Coldplay is among the best performing rock bands of our time. The group were initially known as Pectoralz, then they became Starfish, and eventually settled on Coldplay after seeking legal counsel over the different spelling possibilities available for “ColdPlay.” The British rock band boasts nine studio albums, six live albums, and four DVDs. They also…
Outlaw country was a subgenre that thrived in the mid to late 1970s. It was a reaction against the Nashville Sound backed by Music Row executives at the head of the country establishment. As such, outlaw country musicians disregarded profit-maximizing rules and restrictions, spurred on by the counter-culture sentiments that were so common in those…
Chances are good that campfire songs predate civilization. After all, archaic humans were making campfires more than a million years before the emergence of modern humans. Furthermore, our ancestors gained the ability to sing the same way we do more than 530,000 years ago, though that isn’t the same as actually doing so. The idea…
Most songs are recorded once. Often, they fail to make much of an impression, thus resulting in them sinking back into oblivion. A smaller number receive covers. Generally speaking, they receive one or two. However, some have hundreds. Unsurprisingly, these songs tend to be well-known, even if interested individuals don’t know their names off-hand. Here…
Chickens don’t occupy the same spot as dogs in the popular consciousness. Even so, they have played an integral role in the human experience, which makes sense because they have been with us for such a long time. Specifically, the latest research shows Southeast Asian farmers brought them into existence by domesticating the red junglefowl…
Jonny Lang is an American singer-songwriter who found success as a teenager. Since then, he has continued releasing new music, with the result that he now has seven studio albums. As such, interested individuals should know they have no shortage of material to check out. Here is our opinion of the ten best Jonny Lang…
Age is a universal part of the human experience. Even so, we don’t respond to it the same way. Some of us fear it and fight it. In contrast, others have been known to make peace with it sullenly or wholeheartedly. As a result, it makes sense that songs about aging are just as varied…
Al Stewart is a Scottish musician who benefited much from the revival of British folk music in the 1960s and 1970s. He has had a long career. For proof, consider how he released his first studio album, Bedsitter Images, in 1967 and his sixteenth studio album, Sparks of Ancient Light, in 2008. As such, it…
Nessa Barrett is a musician who keeps turning her scars into music. Due to her family constantly moving, she barely had any friends; thus, learned to keep to herself while dreaming of the day she would live on her own. Thankfully, her parents loved music and Barrett found solace in it. She hoped to pursue…