It says a lot when a major independent record label is willing to re-issue two of the four albums your band put out in the eighties. It is not so surprising when that band is The Feelies. Formed in 1976 in Haledon, New Jersey, The Feelies went against the modern day trend of the punk and new wave movements by layering their guitars and self producing their music to their own taste. There was little to interfere with the music, and that was just the way they wanted it to be played and heard...

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009)^[2] was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. The seventh child of the Jackson Family, he debuted on the professional music scene at the age of 11 as a member of The Jackson 5 and began a solo career in 1971 while still a member of the group. Referred to as the "King of Pop" in subsequent years, five of his solo studio albums are among the world's best-selling records: Off the Wall (1979), Thriller (1982), Bad (19...

Imagine as the 1950s come to a close, the conservative and scrupulous Eisenhower decade giving way to the more injudicious 60s. Susie Homemaker is feeling a little pent up after a decade in the kitchen and a thousand or so fruit pies cooling on the window sill. The kids are at school, hubby is at work, and the bachelor who recently moved into the house at the end of the cul de sac is home mowing his front yard. It’s hot out today for a May afternoon; perhaps she oughta take him over a gla...

The 1960s was a turbulent decade for the country of Brazil, especially following the coup d’état against President João Goulart in 1964 which would thrust the country into a military dictatorship lasting until 1985. Needless to say, the Cold War was far-reaching. Still, typical of political upheaval and turmoil, social activism, like a flower through concrete, struggled to make itself seen and heard. After all, what is a country without its people?

The term Tropicália (or Tropacalismo) ...