KING5.com Pop Music http://www.king5.com en-us Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:00:01 GMT webmaster@king5.com http://www.king5.com/images/kiosk-sitelogo.gif Pop Music 140 41 http://www.king5.com Singular sensation: They popped onto the airwaves in a big way, and then they pooped out http://www.king5.com/perl/common/rssredir.pl?page=http://www.king5.com/sharedcontent/features/poprock2/011107ccdrMUSIConehit.2e827fbf.html KING5.com KING5 Pop Music The popular music landscape is littered with one-hit wonders, artists who scored big with a single song and then — poof! — disappeared like the eight-track tape. Carly Simon conceives a winning 'White' http://www.king5.com/perl/common/rssredir.pl?page=http://www.king5.com/sharedcontent/features/poprock2/010207ccdrMUSICcarly.597ff5.html KING5.com KING5 Pop Music Into White is Carly Simon's happy compromise. The follow-up disc to 2005's surprise success, Moonlight Serenade, a collection of pop standards, was supposed to be yet another trip through the over-covered American songbook. Switchfoot's 'Oh! Gravity' exerts pull http://www.king5.com/perl/common/rssredir.pl?page=http://www.king5.com/sharedcontent/features/poprock2/122606ccdrMUSICswitchfoot.554979a1.html KING5.com KING5 Pop Music Switchfoot doesn't really hide its Christian music background, but neither does the San Diego quintet brandish its belief like a religious icon. Pop Music's Top 10: Sift through the wannabes and pretenders, and you can still find good music http://www.king5.com/perl/common/rssredir.pl?page=http://www.king5.com/sharedcontent/features/poprock2/122106ccdrMUSICpoptop10.36f029e0.html KING5.com KING5 Pop Music In terms of gallons of ink spilled, this year's most notable musicians were a bunch of former teen pop stars, overwrought American Idols and some model turned "singer" named Paris Hilton. But quietly, outside the headlines, plenty of real musicians were releasing terrific CDs. Here are the best discs of the year. DVDs: Rock 'n' roll from different eras makes compelling viewing http://www.king5.com/perl/common/rssredir.pl?page=http://www.king5.com/sharedcontent/features/poprock2/121906ccdrMUSICmusicdvds.2770d2a3.html KING5.com KING5 Pop Music Just in time for the holiday season, we're reviewing a selection of newly released DVD documentaries that offer footage on the Pixies, Elvis, the Rolling Stones and others. Taylor Hicks makes Soul Patrol proud http://www.king5.com/perl/common/rssredir.pl?page=http://www.king5.com/sharedcontent/features/poprock2/121906ccdrMUSIChicks.26d9013f.html KING5.com KING5 Pop Music Taylor Hicks was seen as out-of-place, quirky and even amusing, but not as pop music material when he first auditioned for American Idol. Still, the Alabama-born, self-taught singer and musician made the smarmy Simon Cowell eat his own words when he became the first white man and the fifth Southerner to take the competition's top spot.