with an immediate vocal melody lead-in on the intro, and while there’s a deliberately overproduced 80’s version of this tune as a bonus track, this original version has washes of mid-80s Magnum in spades, which is rather fitting in a way given that band’s ultimate curtain call earlie...
Matthew Healy specializes in desperation, and “If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know)” is among his crowning achievements. He and his 1975 bandmates make it sound effortless and even exhilarating to abandon life and obsess over an online paramour. That last part, of course, is how the song’...
Compared with their strict, conventional environment, the band and its members represent a big middle finger to the status quo, crafting new tunes for a new era. As with all great coming-of-age stories, ‘Sing Street’ aims to show that no matter your current circumstance, you can always ...
Elvis Presley made his first public appearance as a singer on this day. It did not go well: he came fifth in a local talent show. But he was only ten years old. October 3, 1945; Chopin: The Day the Music Died. The brief life of Chopin, one of music’s earliest superstars, ended...
But growing up [performing] in a band with my family, my mother and my father singing, of course I knew about the Ronettes. Patti LaBelle was one of my mom’s favorite singers. The Supremes, I loved them. But honestly, it wasn’t until I was put in the situation of a group that...
In various iterations, the family band won recognition through the 1940s and '50s. A mother of three daughters, Carter's middle child, June, became a star in her own right with her husband Johnny Cash; together, they became one of the best-loved country duos of ...
Holiday Band Purim Show - March 19, 2022bycarlbasileonYouTube Fronted by singers Kristian Richards and Beth McKenna (So High and the Uppers, Sh---y Sh---y Band Band), the band also features McKenna's husband, garage/surf-rock guitar workhorse Rick Kvoriak (Not Yetis, the...
There's something to be said about an album that was recorded live on tape with analog equipment — the singer surrounded by her band, as they perform together in the same space, with no outside guests allowed. Natalia Lafourcade's "De Todas Las Flores" is all about feeling and warmth,...
Hot on the heels of their spectacular debut albumSparkle, the duo featuring Rat Scabies and Billy Shinbone from Somerset band FLIPRON and Neville Staple’s band have teamed up with our old friend Paul-Ronney Angel from THE URBAN VOODOO MACHINE for the timely single ‘Halloween Wings’. ...
But because Evernote has been such a staple of the note-taking app space, most other apps compete by trying to be different. OneNote is awesome, but using it is a totally different experience to using Evernote. Joplin, though, gets things pretty close—and you can import all your ...