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
The Chainsmokers: One of Today’s Hottest Bands
Were you mesmerized, back in 1975, by 10 CC’s “I’m Not in Love”--that alluring, wavy groove that could put an audience into a trance? You’ll hear echos of that alluring, wavy groove in “Something Just Like This,” the result of rock icons Coldplay teaming with...
Echoes of “True Colors.” “Down is a “Must Listen To.”
You've probably heard “Down” by Marian Hill when CBS TV aired it on the opening of March Madness Selection Sunday as this years brackets were being announced and/or in Apple’s new iphone 7 TV ads: Marian Hill is a male/female duo, neither named Marian nor Hill*...
The Luck O’ The Irish Is With Us: U2 Is Going On Tour
While enjoying your corned beef, cabbage and green beer, here’s another reason to celebrate the Irish: In honor of the 30th anniversary of the release of "The Joshua Tree," one of the greatest albums of all time, U2 is going on tour. Europe and the U.S. Starting...
Lorde: Young, Beautiful & Talented
Now 20-years old, New Zealander singer/songwriter Lorde was a superstar at just 17, capturing world attention with “Royals” her debut smash, followed by “Team”, another big hit, and now “Green Light” her newest single, is getting massive airplay on multiple...
Is Pop Music A Metaphor For Modern Romance?
The more things change the more they stay the same: namely, men get hot for sexy women and then get puzzled, in a “duh?” sort of way, when the women don’t always respond in kind. In 1980’s “She’s So Cold,” Mick Jagger’s high-powered rocker of sexual...
Be There or Be Square: You Need to Know Ed Sheeran
At this very moment, it’s possible that Ed Sheeran is the most talented and popular pop singer/songwriter in the world. Every song he sings turns to gold, and fans are already embracing his latest gem, "How Would You Feel" (Paean), a heartfelt, sweet ballad, Ed is...
Rag ‘n’ Bone Man: 2017’s First “Must Listen To”
Rag 'n' Bone Man is a 32-year old pop star who just won big in the “English Grammys”—the Brit Awards. Two weeks ago he was named this year's British “Breakthrough Act" and was also awarded the prestigious "Critics Choice.” “Human” is his first release and it’s an...
Lipstick: The Good, The Bad, & Just The Right Shade of Red
What to make of Runaway Jane, a new Country-pop “Blond Band”…three gorgeous young women wearing “Daisy Dukes” and cowboy boots, who sound like the Dixie Chicks if the Dixie Chicks were proper young ladies instead of rebels, or Gretchen Wilson, if she was a Tri-Delt...
Head and The Heart
Last August, Boomer Music Update singled out “All We Ever Knew” by Head and The Heart, an alternative Seattle based 70s sounding folk pop group with wide appeal. Some six months later, “All We Ever Knew” is #1 on the Adult Alternative charts and is currently fast...