Keeping Boomers In Touch With Today's Music
We connect a song from back-in-the-day to a current hit that has a similar sound/content/style. You’ll be up to speed in 90-seconds.
Curated by Dave Sholin | Written by Lee Wade
A Breaking Heart: The Human Condition in Song
Remember R.E.M's 1992 hit "Everybody Hurts," which sounded like a breaking heart, if a breaking heart could write a song? Same for Lewis Capaldi's moving ballad, "Someone You Loved," which was an international hit last year-- #1 in England for seven weeks and it also...
See you Later, Alligator
Icelandic quintet Of Monsters and Men had a mega-hit in 2012 with "Little Talks;" their latest release "Alligator" is all about the energy--explosive--and the group's originality. Creatively, they stand out from much of what is out there today. I see color raining...
Metal Lives! Led Zeppelin’s First Album Turns 50
In 1969, Led Zeppelin crash landed into the music scene with a new and groundbreaking sound: Robert Plant's stunning vocals, the brilliant Jimmy Page on guitar, bass and keyboard master John Paul Jones and the late John Bonham --who placed #1 on Rolling Stone...
A Traditonal Yet Modern, F-U-N Juke-Joint Rocker
Boomer Music Update has been a fan of Country trio Midland since the get-go; we appreciate their traditional yet modern, hip, sound, that’s true to the genre. Two years and several hits later, Midland’s second album is scheduled for a late summer drop, and the first...
Is Lizzo the “Female Bruno Mars?”
Fueled by a retro funk rhythm, rapper/hip-hop/pop star Lizzo's "Juice" is making its way on both Top 40 and Adult Top 40 music charts. It's a hot track, the vocals are high velocity and the lyrics are all over the place from poetic to silly: It ain't my fault that I'm...
The Trailer to “Rocketman,” the Elton John Bio-Pic
Fellow Boomers, are we in for a rock star "bio-pic" every year until we all die off, sometime around 2050 or so? Last year's paean to rock n' roll, "Bohemian Rhapsody," had it all: an Oscar winning song, box office boffo, great performances by the stars. Maybe...
17-Year Old Billie Eilish is Gen Z’s “IT” Girl
17-year old singer/songwriter Billie Eilish, who flaunts convention and takes pride is going left when everyone else heads right, is Gen Z's "It Girl" of the moment, capturing the hearts and minds of both her peers and those of Millennials as well. Proof: Seven gold...
For Memorial Day: “The Ones That Didn’t Make It Back Home”
When it comes to patriotic songs with popular appeal, it's the Country format that delivers. Since its release in 1984, Lee Greenwood's "God Bless The U.S.A." has owned the July 4th airwaves, and from Billy Ray Cyrus' "Some Gave All," to Trace Adkins' "Arlington,"...
Flash Back! The 1960s! Laurel Canyon, CA Brian Wilson, Ringo Starr, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Eric Clapton…
The critically acclaimed documentary, "Echo in the Canyon," celebrates a unique and special time and place: Laurel Canyon, California, in the 1960s, a wellspring of creativity for the popular music of the day; memories and stories told by the music-makers who were...