Why rappers' guest appearances don't always work.

Scott Eidler looks at the bullying and double standards being enacted against Youtube sensation Rebecca Black.

Wesley Ambrect '11 reviews Adele's 21, which recently topped the charts in the U.S. and the U.K.

Pop and R&B: An Unfair Relationship

M.I.A. on the rebound.

Graham Corrigan sits down with Toronto native and Cornell student Andrei Georgescu to discuss his transition from DJing city clubs to university frats.

A look at the ever growing influence of dubstep and its appearance in the #1 hit "Hold It Against Me" by Britney Spears.

Mash-ups are gaining in popularity, but do they enhance or take away from the original song?

In May, the guy at Radio Shack told me that those little iPod-hooker-uper things don’t work and that I shouldn’t even bother getting one. As a result, I was stuck listening to the radio all summer long — in other words, I lived and breathed the top hits of summer 2009. Now, MTV’s Video Music Awards have come, inspired the status of virtually everyone on Facebook, and gone, and many of these songs are still appearing regularly on the radio. Personally, I can’t think of a better time to assess a few of the key hits.