Above is “Feel It Still,” a great song from the band Portugal. The Man. The oddest thing about the group almost certainly is its name. There are...
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Lake Street Dive was started in 2004 by students from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. Original band members, according to Wikipedia, were...
h/t: Charlene S Berkman, D.M.D. I am always looking for good music for TDMB. Indeed, a few weeks ago, my dentist mentioned a video that Alex Boyé made for...
Running into music written and performed by an individual — Lorde — who is the same age (to be precise, 15 days older) than my youngest child is an...
The numbers in this single sentence in Wikipedia’s entry about Francesco Stephen Castelluccio — Frankie Valli — are a good illustration of...
Lloyds Pharmacy group released a survey this week that said more than 40 percent of respondents reported that music eased their physical pain. Raw Story...
I became aware of Estelle through the hit American Boy (above) simply because my daughter had the radio tuned to stations that played it. Her part is great...
CNN has an interesting piece about music and the inauguration, which is set for Monday. The show should be pretty good: This year’s festivities include a...
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.
Rachel Crow, who appeared in the first season of the show X-Factor, has released a terrific anti-bullying video entitled Mean Girls. Check it out at Hollywood...
Reading Music
The stories of the great bands and musicians are fascinating. Musicians as a group are brilliant, but often troubled. The combination of creativity and drama makes for great reading.
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Here are some books to check out.
Duke Ellington brought class, sophistication and style to jazz which, until that point, was proudly unpolished and raucous. His story is profound. The author, Terry Teachout, also wrote "Pops," the acclaimed bio of Louis Armstrong. Click here or on the image.
What else is there to say? Here is the story behind every song written by The Beatles. Click here or on the image.
The Grateful Dead don't get enough credit for the profound nature of its lyrics. Many of the band's songs are driven by a deep and literate Americana ("I'm Uncle Sam/That's who I am/Been hidin' out/In a rock and roll band" and "Majordomo Billy Bojangles/Sit down and have a drink with me/What's this about Alabama/Keeps comin' back to me?").
David Dodd's exhaustive study tells the story, song by song. Click here or on the image.