The Killers are having fun this month. While celebrating 20 years of their seminal debut Hot Fuss, the band covered “Maps” by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs at Gov Ball and “A Little Respect” by Erasure the evening before at Bowery Ballroom. On Friday during the second night of the Rebel Diamonds Tour, they performed the Kinks&#...

On Friday, the Killers celebrated 20 years of Hot Fuss with a show at New York’s 575-cap venue Bowery Ballroom. The gig was announced earlier this week, and they’re playing Gov Ball today.

In 2020, Erasure released a new album, The Neon, and last year they continued re-iterating on it with a remix album and a companion EP. Today, they’re announcing another album that was also created from pieces of The Neon: Day-Glo (Based On A True Story, a collection of 10 new tracks that, in some form, use elements from their previous...

Kelly Clarkson is now in the talk show host phase of her career and during a lot of episodes of The Kelly Clarkson Show, she sings covers as part of a recurring segment called Kellyoke. Sometimes her picks are unexpected. Earlier this month, she covered Soul Asylum, a few months ago she did Tegan And Sara, yesterday she sang Erasure.

Beneath the platinum largesse, the ’90s were an ethical turning point for the pop music business. This was the decade where capital-A Authenticity became one of pop’s biggest artistic crises, a long-simmering culmination of the arguments around the distorting tropes of MTV, the legal and artistic arguments around sampling, an...