Top Scores #19: Manchester By The Sea & Lesley Barber
Manchester by the Sea is a critically acclaimed American drama film released in 2016. You probably heard about it since it took by storm most of the awards shows of that year, even taking...
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Origin of Genres: Do The Reggay
In 1968 The Maytals released the song “Do The Reggay” and it became the first popular song to use the term reggae. It helped define the emerging genre by naming it.
Top Scores #18: Requiem for a Dream & Clint Mansell
If you are a film enthusiast you will have surely seen Requiem for a Dream, the 2000 American drama directed by Darren Aronofsky. The film stars Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, and Marlon...
Origin of Genres: Salsa Music
In this edition of our “Origin of Genres”, we talk about the history of the Latin music style: salsa music. When you are talking to any Latin music enthusiast, salsa music will inevitably get...
Top Scores #17: American Beauty & Thomas Newman
In case you didn’t know already, American Beauty is a 1999 American drama film directed by Sam Mendes. It was considered to be the best film of the year and is a prevalent piece...
Origin of Genres: Soca- SOul of CAlypso
Soca was born in the Caribbean island of Trinidad and Tobago in the early 1970s as an effort to revive calypso, a traditional form of Afro-Caribbean music, that had been losing popularity amongst younger...
Top Scores #16: The Godfather & Nino Rota
If you are even the slightest bit interested in pop culture then you’ve almost certainly seen or at least heard of the 1972 American crime film The Godfather – a classic gangster film often...
Origin of Genres: Gospel blues and Thomas A. Dorsay
When we hear the words ‘gospel music’ it is easy to imagine powerful choruses filled with booming and uplifting voices, mixed with the rhythms of jazz and blues. Although gospel music has been around...
Origins of genres: Free Jazz
It’s time for another instalment of Origins Of Genres! This week we are diving into the roots of Free Jazz.
Huawei invites you to #SeeMooore stunning photography with its new Leica smartphone and a cult 1964 song
Chinese telecom Huawei has just launched its new P20 and P20Pro smartphones, with a visually striking campaign film which will appeal to those with a keen photography eye.