Amplified Observations: You won’t regret listening to these three albums that dropped recently
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Time is running out.
Since rock and rollers first started toppling over amplifiers, the style has kept its devil-may-care attitude of musical execution. Sheet music of Beethoven or Tchaikovsky dwarfs thrashy rock compositions in complexity and grandiosity.
Lil Wayne celebrated his 35th birthday last Wednesday and I think we should all be thankful.
Five weeks into the semester and with all the assignments, exams and personal upkeep, college might feel like the farthest place from paradise — at least on the weekdays.
Somewhere in the mid-20th century, rock and roll music split into two sects: bands following in the tradition of gospel roots and those who adopted a more southern undertone.
The first time I realized that a memory or location could call into mind an associated song happened in the fledgling days of Minecraft, circa 2012.
Traditionally, artists seek patrons with deep enough pockets to reach their full creative potential. Unless extremely talented or motivated, it’s difficult to find an audience alone.
If you ever catch yourself deciding what music to send to your speakers, the choices that spring to mind arise from a nearly subconscious place, like deciding what to eat from an open refrigerator.
Almost with the onslaught of sudden synaesthesia, the mention of Joy Division conjures up a black image with rigid, white radio pulses surging uniformly amongst its center. Not only does the mountainous image adorn t-shirts and posters but also represents a defining moment in rock music.
Nearly ten years ago, hip-hop enigma Jay Electronica released an equally singular project that propelled him to a strange status of poetic celebrity. A decade after Act I: Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge), an ingenious reworking of the Jim Carrey film’s drum-free soundtrack, he has yet to release a debut album or a proper follow-up.
When a bird sings during the dawn chorus or later in the sunlight, the tones and phrasing emerging from its beak repeat in a hypnotic and often moving way.
Four songs into Drake’s new music project More Life he follows tradition in boasting about his musical supremacy, observing “Worried ’bout takin’ my lane/They ain’t even got on my road.”
The Police released no singles that matched the popularity and longevity of 1983’s “Every Breath You Take.” It marked a high-water mark in the group’s career, despite the circumstances surrounding it.
Only a handful of artists have the confidence to overshadow their own release before the public can fully digest it. Even between innocuous promotional singles, time is often given to let the music breathe and take root.
As national security shifts its focus from the threat of drugs to the threat of terrorism and a resurgence of protests, Craig Atkinson’s award-winning documentary Do Not Resist sheds light on how policing in America has followed suit.
The spirit behind rock and roll came into existence long before the electric second half of the 20th century. The music’s central purpose of challenging social normality and inciting ritualistic debauchery has been recorded in art by humankind as far back as the Grecian age of antiquity.
College students and luxury are often at ends. For everything wanted, there is something else needed.
Correction appended.
Stephen King has hypothesized that his readers do not return to him for action but rather for a voice.
Lifting the natural reaction of an audience and applying it to a different situation is often a harmless production technique used to liven up a song.