On the band's first song since 2014, My Chemical Romance exorcises a demon.

Rarely does a life-altering album reveal itself, right away, to alter your life. But for Maria Sherman, Tiger Trap's 1993 album was a swift sonic gateway to reconsidering the power of soft sounds.

We deserved a good show, and we got one of the best in years. But it wouldn't be the Grammys without a few familiar mistakes.

Ten years ago today, July 23, One Direction created the universe. Read an excerpt from Maria Sherman's new book on boy bands, Larger Than Life, about 1D's formation and meteoric rise.

Korean pop's near-total global ubiquity may be intimidating for the uninitiated, but getting into the music shouldn't be. Our introduction includes tracks by H.O.T., Girls Generation, BTS and more.

NSYNC's 2000 smash was the peak of the TRL era, but it was also an outlier — a subtly forward-thinking pop record that got everything right about where the mainstream was headed.

Love in pop music is often painted in grandiose gestures, but sometimes it feels truest in just feeling "OK."

Chumped's Anika Pyle and Dan Frelly are back with a new band that's more pop than punk and a song named for a 19th-century abolitionist and suffragist.

The fifth album by the one-time pop-punk champions ditches the four-letter qualifier to embrace a classic '80s pop sound. But there's still anxiety beneath the gloss.

The Melbourne indie-pop band knows that darkness is best served deceptively, through happy sounds and complicated sentiment.

The debut single from the Seattle grunge-pop band doesn't ignore the gracelessness of youth. It embraces it.

The gothy teens of Gothenburg, Sweden's Agent Blå mix indie-pop and post-punk to make what they call "death pop." The first single from the band's debut album is sinister and sweet.

The band excels at crafting impossibly memorable pop songs, and it does so here with a capital P.

The Philadelphia band gets at the heart of youthful romance with peculiar — and, frankly, gross — scientific specificity.

New member Melina Ausikaitis leads this weird pop song as Joan Of Arc's members bike and skateboard during a fireworks display.

The first single from Nightmare Logic possesses a certain monolithic quality Lemmy would admire: a massive rawness and heavy hopelessness that thrashes with punk immediacy and metal intricacy.

The Philly post-punk band's intimate story of war gets under the skin, cold and heavy.

The teacher-turned-rapper knows that nerds are having a moment. In "Weirdo," she rejects anti-geek social stigma in favor of a celebration of self.

On "Murdered Out," recorded with producer Justin Raisen and drummer Stella Mozgawa, the former Sonic Youth member takes inspiration from cars painted matte black to obscure identifying features.