“12/17/12” is The Decemberists’ tender tribute to victims of the Sandy Hook school shootings on December 14, 2012. Thesong title refersto the date of a speech President Barack Obama gave three days after the incident in response to the tragedy. The song was released in 2015 on the...
“12/17/12” is The Decemberists’ tender tribute to victims of the Sandy Hook school shootings on December 14, 2012. Thesong title refersto the date of a speech President Barack Obama gave three days after the incident in response to the tragedy. The song was released in 2015 on the ...
For every Saya Gray just getting started, there was an Allie X, a pop veteran still offering up bold ideas in her songwriting. And while artists like Kenya Grace and AESPA have found recent commercial success, they also released singles in 2024 that simply should have been bigger. During a...
Released in 1983,90125saw the newly reformed Yes doubling down onDrama’s merger of prog rock and pop-rock (before completely embracing the latter style on 1987’sBig Generator). Although “Owner of a Lonely Heart” is easily the biggest song from90125(and this entire era of Yes), it’s...
Whether playing a bar or festival, doing a school residency or giving private music lessons, Luigi was always teaching. Bandmates say he turned gigs into symposiums, encouraging an open exchange of ideas and approaches.
and more, the song brought the sorrow and sensibilities of trot into a new era. It features paranoid-sounding raps in the midst of moody synth melodies, and brokenhearted confessions accompany looping breakbeats. Few singles from the era bridged generations of musical ideas so effortlessly. —J...
“Boobie Bar” for instance. On the one hand it’s a crude song whose title I had to censor, just so it doesn’t get picked up by filters. On the other hand, the intent behind the song is just about as pure as it gets:Don’t go down to the boobie bar If you want a real ...
80s. And it’s in risky, high-concept songwriting gambits, like her deployment of the noxious white-collar euphemism “circle back” on the winsome “Angel of Business,” that Ives spins raw quirk into gold thread, tying up all of the album’s disparate ideas into a single shiny package....
"They say it takes an artist their whole life to write their debut album, but with starting this band so young, it felt like it took 25 years to writeAntibloom/Pink Moon— the absolute collection of our musical style and ideas we've pioneered over these years,...
Notably, Charlie produced “STAY” for Justin Bieber and The Kid Laroi, which has racked up billions of streams and holds the title for the longest-reigning No. 1 song on the Billboard charts. In this class, Charlie Puth teaches you everything he knows about writing and producing pop ...