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We’ll be hearing from bands featuring women artists, both old and new! Rennaisiance, IZZ, Babe Ruth, District 97, Joni Mitchell, Shocking Blue, I am the Morning, Heart, Fairport Convention, The Strawbs, Pure Reason Revolution and many more! Author
Here are some things that happened on this day in pop music: – In 1962, Troyal Garth Brooks was born in Luba, Oklahoma. Regard as one of the greats, and a country music legend, Garth holds the record as the best-selling solo artist of the 20th century in America. – In 1970 One Hit Wonders Shocking Blue went to No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Venus’, making them the first Dutch act to top the US charts. – In 1981 Kool & The Gang started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Celebration’ the group’s first No.1 and 8th top 40 hit.
Don't show me this message again✕ Music supervisors are finding new and daring ways to incorporate songs on television (Getty Images/iStockphoto) T he past year has been nothing short of a dumpster fire but God, it’s yielded some great TV. And maybe it’s all this extra time we have on our hands – or perhaps our collective sensory deprivation – that’s leading us to take keen notice of any stimulation thrown our way, but it seems we’re watching this latest cadre of shows with newly opened ears. Whether it was Anya Taylor Joy’s chess genius drunkenly dancing her way to denoue...
READING From The Beastie Boys to The Last Dance, the best music moments from film and TV in 2020 29.12.2020 From The Beastie Boys to The Last Dance, the best music moments from film and TV in 2020 The Last Dance High Fidelity, I May Destroy You, Lovecraft Country and more. Wow, what a year! Yes, a lot of shitty things happened, but for optimistic fans of film and television there was nothing but an abundance of downtime to sift through new and previously-missed content. Music in media throughout 2020 has been incredible – it’s no longer about eleva...
What Classical Music Can Learn From ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ December 29, 2020 Have you avoided going to the opera or the symphony because you thought it might be too boring? Surely you can think of something more boring than that, such as the game of chess. So now explain why “The Queen’s Gambit,” the Netflix original series about a female chess player, has garnered a record 62 million viewers. The viral hit about a Kentucky girl who overcomes life in an orphanage, substance abuse, and skepticism about her place in an exclusively male world provides lessons for any creative field tha...