Big Sean Revels In Fatherhood With His Adorable ‘On Up’ Video Featuring Jhené Aiko
Big Sean’s new album, Better Me Than You, is coming soon, and he keeps the rollout rolling with a video for his new single, “On...
‘Zeit’: How Tangerine Dream Brought Ambient Music To The World
Glued together from dissonant elements of musique concrète, jazz-rock improvisation, and prime mover Edgar Froese’s primitive tape collages, Tangerine Dream’s 1970 debut, Electronic Meditation, bore...
DIY Music: How Musicians Did It For Themselves
From cave tunes to thrash punk, country blues to the early days of hip-hop, the urge to make music, using whatever is at hand, is...
‘I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do’: ABBA’s Repeated Success
In the early international adventures of ABBA, even their sensational success with the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest winner “Waterloo” was no guarantee of immediate chart...
‘Super Ape’: Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry’s Dub Masterpiece
Dub’s 1970s creative explosion represented dual shifts within reggae: wider appreciation for the fine art of deconstruction (i.e. tunes reduced to apparition-like guises of bass,...
Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight’ Piano Sonata: Masterpiece Guide
Beethoven‘s ‘Moonlight’ Sonata (aka ‘Piano Sonata No.14 in C sharp minor Op.27/2’) is one of the most famous pieces of music ever written for the...