A daily chronicle of creativity in film, TV, music, arts, and entertainment, produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from November 2014 – March 2020. Host John Horn leads the conversation, accompanied by the nation's most plugged-in cultural journalists.
From Beyonce’s "Lemonade" to Bon Iver’s "22, A Million," 2016 has been a year of stunning music output from some very prolific people.
It’s also been a year when we sadly lost a lot of musical voices that will be greatly missed. We’ll be hearing recordings from a few of those who’ve gone on to the big stage in the sky on today’s show. People like Sharon Jones, the lead singer of Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings:
We also said goodbye to George Michael, Leonard Cohen, Prince and so many others. I sat down with Alex Pappademas, executive editor of MTV News, to talk about the year in music.