Listen to this track, the closing song on 1980's Get Happy!!, recorded quickly after a dreary American tour and with a pile of Northern Soul 45s as a means to create it. Yet, there were other forces that helped to make this particular track - ...
Topics: Elvis Costello, Elvis Costello & the Attractions, music

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This month's contribution from author, music fan, and curmudgeonly pop culture critic Geoff Moore is all about the lost art of music journalism, back when music writers for Rolling Stone, Creem, and Trouser Press served as conduits to the...
Topics: music, music journalism, Rolling Stone Magazine, Trouser Press Magazine

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Listen to this track by hip hop messiah Lyrics Born. It's "Callin' Out", a party tune with something of an inwardly-looking point of view, unpinned by a groove inspired by 70s funk as much as from modern hip-hop. The track is taken...
Topics: Funk, Lyrics Born, music, R&B

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Little Richard's onstage style, his flamboyant manner, and his wild, androgynous appearance seemed to confirm everything conservative critics believed about rock 'n' roll - that it was a corrupting force, that it threatened the fabric of...
Topics: 50s music, Little Richard, music, R&B, Rhythm and Blues

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So, here are 10 Rolling Stones covers to surprise and amaze you. You'll notice that many of them are as far removed from what you might think as being songs written by Jagger and Richards, who have become less known for their incredible songwriting..
Topics: cover songs, cover versions, music, The Rolling Stones, top 10 lists, top ten songs

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