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
Hard Driving Rock n’ Roll. Yeah!
The band is “The Record Company” and they play old-fashioned, hard driving, pulsating, exciting rock n’ roll. Their new song is "Life To Fix" a red-hot rocker with a simple, relatable premise: “My life has fallen apart in every possible way.” How do we know...
We Love Leon Bridges, And We Want You To Love Him, Too.
BoomerMusicUpdate has raved about Leon Bridges for years: we love his music, and want you to love it, too. “Beyond,” his newest release is a good example of why you, as a with-it, connected, and hip Boomer, will want to at least be aware of it. Bridges just turned...
If It Weren’t For This, We Wouldn’t Have Had Jimi Hendrix.
Last month, with little fanfare, the LP turned 70. A bona fide Baby Boomer, the LP was born June 18th, 1948, when The Wall Street Journal broke the news that "A 12-inch phonograph record that will play as much music as an album of six or seven conventional records...
Toto’s “Africa” Is Revived, Proving Anything Can Happen
In 1982 Toto released the now classic “Africa,” one of their biggest hits. In 1992, a decade after Africa was #1 on Billboard's Hot 100, Rivers Cuomo and his band Weezer began their long and successful run as a mainstay on Alternative radio. And in Dec. 2017,...
A “Must Listen To” But Only If You Want To Smile & Feel Good
I like me better when I’m with you. What a great line. Simple, direct, summing it all up. “I Like Me Better” is the new release by singer/songwriter Lauv, born Ari Leff in San Francisco 23 yeas ago, to Latvian parents. He’s a graduate of New York University, and has a...
The Soundtrack of a Generation. If You Are A Boomer, This is Your Life in 27 Minutes.
"Weird Al" Yankovic has just ended his "Ridiculously, Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Tour,” and at each and every one of the tour’s 77 performances, his encore was a cover of a rock n’ roll classic--done straight, not as a parody. The songs were from every format,...
Happy Birthday, America.
Three weeks ago, Neil Diamond was awarded the Songwriters Hall Of Fame top distinction, the Johnny Mercer Award, its Lifetime Achievement honor. Diamond wrote the inspiring and uplifting “Coming to America” almost 40 years ago, for the movie "The Jazz Singer,”...
Selena Gomez Is Really Cute, Even While Her Heart Is Breaking
25-year old Selena Gomez currently holds the record as the artist with the most consecutive Top 40 hits, helped, in part, by her latest success "Back To You"*-- it’s already a global hit, charting in dozens of countries--it’s near top ten on the American Top 40...
Foreigner Sings “Double Vision” With A Full Symphony & It Works Out Wonderfully!
When Foreigner is backed by a 58-piece orchestra and a 60-person choir, how could it not be wonderful? Their performance of “Double Vision” is fun, energizing, and different, and gives new meaning to the moniker “Classic Rock.” "Foreigner With The 21st Century...