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 Struts: Rock & Rollers Influenced by Def Leppard
When The Struts opened for the Rolling Stones’ 2014 Paris sell-out, they were anointed: officially cool, now and forever---‘cause The Stones are not going to let some milquetoast losers open for them, right? The Struts are four English guys who play classic...
Rihanna’s Newest: 50’s Intensity Plus Modern Sizzle: A Must Listen To!
Rihanna's newest single, “Love On The Brain,” sounds SO MUCH like “Maybe,” the 1957-58 doo-wop classic by the Chantels --five black teenage girls from the Bronx, whose 2 minutes and 50 second song became a building block of rock and rock history, and which...
Going Gaga Over Lady Gaga
Of course I know who Lady Gaga is, and so do you, as does everybody—her wild outfits, the platform shoes; she’s outspoken, she cut an album of standards with Tony Bennett and he said ““she’s the real thing.” And yet…I’m not aware of any of her songs or what she...
A “Must Listen To:” The Soulful Artistry of Michael Kiwanuka
Soulful artistry—that’s British singer/songwriter Michael Kiwanuka. His music overflows with emotion and heartfelt lyrics, which he perhaps comes by rightly, as he’s the son of parents who fled Uganda during the brutal Idi Amin regime. Kiwanuka’s tremendous...
From Cat Stevens to Blue October: Giving Thanks for Life’s Blessings
We live in an era of intensity, rapid change, a fast pace that bathes us daily in new, often repetitious and extraneous information and content. So just imagine the jolt it was to listen to “Home” by alt-rockers Blue October—their new song is a direct...
Just Out: Ron Howard’s Documentary About The Beatles
“Eight Days A Week,” Ron Howard’s Beatles documentary, arrived in theaters yesterday; the film focuses on the touring years, 1963-1966, and includes concert footage, interviews and behind the scene tales of what went on during that time. Such is the power and...
“Parachute” Reminiscent of “Fire Down Below”
Even now, 40-years later, listening to Bob Seger’s “Fire Down Below,” I experience it the same as when I heard it in 1976: that it was in a class of its own; the in your face vocals and the band’s down-home, gritty delivery still knock my socks off. One feels a...
Modern Love
Listening to 1986’s Ashford and Simpson hit “Solid” --all 6+ minutes of it, was a hoot; the whole “sound” sucked me back into “the 80s” –you might remember that the song was a celebration of their rock solid relationship. “Closer” by the Chainsmokers, while not...
The Charmed Life of Michael Buble
Music SuperStar. Married to a gorgeous Argentine actress who is mother to their two young sons, and now, a “line extension”—leveraging his brand as a romantic heartthrob who flatters women with the voice equivalent of good lighting, "Michael Buble, The Brand"...