Music MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: Hot Coco Since the mid-2010s, R&B has been in a state of emergency. There was a time when many of the hits we would hear on mainstream radio varied across multiple genres, with R&B music being at the forefront. Something happened once the 2010s hit though and all By MC • Apr 29, 2025 02:36 pm
Music MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: Bedtime Stories If you know anything about Madonna’s music in the 90s you’ll remember a blend of trip-hop and R&B with some electronica sprinkled in there. It was experimental, it was risky and rich in musical references. Her sound in that time may not have been as appreciated By MC • Apr 22, 2025 02:37 pm
Music MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: MOODY VIBES Lana Del Rey has always been consistent with her sound; you either love it or you hate it. It’s dark, it’s moody and definitely requires a willingness to enter a specific headspace when you’re listening to it. Having said that, her music has defined a generation of By MC • Apr 15, 2025 02:24 pm
Music Gaga Mayhem at Coachella: The 5 Highlights Lady Gaga doesn’t have anything to prove at this point of her career, but just in case someone out there thought she did, this past weekend’s Coachella performance ought to put a stop to any doubt that she is in fact one of the greatest performers of our By MC • Apr 14, 2025 11:42 am
Music MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: A Cyrus Spring The rollout for Miley Cyrus’s upcoming visual album Something Beautiful is well underway, and it seems like she is going for the “less is more” approach, letting the actual songs and visuals do the talking. After spending so many years of her career touring and working countless hours doing By MC • Apr 08, 2025 02:14 pm
Music MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: Brighter Days Now that we’re a couple of weeks into spring and the days are getting longer, the high-profile music releases are also getting bigger and it’s happening fast. Traditionally, early summer is a popular time for album releases. This means you can expect a significant amount of lead singles By MC • Apr 01, 2025 01:08 pm
Music MC LIVE: Kylie Minogue breaks the tension in Toronto Kylie Minogue kicked off the North American leg of her worldwide Tension Tour on Saturday night at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto to a packed house of ~16,000 gays, gays, girls, and more gays, and it was f*cking glorious. While the tour itself is in support of her Tension By MC • Mar 31, 2025 01:39 pm
Music MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: Two of A Kind Bringing together two different artist’s energies on a song is one of the easiest ways to take an already strong piece of art to the next level. It doesn’t always work but when it does, it can be lightning in an mp3 file. Whether it be the fusing By MC • Mar 25, 2025 12:54 pm
Music MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: Back to Basics For a while it seemed like the focus behind the making of a lot of mainstream music was simply achieving astronomical streaming numbers versus actually creating something of substance. Maybe the perfect place to live in 2025 is a happy medium between a streaming hit and still a piece of By MC • Mar 18, 2025 01:29 pm
Quiveration iHeartRadio Music Awards: Honouring the Divas + Benito Last night’s iHeartRadio Music Awards was a celebration of the biggest hits on the radio in the last year, but it really was just an excuse to watch some of music’s biggest stars all together, from Lady Gaga and Mariah Carey to Billie Eilish and Bad Bunny. No By MC • Mar 18, 2025 11:05 am
Music MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: The Magic of Gaga It’s been a long road filled with soundtracks and poorly-received films, but alas, Mother Monster is back and with a f-cking vengeance. Mayhem, Lady Gaga’s seventh studio album is finally here and has caused mayhem (for lack of a better term) amongst the Little Monsters and music fans By MC • Mar 11, 2025 01:52 pm
Music MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: Pop Goes International One of the greatest things to come out of the streaming era is our access to music from all over the world. If we rewound 25+ years when music was only in physical form, record labels had all the control over what we heard and which countries and markets would By MC • Mar 04, 2025 02:30 pm
Music MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: The Britney Agenda I feel like I’ve been living in a fever dream of different variations of Britney Spears when it comes to today’s pop girlies. Just this week alone, two big releases include some very clear nods to the OG princess of pop, channeled through Tate McRae and Coco Jones. By MC • Feb 25, 2025 01:26 pm
Music Jessica Simpson’s Second Act It’s been 17 years since Jessica Simpson was actively making music (with the exception of 2010’s Happy Christmas). She’s just returned with her new single “Use My Heart Against Me” – the first off her upcoming EP Nashville Canyon, Pt. 1 which drops March 21. The song is By MC • Feb 24, 2025 02:00 pm
Music MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: For The Lovers Valentine’s Day is a marketing dream in music. Love, relationships, it’s the human connection, that’s what music is all about isn’t it? Love songs have taken different forms over the years though. This week’s new releases are a collection of love professed across multiple genres. By MC • Feb 18, 2025 11:22 am
Music MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: The Power of Three Trios are powerful. Whether it’s established girl groups like TLC and Destiny’s Child (from the Michelle era of course), or collaborations between individual artists, music compliments a trio immaculately. In an age where very few girl groups cross into the mainstream, it’s always nice to see women By MC • Feb 11, 2025 02:35 pm
