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It’s the debut of Contributing Author Music Historian, dutifully surveying the foggy landscape of the forgettable 1990 year of pop: where charted hits came and went without fanfare. No judgement here: we promise not to keep score of how many you’ve forgotten to remember.
In this labyrinth of lost masters and mixed-up names, Contributing Author JJ Live At Leeds traces the twisting path of “Do I Love You (Indeed I Do).”
It’s a rabbit hole of vanished vinyl, unreliable narrators, and one Northern Soul miracle that simply refused to stay buried.
Contributing Author DJ Professor Dan time-travels to 1925, when flappers set the tempo, radios crackled with ukuleles, and Eddie Cantor shouted “WOW” like it was headline news. It’s a century-old playlist of Charleston-worthy chaos, served with equal parts shellac, sass, and secondhand jazz smoke.
We know where he came from. but where will he go? Why, back 30 years, of course – it’s Contributing Author DJ Professor Dan, with a three-fer about what was happening musically around this time… in 1995
“…. a band I couldn’t appreciate at the time now has a documentary about their formation.” Contributing Author and music historian Bill Bois reviews the new movie, Becoming Led Zeppelin
Contributing Author Chuck Small returns with the second half of a two-parter that delightfully deploys a uniquely arbitrary method of curation, for a fun and eclectic sonic result
Getting his kicks above the waistline, sunshine, it’s Contributing Author DJ Professor Dan, who delivers a solid-as-a-rock report on what was happening musically around this time… in 1985
Time-tripping back 51 (!) years, it’s Contributing Author rollerboogie,with a fair and balanced summation of one of the more controversial 12-month periods in 20th century pop music
We can all agree that Contributing Author Chuck Small is anything but a “random” music fan. Nonetheless, Chuck is back with the first of a two-parter that delightfully deploys a uniquely arbitrary method of curation. for a fun and eclectic sonic result
Tangled up in proto-disco with a pair of Bobs, it’s Contributing Author DJ Professor Dan, who’s out on the avenuuuue with what was happening musically around this time… in 1975
Without the electric guitar, popular music as we know it would be inconceivable. In his continuing series about musical innovators, Contributing Author Bill Bois takes a look at the instrument and inventor that changed the world
They say it’s his birthday – and Contributing Author Ozmoe is gonna have a good time – celebrating with great tunes from 1965
Our Zelig-like Contributing Author rollerboogie sure gets around, and is here to share seven tales of chance musical encounters that resulted in a deeper, delightful playlist for all