Band History BIO Over the past decade,TOTOhas had a major renaissance in popularity like few bands at this point in their career. No individual statistic exhibits this more than achieving the milestone of over 3.4 billion streams at Spotify alone. The total plays of the band’s collected ...
Steve Porcaro (synths, Toto): With that success right out of the gate, I think we maybe just started to maybe getting a little indulgent, going for it. Of course, any band’s first album is the best stuff they’ve done all their life for the most part. Following up is tough sometim...
Thirty-five years ago this month,Totoreleased its debut album, turning a group of high school friends and sought-after session musicians into one of the biggest rock bands on the planet. They've been through an incredible number of ups and downs since then, from the high of winning multiple...
History of film - Silent Era, Movies, Directors: Multiple-reel films had appeared in the United States as early as 1907, when Adolph Zukor distributed Pathé’s three-reel Passion Play, but when Vitagraph produced the five-reel The Life of Moses in 1909,
This area stretched throughout central Veracruz and encompassed the Zacatlán district of the present-day state of Puebla. Occupying some 50 towns with an overall population of a quarter million people, the Totonacs spoke four dialects. Their capital, Cempoala, had a population of about 25,000...
Ludwig, like most manufacturers, had been producing single-headed concert toms for band and orchestra settings for some years. By combining sets of these drums with standard kicks and snares, the company could produce an entirely new line of kits catered toward the modern pop musician at very ...
Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a twenty-two-minute bonus episode, on “La Conferencia Secreta del Toto’s Bar” by Los Shakers. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit...
music band Mumford and Sons took the top honor for “Babel” on a night that distributed honors broadly to an array of younger generation acts including New York indie trio Fun., Australian electronic pop artist Gotye, rapper-R&B singer Frank Ocean and Akron, Ohio, rock group the Black ...
and miscarriage. It’s not a happy episode. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a twenty-two-minute bonus episode, on “La Conferencia Secreta del Toto’s Bar” by Los Shakers. Tilt Araiza has as...
When does the caring begin? Posted on February 13, 2025 | Leave a comment A colleague, knowing of my academic work in medical history and doctor-patient relationships, shared with me her experience this past fall. A senior in her 70s, she is an insulin-dependent diabetic who, through no...