Usually, when people reminisce, particularly about 2008, the first thing that comes to mind is the Great Recession caused by the housing bubble. Still, many other historical events went down in 2008, such as the United States of America getting its first Black-American president. In the music industry, Britney Spears’ hospitalization after a meltdown and…
Whether you’re road trippin’ with your best buds or going for a quick trip to the local beach, tradition begs you and your passengers to look for songs to scream in the car. Such songs are high vibe songs in general, though there may be a few slow tempo ones in the bunch. There may…
Swing Out Sister is a British pop group that has been around since the mid-1980s. Initially, it was a trio consisting of Andy Connell as a keyboardist, Martin Jackson as a drummer, and Corinne Drewery as a vocalist. However, it has been a duo for a long time because Jackson left during the making of…
Love usually starts in the simplest of ways but ends in complicated scenarios. Sometimes, the breakup is nasty, other times it is mutual, but the bottom line is it is seldom a welcome goodbye. The heartache can wreck you for weeks and months before you finally dare to give love one more chance. It is…
Grunge came into existence in the mid-1980s. However, people tend to associate it with the 1990s because that was the decade during which it entered the mainstream. Post-grunge has been a thing for two decades and counting. Even so, the genre’s most famous songs come from the 1990s for the most part. As such, that…
Music holds no boundaries, and it connects people from different backgrounds as it is a universal language. Ketch Secor and his friends began Old Crow Medicine Show in September 1998 when they were only teenagers. They did not know where the music would lead, but they decided to play their way out of Ithaca to…
Linda Viera Caballero, aka La India, is a popular Puerto Rican songwriter and singer, celebrated in Latin pop, house, and salsa music. Did you know she’s received nominations for Grammy and Latin Grammy Awards? Her album “Intensamente La India Con Canciones De Juan Gabriel” album won the Latin Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album. Here…
A lot has been said about music; some believe that when words fail, music speaks while others opine that music is a language of the spirit. When it comes to country music, Waylon Jennings once said that it is not about the instruments or lyrics, but the feeling. Therefore, country musicians have been known to…
Every year is notable in its way. For instance, 2006 was the year in which our solar system lost a planet. Advances in astronomy revealed there were other trans-Neptunian objects as large as Pluto. As a result, the International Astronomical Union voted to reduce Pluto to a dwarf planet rather than admit an unknown number…