Country music’s pandemic-era surge has made the genre an increasingly important minter of pop-culture currency. Crossover hits, media placements and surprising streaming numbers tell part of the story ...

There’s music and then there’s bad music. The Subcontinent has become a master at creating bad musical masterpieces that confound as often as they delight. A key element of this music is that it isn’t ...

Memes don’t have to make sense. In fact, they usually don’t. For example: A 12-second video of a javelina running really fast down a residential Tucson, Arizona street was shared to Facebook by Damion ...

Spotify Wrapped 2025 is finally out and the internet has no shortage of reactions and memes about it. It’s that time of the year again when everyone’s listening habits are analysed, dissected, and ...

The coronavirus has spawned thousands of memes this spring, but perhaps none as ubiquitous as the “dancing coffin” crew from Ghana. The six dancing pallbearers seen in the macabre yet humorous memes ...

In April, a TikTok creator mused, "Did I just write the song of the summer?" Girl on Couch's "Looking for a man in finance" song spawned hundreds of remixes, and won her a record deal. While it might ...

Music is probably in every person's life in some shape or form. Whether you listen, play, or maybe even compose, it's one of the art forms many people enjoy. 66% of Americans say they learned to play ...

It’s no secret that music and memes go well together. Over the past year or so, though, it’s become clear that the connection between the two goes deeper than Twitter jokes on the night a new album ...

In this episode, we challenge all of our stated ideas about the definition of memes and how they operate as a unique unit of cultural information. We’ll cross-examine memes and their relevance and ...