It's the Best New Artist Breakdown season finale, featuring a MASTAS greatest-hits line-up, the return of sprung rhythm, grand unifying... more

Our penultimate Best New Artist Breakdown moves into the teens; we're talking about Amy Clonehouses, lost anthems of lady rage,... more

As the Best New Artist Breakdown season rounds the millennium turn, we're talking about which band is playing when Jennifer... more

We're closing out the twentieth century in our fifth episode, and there are fewer howling embarrassments among our Best New... more

Confusing band names, the MTV aura, and what happens if the comedy/tragedy masks and a keyboard mate: it's the 4th... more

Disco, NuRo, and not knowing where to look during "Afternoon Delight" -- it's all part of our third episode, when... more

We're wading into the '70s in our second ep, which includes ruminations on inessential classic rock; how Karen Carpenter and... more

The Best New Artist Breakdown season has begun! Instead of pitting the 64 winners of the Grammys' Best New Artist... more

Our finale finds us talking about actor/musicians with lasting pop careers: Oscar-winners (Jamie Foxx), Grammy-winners (Childish Gambino), former child stars... more

This week's crop of actor-musician hyphenates got their thespian starts in films of the 1980s: Corey Feldman, Keanu Reeves (Dogstar),... more