“The most beautiful guitar in the world.” That is what the sales literature from Gretsch called their Model 6136 White Falcon. Angelic in form and celestial in sound, the White…
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The nerds are out for revenge again! Or, at least some street cred, with their latest venture – Nerdcore Hip-Hop. Nerdcore is a subgenre of hip-hop that is created by…
When someone mentions the Wall of Sound, what comes to mind is usually the signature sound of Phil Spector that he created by using dense layers of sound with large…
This music video clip is from the 1986 movie True Stories by the Talking Heads. John Goodman, playing the lovable bachelor Louis Fyne, sings a very good version of the notable Talking…
True music fans will appreciate these rare Beatles photographs. And, if you can’t tell, this photo shoot set the norm for the now hackneyed obligatory band picture. This type of photograph…
American composer John Cage (1912-1992) represented the type of eternally questing artist who, as soon as he solved one problem, moved on to the next problem or series of problems.…
This is a classic music video from Madness, the English ska band from Camden Town, London. They started in 1976 as part of the late 1970s and early 1980s 2Tone ska…
Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols is the only studio album by the English punk rock group Sex Pistols. The album was released in October 1977 by Virgin Records.…
Punk is a subculture that originated in the mid 1970s in America, Australia and the United Kingdom. Punk embraces a wide base of ideologies and various forms of individual expression…
We all judge the times by our personal situations and how hard we are affected by the not so good times. If you think times are hard now you are…
Bass describes tones of low (deep) frequency, pitch and range. In musical compositions, such as songs and pieces, these are the lowest parts of the harmony. In popular music, the bass part, which is called the “bassline”, typically provides harmonic and rhythmic…
Roscoe Holcomb was born on September 5, 1912 and died February 1, 1981. Otherwise, he was an American singer, banjo player, and guitarist from Daisy, Kentucky. A prominent figure in…
To complete your carefully cultivated punk look, it’s going to take some Clash Jeans in a bondage style or in classic tartan. Or, you might also want to pick up…
Siouxsie Sioux is an English singer-songwriter. She is best known as the lead singer of the acclaimed rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees and of its splinter group The Creatures.…
Just a slight reference to the Violent Femmes song Blister in the Sun released in 1983. Remember, technology is our friend. Big Hand, I Know You’re The One!
The 1980s really didn’t begin in earnest until August 1, 1981. That’s when a fledgling cable television station called MTV (Music Television) signed on with a music video by The…
The term, blue beat, is synonymous with the more familiar word – ska. Blue Beat, however, was the Jamaican record label that produced and released ska music as well as Jamaican…
Lip-syncing is a crime. Some say it is a victimless crime. But it is you, the music lover, who is being violated & ripped off! Shown here, Mariah Carey not really…
Pérez Prado was a Cuban bandleader and a composer who became known as the “King of the Mambo.” Pérez Prado was born in Cuba in 1916 where he learned classical…
