Wikipedia offers an extraordinarily precise — some would say anal — explanation of the genesis of the name of Fountains of Wayne: The band was...
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Katie Melua is a Georgian singer who was born in 1984. Her family moved to Belfast, Northern Ireland when she was eight years old and to London six years later...
[column size=one_half position=first ]When an artist gets extraordinarily famous, he or she becomes their own category. Elvis Presley, Louis Armstrong, Duke...
According to This Day in Music, on this day in 1980 Donna Summer became the first act to sign with Geffen Records. Summer — whose real name was the much...
Like most people, disco is not my thing. But the Bee Gees’ soundtrack to “Saturday Night Fever” was art. The music and lyrics were an...
I still am working through the responses that came in from a PR posting in mid April. The latest is “Meet Me,” from New York City-born and raised...
I heard “Avant Gardener” on WFUV, the Fordham University radio station. It’s a great song. Below is “Depreston,” another good...
I stumbled upon a Madeleine Peyroux video at Tumblr. I wish I could remember the site (does Tumblr call them sites?) where I saw it, so that I could credit the...
H/T: Luke P. I remember the first song I heard by Dire Straits. It was “Sultans of Swing,” which of course became a mega-hit. I turned on the radio...
One of the fun things about The Daily Music Break is featuring artists who are a bit lesser known. Indeed, I am going to do this on a more regular basis. One...
