What is Psychobilly Psychobilly is a genre of music generally described as a mix between the British punk rock of the 1970s and the American rockabilly of the 1950s. The genre is also characterized by lyrical references to horror films, violence, exploitation films, lurid sexuality and other ...
Roxy Music—I’ve tried so many times to understand their appeal, and I’ve now stopped trying. Post-Short People Randy Newman—When your early stuff is so great, there will always be an inevitable drop off. But that does not explain the self-parody of Newman’s LA years. Artist Album...
Big & Rich helped write "Hicktown" for Jason Aldean, a song clearly born out of "Save a Horse" sensibilities. Aldean's first radio single was a bit more traditional than the country duo's genre-bending form of music, and as a result he'd enjoy more immediate, long-lasting success. W...
Exploring the meaning of songs from every genre of music. From whom Carly Simon thought was so vain to why, exactly, the walrus was Paul, we strive to leave no lyric uninterpreted.
The First Casualty –Ben Elton(a new angle on the events of WW1) Demon Copperhead –Barbara Kingsolver(David Copperfield for the modern age) French Braid –Anne Tyler(a family saga – beautiful writing as ever) Concerts Onto concerts now, and again, my exposure to live music is usually res...
a collection of favorite Christmas songs from the country music superstars of yesterday and today. This is the latest off-shoot of the ever popular NOW Country series of releases. Includes tracks by George Strait, Rascal Flatts, Kenny Rogers, Alan Jackson, LeAnn Rimes, Johnny Cash and ...
of making music. Continuing within the indie rock genre, The 1975’s latest work, “Being Funny in a Foreign Language” is perhaps their most cohesive yet. The album is best described as earnest, forgoing the catchy but messy and rambling energy of their prior works in favor of a simpler...
The 1963 Newport Folk Festival arrived when the genre of folk was politically charged and more popular than ever before. Playing thefestival for the first time, a young Bob Dylan performed anti-war songs and duly captured the local zeitgeist. Two years later, he shed his spokesman persona at...
8 Artists Bringing Traditional Country Music Back: Zach Top, Randall King, Emily Nenni & More On Why "What's Old Becomes Beloved Again" While the traditional country sound has never been fully lost, pop production and folk stylings have been at the genre’s forefront in recent years. But ...
Or the whole genre of grindcore, predicated on the principle of compressing what could conceivably be a six-minute song if it were performed by, say, Suffocation, into a denser-than-Iridium thirty seconds? OK, these are valid points, but not the right points. Metal over-the-topness is ...