Art is the music we make from the bewildered cry of being alive. ~Maria Popova
23 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in Songs You May Have Missed Tags: ghost, square hammer
Ghost: “Square Hammer” (2016)
Are you one of those who opine that rock is dead, and the visceral thrill of the genre has faded with the hair on the head of your favorite Rock Hall-enshrined dinosaurs?
Maybe you just need to look a little more earnestly.
Although this certainly isn’t 1975 and the pop landscape isn’t crowded with acts like Queen, Led Zeppelin and Grand Funk, there is still music being created that can make the hair stand up on your arms.
For example, that of Sweden’s masked melodic metallers Ghost.
Though their occult music videos may go further than fans of Alice Cooper and Blue Oyster Cult may be comfortable with, Ghost’s brand of macabre, melodic rock may strike the right note. From the insistent organ riff to the two-beat timpani accent accompanying the verse’s lyric to a harmony-stacked chorus you may have stuck in your head for days, the hooks abound on “Square Hammer”.
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31 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in Songs You May Have Missed Tags: radio free universe, she's high again
Radio Free Universe: “She’s High Again” (2019)
It remains to be seen (or heard) whether Radio Free Universe will have the staying power or make a similar impact in America as the classic rock bands their reviewers name check.
But in the bass-driven, melodic “She’s High Again” the Canadian rockers have crafted a single that deserves some southern exposure.
15 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in General Posts Tags: rock music
(via The Week) by Damon Linker August 31, 2019
Rock music isn’t dead, but it’s barely hanging on.
This is true in at least two senses.
Though popular music sales in general have plummeted since their peak around the turn of the millennium, certain genres continue to generate commercial excitement: pop, rap, hip-hop, country. But rock — amplified and often distorted electric guitars, bass, drums, melodic if frequently abrasive lead vocals, with songs usually penned exclusively by the members of the band — barely registers on the charts. There are still important rock musicians making music in a range of styles — Canada’s Big Wreck excels at sophisticated progressive hard rock, for example, while the more subdued American band Dawes artfully expands on the soulful songwriting that thrived in California during the 1970s. But these groups often toil in relative obscurity, selling a few thousand records at a time, performing to modest-sized crowds in clubs and theaters…
Read more: https://theweek.com/articles/861750/coming-death-just-about-every-rock-legend
15 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in General Posts Tags: eddie money
CIRCA 1985: Eddie Money poses for a portrait circa 1985. (Photo by Richard McCaffrey/Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Images)
(via Rolling Stone) by David Browne
As he himself would have admitted, Eddie Money was no one’s idea of a conventional rock star. His stage moves were always a little gawky and spasmodic, his borderline hoarse voice in need of a lozenge or two. Emerging during the punk era though never part of it, he preferred the stadium-friendly shout-along choruses of mainstream rock and adopted the suit-and-tie New Wave look while keeping his hair unfashionably long. He was even an NYPD cop — a career move that, while utterly honorable, didn’t jibe with the traditional, anti-establishment rock & roll handbook...
Read more: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/eddie-money-appreciation-884179/
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