You may be aware of a podcast that came out in the spring of 2020 that sought to get to the bottom of a certain musical mystery. Wind of Change explores the possibility that a
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If you’re listening to me on an FM radio, you’re listening in stereo. But FM wasn’t the first type of stereo broadcast. The first broadcast was made with AM radio back in 1925
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The fact that we listen to virtually all our music in stereo these days goes back to a guy named Sidney Frey, the founder and president of a company called Westrex. Westrex made
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Whether it be FM radio, a CD or an MP3, just about all the music we hear today is in stereo. That means there are slight differences between what comes out of the
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Last time, we looked at the origins of the phrase “to rock”–as in “That really rocks.” In the beginning–a hundred years ago–that expression was used by black jazz and R&B performers. Then it
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Here’s a little grammar lesson regarding all the forms of the verb “rock.” You know, “He rocks!” “That song rocks!”–that kind of thing. The usage of the word “rock” in this way can
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If you are a professional musician—that is, you’re being paid to write and perform music and can actually make a living from it—you’re a part of an infinitesimal quintile of people who are
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Here’s a trivia question: who was the lead singer of Oasis before Liam Gallagher came along? It was a guy named Chris Hutton. Before there was an Oasis, there was a group from
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Before Nirvana unexpectedly hit it big with Nevermind in the fall of 1991, everyone in the band was living way below the poverty line. If they weren’t living out of a broken down
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It’s hard to overestimate the impact The Beatles had on not just music but society. That includes fashion. The Beatles had an effect on everything from the length of hair on men, to
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From the day they were formed in 1974, Devo sought to subvert the norms of the music industry in whatever way they could. Even after the band stopped working regularly, its members refused
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