This was arguably one of the first songs to become a hit single specifically because of the guitar solo. New York hotshot Elliott Randall’s solo is arguably the catchiest thing in the song, and it really swings (note the variations he throws on the lick every time it comes around). Gara...
Listen to the best 2024 songs (so far) in our Tidal playlist Adrianne Lenker – Sadness As A Gift adrianne lenker - sadness as a gift (official lyric video) - YouTube Watch On Words by Becky Roberts Adrianne Lenker of Big Thief (in my opinion, the best band to have come out of...
Opulent disco-pop, R&B hook-up jams, raging hot-mess anthems: These are the songs and albums that defined the year in pop music.
Her songs provide a universal shelter for sadness, as much in the intimate late-night tradition of Leonard Cohen as in the pastoral spaces of her Drag City labelmate Joanna Newsom. Whether it’s the sudden tape-warp of “Jacquelyn in the Background,” the self-harmonies of “Back, Baby,...
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Todd “Speech” Thomas, a member of the iconic hip-hop group Arrested Development, spends 10 days working as part of a unique rehabilitation program in Richmond, VA, working to allow prisoners to write and record their own songs. Actors: Speech Thomas, Garland T. Carr, Tennyson Jackson ...
Pitchfork: When you’re not actively working on a movie, do you look for songs to put on the back burner for future soundtracks? Karyn Rachtman: Back in the day, I was a hoarder. I could go into Tower Records with an expense account. If I liked the artwork, if somebody told me abo...
10 on Billboard's Top LPs & Tape chart in the United States. 9 of 25 17. 'Greatest Hits,' Elton John (1974) Elton John Another collection of classic rock songs that seems to have been owned by anybody who is a fan of Sir Elton or pop rock in general. The 10-song a...
All but two songs were first takes, and the mixing was done during forty straight hours of work. Total cost: $4000. Yet the depth and detail of the story belied the economy with which it had been committed to tape. According to Mould, Zen Arcade is about a young computer hack from a...
All but two songs were first takes, and the mixing was done during forty straight hours of work. Total cost: $4000. Yet the depth and detail of the story belied the economy with which it had been committed to tape. According to Mould, Zen Arcade is about a young computer hack from ...