Vance Joy went from being an Australian rules footballer to being a singer-songwriter. Generally speaking, he is known because of his second single, “Riptide,” in 2012. However, interested individuals should know he has never stopped making new music. Indeed, Joy released a third studio album called In Our Own Sweet Time in 2022, which did…
Shakira is a Colombian singer-songwriter. However, her reputation extends far beyond her homeland, so much so that she has been called the Queen of Latin Music. Over the course of three decades and counting, Shakira has released more than ten studio albums, which include a considerable number of international hits and greatest hits. 10. Waka…
During the 1990s, rap became mainstream, even crossing over into politics. Politics and rap collided when Ice-T and Bodycount released Cop Killer and challenged the first amendment. Warner Brothers didn’t censor the song’s lyrics about revenge killing, and a political imbroglio ensued with police officers and politicians protesting the lyrics. In Staten Island, Wu-Tang CLan…
Few artists come close to matching Gladys Knight’s legacy. Best known for her long string of hit singles with the Pips in the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s, she’s a seven-time Grammy Award-winner with a place in both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Vocal Group of Fame. She has seven No. 1…
In 1981, Roland Orzabel and Curt Smith banded together to form Tears for Fears. After emerging as part of the new wave scene, they later achieved international stardom when they began incorporating more elements of mainstream rock and pop into their sound. After a decade of success, escalating tensions led the band to go their…
Our latest article looks at the ten best Dolly Parton albums from her impressive catalog of close to fifty albums in a career that spans more than 50 years. Summarizing Dolly Parton’s legacy in country music is such an arduous task because she has simply done it all. With more than 3000 songs and 50…
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…
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…