While New York City’s holiday season is best known for its twinkling lights and the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, the ...
The bike bus concept is gaining in popularity, and Portland is now home to about 25 bike buses. This is largely thanks to Sam ...
Licensed music isn’t always used with much thought in video games but sometimes songs fit so well with a game that the two become inseparable in fans’ minds. I was thinking about songs in games. Music ...
He’s not in a “New York State of Mind.” Zohran Mamdani didn’t recognize Billy Joel’s beloved 1976 rock tribute to the Big Apple during a quiz about famous New York City tunes. Mamdani was stumped by ...
Can you name the original artists of these famous songs? When an artist performs a song written by someone else, it’s usually just because they like the song in question. Either that or the producer ...
A look at the most skipped songs from 40 of classic rock's most famous albums makes one thing crystal clear: The music world is dominated by individual songs now. Streaming services such as Spotify ...
People are responding to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza in many ways. Earlier this month, a fundraising album of songs for Gaza was released in Yiddish, a language nearly eradicated through genocide.
It doesn't matter how old you are or where you grew up, there's a few dozen country songs you just need to know to consider yourself a fan of country music. These 38 songs are timeless. If the radio ...
Before Charli XCX was recording songs on her own, she was writing for other people. Charli offered her track “Boom Clap” to Hilary Duff, but her team rejected it, and the Brit sang it instead. The ...
Yiddish is the language of the Jews of Eastern Europe and all the places to which they spread. It is the language of socialists and capitalists, the Partisans who fought the Nazis and most of the ...
This essay has been adapted from a chapter in Henry H. Sapoznik’s new book The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City (Excelsior Editions, an imprint of State University of New York Press). One ...
“Lider mit Palestine” draws on Jewish music traditions to express solidarity with the Palestinians and opposition to the war. Yiddish is the language of the Jews of Eastern Europe and all the places ...