Guardian Music — (Transgressive)Pop is reputed to be a safe, pappy form. In the hands of producers like the Glasgow-born, LA-based Sophie, it has become a warped carnival of artifice – abrasive, while retaining cutesy tropes. Her excellent debut compilation, P... more info

New York Post — In 1982, music business mogul Seymour Stein — the co-founder of Sire Records — was at Lenox Hill Hospital on the Upper East Side, recuperating from a heart operation, when he listened to a demo by a new downtown artist named Madonna. As Stein rec... more info

Guardian Music — As Ocean’s 8 hits cinemas and trailers for A Star Is Born arrive, the acting roles of the likes of Rihanna, Lady Gaga and Madonna often reveal secret ambitionsThis week, Rihanna takes on her biggest acting role since pretending to be intereste... more info

Core News — “Techno, house and disco from the riot girrrl of dance music, The Black Madonna. she’ll be diggin’ in the crates and providing a hot mixx!” Check out other Residency shows in my archive and subscribe to the feed to get good music in the futur... more info

Guardian Music — (Transgressive)In the same extruded plastic lane as pop provocateurs PC Music, Sophie emerged in 2013 with tracks that were as shiny, artificial and joyously fun as the plastic waterslides of their cover artwork: they lurched around, you could feel t... more info

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DJmag — We Still Believe hits the streets of East London… more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — “Strike a pose,” Madonna commanded in the 1990 single “Vogue.” It's the very pose meant by the title “Pose,” a new series set against a New York City backdrop of late-1980s LGBTQ black and Latino ball culture, when... more info

Dlisted — When Amal Clooney showed up to the royal wedding last week, I was awed over her having the balls to wear a matador hat she stole from Madonna’s “Take A Bow” video for a royal function, and also scratching my head as to why she and husband Georg... more info

DJmag — What could the strange message mean?  more info