Brit Awards 2013 Nominations

The nominations for each category for the Brit Awards 2013 have been announced and Emeli Sande is leading the way with a total of four nominations after an amazing 2012 for the Scotland-born singer. Alongside Sande in the much coveted Mastercard British Album of the Year Award are Mumford & Sons, who released their second [...]

Too Famous to Live: Studies Show that Solo Success Kills

This is a guest article by Emily Buchanan. From Britney’s mental breakdown to Amy Winehouse’s premature death, the last few years have been a testament to the destructive nature of fame. Thanks, in part, to media suffocation, overbearing fans and the constant pressure from record labels, superstars are treated as just that: super humans – an expectation [...]

A Perfect Partnership: Gibson Guitar and Music Rising

Since its founding in 1902 by musician/entrepreneur Orville Gibson, the Gibson Guitar Corporation has been recognized around the world as a leading manufacturer of top quality string instruments and musical accessories. In recent years, Gibson has concentrated on its mission of corporate social responsibility by creating and sponsoring a number of charitable organizations throughout the [...]

The new British invasion rocking American POP

Recently, America has seen an influx of British pop artists propping up the top ten spots of the charts. This musical invasion by the Brits now contributes to 1/8 of all album sales. Many explanations have been bounced around trying to speculate the reason for the sudden surge of interest in British bands, from the [...]

Best concerts in Vegas this fall

Most visitors to Las Vegas have at one time or another taken in a Vegas show or concert.  Vegas offers a variety of musical talent with several casinos hosting past and present superstars of rock, country, and more.  Below are some of the shows that visitors to Las Vegas can look forward to this fall. [...]

Kids of 88 – can they do it again?

Fans of Kiwi electroclash duo Kids of 88 have been waiting in anticipation for several months, as the guys have been taking their time putting together a second full-length offering, entitled Modern Love. Their first album, Sugarpills, was an unmitigated critical success, earning the band attention outside their native New Zealand, and building a fan [...]

Getting Over A Band Break-Up

Source: www.21st-apothecary.com Being in a band is very often a losing battle. Some bands never taste success, failing to perform a single gig before their career’s inevitable collapse under the strain of a heterogeny of big personalities with small tempers. And often, these types of bands can be seen from a mile away, each character [...]

The Trend and Dangers of Pop and Rock Covers in Jazz

Here’s something that you don’t see often anymore: an audience cheering at a jazz spot when the musicians on stage introduce the first few notes of one of their original tunes. Perhaps it’s simply because few are playing the album releases on repeat in their home or car as they would with a number of [...]

10 Places to Find Inspiration for Songwriting

Songwriting can be a somewhat tricky venture. You’ll often feel the need to come up with something catchy, as well as words that fit well within the rhythm created by the music. But the hardest part of all might be coming up with a subject to write about in the first place. One thing to [...]

Sticks and Stones

This is a guest post by  Robert Greenberg, author of “How to Listen to Great Music: A Guide to Its History, Culture, and Heart” WE were told as children, “sticks and stones will break your bones but words will never hurt you.” Wrong. In truth, words have the power to inflict tremendous hurt: spiritual, emotional, and [...]

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