During an NPR interview, Eleni Mandell discussed the influence Tom Waits has had on her song writing. She apparently went somewhere else for voice lessons.
Category - Pop
The MTV Video Music Awards are tonight on, well, MTV. Here is a nice story on the band Fun., which is up for a couple of awards and links to We Are Young and...
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...
On this day in 1992, Neil Diamond played the first of six sold out shows at Madison Square Garden in New York City, according to This Day in Music. Diamond...
The Spice Girls are reuniting for the closing ceremony of the Olympics, according to Entertainment Weekly.
As a rule, I know very little about performers who were born after I graduated from high school. That’s the case with Santigold, who used to be Santogold...
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The composer/piano player was 68 years old. Here is his website.
Update: Here is an affectionate look back at Hamlisch.
This is a bit of the third soundtrack of the 1960s — the one that wasn’t rock-and-roll and the one that wasn’t afraid of it. I purposely...
A couple of Supremes notes for June 30. You Keep Me Hanging On was recorded on this day in 1966. It also is the birthday of Florence Ballard, one of the...
Bobby Darin — born in 1936 as Robert Walden Cassotto in the Bronx — accomplished a lot in his life, which only lasted 34 years. Here is a short bio...
