Today is the centennial of the birth of John Cage, the avant garde composer who saw the music of everyday life. This clip from a 1960 episode of I’ve Got...
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It doesn’t pay to list all The Kinks hits, which include Sunny Afternoon, Lola, You Really Got Me, All the Day and of the Night and on and on. From the...
Perhaps any Republican running for office should just forgo the music. Every four years, it seems that a spate of stories pop up in which objections are raised...
Each morning, I send out a quick email that simply has a link to the featured clip of the day. Alternately, I offer to send a weekly update every Friday...
Most people have heard that Hal David, the lyricist who gave life to music written by Burt Bacharach, died Saturday at age 91. TDMB did a post on July 12 that...
Last Labor Day, The Nation’s Peter Rothberg offered his take on top songs about labor. It’s a good list. Above is Which Side Are You On? sung by...
One of the greatest movies of all time is The Third Man, which is based on a novella by Graham Greene. On one level, it is a story of espionage and...
There isn’t too much video of Hank Williams on YouTube. There is, for some reason, an almost unbelievable number of covers of his songs. My guess is that...
Mashable reports on a study conducted at the University of Leicester that suggests blasting music through ear buds can cause hearing problems: Many music...
The nicely done bio of the duo at Concord Music Group is quite affectionate: Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee were the most beloved and influential duo in blues...
