Prelude Press Prelude Press – An independent music outlet focused on discovering and sharing the best emerging artists and diving deeper with the ones you already love. Genre bending collective The Big Ol’ Nasty Getdown […]
New Music That Doesn’t Suck Playlist – September 5, 2025
Prelude Press Prelude Press – An independent music outlet focused on discovering and sharing the best emerging artists and diving deeper with the ones you already love. Presenting Prelude Press’ New Music That Doesn’t Suck playlist! Updating […]
Bella Rios Releases Sophomore EP, “Right Now”
Prelude Press Prelude Press – An independent music outlet focused on discovering and sharing the best emerging artists and diving deeper with the ones you already love. Rising pop darling Bella Rios has released her […]
BETWEEN FRIENDS Share New Single, “XD”
Prelude Press Prelude Press – An independent music outlet focused on discovering and sharing the best emerging artists and diving deeper with the ones you already love. Los Angeles alt-pop outfit BETWEEN FRIENDS have shared […]
Win A Signed Copy Of Andy Bell’s New Solo Album
Classic Pop is offering readers the chance to win one of five signed copies of Andy Bell’s new solo album, Ten Crowns. Due for release on 2 May via Crown Recordings, Ten Crowns sees the […]
Q&A: Chesney Hawkes – Living Arrows
Photo Credit: Edward Henderson Images Thirty-three years after The One And Only, Chesney Hawkes is back with a new album, Living Arrows, which he postponed releasing until he moved back to the UK from Los […]
Crystal Starr Unleashes Powerful New Pop Masterpiece
Rising star Crystal Starr has proven herself to be a force to be reckoned with in the modern pop landscape. Her latest single “Part-Time Lover” isn’t just another catchy tune – it’s a masterclass in […]
WHO IS BELLA RIOS
WHO IS BELLA RIOS Hailing from Chicago and currently based in Princeton, N.J. where she’s studying economics at Princeton University, music has long been a part of Bella Rios‘s life. She started classical piano training […]
It’s Time to Kill the Silence
IT’S THE BROKEN RECORD that continues to play despite repeated forewarnings: An influential white man says something racist and sexist, instant public backlash ensues, and swift consequence occurs. Related As a Black queer millennial journalist, […]
The Rolling Stones: Hackney Diamonds
Before he was the drug-smuggling, skull-ring-wearing pirate of rock’n’roll lore, Keith Richards was the Rolling Stones’ amateur accountant. A working-class kid born into mid-war England, the spendthrift immediately began documenting the band’s finances: how much […]
The Darkness: Permission to Land… Again (20th Anniversary Edition)
The Darkness pursued rock stardom in the same way that people nowadays strive to be pro running backs or music journalists: headlong, and without care for how the position is currently valued. As East Anglian […]
The National: Laugh Track
R.E.M. had been a band for 24 years when they released their worst album, 2004’s Around the Sun, a record that magnified that aging act’s growing weaknesses and succumbed to sheer tedium. The National, perhaps […]