Best 21st Birthday Songs: 25 Tracks To Raise Your Glass To
You can drive, vote, and get a job at 18, but turning 21 marks the true transition into adulthood. In the US, you can drink...
‘Mother Nature’s Son’: The Story Behind The Beatles’ Song
A talk given by the Maharishi while The Beatles were studying Transcendental Meditation in Rishikesh, India, would prove to be the inspiration of two of...
‘Itchycoo Park’: All Too Beautiful For The Small Faces
One of the defining singles of Britain’s psychedelic pop summer of 1967 took its bow on the Top 50 chart for August 9 that year....
Rise Of The Machines: How Technology Shaped Music
Listen to it today, you might think “it’s just a dude playing the organ.” And while you’d expect a record company to be trying to...
The Long Forgotten 8th National Jazz, Pop, Ballads And Blues Festival
The 8th National Jazz, Pop, Ballads and Blues Festival was held on the second weekend of August 1968, and it’s one of the least remembered...
Kurtis Blow: The Prototype
If you tried to build a rap star in a lab, your result would be something close to Kurtis Blow. Today, it’s commonplace to have...