The Big Music: How U2 Led a League of Righteous 80s Arena Rockers “I have heard the big music and I’ll never be the same,” sang Mike Scott on The Waterboys’ 1984 song “The Big Music” amid keening...
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‘Star Wars’: How John Williams Helped Created An Epic Where to begin when talking about the most influential score in film history? Not necessarily with the long and storied career that John Williams enjoyed...
‘Rid Of Me’: PJ Harvey’s Towering 50-Foot Masterpiece PJ Harvey’s sophomore album was so searing that even the singer herself found it hard to listen to. “It’s not something you’d put on to...
Grand Funk’s ‘The Loco-Motion’: Chugging Like A Railroad Train To No.1 In 1962, everybody was doing a brand new dance. A dozen years later, everybody in the US was doing it all over again. On May...
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