I'm a big fan of emcees who do great concert intros. That's what this week's recorded show is all about. We start with what is perhaps the greatest of them all: James Brown at the Apollo Theater in ...

As synonymous with the Borderlands series as its trillions of guns, masked psychos, and dodgy vehicle controls are its iconic musical intro cinematics. Serving to acquaint us with four new Vault ...

Television show title sequences are often overlooked, and even more often skipped these days, but there's real power in those few opening moments. The right amalgamation of sight and sound and music ...

Rarely is a song introduced by a drum, yet some of popular music's most memorable tracks do, in fact, open with a drumbeat. By letting the drummer lead the way, artists and bands can elevate their ...

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A new study reveals that songs are getting shorter to accommodate people's diminishing attention spans, and music streaming services such as Spotify and Pandora may be to blame. I'm PCMag's managing ...

Stone Cold Steve Austin’s shattering glass, The Rock screaming “If you smell…”, and the pomp and circumstance of the late Macho Man Randy Savage’s entrance themes helped make each of those three ...

As the world burns, it becomes easier to find joy in more innocuous moments. A niche literary dispute about a donated kidney. Cats hanging out in bodegas. Or a two-second clip of Ray Romano ...