Skinny Devil Magazine

Sara Bareilles has a way of writing highly emotional, painfully beautiful lyrics, and the musical wizardry is stunning, deep, and like walki...

The year was 1986..... .....and what an incredible year for music! The year that saw the very first induction ceremony into the Rock-n-Roll ...

1975 was an incredible year for music (and we'll look back at some more of these soon)...the year that saw chart topping songs like ...

Don’t Practice… Play! By Paulie Felice When I was a kid, I hated practicing piano. Hated it. It was a chore, plain and simple. Practicing me...

1985 was an incredible year for music (and we'll look back at some more of these soon)...the year that saw chart topping songs like ...

1983 was an incredible year for music (and we'll look back at some more of these soon)....the year that saw chart topping songs like ...

1983 was an incredible year for music (and we'll look back at some more of these soon)....the year that saw chart topping songs like ...

Tupac Shakur "Peter piper picked a peck of picked peppers" "Sally sells seashells by the sea shore." "How much wood...

I heard wonderful reviews of Chris Stapleton's performance opening the festivities at the Super Bowl and realized that though I've t...

I was recently reminded of this fabulous song, and thought the oddity of the chordal approach coupled with several captivating lyrical phras...

As one of the great writers of the 20th century, we could analyse Leonard Cohen songs all day (we peered into his uncanny ability to deeply ...

My friend Eddy reminded me that this year marks the 40th anniversary of the release of the dark fantasy cult classic, "Dark Crystal...

That Christine McVie, with her band mates in Fleetwood Mac, had a profound impact on modern music is an undisputed fact. This is evidenced b...

The new movie about the life of Elvis Presley - the King of Rock-n-Roll - hit the Big Screen after premiering at the Cannes Film Festival on...

In honor of the new "Top Gun: Maverick" movie, I'd like to re-wind the clock to 1986 and the original "Top Gun" movi...

Bob Dylan is a man of many talents and, musically, of many lives.  With a career spanning 60-odd years, with classic songs coming from almos...

From the mind of the man who brought us "Roxanne", "Message in a Bottle", "King of Pain", "We'll Be T...

In the third installment of this series, we took a look under the hood, as it were, at The Beach Boys song "Surfer Girl" which, ha...

Son House - blues legend For brevity, we'll do a VERY condensed origin & history of slide guitar, and then a short list of a handful...

This beautiful song was written by the always stellar Carole King and her then songwriting partner & husband Gerry Goffin (for context, ...