The music video format proliferated and matured during the 1980s and 1990s, but musicians and filmmakers developed its basic shape and first explored its creative limits during the ’70s, a time of tumult and innovation in the record business, from the rise of arena rock and prog through the...
Also ranks #1 on The Best Political Musicians Also ranks #2 on The Greatest Musicians Who Died Before 40 3 Jimi Hendrix 314 votes The late Jimi Hendrix was not only a groundbreaking guitarist but also an innovator of psychedelic rock music that captured the imaginations of countless stoners. Hi...
Also ranks #1 on The Best Political Musicians Also ranks #2 on The Greatest Musicians Who Died Before 40 3 Jimi Hendrix 314 votes The late Jimi Hendrix was not only a groundbreaking guitarist but also an innovator of psychedelic rock music that captured the imaginations of countless stoners. Hi...
While 1970 marked the dawn of a new decade, the socio-political upheaval of the late 60s was still very much at the forefront of artists’ minds. Plenty of musicians used their voices for change, withJohn Lennon, Curtis Mayfield, andStevie Wonder, among others, calling for peace and equalit...
Plenty of musicians admired Chicago’s axeman Terry Kath, who really delivers here. This is a two-part song, and the first half is a long instrumental that finds Chicago in uncharacteristic power-trio mode – no horns, not even piano. Kath begins with a strummed lick that’s almost banjo...
Davis crafted her debut album by teaming up with a band of California funk musicians and getting nastier with her funk than a still male-dominated industry was comfortable with at the time. Even her famous husband of just one year, Miles Davis, accused her of being too wild, and while tha...
Sometime after guitarist Ana da Silva and bassist Gina Birch formed the Raincoats at London’s Hornsey College of Art in 1977, the two musicians—who both sang and were only just learning to play—were listening to a lot of Lou Reed’s Transformer. Birch, then a student of conceptual art...
Painting a vibrant picture of life in the lower-class of Shanghai, the film follows the love story between a trumpet player (Zhao Dan) and a teahouse songstress (Zhou Xuan), while a cast of criminals, musicians, renters, business owners, and other working-class attempt to scrape by day ...
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 of commercial success that five musicians from Mississippi, Pennsylvania and Indiana never would...
but for several of reggae’s lesser-known, but no less important, figures. In addition to legendary rhythm section and production duo Sly & Robbie,Redfeatures a cast of session musicians that were to Kingston what the Wrecking Crew was to Los Angeles, including pianist Keith Sterling, percussio...