Let’s Hear It For Strong Willed Women With Powerful Voices!
Let’s hear it for S-T-R-O-N-G willed women with P-0-W-E-R-F-U-L voices. For example, Annie Lennox singing “Walking on Broken Glass (1992) --her passion and conviction--she puts it all out there--and so does Florence Welch of Florence + The Machine in their newest,...
Can You Hear Bruce Springsteen’s Influence Lurking In The Background of This “Alternative” Hit?
Mt. Joy plays to an Alternative and Adult Alternative fan base, so it’s OK if you’ve never heard of them, however, they are prepping for the mainstream, i.e. announcing their first ever festival sets at the legendary Bonnaroo and Newport Folk Festivals, which is the...
Sad & Soulful Songs by Men With Broken Hearts.
"A Little Honey,” Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats latest top 20 Adult Alternative hit, has a big sound that includes Rateliff’s signature scorching, soulful vocals, reminding us of Solomon Burke's 1963 classic "If You Need Me." Artists like these pack a...
We’re Not In Kansas Anymore.
Boomers grew up listening to music made in the great cities of 20th century America: Detroit, Philly, Chicago, San Francisco, the deep South. So its surprising to note that there are currently three big rock acts from Las Vegas, a relatively new city without an...
“Bad Bad News” Is A “Must Listen To”
The Wall Street Journal described Leon Bridges as a "throwback to 60's soul a la Otis Redding and Sam Cooke.” We say he’s is a remarkable singer, songwriter and producer with old school R&B in his DNA. Bridges is a class act; his latest, “Bad Bad News” is worth a...
Lighten Up.
“Everybody Wants To Be Famous” by Superorganism is ear candy: a cute, upbeat, and bouncy hit that has the throwback sound and feel of 1982’s one hit wonder by The Waitresses, "I Know What Boys Like."* Indie band Superorganism is a cultural melting pot, and includes...
“I Want More Best Days.”
Something about the human condition-- we fret about which days of our lives are the best days of our lives and songs from Mary Hopkin’s 1969's “Those Were The Days,” with its forced gaiety and regret, to the joyful, uplifting elegance of Natalie Merchant and 10,000...
No Ray Of Sunshine Is Ever Lost…
Da-da's and La-La's are pop mainstays--think 1999’s nonsensical Top 10 hit "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" by The Police. In 2013, Australian Alternative and Adult Alternative singer/songwriter Vance Joy raised the Da-da and La-la bar in "Riptide" and his newest, "Saturday...
Sting Does Reggae.
Thanks to Jimmy Cliff, UB40, Ziggy Marley and lesser knowns like Inner Circle and San Diego's Big Mountain, the fan base for reggae infused pop bands has increased over the past 40 years, kept alive and drawing in new listeners with hits ranging from a 1994 cover of...