Search results
Popular music. This article is an overview of the major events and trends in popular music in the 2000s . In American culture, various styles of the late 20th century remained popular, such as rock, pop, metal, hip hop, R&B, EDM, country and indie. As the technology of computers and internet sharing developed, a variety of those genres started ...
Nov 9, 2009 · In Memoriam: Musicians We Lost, 2000-2009. December 31, 2009 • The music world lost many greats in the past decade, including artists who shaped the sounds of rock 'n' roll, soul, pop and ...
Dec 7, 2009 · The definitive list of hits, 10 years in the making. The 20 stars who shined brighter than all the rest. Hear the 200 albums that ruled the charts this decade. Meet the 25 road warriors that ...
Apr 6, 2024 · The 2000s saw artists like M.I.A., whose eclectic style of music broke international barriers, and Rihanna became a global icon. Your musical landscape expanded, and soon, you were streaming songs from the other side of the world and watching live news broadcasts of global music events. Music Awards and Critical Acclaim
- Damian Marley, ‘Welcome to Jamrock’ The biggest hit by Bob Marley's youngest son concerns the distance between Jamaica's legend and legacy (echoed by the song's scratchy Eighties-era groove) and its violent reality.
- Gorillaz, ‘Feel Good Inc.’ Somehow the Gorillaz needed a cartoon band to smuggle this seamless merger of Damon Albarn's melancholy Britpop and De La Soul's head-bobbing hip-hop into the mainstream.
- Amy Winehouse, ‘Back to Black’ The melodrama was vintage Sixties girl-group-style, with gorgeous Spectorian wall of sound production by Mark Ronson. The sensibility was a bit more up-to-date.
- Fleet Foxes, ‘White Winter Hymnal’ A single brief verse (repeated three times) about a snowy epiphany, some exquisite close harmonies, wordless falsetto doubled by understated surf guitar.
Dec 9, 2009 · RS looks back at the decade of lost chances, counting down the best albums and songs of the 2000s, as voted by a panel of experts including artists like Coldplay, Metallica and Lil Wayne, critics ...
October 1. Robert Allen (73), American pianist and composer (b. 1928) Cub Koda (51), singer, guitarist and songwriter ( Brownsville Station) October 3 – Benjamin Orr (53), bassist, vocalist of The Cars. October 17 – Joachim Nielsen (36), Norwegian rock singer in Jokke & Valentinerne.
