Music

Well Planeteers, I hope all of you enjoyed a nice Thanksgiving with family and friends. As you may be enjoying a little left over turkey think of family and friends and on a much larger scale, the family of...

Pick your favorite tunes that are about being welcome and welcoming others. Post songs about love, friendship, feeling good, family and togetherness. Have fun and don't forget to smile while you're at it.

After reading Ad Lib's very witty piece about Republican Academy Nominations for film, I thought this would be be a good time to have a music thread of theme songs and soundtracks from your favorite movies and television series. There is...

Welcome to the jungle, folks! Another weekend music thread has come our way. With all the events of the past few years, and the GOP still promoting social Darwinism, I can only conclude, that it's a jungle out there, and by "there," I mean right here in the good ole, bad ole U S of A!

Motown Records was formed in 1959 by Berry Gordy to give African Americans a record label where they could get the full artistic respect and freedom they deserved.  Motown Records not only started a great musical movement but accelerated...

American R&B/Jazz guitarist Cornell Dupree passed away last night at age 69. He began his career playing in the Atlantic Records studio band, recording on albums by Aretha Franklin and King Curtis as a member of Curtis's band "The King Pins". He has...

  So much for Truckageddon hey? Truckers need to keep on trucking and not cause highway gridlock. We the people have to keep on truckin in the right direction for all Americans. We need to keep moving forward and not...

Yesterday was the yearly celebration of love. Love between couples, and yet there is love in many forms. It's great that we set aside a special day honoring love, every year, but love should be honored every day of our lives and we as people should make that a point in our lives. We need to love the world itself, for in love, there is salvation. Only universal love will save our world.

Hey Planet folk! This weekend's music thread is about people and places and dreams. There are so many people in song, living in places all over the world, and all of them/us have our dreams.

It has been two weeks now since Japan was hit by its worst crisis in over sixty years. Though eastern and northern Honshu are still experiencing aftershocks on a daily basis, and new concerns about food and water contamination,...