Music Monday

Music and fashion have influenced each other for eons, and even more so since MTV (when it was Music Television) turned culture on its head. Music Monday, formerly Le lundi musique (pronounced Leh-loon-dee-muse-eek in French), explores this relationship and their influence upon us.

Music Monday: Black History Month

4 February 2013

For those who might be unaware, February is Black History Month, which is also observed in Canada at this time, while the United Kingdom celebrates the month in October. What began in 1926 as “Negro History Week” by American historian Carter G. Woodson would come to expand into an entire month by 1976, allowing for [...]

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Music Monday: End of January 2013 Edition

28 January 2013

By Friday, we’ll all be saying hello to February 2013, celebrating Black History Month, Valentine’s Day, and the Year of the Snake. But before we do, we’ve got one last Music Monday for this month to enjoy. Bet you missed Lemmy’s bass, huh? Anyway, I’m throwing the controls into shuffle play, so let’s see what [...]

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Music Monday: The Second Inauguration of President Barack Obama

21 January 2013

It happens every four years. Thousands gather together at the nation’s capital to welcome in the new President of the United States, even if he (so far) is just returning for a second and final term in office. Beginning at 10:30 EST, the second inauguration of President Barack Obama will commence, kicking off a final [...]

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Music Monday: 85th Academy Awards Preview

14 January 2013

We are in the midst of awards season, where outstandingly beautiful/hideous fashions take to the red carpet runway, and nominees in television and film take home all sorts of globes, angels, crystals and the like. Of course, you don’t need to be a producer, a director or an actor to walk away with an award; [...]

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Music Monday: The Class of 1993

7 January 2013

Twenty years ago, President Bill Clinton began his first term as President of the United States, ground was broken for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the World Trade Center was bombed, NAFTA is signed, and a number of major and minor albums were released. BuzzFeed chose 29 albums released in 1993 that will [...]

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Music Monday – New Year’s Eve 2012 Edition

24 December 2012

When you turn up at Times Square next Monday to bid farewell to 2012, or watch the happenings on your local ABC affiliate from your own New Year’s Eve party, you might notice that someone will be missing from the festivities, someone who made every new year the best one yet. Alas, he is no [...]

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Five Songs for the End of the World – Mayan 2012 Apocalypse Edition

20 December 2012

How many of you are seeking out “the end” right now? You know, the end of the world as “foretold” by an ancient Mesoamerican civilization hundreds of years ago… in a book written in 2006? Be honest now. Keep looking; you’ll find it someday. For those of you whose name is not Jack Van Impe, [...]

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Music Monday – 17 December 2012 Edition

17 December 2012

This was going to be a playlist for the (alleged) Mayan Calendar apocalypse due to occur this coming Friday. It would have been loud and very metal, because metal is the only appropriate soundtrack to an apocalypse, not aging rockers serenading Bruce Willis as he goes off to space to blow up an asteroid. This [...]

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Music Monday – Christmas 2012 Edition

10 December 2012

The stockings are being hung over the mantle, the trees are aglow with blinking lights and tinsel, the presents are slowly building up… it must mean it’s Christmas time again! This week’s edition of Music Monday is all Christmas music, all of the time. But fear not, my dears, for this playlist isn’t the usual [...]

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Music Monday – 3 December 2012 Edition

3 December 2012

With only 28 days until the end of 2012 — or 18 days, depending on whose calendar you use — you might be hunting for the right music to ring in the new year. Might suggest a throwback to the 1980s? This edition of Music Monday is devoted to the sort of electronic music first [...]

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