When it comes to Prince protégé bands there's The Time, Vanity 6 (also Apollonia 6), The Family, and then there's the great purple one's often overlooked funk rock new wave project known as Mazarati. With The Revolution's bassist Brownmark as the producer of their...
If you are in my presence and mention Prince, I will guarantee I will hold you hostage and tell you all about how I love Duane Tudahl's book Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions (1983–1984). This book is an opus of sorts, serving us a detailed...
Since the news of MTV downsizing its music channels and basically phasing out the foundation on which it was based, I’ve been thinking about all of us who were raised on the cable channel and the cultural impact it has had. From the moment MTV aired the music video...
The almighty algorithm put this video of legends Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, and Linda Ronstadt singing Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush" on The Late Show with David Letterman on March 24, 1999: https://youtu.be/o2XcBL6kWn8?si=H3DWnZoo7EZ4yoSx It's one of...
🎶 The radio plays our favorite song 🎶 And it's what keeps me holding on 🎵 Baby, do you miss me 🎵 Now that I'm gone 🎶 Picture it: you're at the club in the '90s and this song comes on. You rush to the dance floor in your halter top and bootcut jeans to body roll...
When the late, great musician D'Angelo (aka Michael Eugene Archer) entered the scene, he shook things up when he brought old school R&B and soul to the masses with an inimitable down and dirty grit and masculine sensitivity that ushered in the neo-soul movement...
Chappell Roan is having quite the moment. The singer is on this wild meteoric pop cultural rise as she graced the red carpet of the MTV VMAs dressed in Joan of Arc regalia and and lit the stage on fire in a performance of “Good Luck, Babe!” while donned in a suit...
Ahead of the release of her highly anticipated Cowboy Carter, the almighty Beyoncé said in a detailed statement about the album, “This ain’t a country album. This is a Beyoncé album"... and it certainly is. For some, that is good news and for a minority of others,...
SPOILER ALERT: This article includes specific details from Spring Awakening. You've been warned. Spring Awakening is one of my favorite musicals -- easily sits in my personal top 5 next to problematic fave Miss Saigon, the synth campiness of Phantom of the Opera,...
