Lyricapsule: Bob Dylan is Born; May 24, 1941
Robert Allen Zimmerman, the name his parents gave him, was born in Duluth, MN on this day in 1941. At some point en route to his iconic status he changed his name to Bob Dylan, [...]
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Lyricapsule: Bonnie & Clyde Gunned Down; May 23, 1934
Out on a rural Louisiana road on this day in 1934, two of the “public enemy” era’s most infamous celebrities, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, were gunned down by a quartet of Texas officers, ending [...]
Lyricapsule: Neil Young Records ‘Ohio’ With CSNY; May 21, 1970
Neil Young went into the studio on this day in 1970 with David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash, 17 days after four unarmed, peacefully protesting students at Kent State University were shot and killed [...]
RIFF’d: Daft Punk’s ‘Random Access Memories’
On their fourth opus – their first since 2005′s Human After All – basically, the iconic French house synth robo impregnators made 2001: A Space Odyssey for disco children of the early 80s. There’s no [...]
The Best Lyric Vids of the Week: Volume XX
Mid-century b-roll footage, videogame promos, sunburnt sketchbook journeys and more as we encounter another week of new ways to drop a verse and song on your eyeballs in live real text time. Watch out for [...]
Lyricapsule: The Beach Boys Drop ‘Pet Sounds’; May 16, 1966
One of the defining albums of the progression of rock, The Beach Boys‘ Pet Sounds dropped today in 1966, all at once signifying mastermind Brian Wilson’s decent into his own mind hell whilst raising the orchestral bar for [...]
Lyricapsule: Lewis & Clark Head West; May 14, 1804
Lewis & Clark took off from St. Louis on this day in 1804, embarking on the head-west journey of all journeys west to study, catalogue and map unknown ‘murrica. ‘Dudes put the Rocky Mountains on [...]
Lyricapsule: Battle of the Sexes; May 13, 1973
The first of three chest-puffing tennis matches that became one of the main veins leading to the heart of second-wave feminism began on this day in 1973, coincidentally on Mother’s Day. Dubbed the Battle of [...]
The Best Lyric Vids of the Week: Volume XIX
Indie ivy leaguers make the champagne pop and lyrics ding-a-ling, Matisyahu shoots the pop moon, Aesop Rock melts comic-sprawled brains with a rubik’s cube boardgame maze and more in week week the 19th in the year’s [...]
The Lyricist: Erin McKeown
Ivy leaguer, folk pop chameleon, musical author, new media guru, with an increasing amount of toes being dipped into activism, Erin McKeown‘s lyrical inkwell often runneth over. So goes the reason why the veteran multi-instrumentalist [...]
