Wading Across Genres
“Wade in the Water” has effortlessly crossed genre boundaries throughout nearly a century and a half of popular music.
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16 Tons of Talent
Tennessee Ernie Ford never lugged coal or picked peas, but his voice resonated with America’s working class.
There’s Always Room For Giallo
A glimpse at the ghastly world of the giallo, and the musicians most closely associated with it.
Tin Pan Alley’s First Pop Hit
What was America’s first pop hit?
Revenge Among the Tikis
Bad blood can flow like lava in an island paradise.
Of Gremmies, Dunes and Shootin’ Beavers
Learn how rock n’ roll found its muse on the beach in the early 1960s.
Girdling the Globe with Manu Chao
Manu Chao has expanded the world of pop music by helping shrink the globe.
X and the Punk Rock Daikaiju
X stood out amidst the west coast punk rockers of the late 1970s.
The Musical World of Lt. Europe
Lt. James Reese Europe helped invent jazz, developed the fox trot and fought for his country in the trenches of France.
The Sons of Jocko Homo
“De-evolution” was a notion that germinated at the site of a shameful American tragedy, then was kindled by an obscure Christian pamphlet, forged in the crazed writings of a racist German monk and that gave its name to Devo.
