Sal Bono, who runs the site Offically a Yuppie, posted a piece at Huffington Post on ten bands to watch for in 2013. Since I am well past the yuppie stage, I...
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Sarah Vaughan is one of the big three of classic female jazz singers, alongside Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday. Here is how the bio of “Sassy”...
London Metropolitan University has released a study on what types of music are best – and worst – for driving safety. Each of the ten safest songs has a tempo...
[embedyt] [/embedyt] Here is the beginning of Wikipedia’s profile of Marcia Ball: Marcia Ball (born March 20, 1949, Orange, Texas, United States)[1] is...
TDMB yesterday marked the 78th birthday of Elvis Presley. Today, it turns out, is the centennial of Richard Nixon. It is fairly well known that the two icons...
Elvis Costello’s birth name is Declan Patrick MacManus. He changed it in 1977 and, nine years later, back to the original — only he threw in...
Elvis Presley was born on this day in 1935. I would provide some background on Elvis, but there just isn’t anything on the Internet about the guy...
I cross post The Daily Music Break at Daily Kos. A commenter there pointed out Seu Jorge, who he or she had seen in the Wes Anderson/Bill Murray film The Life...
The site io9 details how a computer house at the University of Málaga in Spain is creating classical music. The story links to a video of one of those pieces...
Wikipedia leads its profile with a snapshot of Wayne Shorter’s importance: Jazz critic Ben Ratliff of the New York Times wrote that Shorter is...
