“Go Dig My Grave,” an adaptation of several ballads that date back to the early 17th century, sounds both old as the hills and evergreen, proof that real horror doesn’t die, it lives on in the bones, mutating.–Ben Cardew Listen: Lankum, “Go Dig My Grave” 77. Hudson Mohawke ...
The B-side to Cypress Hill’s debut single “The Phuncky Feel One,” this West Coast anthem was much of the world’s introduction to the bong-toking cholos that would help define the gangsta rap sounds coming out of Southern California in the early ’90s. With boom-bap drums punctuated ...
Everyone was turning their sets to listen to Guo Song and Tseten Dolma in the 1960s and 70s. Opening up to Pop The reform and opening-up policy was a watershed moment in the country's history as China slowly came out of its shell. Popular music, as a result, found its way to music...
Ancient Times: A History of the Early World, 2nd ed (1944), James Henry Breasted A Survey of Ancient History: To the Death of Constantine (1929), M. L. W. Laistner [solid-color cover, skipped] Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, Erich Auerbach (Translated from...
early 70s, especially on the R&B charts. The label also had other artists such as Nat Turner's Rebellion and David Lasley. It, along with Philadelphia International Records, was instrumental in establishing the famed Philadelphia soul sound. The label was distributed by Bell Records from its ...
Fuel Economy:Lindley’s guitar virtuosity, which helped define the California rock sound of the mid-‘70s and early ‘80s, and his high-register vocals — that’shis falsettoon Jackson Browne’s live version of Maurice Williams’ ’“Stay” — make his “Mercury Blues” a giddy joy ride do...
If you think you’ve got a grasp of Mitchell’s early talents, a new archival release proves they were more prodigious than you could imagine. Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 3: The Asylum Years (1972-1975) kicks off with a solo version of "Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire." And as great...
“I have not forgiven myself for not being Beethoven,” Billy Joel said in aninterviewforCBS. So, in a classic case of ‘if you can’t beat them’, Joel wove in a swung version of the opening melody from the second movement ofBeethoven’s ‘Pathétique’ Sonata in his chorus for ‘...
Zombie-faced line dancers hint at the duality of the lyrics before Kylie is thrown to a Grim Reaper-like figure for the final Dance Macabre. 35 Closer (1992) Not to be confused with the flipside to Finer Feelings (an early club-lite white label released under Kylie’s ‘Angel K’ ...
Co-produced by Missy Elliott, “Where My Girls At?” catapulted R&B trio 702 onto Top 40 at the early height of the solo-female era, with a hook that refuses to wane or leave the listener’s head. The song isn’t much more than that chorus, but it never needed to be. —J. ...