Wildly eclectic soundtracks, mashups, hip hop, pop, neo soul, musical comedy stylings, and a late-era R.E.M. smasher.

I met Tom Wolfe over 20 years ago. It was at a book signing for I Am Charlotte Simmons, which frankly isn’t that great. Nonetheless, I was thrilled to see one of my favorite authors speak and then ...

I’ve been working my way through the American Film Institute’s 100 Greatest American Films of All Time, starting my way from the bottom (Ben-Hur, #100), and working my way up. And now I’ve just ...

At dire risk of aging myself, the late ‘80s and early ‘90s are the era that had more influence on me than any other in terms of my taste in music – and many other things besides. While there are ...

When you start to dig into what makes a cult movie “cult” it can kind of get slippery. Probably safer to say you know it when you see it. This week, The Ringer named its 50 best cult movies, so I ...

Hip hop and hard rock greatness percolates throughout the top 15 albums selected for 2001 for the best 1,000 albums ever, a five-year epic project that includes an article for each of the thousand ...

When I scan through the 14 albums from 1965 that were selected for the best 1,000 albums ever, one thing pops out right away. To take a step back, the best 1,000 albums ever is a massive five-year ...

There are a bunch of reasons why Vanderpump Rules provided some of the best – and delightfully shame spirally – sequences in reality TV show history, and Stassi Schroeder played a major role in its ...

So, first of all, you’re not exactly wrong if you think that Pop Thruster, this here website you’re reading right now, is at least a little bit Ringer coded. In fact I: I’ve had conversations in which ...

While on a family vacation to Tuscany, Italy last fall, I came down with COVID for the very first time. Fun timing, right? Well, it wasn’t that horrendous as I was able to rest up in a gorgeous old ...

Many times, I open these list pieces pulled from the best 1,000 albums ever archives with something along the lines of “while the pop music from that year was no great shakes, underneath the surface…” ...

There was a phase in the late 2000s when a group of my friends was slightly obsessed with a reality TV show called From G’s to Gents. The show’s logline says it all: 15 G’s are taken and placed in a ...