Tag: music

By Keith RichardsDuring the time of the COVID-19 shelter-in-place, I found myself doing things I usually don’t. For example, I was always tagged on Facebook in those “Ten days, ten ...

By Keith Richards twitter.com/sensesfail “Emo is not a phase.  It’s a lifestyle.”  That’s the motto I’ve lived by since I was a teenager.  Emo music has defined and shaped my ...

By: Joe Cardoso The year was 2007 and at the time I was a manager at a restaurant you may have heard of called Outback Steakhouse in Bowie, Maryland. One ...

By: Joe Cardoso When the early pioneers of this thing we know and love called hip-hop started out I wonder if they ever thought it would result in a house ...

By: Steve Rogers Hip-Hop The Early Years Hip-Hop was unofficially born on August 11, 1973.  Where DJ Kool Herc and Coke La Rock hosted a "House" party in an apartment ...

By: Joe Cardoso  We celebrate hip hop this year as the amazing music genre turns the big 5-0. Throughout those 50 years, we have had hit songs and entire albums ...

By Keith RichardsBack in December 2001, an idea was born. Two men, Ben Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie) and Jimmy Tamborello (Dntel) began a musical collaboration. Over the next year, ...

By: Brock Vierra My musical taste stems from whatever was playing on 104.3FM in Hawaii and thus my favorite genre of music is rap/ hip-hop. Not trying to sound like ...

By: Greg Rector Christmas music set lists were pretty much locked in with standards that had been around for decades in 1984. We would sing along to "Silver Bells" "Rudolph ...

Luther Vandross - (Born) April 20, 1951 - (Die) July 1, 2005).