Stop Making Sense is a highly praised concert film that features the Talking Heads live on stage in 1983. The film was directed by Jonathan Demme and was shot over…
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Alton Ellis, the Godfather of Rocksteady music, was born in 1938 in Trenchtown, Kingston, Jamaica. Along with his younger sister Hortense, who was born in 1941, the two created singles…
Many women over the years have been called the “Queen of the Blues.” Bessie Smith (1894-1937), Dinah Washington (1924-1963), Memphis Minnie (1897-1973), Mary Ann Fisher (1923-2004) and Koko Taylor (1928-2009)…
Mille, a/k/a Millie Small, born in Clarendon, Jamaica, is the 1960s ska, bluebeat, and rocksteady singer who is most famous for her 1964 smash hit “My Boy Lollipop.” Her fourth recording,…
Michael Campbell, better known as Mikey Dread, is a Jamaican singer, producer, and broadcaster. He was born in 1954 in Port Antonio, Jamaica, West Indies. Mikey Dread displayed a natural…
The Skatalites are a ska band from Jamaica. They played initially between 1963 and 1965, and recorded many of their best known songs in the period, including Guns of Navarone.…
What is a rude boy? What is a rude girl? What does ‘to be rude’ mean? Today, it simply means that you’re a dedicated member of the ska scene. If…
Back in the 1980s, in the early days of MTV and the music video, there was an obscure one-hit wonder that was actually a novelty song from the comedy rock…
There has been a new beat lurking around the music scene for about 10 years in North America. The new beat, or sound, is called reggaeton (pronounced reggae-tone) and it…
“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…
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…
