music history

songs that soundtracked the AIDS crisis: sinéad o’connor’s “nothing compares to you”

is she a skinhead or is she not? why is she bald? why is she all about? these were the…

The first time I heard the euro-pop sensation Aqua’s Barbie Girl was in the summer of 1997, at a party…

By 1991, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had spent over $7,000,000 on mass media public service announcements…

When I pressed play on Menudo: Forever Young on HBO Max , the new docu-series on the iconic Puerto Rican…

One could talk for hours about the cultural significance of an album like The Velvet Rope: the way its composition and…

“So many men, so little timeHow can I choose,So many men, so little timeHow can I choose” On March 14,…

olivia, i honestly love you. i remember the stereo with the big knob and bright neon dial. every morning i…

standing at over six feet tall, kevin aviance annihilated social expectations of gender expression all while conquering ballroom and dance…

What would you do, if you knew that many of the songs that captivated older millennials and Gen Yers were…

in the early 1990s, there was no shortage of dance groups from new york garnering national notoriety at both the…

if you are up at this time like i am it is probably because you have been dancing in the…

freestyle music has direct ties to the early rise of hip-hop. like hip-hop, the freestyle genre was led by creative…