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2d ago
(April 15, 2024). There’s something magical — even mystical — about years ending in “4” when it comes to music. Something special, in fact… especially in even-numbered decades like this one. Without exception, those years have generated some of the most impactful, most influential, culturally shifting, and most historical musical moments (and songs/albums) since the rock-and-roll ..read more
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4d ago
(April 14, 2024). How poetic is it that in the midst of a presidential election year where immigration is a key issue and when at least a half-dozen foreign countries are at war (and the U.S. has inserted itself in all of them) that American musicians are on track to do something at home that hasn’t ..read more
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4d ago
(April 13, 2024). Superstar rapper J. Cole — largely considered one of the Big Three MCs of this generation (along with Drake and Kendrick Lamar) — did the unthinkable earlier this week. He apologized for a diss track he included on his latest mixtape — Might Delete Later — and then he did just that: deleted it. The ..read more
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2w ago
(April 3, 2024). A lot of music industry fans and prognosticators are weighing in on whether Beyoncé’s new Cowboy Carter will finally garner the Texas superstar that elusive Album of the Year Grammy win at next year’s ceremony. It’s likely to turn a few heads in the Academy’s country music categories as well (or else NARAS will have quite ..read more
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2w ago
(April 1, 2024). Frankly speaking, calling Cowboy Carter Beyoncé’s magnum opus wouldn’t be a stretch. It is truly an album of sublime quality — both thematically and musically — from an artist who is now 21 years and eight studio LPs into a solo career that stands among the most influential and important in pop culture. But placing Cowboy ..read more
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2w ago
(April 1, 2024). This is no April Fools Day joke, unless you see a punchline in the fact that someone considered a pioneer in the hip-hop sub-genre of “mumble-rap” now stands among music industry giants with the most No. 1 albums in history. Not just hip-hop history, all of music history. No cap, as they say (for the ..read more
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3w ago
(March 27, 2024). When Journey released their album Escape in 1981, Columbia Records issued four singles from it: “Who’s Crying Now,” “Don’t Stop Believin’,” “Open Arms” and “Still They Ride,” in that order. That one of those — “Don’t Stop Believin’” — has now been declared by a somewhat reputable source, Forbes Magazine, to be the “biggest song ..read more
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3w ago
(March 26, 2024). Diana Ross turns 80 today (March 26). I commemorated by playing my favorite tune by her, 1980’s sublime “Upside Down,” written and produced by Nile Rodgers and the late Bernard Edwards, who were then members of my favorite group, Chic (Rodgers still fronts the band, btw). (The song is arguably also my favorite ..read more
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(March 20, 2024). Some people are calling Kanye West’s recent return to the top of the charts a “comeback,” noting the artist’s near cancellation and self-imposed hiatus after making antisemitic remarks that all but doomed him the past couple of years (he later apologized for that, in Hebrew no less). But given his No. 1 song’s ..read more
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(March 14, 2024). Upon learning on Monday (March 11) of singer Eric Carmen’s death in his sleep last weekend, I was saddened by yet another loss of one of the great musicians from my youth, and I immediately thought of the roughly three successful phases of his decades-spanning pop music career, and which song from those ..read more