If you thought that 2024 was a big year for social platforms pushing AI elements into their apps, you ain’t seen nothing yet, with Meta looking to bring even more AI to your feeds over the next year. How is it going to do that? Well, aside from injecting AIContinue Reading
There was a lot of incredible music that came out this past year, with most of it stemming from the pop world. Beyoncé, Charli XCX, and Kendrick Lamar were just some of the big names on our ‘best’ list. Watch the full video to see who else was named andContinue Reading
Logo text After a pandemic boom and a post-pandemic bust, the comic book and graphic novel industry came roaring back in 2024. Many of the biggest and best books from the Big Two (aka Marvel and DC) were re-imaginings and mash-ups of their best known heroes. Spider-Man, but married withContinue Reading
“We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.” Edgy and direct, this Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn line from the 1980 film The Blues Brothers is a fitting eulogy for the legendary bassist, who passed away on May 13 2012. Born in 1941, Dunn put the music ofContinue Reading
Woodland, the new album by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, takes its name from Woodland Sound Studios in East Nashville, a place with deep significance to the duo. Back in the ’70s, Woodland hosted sessions for albums like the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s Will the Circle Be Unbroken and NeilContinue Reading
Photo Credit: Christmas Melodies YouTube Channel Families seeking Christmas background music on YouTube during the holidays instead found AI-generated mash-up carols. The effect is subtle, since these Christmas compilations often start with a song that is only slightly altered before devolving into Christmas chaos. The YouTube compilation ‘Best of 1950sContinue Reading
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2024 Year in Review: As if witnessing Gojira’s extreme-metal take on French revolution anthem Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça Ira) at the Olympics with opera singer Marina Viotti wasn’t extraordinary enough, eagle-eyed fans were quick to spot something peculiar in singer/guitarist Joe Duplantier’s hands. Instead of his signature T-style San DimasContinue Reading
When you’ve got Rhonda Smith’s killer combination of Larry Graham-like funk chops, a full-on fusion background, the ability to play just about any kind of bass instrument imaginable, and sheer stage energy, word gets around. For more than a decade, Smith was on call with Prince, but during the PurpleContinue Reading
2024 Year in Review: Though King Crimson, the highly influential English progressive rock band, are spoken of in the past tense these days, founder Robert Fripp ended up giving his blessing to latter member Adrian Belew for a semi-official celebration of his time in the band. Exploring the music heardContinue Reading
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