Blue Rodeo has been approached a handful of times to do a documentary throughout their 40-year career. But it never made sense in the past, says Jim ...
The Beatles' final song, Now and Then, is up for two Grammy Awards, showing their enduring adoration almost seven decades ...
Album Covers That Are Burned Into Our Brains . Despite MTV putting music videos on the map, 80s album covers never suffered.
At its core, hip-hop is a voice for the voiceless seeking to address systemic inequities through storytelling.
TV as we know it was born in the 1980s. The broad availability of cable introduced the thrilling concept of multiple channels — where once ... Read More ...
Beautiful Scars,' a single from 'Based on a True Story,' pokes fun at the actor's choice to reject the starring role in the ...
The 1964 hit "As Tears Go By," penned by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, made her a star, but Marianne Faithfull demonstrated a remarkable ability to change with the times.
For hip-hop, this was expressed through the turntable manipulation pioneered by DJ Kool Herc in 1973, when he extended and looped breakbeats to energize crowds. House music’s innovators turned to the ...
Just because bands and musicians are one-hit wonders, doesn’t mean that can’t leave an important mark on pop music history. These four artists shined bright and fizzled out pretty quickly, but their ...
After chronicling the crack boom of the 1980s as an investigative reporter, he had a high-profile but brief second career in ...
Still, “Puttin’ On The Ritz” by Taco is an incredibly catchy one-hit wonder, and that music video is one of the most memorable little pieces of MV magic from the 1980s. Unfortunately for ...
The video cut hard against the prevailing music-video aesthetics of that moment, and it led to what’s become an ongoing 20-year project of viral-stunt music videos for the band. The video for ...