Halloween is on a Wednesday this year, which means that all but the most dedicated creeps will be throwing their Halloween parties this weekend. And while it’s tempting to just put “Monster Mash” on repeat and wait for someone to call you out on it, you want your guests to stick around through the witching hour, right?
A 2013 article in The Atlantic asked a very good, non-rhetorical question: “Why is Sweden so good at pop music?” The fascinating article outlined some potential answers—prioritization of melodies, government support of artistic endeavors, a supportive community, embrace of cutting-edge technology and sounds—but missed…
De La Soul is one of the most culturally significant and musically influential hip-hop groups from the late ’80s and ’90s, but you wouldn’t know it from looking at the current digital realm of music that actually gets listened to. That’s because, by and large, De La Soul isn’t there. Thanks to a messy thicket of legal…
A couple of years ago, a strange blip appeared on the music-sales matrix. Jimmy Eat World’s “The Middle,” an infectious dollop of alt-rock ear candy that hit the radio like a sugar rush a decade and a half prior, was suddenly back in heavy rotation. There it was, sitting pretty at No. 16 on Billboard’s Hot Rock Songs…
When PSY’s “Gangnam Style” dropped in 2012, everything about it felt ephemeral. Funny enough to warrant attention yet unpredictable enough to sink its hooks, it lodged into the American psyche with the sensory magnetism of Beyoncé’s hand rotations in “Single Ladies.” With the globally accessible YouTube as its medium…
Punk bands love to cover pop songs. If there’s a universal thread running through the genre from practically the moment of its birth to the present, it’s the continual appropriating of sugary-sweet Top 40 hits with the avowed goal of speeding them up and adding distorted guitars. Whether you’re talking about Sid…
Power Hour creates one tight 60-minute set from a musician’s discography or a genre, picking both big hits and deeper cuts.
Power Hour creates one tight 60-minute set from a musician’s discography or a genre, picking both big hits and deeper cuts.
Power Hour creates one tight 60-minute set from a musician’s discography or a genre, picking both big hits and deeper cuts.
Power Hour creates one tight 60-minute set from a musician’s discography or a genre, picking both big hits and deeper cuts.
Power Hour creates one tight 60-minute set from a musician’s discography or a genre, picking both big hits and deeper cuts.
Power Hour distills musicians’ discographies down to one tight 60-minute set, picking the big hits and deeper cuts from across a career.
Liz Phair’s triumph and curse is that she made a classic album. Her first record, 1993’s Exile In Guyville, was a galvanizing response album to The Rolling Stones’ Exile On Main Street that continues to stand perfectly on its own today. It’s smart, explicit, spare, and unsparing—an indie rock classic. Then she had the…
Power Hour creates one tight 60-minute set from a musician’s discography or a genre, picking both big hits and deeper cuts.
Power Hour creates one tight 60-minute set from a musician’s discography or a genre, picking both big hits and deeper cuts.
Power Hour distills musicians’ discographies down to one tight 60-minute set, picking the big hits and deeper cuts from across a career, looking both to define who the artists are and to serve as a killer compilation.
Power Hour creates one tight 60-minute set from a musician’s discography or a genre, picking both big hits and deeper cuts.
Power Hour creates one tight 60-minute set from a musician’s discography or a genre, picking both big hits and deeper cuts.
Power Hour distills musicians’ discographies down to one tight 60-minute set, picking the big hits and deeper cuts from across a career.
Power Hour creates one tight 60-minute set from a musician’s discography or a genre, picking both big hits and deeper cuts.
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