Radio Ga Ga, Hammer To Fall, I Want To Break Free and It's a Hard Life were all part of this record - you simply can't argue with tunes as good as those. A year later they would perform on Live Aid and steal the show, with Radio Ga Ga unifying Wembley and the world. Key ...
Best 25 Hardcore Hip Hop Albums Of 2021: [One of the more common forms of Hip Hop,Hardcore Hip Hopemerged out of the early 1980s in a response to the music’s growing commercial appeal. As Hip Hop continued to focus on boasting and party rhymes, artists such asRun-D.M.C.and Kool ...
Radio didn’t just embodied the spirit of hip-hop as it was growing in the mid 1980s, it was an integral building block of rap’s foundation. LL Cool J broke ground as rap’s first teen superstar and an instant pillar of the culture with a debut that ushered a new era of embolden...
If Bruce Springsteen gave voice to everyone living to escape from New Jersey,Bon Jovispoke for those who stuck around. Their greatest rock album had three smashes, but “Livin’ on a Prayer” was the kind of street-life story-song – with a whooping radio hook, of course – that would ...
The Bay Area B.U.M.S, also known as Brothas Unda Madness, had a penchant for throwing the kitchen sink into their raps. The duo, alongside frequent producer Joe Quixx, relied on lush samples and an R&B influence to subvert traditional West Coast g-funk and hardcore hip hop. The chorus...
But that doesn’t mean the song never got radio airplay — in fact, that’s part of why he recorded it. “Adore” was written to answer criticism that Prince had lost interest in the Black audience. It was aimed at quiet storm, the adult R&B format as heavy on album tracks as on...
When it comes to the more dance-floor oriented genres of music like electronic dance music, pop, or hip hop, these cans do their job exceptionally well. Bottom Line: The HDJ-2000MK2 are not the cheapest ones on this list by any means; they’ll set you back a similar amount to the ...
“No Rain” came out in 1992, he was one of the most notable voices in rock ’n’ roll. Though it was actually the second single from the band’s self-titled debut album, its success on the radio and MTV — cue the “Bee Girl” in the music video — propelled them to a level ...
This WBZ NewsRadio reporter has become so recognizable for his roving video stories — consistently clever, often amusing segments about colorful local characters and regional idiosyncrasies — that local toymakerWicked Joyful(a.k.a. Nick Lavallee) immortalized the social creator as an action figure....
Joining the likes of Radiohead’s “Everything in Its Right Place” and Liars’ “Broken Witch”, it’s an album opener that boldly marks a shift from what the artist may have made or meant before. There’s no hook or release here, no foothold to reassure you everything’s going to...