Thanks to everyone who showed love to last week’sBest Male R&B Singers of the ’90spost. It brought back lots of memories of good music and started some good convos as well. And, of course, everyone has been asking about the sequels. So over the next couple of weeks, I’ll look ...
The '90s was a golden era for pop music, giving us a diverse range of artists whose songs still dominate our playlists today. When we talk about the best '90s pop singers, we're looking at a period that produced legendary vocalists, unforgettable hits, and music videos that became cultural...
Let’s look at the top 10 R&B singers of the 1990s, one of the most revered decades of the genre. This isn’t just a listing of “best vocalists” or “most Grammys.” The list was determined by the artists’ sales, impact, longevity, and the strength of their material from 1990 ...
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For the backing vocals, Springsteen and Ciafone got a murderer’s row of singers who had worked with artists like David Bowie and Luther Vandross. And while Mood II Swing’s name didn’t appear on the record’s spine, any true house head would have recognized their signature in the song’...
From its origins in a contested DJ collaboration to its majestic tapestry woven from samples of Tuvan throat singers, BBC jingles, and bursts of Fleetwood Mac and Van Halen, the record exalted the gathering obsession with musical borrowing (aka theft) in late 20th century pop. But aside from ...
Jeff Ament and Mike McCready — to create a tribute album for their fallen friend. The trio were also auditioning singers for their own band, and hired San Diego native Eddie Vedder, who sang on “Hunger Strike” with Cornell. They went on to become Pearl Jam with Vedder, and the rest,...
Drake is one of our Greatest Pop Stars of the 21st Century for leading hip-hop's takeover of pop in the late 2010s.
In the 1990s, the escalating pace of popular music’s evolution hit critical speeds. Hip-hop, electronic, pop, rock, punk and metal each underwent radical periods of change and growth, birthing myriad subgenres and finding potential for crossover between seemingly disparate sounds. The ’90s ...
The Sounds of the '90s What a decade it was, as we saw a shift from hair metal to grunge to nu-metal, with pop-punk also seeing a bit of a revival en route to bigger things in the 2000s. Some acts such asNirvanaandGreen Dayemerged to leave their stamp on the era, while others...