Music

The Chi-Lites were a Chicago band that performed soulful blues songs that built a name for themselves on the soul, R&B, and pop charts in the 1960s and 1970s, with mega-hits such as “Have You…

Jan and Dean have been credited as the primary architects of the California Sound and the surf music style, which rose to prominence in the early 1960s. The duo’s best-known song is “Surf City”, which…

Whether you were born before the 1950s or years later, you may have come across various songs by an American instrumental rock band called The Ventures. It is one of the first bands to make…

Famous songs about trains range from country to rock, with a little bit of everything in between. While some songs glorify the train’s role in society, others take a more somber tone, talking about the…

Jimmy is one of those artists that just gets better with age. Though he’d been writing and performing for over six decades, his music is still relevant today. His songs are as catchy as ever,…

Point Break is more than a film about cops and robbers, it’s an intricate character study of tenacious, energetic and capable characters with a “live free or die” attitude. Couple that with the strong directing…

Mondays might suck, but there’s one thing that’s always guaranteed to lift your mood – music. Specifically, great music. Even more specifically, great music that draws on the worst day of the week as inspiration…

In 2005, Emily Griffin published a book, Something Borrowed, before it was turned into a romantic comedy film in 2011. It starred Ginnifer Goodwin, Kate Hudson, Colin Egglesfield, and John Krasinski. A Warner Bros. production…

Since making her mainstream breakthrough in 2007 with her second studio album, Girls and Boys, Ingrid Michaelson has built a loyal fanbase with her breezy, Norah Jones-esque brand of pop. Known for her distinctive angelic…