From his emotive ballads to his effortlessly cool stage presence, Roy Orbison remains an enduring symbol of timeless pop artistry. Also ranks #13 on The (Male) Singer You Most Wish You Could Sound Like Also ranks #13 on The 125+ Best Solo Artists Who Used To Front A Band Also rank...
Since his discovery by Sergio George, Royce has crafted a unique blend of love ballads that showcase his velvety vocals complemented by the lilting bachata rhythms. His growing international fan base is a testament to his talent for expanding the genre while remaining true to its origi...
from guitarist Dick Wagner (Lou Reed, Kiss) and producer Bob Ezrin, the album deftly spans goth fantasies (“Steven”), Fred Astaire dance numbers (“Some Folks”), feminist ballads (“Only Women Bleed”), and Shaft-esque funkathons (the title cut) — sometimes at the same time. The...
and the setlist shows just how profound an influence the band was on the next ten years of rock music, from its proto-Iron Maiden thrashers (“Emerald,”“Massacre”) to soft rock-adjacent R&B (“Dancing in the Moonlight”) to lighters-in-the-air power ballads from which Bon Jovi wo...
Dripping with drama and dressed up with enough attitude to come off as simultaneously blustery and funereal, this duet between guitar goddess Lita Ford and Ozzy Osbourne was one of the hard rock era's most powerful ballads, at least as far as the pop charts were concerned. Ford recalledin ...
Her teardrop voice and audacious candor imagine Lana by way of Lucinda while sounding Texas to the bone. In these spare road ballads and cowgirl waltzes, Williamson reads Raymond Carver aloud by a pool bar, drinks with boys who worship Townes, and squints at an ex whose new girlfriends ...
(simple parts, perfect feel) but she’s long since transcended that with a jazz flexibility that her role model never had. Listen to any of YLT’s jammier tracks for proof that she is one of the best female drummers, but her subtle brushwork on their ballads is also a thing of ...
“My Fantasy” snap faintly asDo the Right Thing’s aspiring community organizer, Buggin’ Out, schemes to boycott Sal’s Pizzeria. Alongside a gorgeous jazz score conducted and composed by Bill Lee, Spike’s father, the radiant ballads and punchy summer jams onDo the Right Thing’s sound...
and in the darkness, hearts aglow how do you mourn the loss of what we’re all still living through? weyes blood’s natalie mering has spent the last few years wrestling with difficult questions about the human species’ slow descent into climate apocalypse, writing tender ballads that ...
“all races of space exist and its where all species can kind of be in harmony,”Planet Herhasa hit for everyone and for once, the Grammys aren’t wrong to have bestowed her with eight nominations. She blends rapping, toasting and singing over Afropop beats, and nails ballads and chants...