2024 celebrates the 40 year anniversary of what the music industry and many music critics call the best year in popular music history. The King of Pop, The Boss, a Prince, the Material Girl, an Innocent Man, and many other unusual stars made th...

One-hit wonders.  It’s a phrase used in many areas of life, but is usually most associated with popular music.  It refers to the artist that has one moment in the spotlight and then fades away as quickly as they arrived.  It c...

50 years ago, the streets of New York City were flooded with a new sound... Dance beats spun on turntables by a DJ. Spoken words delivered by a Master of Ceremony. Extended breaks causing listeners to move in ways never seen on a dance floor...

In the second half of the 1970s and first half of the 1980s, there was a genre of music that featured elements of smooth vocals and harmonic structure, jazz and a relaxed but distinct groove that was dominating the radio airwaves.  Craz...

The second half of the 1970s was dominated by a style of music with pulsing beats, cool bass riffs, funk guitar, elaborate keyboard and string parts, courageous horn lines, iconic vocals and dance moves that still live on today. We remember ...

In the 1990s, the music scene was dominated by grunge and alternative rock, hip hop and R&B, dance music, and at the end of the decade, boy and girl bands and Latin pop.   There was also another kind of music that began dominating t...

Taylor Swift recently became the first artist to lock down the top ten hits in one week. All the songs, including "Anti-Hero," (which is still in the Top 10) were from her album “Midnights”.  Eric has been a chart follower forty ye...

In this episode of Pop Life, we’ll talk about how sampling began, its role in hip-hop and beyond, and the technology and legalities that allow it to happen.

In this episode we discuss a song that back in 1985, we had no idea we’d still be talking about 37 years later...and it’s impossible to ignore! It’s on one of television’s most popular shows, getting plays on the radio hundreds of times a we...