May 2021

When analyzing a song, there are words that, if understood, can help develop listening patterns. Listening grids throughout AAmerican popular music give examples of what to look for in specific songs, but not an overview of general…

Organizers made it official last week: The Citadel Country Spirit USA, Philadelphia's country music festival, is taking place this year and will take place August 27-29 at Ludwig's Corner Horse Show Grounds in Chester County.Billed as a…

For decades, Dolly Parton has been steadfast. The country music legend hasn't radically changed his vocal style or stage presence in years. Her fans don't even know what Parton looks like without makeup. Yet she remains popular…

Akai's MPC is an icon of electronic music, but while sound is achievable today, for style, you had to get in tune with your own retro wardrobe while hitting its familiar pads. Everything…

On May 7, 1946, Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded “Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo”, the company that would later become Sony. From its beginnings in the manufacture of tape recorders and transistor radios, it quickly developed into a myriad of…

Bernstein made the recording "Oedipus Rex" primarily so that he could use it to demonstrate some points from this latest Norton lecture on stylistic misalliances. He argued that in composing this version of ancient Greek tragedy - which…

Eleven-year-old Will Page sits on a Scottish beach, imploring his father, a math teacher, to teach him 'what economics means'. His father points to the water and asks him how a politician should tackle the increase in the number of…