When Kool & The Gang topped the charts with “Celebrate” in 1980, they were at the peak of their success, but as far as I was concerned, they were long past their prime. To many, that prime happened seven years earlier with the 1973 album, Wild And Peaceful and its clutch of super funky singles. […]
3D Breaks
I’m your Uncle Marty, this is episode 527 of The Award Winning 3D RadioActivity, as we look into shatterproof melodies that tap the metaphorical BREAKS in music. 😎 Download here:https://archive.org/download/The3dRadioactivity/3dradio_20200322-3DBreaks.mp3 or click to listen: We’ve been taking a musical BREAK this time, and we hope for a BREAKDOWN next time, if we’re not quarantined yet; if so, we have a great selection of STAY […]
Song Of The Day – “Clique” by GOOD Music featuring Kanye West, Jay-Z and Big Sean
Kanye West is a mutha-fucken’ “G” – that’s not “G” as in Gangsta, by the way, that’s “G” as in GENIUS. Think what you may about Kanye’s antics, and he’s always full of surprises, but you can’t touch him when it comes to creating some of the greatest Hip Hop records…ever! Truth be told, the […]
RadioActive W8
I’m your Uncle Marty, this is The Award Winning 3D RadioActivity‘s 526th voyage to the tympanic cavity and ossicles. While tones have no physical mass, they do exhibit melodic and lyrical properties. On this feature, we will relate to the force acting on an object, either due to gravity or to a reaction that holds it in place. […]
Song Of The Day – “Our Man Higgins” by Lee Morgan
When an edited version of trumpeter Lee Morgan’s signature song, “The Sidewinder” was released as a single in 1964, it became the song that resuscitated Blue Note Records, literally saving the company from bankruptcy. As a result, Blue Note hounded Morgan to come up with another song that could do the trick again. The soul-jazz […]
3D W8
I’m Uncle Marty, this is The Award Winning 3D RadioActivity, number 525, and on this chapter our featured focus is one of lingering expectations, as some can, or can’t, will or won’t for a while or a day to come, as like last week, you are not alone, as I will personally going to WAIT with you. 😎 Download here:https://archive.org/download/The3dRadioactivity/3dradio_20200308-3DW8.mp3 or […]
Song Of The Day – “Champagne Coast” by Blood Orange
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in July 2013 There’s really nothing truly new and original going on in new music today, and the adage “everything old is new again” was truly on full display throughout the three-day Pitchfork Music Festival. Several threads can be drawn through the music presented at Pitchfork this past weekend, […]
Song Of The Day – “Hidden Place” by Bjork
Editor’s note: This article appeared originally in July 2013 With the impending threat of massive thunderstorms due to lower the temperature from 97 to the low 80s, my fourth Pitchfork Music Festival got off today with three great sets by Mac Demarco, the legendary industrial punk band Wire and the main reason to go to […]
Song Of The Day – “The Facts Of Life” by Talking Heads
By 1988, Talking Heads were restless and running out of fuel. The band members were somewhat fed up with each other, and were not happy with the conventional pop direction that their previous two albums took them in. For their final album called Naked, the group worked with producer Steve Lillywhite and decamped to France […]
Song Of The Day – “The Horse” by Cliff Nobles & Co.
Cliff Nobles was a gospel singer from Alabama who relocated to Philadelphia to break into the recording industry. He was quickly signed to Atlantic records where he recorded three singles: “My Love Is Getting Stronger,” “Let’s Have A Good Time” and “Your Love Is All I Need” that failed to find any action on the […]
