owner of Kintou Media and King's Tower Productions; writer/director/producer/performer/illustrator/etc.
27 Aug 2021 5 minute read 0 comments jozefkrichards
What is "pop" and what is "alternative" fluctuates from era to era. Nonetheless, Foster the People might just be both anyways. By 2010, alternative rock was no longer simply the garage band itself, it was instead the app, Garage Band. Songs weren't j...
26 Aug 2021 6 minute read 2 comments jozefkrichards
A pioneer of electronic music and the Moog synthesizer, Mort Garson's eclectic discography is not the most widely known, but its influence is widely felt. He was among the first to push the technology of electronic music to its limits, creating rich...
25 Aug 2021 9 minute read 1 comment jozefkrichards
The loss of Tupac and Biggie to the hip hop industry in the late 90s left a massive chasm to be filled by rap's next superstar to-be. That superstar was Marshall Mathers, Eminem. Famously crass, he backed it up with raw talent and an incredible flow....
23 Aug 2021 7 minute read 0 comments jozefkrichards
At the height of their popularity and creative output, they were refused permits to perform in the United States. The Kinks would subsequently never reach the popularity of fellow British invaders like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and The Who, bu...
21 Aug 2021 9 minute read 4 comments jozefkrichards
Many people are funny and many have musical talent, but few have ever excelled so significantly at both, while pairing them together so masterfully, as "Weird Al" Yankovic has. His irreverence towards the sanctity of pop music and his silly lyrics su...
20 Aug 2021 6 minute read 2 comments jozefkrichards
Songwriters Roger Hodgson and Rick Davies' contrasting styles and backgrounds made Supertramp a band with both mainstream and technical appeal. Their albums featured pop hits alongside progressive rock anthems and the results were some of the 70s' mo...
18 Aug 2021 6 minute read 0 comments jozefkrichards
What started as Herb Alpert himself overdubbing self-recorded tracks in his garage alone became one of the most popular jazz bands of the 1960s, later comprised of a team of sessions musicians in LA, inspired by a mariachi band Alpert had witnessed i...
17 Aug 2021 6 minute read 0 comments jozefkrichards
Different strokes for different folks, and so went Sly and the Family Stone, breaking barriers in the 1960s as rock and roll's most diverse group, singing about peace, harmony, and togetherness. Their songs ranged from philosophical to political to p...
16 Aug 2021 7 minute read 0 comments jozefkrichards
With a lineup of Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, MC Ren, and DJ Yella, not since The Beatles had there been a more impressive assembly of yet-to-be all star musicians in a single group. N.W.A also did similar things for hip hop as The Beatles did for rock...
13 Aug 2021 5 minute read 0 comments jozefkrichards
The abundance of popular American and British English music acts makes it uncommon if not difficult to break into the charts while hailing from elsewhere, but fortunately for me it is a feat Röyksopp, an electronic music duo from Norway, accomplished...
