If music plays as a source of emotion in film, this darkness and abyss of twisted mystery is best described through Atticus Ross and Trent Reznor’s score as the two show a great evolution from their previous work with David Fincher in “The Social Network” and “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.”
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The Hudsucker Celebrates One-Hit Wonder Day!
Happy One-Hit Wonder Day! Any way you look at it, the industry is cluttered with one-hit wonders, musicians who are known for only one single success. In honor of this day, our writers took part in a piece celebrating our generation’s greatest tracks and share their favorite one-hit wonders.
Michael Johns: Commemorating Our American Idol
The Hudsucker is a true testament to the power of dreams, dedication, and friendship. Our site owes a lot to the late, great, Michael Johns because of the influence he created and the bonds of friendship he shaped. To celebrate and honor his memory, our team shares with readers how this extremely kind, thoughtful and warmhearted soul impacted our lives in a piece commemorating his life.
The Revolution of Music: Celebrating 30 Years of Purple Rain
Prince has been one of the World’s most successful musicians for over a generation, as well, an enigmatic figure in today’s pop culture. From the slick perm of yesteryear to the blown out fro of today, Prince has continually found ways to reinvent himself without compromising his music or who he is – an icon. And if you had to choose one moment when his legendary status was born, you’d have to say it was the release of his album and movie, both titled Purple Rain in the summer of 1984.
The Best Buzz You’re Ever Gonna Find: Heating Up Summer with Luke Bryan
With weather forecasters predicting a scorcher this season, there’s no one better to join in on the much welcomed summer fun than country music sensation Luke Bryan, who is fast becoming one of the biggest country stars of our time.
Your 2014 Music Queens of the Summer
Today is the first official day of Summer, but in a lot of America, we’ve been feeling the heat for weeks already.
Certain Songs Get So Scratched Into Your Soul: An Intro to The Hold Steady
The Hold Steady is my favorite band. That said, they aren’t for everyone. Not one person in my life enjoys them, and my best friend tells me over and over that he “doesn’t get it.”
Album Review: Phillip Phillips Shines Bright from “Behind The Light”
Phillip Phillips has just released his sophomore effort, Behind the Light. The album’s title is derived from a lyric in “Alive Again” (“I see myself again / Behind the light I flicker”), which speaks to the notion of re-discovering yourself from the shadows, or in Phillip’s case, allowing fans to uncover a side of his musical identity that hasn’t been revealed before.
Album Review: Coldplay Haunts with “Ghost Stories”
“The idea of “Ghost Stories”, for me, was ‘how do you let the things that happen to you in the past—your ghosts—how do you let them affect your present and your future?’ Because there was a time when I was feeling like they were going to drag me down and ruin my life, and the lives of those around me,” Chris Martin tells BBC Radio 1.
American Idol XIII: Top 3 Performance Show, Three’s a Crowd, Two’s a Finale…
It’s hard to believe that we’re already just a few days away from the big Idol finale. Season 13 has been a wild ride filled with inconsistent, but generally good performances and inconsistent, but general good judging and, well… inconsistent, but generally good results and all of those things held true during our Top 3 […]
A Track-By-Track Review of Blake Lewis’s “Portrait of a Chameleon”
It’s hard for me to believe that it’s been seven years since Idol’s sixth season aired. I say that with a great deal of fondness because Season 6, for me, was where I really took notice of the show. It was where the show transitioned from one of old-school singers to new-school artists and one […]
Postmodern Jukebox: Creating an Alternate Universe of Pop Music
“My goal with Postmodern Jukebox is to get my audience to think of songs not as rigid, ephemeral objects, but like malleable globs of silly putty,” says Scott Bradlee, explaining the band that he now leads. Postmodern Jukebox has hit on YouTube in a big way, with over 447,000 subscribers and millions of video views. The […]
CBC Searchlight 2014: Is Keats Conlon Canada’s Best New Artist?
The CBC—Canada’s government funded public radio and television media giant – is determined to bring Canadian content to us, as Canadians and part of that task, for them at least, is digging through the Canada’s crop of aspiring talent to find a handful of people who deserve to be on the radio in their Searchlight 2014 […]
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