
When I Can’t Get It Out Of My Head: My Earworms Of Note
It’s all coming back to him now: Contributing Author rollerboogie presents persistent polonaises for your perceptive pleasure. (Maybe)
It’s all coming back to him now: Contributing Author rollerboogie presents persistent polonaises for your perceptive pleasure. (Maybe)
Have you seen the Federal Center for Disease Control and Prevention website recently? Learn more in this opinion piece from Contributing Author Chuck Small
Currently in search of a snappy portmanteau to call his own, it’s Contributing Author and DJ Professor Dan, with copious notes on what was happening musically around this time… in 2005
Of the millions of musical instruments that have been crafted over the centuries, most meet an expected and unceremonious ending. In some fashion, they are retired. They become broken, lost, or just plain worn out. But sometimes, they are re-discovered and go on to create new music. Here are a few situations where a particular instrument ended up changing hands – and received a new assignment. The Famed Instrument: This Kay M-1 Maestro Upright Bass Where You’ve Heard It: On just about all of the early Elvis Presley hits. Bill Black was Elvis Presley’s original bassist and played on many
“I wasn’t in a rush because I’m not really a Bob Dylan fan. I wasn’t even sure I wanted to see it anyway, but a line used in the trailer got my attention…”
Contributing Author and music historian Bill Bois reviews the new film, A Complete Unknown
You say you can’t get enough Number Ones? Well, our good friend from The Nation Of Shopkeepers is pleased to oblige: Join Contributing Author JJ Live At Leeds’ for a brand new chapter of Streams Of Statistics
In an opinion piece, Contributing Author Chuck Small takes a break from music, and with the help of some serious students, configures a four-year plan
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
Unrequited or otherwise: Love is definitely in the air with Contributing Author rollerboogie’s tale of playlists, plus-ones, parties… and potential passion
“…. 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
I got 5/8 - not great, but not terrible. The MJ / Macarena thing was wild.
Four. Determinedly average.
I got 5. I missed the Beatles one and I feel ashamed. But I had no idea about Michael's love…
I got 6 out of 8 (only one was a guess too). And I couldn't do a single one of…
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Four correct here. Eh, I'll live with it.