A Song So Good It Could Be From The 70s

  “Welcome To Your Life” by Grouplove has a raucous presentation that belies the song’s serious lyrics and message, about the wonder of the universe and our place in it, and also the awareness that while we can sometimes hit a string of good things, at other...

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Drugs & Rock n’ Roll: Millennials vs. Boomers

  In the summer of 1967 the English group Small Faces shared their brand of "happy rock" with "Itchycoo Park" a song title that even sounds like it would be a happy destination.  How did they get so happy?  They got high. Almost 50 years later, Los Angeles based...

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A New Song With A 70s Sound

  Boomers have been known to get smug about how great “our” music was, back in the 70s and 80s, with smooth, thoughtful, elegant but relatable songs like “I'd Love You To Want Me” by Lobo. Then along comes a new song, "All We Ever Knew," by Seattle based,...

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Band Has Weird Name But Makes Top-Notch Music

Band Has Weird Name But Makes Top-Notch Music

  I’d probably snort if you suggested I’d fall for a band with a name like “Cage the Elephant” except that I know that last November Boomer Music Update raved about that same band’s #1 Alternative hit, “Mess Around.”...

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Similar Sounds: The Cure and Blink 182

  What a great line:  “Life’s too short to last long.”  That’s from “Bored to Death” by Blink 182—a sentiment that is most likely interpreted differently by Boomers than it is by the Millennials and Gen Xer’s who are Blink 182 fans. Other “Bored To Death" lyrics,...

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New Orleans Lives Up To Her Reputation

  Once again, the City of New Orleans is contributing a really great song—“Wish I Knew You” by their hometown band the 'The Revivalists,’ proclaimed last March by Rolling Stone magazine as  "One of the10 Bands You Need To Know." This song is Just. So. Good. The...

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Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats: Big, Bold & Powerful

  There’s a certain sound that taps into some Boomers, including me, in a powerful way, and for those of us, there is Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats—the band that hit it big last year when their “S.O.B.” exploded onto the airwaves. I’m happy to report...

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Twenty One Pilots And The Importance Of New Music

  Ohio governor John Kasich, who is is 64-years old, traveled a lot when he campaigned for the Republican Presidential nomination, and on those many airline flights he listened to “Stressed Out” by Twenty One Pilots, a bona fide top tier Top 40/Alternative band...

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What Would We Do Without Songs About Love?

  If you like Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music’s “Love is the Drug,” which was a big hit in 1975, than it’s likely that “Dark Necessities,” the newest by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, will appeal to you, too -- a polished sound that tantalizes with dense, abstract lyrics...

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