVE HOW, LIKE HIP HOP DJS COMBINED EVERY TYPE OF MUSIC FORM OUT THERE. THIS IS ANTHONY FRAGUA. BUT YOU ALSO MAY KNOW HIM AS WAY FUNKY AND ...

D-Nice at the 2024 Essence Festival of Culture in New Orleans. (Paras Griffin/Getty Images for Essence) Derrick “D-Nice” Jones was on the verge of retiring from DJ’ing for good when fate — and a ...

Most upcoming artists understand the grind: mixing tracks into the wee hours, investing your essence into every beat, all while dreaming of that moment when the world finally hears your sound. Sadly, ...

When Google shut down its Play Music app in 2020, I switched to Spotify — like many others, almost out of spite, but also because the new platform wasn’t nearly as fully featured as the one it ...

If you'd rather not speak to Spotify's AI DJ to request music, you can now send it a text with your specific instructions ...

As a freshman sociology major at New York University in 2000, DJ Cassidy — young enough already at 18, but looking “like I was 8” — got his big break one slow, rainy night at the club Lotus in NYC’s ...

The producer, DJ and founder of one of the UK's most respected underground labels revisits a 2012 release to explore what he's learned in 15 years of releasing house and techno ...

How come some songs make us want to sing along and dance, while others just don't grab our attention? Catchy songs have been around as long as there's been music, but what makes a song stick in our ...