A few of the names floating around? That’d be football’s first lady, Taylor Swift, all-around icon Miley Cyrus, and—most recently—the 21st-century queen of power ballads, Adele. While the 2026 Super ...

Think you know the lyrics to the greatest hits of all time? From “Dancing Queen” to “Livin’ on a Prayer”, fans everywhere have been singing the wrong words for years. Now it’s your turn to prove ...

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...

There are, of course, real individuals behind the construct of the music star, people who become synonymous with their celebrity projections though they are not one and the same. And these people are, ...

Movies about musicians love to hit the same melodramatic beats about fame and genius. Important but not quite famous, the '90s indie band Pavement... About halfway through Alex Ross Perry's film ...

By traditional metrics, Pavement never hit it all that big. They never sold out arenas, never bagged a Grammy, and didn't get a gold record until "Harness Your Hopes" took off. They were ...

Alex Ross Perry is no stranger to music documentaries, fictionalized or otherwise. The indie darling auteur has had the inverse career of the average director, who usually gets their foot in the ...

Utopia, which knows its way around a music documentary (Meet Me In The Bathroom, Crestone) opened Alex Ross Perry’s Pavements at the Film Forum in NYC to $13.2k with sold-out Q&As and plans to roll ...

Part spoof and part serious, the film is about mythmaking as much as it is about music. The result is delightfully destabilizing. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...