After Channel 4’s devastating Leaving Neverland, Michael Jackson fan Shaun Ponsonby has been forced to face some uncomfortable truths, and wonders how Jackson’...

Planet Slop commemorate our first birthday with a celebration of some of the greatest hip pop rock & soul ever made....

As The Jacksons prepare to head to Blackpool without their much missed leader, Shaun Ponsonby considers the best of the rest of the iconic family. ...

Following the cancellation of her European tour, Shaun Ponsonby listened to Janet Jackson’s discography and began to wonder if she has been a more interesting artis...

As Janet Jackson drops her new single Made For Now, Shaun Ponsonby looks at the back catalogue of a genuinely daring, influential and underappreciated artist. ...

Celebrating five decades since The Jackson 5 burst onto the scene, Shaun Ponsonby uses Planet Slop's Glorified Jukebox to navigate the musical evolution of The Jacksons....

One of the world’s biggest superstars comes to Blackpool. Shaun Ponsonby takes in the first ever Livewire Festival, starring the one and only Will Smith....

With numerous generations of his family missing out on various incarnations of The Jacksons for decades, Shaun Ponsonby finally dances, shouts and shakes his body down to...

As Prince's New Power Generation prepare to tour the UK, Alan Parry talks to MacKenzie - the man with the unenviable task of singing The Purple One's songs. ...

From albums released under his own name, to those with protégés and pseudonyms, Shaun Ponsonby rates every Prince album from worst to best....

As Halloween approaches, Shaun Ponsonby takes us through the back catalogue of the master of horror, vaudeville and rock & roll - Alice Cooper....

A major coup in booking some major stars, but Planet Slop wonders if this precedent set by LIMF can feasibly continue. ...

We're meeting each of the LIMF Academy Most Ready artists ahead of their performances at this weekend's festival. First up is the storytelling troubadour Lydiah....

Nile Rodgers and co are to freak out in Sefton Park for a summer party like no other. Shaun Ponsonby tells us why this is such great news....

In the late 1980s, a new sound emerged that finally found common ground between hip hop and R&B, and brought soul music back to the streets. This is the rise and fall...

Shaun Ponsonby continues his community service for that time he swiped a shoehorn from a cobbler by watching this year’s BRIT Awards so you don’t have to. He ...

With Sheffield’s finest returning to the city this summer for a special show at Croxteth Park as part of Let’s Rock Liverpool, Shaun Ponsonby revisits the bac...

Planet Slop wouldn’t miss Queen Zee launching their debut album, would we? Shaun Ponsonby heads to 24 Kitchen St to see 2018’s gig calendar out in sickening s...

With the release of The Skin I Live In, Mersey Wylie chats to Shaun Ponsonby about her debut EP, the changing attitudes towards mental health, her love of Michael Jackson...

As the Queen biopic finally reaches cinemas, Shaun Ponsonby examines the back catalogue of one of Britain’s best loved, wildly eccentric and misunderstood bands. ...