Music of the fifties and sixties in the United States often directly mirrored the historical sentiment, culturally and politically, of the times. The fifties were generally a period of calm after World War II that produced very simple, light-hearted music with doo-wop and the teen idols infiltrating mainstream music. This period of good-feeling music actually ...
It only takes a short trip on your radio dial to realize that something really wrong is happening to today’s R&B; music. You need not be old enough to make first-hand comparisons between R&B; now, and the music of Motown. There was a time when in order to complete an album, a team of songwriters ...
One of the highlights of Mystery Science Theater 3000 has to be the songs sung during the host segments. Just as the funny comments and pop culture references that Joel or Mike and the ‘bots make during the movie were often hit or miss, so too are the MST3K songs uneven. Even so, the worst ...
There’s an adage that goes, “If you can remember the 60s, you weren’t really there,” a sly observation to the decade’s rampant drug use. But this was really just one aspect of the times. Perhaps no other decade of the 20th century was as tumultuous, and as difficult to define by a small handful of ...
In the age of Itunes, music lovers rarely buy an entire CD anymore. We get a song or two from each artist of the singles they release from the radio and figure if anything else was good on the album, it would have been a single too. The danger is that so many fantastic songs ...
One of the top South Korean girl groups T-ara has sparked a bully controversy after its agency CCM made a surprise announcement of removing a member from the fold. Instantly the outcast Hwayoung, who had joined the group in 2010, became a tragic heroine in the eye of 300000 South Korean netizens who rallied for ...
