Long before hyperpop sprung from the cyber-ether, faceless producers across Western Europe were engineering some of the campiest and most cartoonish facsimiles of pop music ever recorded. If songs ...

In this video, I take on what’s often called the hardest pop song ever - Sergio Mendes’ “Never Gonna Let You Go” - and try to ...

The incarnation of the New Power Generation led by Tony Mosley will revisit the Purple repertoire with special guest Brown Mark of Prince & the Revolution (8 p.m. First Avenue, $54.24 and up); Pure ...