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With all the last-minute online shopping, wrapping, and decorating, you may not have had the chance to listen to all 100 Stingray Music holiday channels. To help you find the perfect festive soundtrack to every occasion, here is our Top 10 most popular Christmas music channels.
Grace Slick is one of the few rock artists who declared that they wouldn’t perform on stage past age 30—and stuck to it.
Before Frank Ocean, Trey Songz and Cee-Lo; before R. Kelly, Maxwell and Usher, and before Luther Vandross, Teddy Pendergrass, Harold Melvin and Al Green, there was Marvin Gaye. Sure, there were soulful balladeers before and with him (think Smokey, Otis and Stevie; Ray Charles and Donny Hathaway).
The weight of the passing of Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman may be unfelt to those without the passion for thrashin’. But for those with the passion, it is collectively understood that a metal legend is gone.
Think Paul McCartney’s a medical and musical phenomenon, performing at full-tilt, these days and nights, at age 71?
Summertime, and it’s easy, musically, to float over to the music of the Beach Boys, who were all about the California sun, about surfin’ and cruisin’ and being true to your school – except in summer, of course, when it’s time for fun, fun, fun.
In the early 2000’s, I had two occasions to attend South by Southwest, the music conferences that takes place in—and takes over—Austin every year. I was on a panel one year, then did an onstage interview with The Band’s Robbie Robertson a year or two later.
To play the Hollywood Bowl. For any musician, that has to be a career highlight. The Doors performed in that revered venue in 1968, and Ray Manzarek, in his interview for Qello Concerts, articulated the import of such an occasion.
I have a friend who likes Paul Simon. Check that. “I LOVE Paul Simon!” she’ll exclaim whenever we talk about music.
Simon was the genius half of Simon and Garfunkel. He wrote all those great songs, helped arrange them, and sang half of them. And it was Paul, not Art, who went on to a prolific solo career.