Last Friday (Thursday night, really), Lady Gaga released her newest single, “Perfect Illusion,” kicking off her highly anticipated album five era.The single is yet another sonic shift from her previous work, more straight rock than it is pop with a rock tinge. The song came as a surprise to

Memorizing "Rosalita" happened over time: first a few trips, then a few days, then weeks, then years, all riding passenger side by my dad as he drove me from lacrosse games to choir practices, teaching me most everything I needed to know about the ups and downs of life through disc after disc of

E•mo•tion, released about a year ago, is the album that no one saw coming and none of us deserved. Carly Rae Jepsen was the pop star with nothing to prove, since, truthfully, people had stopped checking for her. Her first major album, Kiss, was a killer album with some of the most exciting pop

Branding. It’s become the provenance of the EveryPerson with access to social media and a dream. You can wake up one day and declare yourself a makeup artist or a magician, and if you can build up the Instagram following to support your choice, that’s what you are. Which is all part of the glory of

Concerts have always been a “big deal” to me. As I’ve written before, my first concert was The Rolling Stones, which my father took me to for my 10th birthday. The excitement I felt in the hours leading up to the show approached Christmas-morning levels and I almost shook apart in my ...Continue