(2010). Pink’s sixth studio album,The Truth About Love(2012), included the hit singles “Blow Me (One Last Kiss)” and “Try.” Also on that album was “Just Give Me a Reason,” which Pink recorded with Nate Ruess from the group Fun. Pink subsequentlycollaboratedwith singer and ...
Other GRAMMY winners who dominated poll categories included Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Pink, Fun.'s Nate Ruess, and Britney Spears. Museum ExhibitsThe late Amy Winehouse is being commemorated with a new exhibit at the Jewish Museum in London. Created in collaboration with Winehouse's brother, ...
Although Prince hadn’t hurt for money since maybe his youth, he was able to believably sympathize with the plight of poverty-stricken individuals. The funky bass line casually guides the song to its downbeat conclusion. 14 of 25 "Thieves in the Temple" 1990 Peter Still/Redferns The ...
The new incarnation also combined the live instrumentation of the classic disco era—for example, the much-sampled bass line of Chic’s “Good Times,” which was played by the group’s bassist Bernard Edwards—with the synthetic forms of electronic dance music (EDM). Nu-disco has been ...
“Great Balls of Fire” is a song you can have a lot of fun with. Because the harmony is so simple, you can focus on fun by adding glissandos, slides, and tremolos. Check out Kevin’s tutorial on how to master this song with a walking bass and rock shuffle....
“If you a liar-liar, pants on fire, wolf-crier, agent with a wire/ I’m gon’ know it when I play it.” Of course, that it’s aged well means thateverythingstill applies, in particular Stic.man’s sobering final lines: “I just stay awake/ This real hip-hop, and it don’t...
(and the last album that Freddie Mercury worked on before his death, in 1991). The song, which went straight to No.1 in the UK, began life as a jam session in Switzerland, when Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass player John Deacon played around with a beat. Mercury and Taylor...
bass and takes a crack at the fourth verse. Like most songs by The Band, “The Weight” was propelled by harmonies. Every member of the group could sing, but whileThe Beach Boyslaced their vocal parts in technicolor candy, The Band liked to rough up their performances with a little bit...
Best known for sparse, heady, and sometimes beatless compositions, vaunted English electronic producer Actress incites the dancefloor with a musical tug-of-war on “Push Power ( a 1 ).” Insistent four-on-the-floor bass hits pull at a searching piano line, while repetitive ad-libs offer enig...
Bella Union is the label founded by Simon Raymonde, formerly of Cocteau Twins, a band previously associated with Lush. Bella Union also released the two Piroshka albums.“8th Deadly Sin” addresses the climate crisis and “the absolute disrespect for Mother Earth,” as McKillop puts it in a ...