Mikael Wood writes about pop music in all its ever-quickening splendor. Prior to joining the Los Angeles Times in 2012, he was a freelance contributor to Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Spin and the Village Voice. He grew up in Little Rock, Ark., graduated from Northwestern University and knows every word to “Mo Money Mo Problems.” He was named pop music critic in 2016.
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The pop megastar said Friday that she had regained control of her first six studio albums, six years after Scooter Braun bought her old record label.
Known for his work as both a stylist and a hypeman, Michael Sumler was killed on Sunday in Georgia’s Cobb County.
On a break from Måneskin, Damiano David is reaching for pop stardom with his solo debut, ‘Funny Little Fears.’
The two giants of American song performed Friday night as the annual Outlaw Music Festival stopped at the Hollywood Bowl.
The director always wanted a Flea bobblehead, which led to the creation of a music video for ‘Can’t Stop,’ where the band performs as string puppets for Vol. 4 of Netflix’s ‘Love, Death + Robots.’
The L.A. band’s early videos established a new way for acts to connect with fans. How’s it navigating the TikTok era?
Stevie Wonder put in a surprise appearance at Sunday night’s concert in Inglewood bringing together four queens of R&B.
The beloved early-2000s indie rock band played Saturday’s nostalgia-fueled Just Like Heaven festival in Pasadena along with Vampire Weekend, TV on the Radio and Bloc Party, among others.
The British rock star on his complicated relationship with the press and his latest album, “People Watching,” which he made in L.A. with Adam Granduciel of the War on Drugs.
The 70-year-old rock singer performed Van Halen classics at the M3 music festival in Columbia, Md. His 1985 replacement in the band, Sammy Hagar, has been vocal lately.