Insight Daily Radio (ID Radio) is a five-part, two-minute series that is distributed to public radio and commercial radio stations nationally. This latest innovation from OSN highlights various authors, musicians, […]
In 1977 Donna Summer released a single that changed the sound of dance music forever. It abandoned disco’s funky roots in favor of a driving electronic pulse. Summer’s voice and […]
The soundtrack of the holidays is lousy with annoying songs about sleigh rides and snowmen, and beautiful old carols done up as treacly as possible. One of the saving graces […]
The year 1967 saw the release of two psychedelic pop masterpieces — one globally famous (the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper), the other nearly forgotten: Forever Changes, by Love. Sometimes referred to […]
When the producers of The Descendants – starring George Clooney as an unsavory landowner trying to mend relationships with his children – wanted an authentic Hawaiian sound, they turned to […]
The Sons of the Pioneers pioneered one of the strangest branches of American music: singing cowboys. Their 1934 song “Tumbling Tumbleweeds,” made popular by a Gene Autry film of the […]
The New Orleans piano player Henry Roeland Byrd made a name for himself as Professor Longhair, a former street hustler turned self-taught musician who started recording in his early 30s. […]
A few months ago, the Republican candidate Jon Huntsman tweeted: “I wonder if a tweet where I admit how much I like Captain Beefheart will make the followers skyrocket even […]