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September 1, 1984: Tina Turner Scores First No. 1 Single as a Solo Artist With “What’s Love Got To Do With It”
Years after her departure from the Ike & Tina Turner duo, Tina Turner gained international recognition from her first No. 1 hit single as a solo artist with the Pop track “What’s Love Got To Do With It.” The second single off of Turner’s fifth studio album Private Dancer (1984), “What’s Love Got To Do With It” came hot on the heels of her previous Top 30 single, a synth-infused cover of the 1972 Al Green Soul classic “Let’s Stay Together,” released in 1983. Read more
Rock Artist Spotlight: Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers’s “MOTHER”
In the third single off their upcoming album GLORY, Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers’s “MOTHER” is a vengeful anthem against the mistreatment of women by men. Read more
September 15, 1970: U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew Calls Rock Music a Cause of Youth Drug Culture
During a speech in Las Vegas, Nevada, then U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew claimed that Rock music was brainwashing American youths into a rising drug culture. Agnew believed that Rock songs, such as The Beatles’ “With a Little Help from My Friends,” contributed to “a depressing lifestyle of conformity that has neither life nor style.” Read more
October 10, 1970: Black Sabbath’s Album “Paranoid” Reaches No. 1 on the UK Album Charts
On this day, Black Sabbath’s second studio album Paranoid reached No. 1 on the UK Album charts following its release in 1970. Putting a full stop to the upbeat ‘60s, Paranoid ushered in a new subgenre of Rock: heavy metal. Black Sabbath set the standard for heavy metal’s future sound with classic tracks on the album, including “War Pigs,” “Paranoid,” and “Iron Man.” Read more
Rock Artist Spotlight: Master Peace’s “There’s No More Underground”
The latest single released by Master Peace, “There’s No More Underground” is a through-and-through hard Rock critique against the ever-strengthening grip that corporations and capitalist greed have on ordinary people and the planet. Read more
Florida International University
AI-Powered Collaborations With Baptist Health to Advance Cardiovascular Healthcare
Dr. Joshua Hutcheson, BME Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, has been working closely with Dr. Tom Nguyen, chief of the Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute at Baptist Health, to employ artificial intelligence (AI) to tackle cardiovascular health challenges and innovations. Read more
Ph.D. Graduate Dr. Beatriz Herrera Elected as Outstanding Graduate Student
All her life, Beatriz Herrera was surrounded by the medical field and stories from her mother, who was a family doctor and brought Beatriz along with her while she worked. These experiences sparked an interest in medicine and biology for Beatriz from a young age, which motivated her to pursue them further in graduate school, alongside physics and neuroscience. Read more
Dr. Oleksii Shandra Receives $758,000 Award From U.S. Department of Defense
Dr. Oleksii Shandra, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, received a $758,808 Virtual Post-Traumatic Epilepsy Research Center Faculty Award from the Department of Defense’s (DoD) U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command. Read more
Biomedical Engineering Department Presents Eighth Annual Heart Day Symposium
This year’s Heart Day Symposium was better than ever! On Friday, Feb. 14, the BME Department presented the eighth annual Heart Day Symposium at FIU. The event was an opportunity for students and faculty from around the country to have discussions on research and challenges being studied in cardiovascular medicine. Read more
Caplin News
The Power of TikTok: How the entertainment platform is shaking up music charts in America
Over the past two years, the popular entertainment app TikTok has changed how songs perform in the United States on music-streaming platforms and record charts like Apple Music, Spotify, Shazam, Amazon Music and the Billboard Hot 100. Read more
The Sunset 4 play the Beatles at Miami Beach Youth Music Festival
A band of talented young musicians is making its mark on South Florida’s music scene. Playing covers of Beatles music, the Sunset 4 are demonstrating their many musical talents by playing a classic catalog. Read more
Safe Space Sessions: Fighting Sexual Assault in the Music Industry
Three months ago, Val Varela, a Miami punk rocker with short pink hair and a profane mouth, was scrolling through the internet when she came upon a series of horrendous stories about sexual assault, pedophilia and grooming in the music industry. Read more
Three best Miami musicians to discover this fall
Despite the pandemic, Miami’s music scene has continued pumping out new music. Three musicians — Rick Guerre, Monterrey, and Palomino Blond — are contributing with new music and renewed energy. They each recently spoke to the Caplin News about their careers, from early starts to their latest musical releases. Read more
Genius
Minnie Riperton Biography
One of the most well-known vocalists to come out of the 1970s, singer-songwriter Minnie Riperton stands as a great influential figure for the Soul genre and many artists within this style of music. Read more
Minnie Riperton: Lovin' You Biography
The most well-known song from Minnie Riperton’s album Perfect Angel and her entire discography to date, “Lovin’ You” is a Soul serenade that describes the songstress’ immense love for her child, actress, and comedian Maya Rudolph. Read more
Al Green: Let's Stay Together Biography
Known as the biggest hit from legendary singer Al Green, “Let’s Stay Together” is an irresistible romantic Soul track that’s perfect for serenading that special someone. The song has appeared on Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Songs of All Time", where it was named the 60th greatest song. Read more
Elton John: Young Dumb & Broke Biography
Following the success of Texan R&B artist Khalid’s “Young Dumb & Broke,” musical legend Elton John took to Spotify’s studios to cover the track, with the help of Khalid himself. Read more
Mac DeMarco: Nobody Lyric Annotation
The music industry has a reputation of chewing up hopeful new artists and spitting them back out, turning them into empty individuals drained of any inspiration. DeMarco seems to be no stranger to this pattern. Read more
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