As Ben­jamin Franklin once said, “genius with­out edu­ca­tion is like sil­ver in the mine.” Although it is wide­ly known that a good edu­ca­tion is the build­ing block to suc­cess, in the near future it may become increas­ing­ly dif­fi­cult to…

“Peace Frog” is a song by the psy­che­del­ic rock band The Doors.  It was fea­tured on the band’s 1970 album “Mor­ri­son Hotel.”  This song, along with the whole album, rein­vent­ed The Doors into,  “the great­est bar band ever,” said Jerry…

If you like Bon Iver, men with beards and a pen­chant from sus­penders or a com­bi­na­tion of folk and medieval har­monies, Seat­tle band Fleet Fox­es will be right up your alley. While sim­i­lar acts, like Bon Iver and Mum­ford and…

This is a long post so don’t feel oblig­at­ed to read it. This post is an expla­na­tion of why I find great val­ue in the song I chose. Aubrey “Drake” Gra­ham admired musi­cal tal­ent Jay‑Z for over a decade before finally…

“When the World Ends” is a song by Dave Matthews Band, a group led by Dave Matthews, a South African-born alter­na­tive rock musi­cian who rose to fame in the 1990s. It first appeared on “Every­day,” a 2001 album by the…

Author’s note: Before you ask, “Haku­na Mata­ta” is not in fact my “offi­cial favorite song.” I got tried of search­ing for a rap song worth choos­ing that didn’t include any pro­fan­i­ty (which I was told was dis­cour­aged), so I decid­ed to…

Dean Mar­tin was in all aspects of the word, a leg­end. Mar­t­in’s music was sat­u­rat­ed with sen­su­al­i­ty and had a tone in every note that could­n’t help but bring about a roman­tic, night­time feel­ing. Elvis Pres­ley had idled him, and Stevie…

Bon Iver is an indie-rock band led by the vocals of Justin Ver­non, a tal­ent­ed yet hum­ble artist orig­i­nal­ly from Eau Claire, Wis­con­sin. Accord­ing to an arti­cle by the New York Times, Bon Iver became a well-known group thanks to…