Music

Mapping Country Music’s Politics

During the recent presidential election cycle, I noticed a number of commentators speculating about…

7 Apple Music Mixes: The Best Workout Playlist For Any Situation

The Land of Pandering

How Bo Burnham Exposed New-Age Country Music

5 Lessons Rihanna Has Taught Me About Winning At Life

Rihanna is a vibe. An aesthetic. An energy. A…

Celebrating 75 Years of L.A.’s Iconic Capitol Records Building

跳出開心，比跳得好看更重要 Why It’s More Important For Dance To Feel Good, Than Look Good

Bono on How U2’s ‘Songs of Experience’ Evolved, Taking on Donald Trump

“I’ve always believed in working across the aisle … but there’s a bully on the bully pulpit and silence is not an option,” says the U2 frontman

Running A Record Label? These Are My Top Apps

This list comes from my experience using an iPhone and the apps I depend on to…

5 Things You Can’t Miss At Drummerfest 2017

By: Nick Kudrys

Arcade Fire’s Win Butler Reflects on Everything Now’s ‘Misunderstood’ Rollout

“Another Girl, Another Planet” — The Only Ones

I got back to my car after a meeting the other day to hear the closing bars of a great song I hadn’t heard in years….

Where That Intimate Concert Featuring Mashrou Leila Was This Week, and How You Can Know About Future Ones

I’m No Music Critic, But Jamiroquai’s ‘A Funk Odyssey’ and Macy Gray’s ‘The Id’ Are The Gems of 2001

BABY MAKING MUSIC

3 types of Rhythm Changes licks you NEED to know — Bebop Guitar Lesson

Weekly Billboard Theory — …Ready For It?

…Ready For It? — Taylor Swift

From Mountains to Sea: Jason Daniels’ musical journey

HAAWK Raises $2.5M Series Seed; Acquires Assets of Dart Music

That Time I Went to a Barenaked Ladies Concert All By Myself: aka Thursday

7 Questions with the Creators of Night Train 57: A Sensory-Friendly Folk Opera

Night Train 57 isn’t just a musical performance; it’s an out-of-this-world sensory experience.

Judwaa 2 A Sequel Of The Superhit Judwaa 1997

Do you recollect the enormously respected 1997 super hit Judwaa coordinated by…

Future Is Now

Qu’est ce qu’une intuition ?

Une intuition, c’est le sentiment d’avoir capté une information pertinente…

“Romanze” — Johann Kaspar Mertz — (easy)

This easy gutiar Romanze by Johann Kaspar Mertz is a lovely and awesome to play. Mertz…

Tributes to legendary singer and actress ‘Malika-e-Tarannum’ Noor Jehan, on her 91st birth anniversary today.

Because of what I write and how I like to write it, this month’s cover story from Wired magazine and these parts in particular stood out to me:

Phew!

The last time I wrote it was so long back I don’t even remember. Since then I have been working on one piece and one piece only. And boy was it…

Exit Through The Trap Door

Design Diaries: Early album cover art I designed for Gucci Mane.

How I Hid My Extreme Height With a Ramones T-shirt

Making Hard Decisions to Reach Your Goals

Sometimes you fall in love with something in life. Sometimes it’s as simple as a song…

Spotify UI Critique

Spotify is one of the most convenient music streaming platforms- it has a large library of music so you can usually find what you want, and as a premium user, you can download your playlists listen to without using data when I’m away from wifi.

My Problematic Music Tastes: a feminist confession

Shh, don’t tell anyone.

Ніч сповнена жахів: Думки про новий альбом Myrkur

What your favorite Radiohead album says about you

Forget horoscopes or the Myers-Briggs

Kesho Wazo Platform | Portland Civic Design Fest 2017

Project Champions: Joe Menard & David Thete

Bob Dylan Sure Did Know How to Market Online Fitness Training

Sure he sold 100 million records, earned a Nobel price in Literature, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom but Dylan’s greatest accomplishment might just be his ability to teach us how to market online fitness…

MOVIEDRONE, VOL. 2

The Golden Age of movie scoring still gets an uber-short shrift amongst enthusiasts, but it’ll be hard to ignore the new…

At the turning point, where do you turn?

OUR WORLD is pivoting between technological complexity and a yearning for a simpler life…

Atom Heart Father

Expliquei que a cerveja sai na temperatura ambiente, ele sugeriu uísque. Falei sobre a festa na casa onde o Jimi Hendrix viveu…

Shy Musicians Don’t Exist

Strange title and an even stranger statement. I consider myself to generally be a confident person. I’ve performed in drama theatres, delivered public speeches, auditions, sang with choirs, you get the idea. All of these great achievements – big or small – at some point had been a…

New CD Review: Mozart — Piano Concertos №25,26 — Francesco Piemontesi, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Andrew Manze

“Andantino Grazioso” — Matteo Carcassi — Opus 59 Part 3 №1

A Labor for Love: Restless Life of Momoiro Clover Z in the 5th Dimension

A look at the work put into…

Ode à Bobby Jameson (et Ariel Pink)

Merci Ariel Pink. Pour ta discothèque d’abord et ta folie mais aussi pour avoir dédicacé ton…

