Give me your music, your art, your huddled masses of words and rhythms yearning to breathe free.
Singer/songwriter Marvin Gaye was one of Motown’s greatest recording artists, releasing two groundbreaking concept albums in the early 1970s: “What’s Going On” and “Sexual Healing.” After seeing the soul man’s large collection of pornography, Rolling Stone critic David Ritz suggested that Gaye needed some “sexual healing.” This comment inspired the title of one of Marvin’s … Read more
Thirty-one years ago this week, Blondie’s “Rapture” became the first rap song to hit the number one spot on the Billboard chart, introducing a whole new audience of white Americans to a provocative musical genre emerging from black artists like Grandmaster Flash, Kurtis Blow and the Sugarhill Gang. A blonde on blonde chick rapping about … Read more