by Matthew Ogden, December 2020 The month of December marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven. Great concerts and celebrations of this composer’s music had been scheduled around the world, but due to the global pandemic, these concerts have been postponed indefinitely. Instead of the sublime music of Beethoven filling concert stages and symphony halls across the globe, all we hear is...
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Sonic Youth is considered to be a band that in many ways reinvented rock and music in general, due to how they managed to have such a raw sound and still keep beautiful melodies in between all of the dissonance produced by instruments that are not only given an experimental nature with strange uncommon tunings but are also played in ways only they could feel...
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It's a common thing for artists to change in terms of music composition, genre and the general direction of what they were doing, this happens to bands as well as solo artists. The music we make is a reflection of who we are as persons, so it's not a surprise to see that music changes with us, as we evolve and the years pass, the...
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Punk rock was a very powerful force when it came to cultural change as it was not only about the music, it was about the ones that didn't fit into the establishment or in musical terms, the mainstream audience. This was a way to finally show true colors, and scream with all honesty what is being lost, taken, or disrispected. This made punk something more than...
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In every form of art there is competition, or a need to prove something to the world, and maybe for some this is achieved by winning awards, going as far as to say winning a Grammy. But is this really that important? does it meassure how good an artist is or how popular? and how much has the standards for winning awards has have changed...
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