Two 1970s hits by deceased female pop icons, plus an instant Indian classic, had emotions pouring at Sunday’s Oscars
(March 13, 2023). The 2023 Academy Awards (Sunday, March 12 in Los Angeles) will be remembered for many things happening in one place at approximately the same time (a corny…
The surprisingly low-key way Billboard covered Lynyrd Skynyrd’s 1977 plane crash (and how I never whiffed this 45-year-old ‘Smell’ of theirs until now!)
(March 7, 2023). Admittedly, I’m not a guy you’d see in line to catch the legendary southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd in concert. Something about a bunch of strung-out white…
Self-described rustic Morgan Wallen ‘thought you should know’… he’s beaten cancellation
(March 4, 2023). On Friday (Mar. 3), I listened to country superstar Morgan Wallen’s new album One Thing At A Time. As a music blogger who planned to cover this…
40th anniversary: A music and numbers geek’s delight happened in 1983 on the Billboard Hot Black Singles chart… here it is
(February 24, 2023). An absurdly odd statistical anomaly occurred on the Billboard soul chart (then called Hot Black Singles) in 1983 that only a numbers nerd or a chart geek…
Tribute: How De La Soul’s David Jolicoeur (1968-2023), aka Trugoy the Dove, aka Plug 2 was a part of hip-hop history in 1989
(February 22, 2023). When De La Soul’s “Plug 2,” David Jolicoeur (aka Trugoy the Dove) passed away unexpectedly on February 12, 2023 (at the age of 54), it was yet…