Playlist Bi-Kali

Rhea Dangwal

THIS JUST IN: The B in LGBTQIA+ stands for Bisexuality but…

Hopscotch 2017 Day 3: Red Hat Amphitheater, City Plaza, and CAM Raleigh — 9/09/2017

Stuck Making new Music? Try a new Genre

Music is about expression, feeling and perspective. Musicians put all of that in their music and more. The biggest hurdle though is making the song or songs that’s easily digestible by the public. Musicians can also get stuck, stuck in their own genre and…

“Your Brain’s Music Circuit Has Been Discovered”

“In 2015, he and a post-doctoral colleague, Sam Norman-Haignere, and Nancy Kanwisher, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at MIT, made news by locating a neural pathway activated by music and music alone. McDermott and his colleagues played a…

Paid Streaming Subscriptions Rise 50%; How Streaming Music Platforms Can Last and Grow

Karl S. Williams @ the Bearded Lady, 14th September

MELO: “RISE TO FAME”

Young Money’s R&B Princess stops by and talks to us about her newfound success…

Juan Piñera, an elderly DJ who grows

His hands didn’t stop playing an imaginary piano that day I talked to him at the May Hall of Pabellón Cuba arts center, in Havana. Could even seem like a nervous tic to anyone who does not know this man. But it really is an overflowing passion, almost contagious…

How do noise cancelling headphones work?

If you work in a busy environment, fly often, or have to commute everyday with public…

Should Be Good&Gettin’ It Done

There are so many quality Australian bands being recognised at the moment you would almost think it’s…

Curation — 31

I bought a pair of AirPods. Here’s why I love them.

New York-based artist Hot Sugar rises through the ranks

By Petar Vidovic

Ayyy!

Fausto Fausto and Fausto Fausto were sitting side by side in a double black ’77 Cadillac Double…

Why has HipHop/Rap music been so important for black Americans?

Music is Universal, but it was…

Surfing Lungs, Go Go Cult and Horse Rock at Rising Sun Arts Centre. August 19th 2017

#PassTheAux: New Boston Music News

Epicenter Community brings to you our new weekly curation of new Boston music, music news and music…

I Used to Be a Concert Pianist. Nothing Has Changed.

Music:

Mix XXXIII — Grief and Gratitude

Soaked Through by Blossom Dearie’s “I Like London in the Rain”

Daily Interactions: 9/20/17

6:59am– City College campus police getting coffee at the Halal stand on my morning run. I’ve lived in New York for over a year and still have not had coffee in that signature blue cup with the Greek letters. They all watched me go by as if they knew I was a fraud.

LIFE’S SHUFFLE THROUGH THE EYES OF NANOTECHNOLOGY

If you want to know me

My features fit in a small frame

Blissful moments shared with all

“Immigrant Song”

Our only goal will be the western shore.

En privado

Salgo poco. Cuando lo hago me emociona la idea que vaya a ocurrir algo extraordinario y experimente lo que no he vivido en años. Iluso, paso por estados mentales diversos, sin necesidad de un estimulante químico.

Earbuds

Rileigh Smyth

Personal selection:

5x5: Five New Tracks Hand-Picked for You (Vol. 2)

Tired of sifting through all the latest music releases to find the best new singles? So were we! But now we’re here to help you out.

The State of the Music Industry

These Bollywood Tracks Are Sure to Rock Your Sangeet!

BE The Actor!

Continuing our September trek down the Avenue of Opportunities EntreMusicians are free to follow, we pause to consider an oft…

“What is it to have a dream?”

A dream is something we wish for, we strive for. Or maybe for others it only what happens in our sleep, when our eyes are closed.

Do you dream of being apart of the entertainment industry? Are you a singer, dancer or actor? Maybe even a triple threat. So what is stopping…

TIMELESS by RikeLuxxBeats

TRAP MUSIC, TRAP BEAT

Speakstick waterproof Bluetooth speaker: Your memoir companion

The Bagel Bite Tenor

There once was a day where my friend’s saxophone had to be sent away to be repaired. Since he did not have one to play on, he had to use a rental from the school. This tenor saxophone was all beat up, dented, scratched, and damaged in every way possible. He was pretty disgusted by just…

Live Review: The National, Edinburgh

Usher Hall, 20.09.17

Increased electronic experimentation and pronounced political anxieties set The National’s most recent material apart.

Hello!

Hi There! My Names SportsAndBrands and on this blog I will be writing about the latest soccer news regarding the Premier League, Cup competitions, big soccer matches and of course the Champions League.

Also I will be writing about the latest hypebeast drops and collabs. These brands…

I Believe in Making Music

This weekend I had a pretty unique experience. I went to my friend Sam’s house on Friday. But that’s not what’s unique. What’s unique is that we decided to write a song together. He plays the guitar and I play the piano so we decided writing a song using both instruments would be a fun way to pass…

BEAUTY
All my life I have had to fight,I am not talking about the physical type shit you see on HBO every other Sunday night but the type that gets you thinking about what your parents have gone through for your safety,the kind of people they interact with socially and sometimes call “Friends”so as to make sure I gain as much exposure to what a…