KISS: A Begrudging Appreciation
When venerable rockers, chest-hair farmers, and Kabuki-makeup enthusiasts KISS recently announced their umpteenth farewell tour, the Internet went understandably alight with snarky indignation....
Category: Music
Russian Band Does Dead On Tribute to Chicago With a Little Help from Cuban American Trumpeter
Anyone who knows anything about my musical tastes knows that I'm not convinced you have a real band unless you have a horn section. It goes without saying that I'm a fan of Chicago. I'm also a huge...
Albums For Millennials: Gene Clark’s “No Other”
When Eminem unexpectedly dropped his new album, Kamikaze, on August 31, it made headlines around the world in a matter of hours -- and rightly so. Em’s one of the most important artists on the...
The Queen of Pop is 60 Today!
We lost one music Queen today. The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin passed away in Detroit and it has prompted the whole internet to stop for a collective moment and just remember her contributions....
Soul Music Became Pop Music Because of Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin will forever hold the title of The Queen of Soul, and rightly so having won 18 Grammys, selling 75 million records worldwide and being the most charted female in music history on...
These Songs Will Remind You Exactly Why Aretha Franklin Was and Always Will Be the Undisputed Queen of Soul
The Queen of Soul died Thursday morning at her home in Detroit after a battle with pancreatic cancer. It is said that the closest thing to being immortal is creating something that lives on long...
The Midnight Movie Cowboys Podcast Presents: “The Macc Lads”
This week, the gang kicks off Rock Month -- which, in my head, sounds a lot louder, deeper, with a lot more time on the second word, and it ends with a lightning bolt -- with a look at a punk band...
Jazz for Nonbelievers: Jane Monheit Takes You Over the Rainbow
Instead of old (or dead) guys let's focus on someone who is not a guy—old, dead, or otherwise. Jane Monheit fits that bill and you might even spot her name on the marquee at your local jazz club....
Jazz for Nonbelievers: Grant Green’s Guitar
Sorry for the lateness of this weeks playlist. Our subject this time is another guitarist named Grant Green. I have to admit that I really wasn't aware of Green until we started looking for music...
Jazz for Nonbelievers: Maynard Ferguson
James is on travel this week, so the bigwigs in the Phantom Sway C Suite tagged me with this week's Jazz for Nonbelievers playlist. And when I say "tagged", I mean "sent two large men with baseball...