For many, the commercial breakthrough of emo-pop of the mid-00s was all about the bombast of My Chemical Romance, the wordplay of Fall Out Boy and the theatre of Panic! At the Disco. But fifteen years later, Paramore are the band whose impact is the most visible. Singer Hayley Williams’ […]
PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: http://to.pbs.org/DonateSoundField ↓ More info below ↓ Bomba is an ancient genre of resistance from Puerto Rico created by enslaved people on the island over 400 years ago. Recently, bomba music has been a staple of […]
Trip Hop’s popularization can be traced to Margaret Thatcher. In the early 1990s, she was responsible for the chance meeting of two individuals who would form Portishead, which took the unlikely sub-genre worldwide. Join me as I dig into the album story of Portishead and their debut LP “Dummy.” CHAPTERS: […]
Emo is tough to define. As Andy Greenwald wrote in Nothing Feels Good: “Emo means different things to different people. Actually that’s a massive understatement. Emo seems solely to mean different things to different people.” For the most part it’s more of an insult than a genre, and because of […]
How is it possible for great songwriters like Paul McCartney and Brian Wilson to write some of the greatest songs of all time in only 30 minutes or less? It’s much more common than you think, and many great songwriters have experienced this process of writing some of their best […]
PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: http://to.pbs.org/DonateSoundField ↓ More info below ↓ Jersey club is a style of dance music created by Black DJs from New Jersey. Recently, this sound has gone viral online across YouTube, Instagram, and Tik Tok. The […]
Weezer’s first self-titled album, more commonly known as “The Blue Album” was released 30 years ago. Today, I’m looking back at the first single, “Undone – The Sweater Song” and the hidden tragedy within. In many ways, the thematic elements within this song are carried out through the album, and […]
The 1970s was a significant decade for Christmas songs. There’s the glam rock monoliths, the novelty songs, songs by singer-songwriters and prog rock artists, disco songs, and even two songs from former Beatles of drastically varying quality. But one 70s associated genre that didn’t make many Christmas songs is punk. […]
Founded in 2003, MySpace forever changed how music was promoted. For the first time, artists had a way of sharing their music online with a direct link to their fans. It led to an explosion of creativity and major label deals, with artists going from nobodies to pop stars seemingly […]
PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: http://to.pbs.org/DonateSoundField ↓ More info below ↓ The brilliance of Nigeria’s Fela Kuti and the innovation of Afrobeat are synonymous with activism, dance, and the representation of beauty within African culture. Please SUBSCRIBE! ►► https://tinyurl.com/SoundFieldPBS Fela […]
