Van McCoy –“The Hustle” The successful songwriter for other artists had released many of his own singles without success until, as legend as it, his music partner observed New York City club-goers doing a dance called “the Hustle.” McCoy wrote the song and in July it reached #1, la...
When you think of something you want to do, you get straight at it and make it a reality. You’ve got so much power.When the first state of emergency was declared during the pandemic, you started streaming the “VR Music Club” in no time flat.You were also really quick to realize ...
Digging into the more dance-inspired side of their sound, Linkin Park teamed up with acclaimed DJ Steve Aoki for “A Light That Never Comes,” the standout single from theirRechargedremix collection. As you might expect, this is a definite club banger, relying on the strength of Shinoda’s...
Already a hit-making band, Linkin Park cemented their standing atop the rock world by penning a movie theme song. Having previously paired up with the Transformers film franchise by submitting the song “What I’ve Done,”“New Divide” found the group writing specifically for the film this ...
I watched the backlash to this song's overexposure crest and recede in a span of one minute: a kid left in a minivan by his mom at the laundromat started spinning the radio tuner when he heard the opening "1, 2, 3..." and then he flipped through the entire dial. When he came ...
The finest single from those halcyon days before “emo” went all Hot Topic, “The Middle,” along with Fountains of Wayne’s “Stacy’s Mom,” gave a glimmer of hope that its brand of perfectly constructed power-pop might finally make the mainstream inroads it longed deserved. As Jimmy ...
Record collecting is often thought of as a man’s activity, epitomized in Nick Horby’sHigh Fidelity(and the movie based on it). There’s an assumption that only men would be so obsessive, so knowledgeable, so nerdy – or that it’s a club to which women are not allowed to bel...