1962 –The Beach Boys album “Surfin’ Safari” was released. It was their first album release. 1964 – Vee Jay Records released the album “The Beatles Vs. The Four Seasons.” 1969 – “Abbey Road” by the Beatles was released in the U.S. It was released a week earlier in England. 1970 – Jimi Hendrix was buried in Seattle, WA. 1970 – Curtis […]
Ella Mai’s “Boo’d Up” ties for the longest-running No. 1 among songs by women on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart since the list’s inception in 1992. The single logs its 15th week in charge on the chart dated Sept. 29, matching the run of Mary J. Blige’s “Be Without You” from January – April 2006. “Boo’d” holds on […]
“Africa”, legendary song that won’t stop for anyone, newly covered by Weezer has unveiled a new video for their cover of the Toto hit. The visual, directed by Brendan Walter and Jade Ehlers, is a re-creation of the Weezer’s iconic video for their 1994 single “Undone (The Sweater Song)”, but this time around with “Weird Al” Yankovic starring as an accordion-playing Rivers Cuomo, […]
Andrew Hozier-Byrne (a.k.a. Hozier), the Irish songwriter, has recently stopped by the Corus studio to chat with Tom Schenck about what’s going on with him, and what’s to come in 2019. Hozier is celebrating the release of his third studio EP, Nina Cried Power, along with the commencement of a North American tour featuring several Canadian gigs. […]
Avril Lavigne has celebrated her birthday by releasing her first music video in over five years titled “Head Above Water” The singer, who just turned 34, released the emotional music video for the song on September 27th, 2018. The clip shows Lavigne visualizing her fight against Lyme disease. Vulnerable, yet indestructible. The “hardest battle I’ve ever […]
This week’s Artist 100 is out and musicians from every genre are a part of this one. We see a country act at the top, plenty of hip-hop and R&B artists spread throughout the top 10, and one very big rock act in between. Carrie Underwood is having a great year and she’s hit number […]
Twenty One Pilots is heading on tour later this year and just the other day they announced who would be performing along with them at each tour date. The tour begins October 16 from Nashville, Tennessee and will continue through March. Joining the band will be AWOLNATION and Max Frost, so we are officially super […]
Although Glenn Frey, founding member of The Eagles, is no longer with us, his music remains to remind each of us how talented he was. His career began as a struggling artist from Royal Oak, Michigan, who added background vocals to early Bob Seger songs and wrote songs with Jackson Browne in the early days. […]
If there was an award for the hardest working county star in the business, it might go to Kip Moore. Kip just finished his ‘Plead the Fifth Tour’ and has announced another for the fall. On the tour, Kip will give a handful of deserving rising artists the chance to open, as he’s invited special […]
The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely-Hearts Club Band album celebrated its 50th birthday last year and continues to be ranked as one of the greatest assortments of songs ever put on one LP. Last year PBS aired a BBC documentary called ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Musical Revolution,’ and not a month goes by we don’t read about an […]