Years before shows like "Mamma Mia!," "Jersey Boys" and "Motown" demonstrated the power of pop music on Broadway, a small production devoted to the songs of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller became the ...
The '60s was a time of social, political, and cultural change in America, and music provided a constant soundtrack to change. It was the dawn of a new age - filled with long hair, bell-bottoms, tie ...
Top: The Beatles, 1964. Bottom left: Diana Ross, 1967. Middle: Bob Dylan, 1963. Photo illustration by James Emmerman. Photos courtesy of (top) Getty Images and (bottom and middle) Wikimedia Commons ...
When the lights go down at Pittsburgh Allderdice High School and the music starts, James Rankin hopes to hit all the right notes from his place in the orchestra pit. “There’s something magical about ...
Adam P. Newton recently became a father for the first time, so he has decided to explain the entirety of post-WWII Western pop music to his new daughter, “Fig”…one genre at a time. Onward through the ...
Every era of music has its own recognizable sounds, from the tightly orchestrated pop and swampy psych rock of the ’60s to the plush disco and winsome adult contemporary songs of the ’70s, the brazen ...
What was the greatest decade in pop music? Well, we think that’s easily the ’60s. Motown, the Beatles, and psychedelic rock, are all game-changing moments in popular music. But the greatest single ...
In an interview for Variety's Music for Screens conference, Wright talked about his exceptional year in music-based movies, from the 'Sparks Brothers' documentary to a thriller soundtracked with ...