Three weeks ago when I posted that poll on the greatest Max Martin hits, I downloaded a few songs by Carolina Liar. Unfortunately, my computer's logic board bit the dust that day, and just got it back yesterday. Turns out that Carolina Liar's "Show Me What I'm Looking For" was featured on this week'...

Clive Davis, put on your party dress. (Yes, you can wear the little black one, you old slut.) Kelly Clarkson has topped the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 with her new single "My Life Would Suck Without You" after only its first week of availability at digital retailers. It's her first #1 in the States sinc...

Vinyl leggings. Keys flushed down the toilet. Hair blown in 46 different directions via three wind machines. Once this video gets disabled via Sony, just know that's all you're really missing out on with the new Kelly Clarkson video. UPDATE: Well, that only took five minutes for the clip to disappea...

Well, at least that's what I'm taking from the U.S. video for Leona Lewis' new single, "I Will Be." The song was written by Max Martin and Dr. Luke—what isn't these days?—with Avril Lavigne, and apparently was recorded by Avril for her last album The Best Damn Thing. I wouldn't know, because I d...

The other day I posted that Kelly Clarkson's upcoming fourth studio album would be called Masquerade . Yeah, well, that's the last time I ever post on rumor, hearsay or utter poppycock! Well, maybe I'll still do poppycock. Kelly's album is called All I Ever Wanted. She revealed the art on her offici...

The single art for Kelly Clarkson's "My Life Would Suck Without You" was unleashed today. Goodbye, angsty Kelly of My December , welcome back Grammy-winning pop Kelly. We've missed you, since u been gone! Below is a clip of Clive Davis and Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald briefly playing a rough demo of "...

Many people find it hard to tell the great from the godawful when it comes to 21st-century mainstream rock. To help figure out which is which, here's "Corporate Rock Still Sells," where Al "GovernmentNames" Shipley examines what's good, bad, and ugly in the world of rock and roll. This time around, ...

Katy Perry let another broad finger her fish funnel, did a song about it and now it's a big hit, jumping to #5 this week on Billboard's Hot 100. Hoo-rizzy! But perhaps the most surprising bit about Perry's "I Kissed The Girl" is not that it took four people to write this feminist anthem about drunk-...

You win this round, Clive Davis, but I'll be back! I'll be back, I say!! British squealer Leona Lewis sees her debut set, Spirit, debut at #1 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart this week. The trade rag reports that she's now the first solo artist from the U.K. to enter at the top, which I find kind...