During the time that William K Kay and I undertook this project (2003-5), we realised that the songs these churches used to express themselves contain evidence of the way the new church networks developed their
Starting in the early 2000s, the strong influence of the northernmost part of the North Atlantic Current, which enters the West Spitsbergen Current, kept waters void of sea ice12 and carried boreal species to northern latitudes2. From 2002 to 2019, fin whales’ sighting rates increased in ...
By the early 2000s, indie rock had grown largely disconnected from its 80s post-hardcore roots, trading in once-prized qualities like dissonance and provocation for cuddly, campfire collectivism or synth-pop sleekness. But these three cranky Welshmen weren’t going down without a fight– or at...
The Oral History ofEmo‘s Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008tracks the evolution of emo’s third wave as it becomes one of the defining rock genres and youth cultures of the early 2000s. Remembered by those who lived it from the stage, the pit and everywhere in between,Where ...
Cobra Starship– “Living in the Sky With Diamonds” If you stepped into a time machine and went back to the early 2000s, nobody would believe you if you told them that the frontman of pop-punk heroes, Midtown, would be writing songs with a pop star. Then again, no...
success of both their debut album and subsequent solo LPs from group members, the crew followed up withWu-Tang Foreverin 1997. This album also has timeless classics, but unlike the Wu's LP album, it managed to earn significant commercial success after it sold 612,000 copies in its first ...
every time someone sings the song, something bad typically happens. This myth gained even more traction in the early 2000s when someone would sing “My Way” in a karaoke bar and violence would inevitably erupt. There were about a dozen killings from 2002 to 2012 and at least one in 2018...
The Raincoats were redefining punk rock in the early Eighties, with art-school feminist aggro and a very London sense of deadpan humor. “No One’s Little Girl” is a madcap groove, lashing out at misogynistic cliches in the mode of their albumsThe RaincoatsandOdyshape.Gina Birch chants “...
performance here is by jill hennessey, who conveys such resentment and antipathy toward the protagonist that it practically jumps off the screen. every frame she's in the movie becomes compelling. if there had been more done with the back story between these two it might have made for a ...
Flack’s signature tune made a dramatic soul-music odyssey out of a slight folk ditty by Lori Lieberman, who’s said to have based the lyrics on her experience watching Don McLean perform one night at the Troubadour. (Flack discovered it on a plane while listening to the airline’s in-fl...