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Sound And Vision: Strange Bedfellows — The Best of Music's Unlikely Collaborations
posted: December 16, 2011
“I get high with a little help from my friends,” Ringo Starr sang on the Beatles‘ 1967 classic. These days, so do many of music’s top stars. Two’s company, and so is three and sometimes…
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Sound And Vision: Foster the People's Chart Challenge — Is There Life After "Pumped Up Kicks"?
posted: December 2, 2011
Foster the People just might be the pop anomaly of 2011. The trio of Los Angeles-based twentysomethings led by founder and namesake Mark Foster looks like a boy band (only cuter), plays instruments like rockers…
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Sound And Vision: Britney Spears At 30 — Where Does She Go From Here?
posted: November 25, 2011
It seems like just yesterday: She was invading the dreams of pedophiles and lusty teenage boys everywhere. But that was 1998, the year Britney Spears, then sixteen, broke with her No. 1 debut single, “…Baby…
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Sound And Vision: Why I'm Seriously Considering Boycotting Music Award Shows
posted: November 18, 2011
On November 9, Nashville celebrated itself (again!) with the Country Music Association (CMA) Awards. For the fourth consecutive year, the event was hosted by Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley, but the masters of ceremonies weren’t…
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Sound And Vision: Why Bieber Fever Can't Touch Beatlemania?
posted: November 11, 2011
Don’t believe everything you read. No matter what the media say”and for more than a year now, they’ve been declaring Justin Bieber as big as, if not bigger than, the Beatles”Bieber Fever is no match…
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Sound And Vision: How LMFAO, David Guetta and Lady Gaga Are Making Dance Music Cool (and Bankable) Again
posted: November 4, 2011
“She wants to party. She wants to get down. All she wants do to is, all she wants to do is dance.” So sang then-ex-Eagle Don Henley in 1985. Ironically, “All She Wants to Do…
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