“After many years of singing song ideas into my phone and practicing my vocals I became tired of waiting for someone else to make my dream of becoming a singer a reality for me and decided to take things into my own hands. I started organising my own gigs at the age of 16 and as ...
The group was subsequently banned from many mainstream American radio stations. In spite of this, the group has sold over 10 million units in the United States alone. Drawing on their own experiences of racism and excessive policing, the group made inherently political music. They were known ...
pop radio stations. From the start, this song draws the listener in with its horn-heavy hip-hop style. With lines like “everyone silent, listen to my money talk,” "Money" has all the confidence Lisa is known for. It has also gone on to break records, and Interscope eventually ...
How did live music ever make it onto wax records, then magnetic tape and plastic, and finally into microscopic digital “codes”? It’s all spelled out in Into theInto the Groove: The Story of Sound From Tin Foil to Vinyl(Bloomsbury). Author and avid vinyl collectorJonathan Scotttraces the...
Released in October 1990 as an homage to classic 70s disco and Motown (“When you can’t find the music to get down and boogie/ All you can do is step back in time”), this put Kylie in demi-disco mode, a new tack which had been set in motion by the previous singleBetter The ...
Talkback radio was still in its infancy and commercial radio was dominated by pop music stations that pumped out the latest hits 24 hours a day, only in mono and only on the AM band. There was no FM radio, no colour TV, no mobile phones, no VCRs, no video games, no CDs....
bought some blank cassette tapes from radio shack, and proceeded to make a tape of our adventure utilizing whatever music that I could record from the local radio stations. The resulting program turned out to be very creative and entertaining. I entertained myself and my friends throughout the...
‘80s albumBad, and wasn’t meant to be the band’s introduction, but radio stations quickly favored Alien Ant Farm’s cover over the single “Movies.” The group paid all due respect to Jackson, throwing in lots of MJ easter eggs throughout the “Smooth Criminal” video. The song hit...
Deep House Music Mix - Chill Out and Relax Say goodbye to the stations serving one genre, suffocating you with endless advertisements and sabotaging the experience. With us, you can access curated and high quality music (from all popular genres) from anywhere in the world, irrespective of your...
Unlike many college stations, which lean into alternative music genres that don’t get played much on commercial radio, our station’s daytime format corresponded to what most radio stations called “adult contemporary” or “light pop-rock.” Quite a few local businesses used our feed as back...