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Thoughts on Dissonance in Musical Composition
2007-10-23 07:01:00
My passion for music really got started back when I started playing music myself. Since that time, many years and many instruments ago, my ideas about what makes great music have changed drastically. When you start out learning about music, you find that there are lots of rules to stay within in ...
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5 Songs from the Queens of the Stone Age
2007-10-21 07:01:00
In the post alternative age, some bands have risen to dominate the scene with their own brand of guitar driven rock. The Queens of the Stone Age are of course one of those bands, rising from the remains of stoner metal band Kyuss and really gaining some mainstream steam after a collaboration with ...
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Chet Atkins Plays Live: Guitar Picking Excellence
2007-10-20 07:01:00
As someone who’s primarily into rock and roll, you might find it odd that one of my big influences as a guitarist is Chet Atkins. I’ve never much been into the country twang, but in fact, it is due to the incredible picking of Atkins (along with Jimmy Page and a few others), ...
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Live Earth CD and DVD to be Released
2007-10-18 07:01:00
A few days ago I heard about an interesting CD/DVD release. The performances from the Live Earth concerts have been compiled and either are or will be released both digitally and in a double DVD/CD package. The event, which took place back on 7-7-07 and consisted of a number of different concerts ...
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The Power of a Song
2007-10-17 07:01:00
I’ve read a lot of material over the years about subliminal messages mind control and who knows what else in rock and roll songs and never really gave it a second thought. Recently though, I’ve been reading a lot about brainwave patterns and sound being used to induce various mental states. Again, ...
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Led Zeppelin Catalog Going Digital
2007-10-16 07:01:00
As I’m sure you know by now, I’m a avid, and perhaps rabid, Led Zeppelin fan and so of course I had to comment on the fact that the band recently announced that on November 13, 2007 their entire catalog will be available in digital format. This officially makes November 2007 the month ...
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Bruce Springsteen Live: The Boss Still Rocks
2007-10-13 07:01:00
In a little under two weeks, I will be going to see the one and only Bruce Springsteen live. I like concerts in general and would go to all of them if I could, but this will be my first time seeing Springsteen in concert (I’ve seen video, but never live) so I’m ...
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From Pablo Honey to In Rainbows: 7 Songs from Radiohead
2007-10-11 07:01:00
Well, as per an earlier post, yesterday, October 10th 2007, Radiohead released their latest album for download. It will later be available for distribution through both traditional CD means and a collectors edition diskbox as well. I pre-ordered the diskbox myself and was pleased to find that it also included access to ...
More About: Songs , Modern Rock , Honey , Experimental

Scotty L and the Demon Pig Trio: Great Name, Great Blues and Rock and Roll
2007-10-10 07:01:00
When it comes to blues, I like just about all of it. Each artist’s take on the classic blues ideas are unique, but some are more unique than others. Those truly unique ones are the artists that tend to really stick in my mind. A week or two ago I had ...
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Full Live Set from the Jazzy and Progressive? Tortoise
2007-10-08 07:01:00
Some bands go above and beyond in terms of creativity and develop a sound and style that is completely unique. Tortoise is a band like that. A band that’s been floating around in my radar for a number of years now, usually in reference to having influenced other artists, I’ve only recently ...
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5 Reasons to Listen to Hendrix? If We Need More that We Already Have
2007-10-06 07:01:00
When it comes to classic rock, what artist is more widely known than Jimi Hendrix , except maybe the Beatles. I remember when I first started listening to this legendary guitarist and being blown away of course by his fret work, but also by the overall creativity of his music. Sure it was ...
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Crossroads 2007 to be Released on DVD
2007-10-04 07:01:00
This news was pretty easy to see coming, but I’m still glad to have it confirmed. This year’s Crossroads Guitar Festival, which was held right around Chicago, is going to be available on DVD this November 20th. If you happened to see the original Crossroads DVD set, expect more great jams, incredible guitar playing ...
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Thoughts on the New Radiohead Album to be Released Online
2007-10-03 07:01:00
Perhaps you heard the news the other day, just about every music news outlet I saw had the story. After months and months of hearing that the latest release from Radiohead would not be out till early next year, this extremely progressive band has once again defied everyone’s expectations. You may remember earlier this ...
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Rock & Roll Feature: The Sex Pistols Seminal Album Turns 30
2007-10-02 07:01:00
This is the eleventh in a series of Rock & Roll features I’m writing for this site. I’m a rock and roller, so this column is a way for me to feature a different album that I like, from different genres every month. Thirty years ago this month, the baddest, snottiest, most abrasive band in ...
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Carnival of Rock and Roll October 1, 2007
2007-10-01 07:01:00
I really like how this carnival is turning out. Every month there’s a whole bunch of music and rock and roll articles submitted from such a wide variety of sources, cultural backgrounds and opinions, making for a great mix and this month is no exception. Sidhusaaheb from I, Me, Myself sent a long an ...
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Leadbelly: Folk Master Plays Take this Hammer
2007-09-30 07:01:00
After I came to the early blues masters through the music of Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton, the White Stripes and a few others, it really opened the floodgates for me and suddenly people like Blind Willie Mctell, Son House and Robert Johnson were having as big an influence on me as John Lennon and ...
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Congratulations to the Chicago Cubs from the Soul of Rock and Roll!
2007-09-29 07:01:00
It may not be rock and roll related, or even music related (right now I don’t care), but I’d like to take today to congratulate the Chicago Cubs on clinching the National League Central Division Championship last night. I’m sure there are a fair number of my readers who probably don’t care, but ...
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The Sex Pistols Reunite and their 30th Anniversary
2007-09-28 07:01:00
In a music industry that at the time is often being dominated by Disney stars and generic produced rock, we’ve ironically (or perhaps it’s reactionary) also seen quite a return of early punk and proto punk bands. Both the Stooges and the New York Dolls released new material. I even saw the ...
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Remembering the Sonics: The Roots of the Roots of Punk
2007-09-27 07:01:00
Back when I was first digging into ?garage rock? and discovering that punk music was NOT what the mainstream was referring to with that term, I happened across a band called the Sonics . At the time I was just starting to listen to bands like the Stooges, the New York Dolls and ...
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A Place for Artistic Electronica in the World
2007-09-25 07:01:00
I’ve spoken out pretty vehemently against the overuse of computers in modern music. Because of that fact, you might expect that my answer to the question: ?Where is the place for electronica in world??, might be something like ?in the trash bin,? ?only in the stereotypical dance club where you’ll never find me,? ...
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The Velvet Underground Live: Two Clips to Check Out
2007-09-24 07:01:00
Some bands are harder than other than others to find some decent live footage of. I’ve been looking for those elusive clips of the Velvet Underground playing live, specifically from their time with Andy Warhol, for a while. I’m pretty sure it exists and have seen some online, but nothing of too ...
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Youth of Lebanon find Freedom in Rock and Roll
2007-09-22 07:01:00
In Time Magazine, which I read yesterday, there was an short article on Beirut, Lebanon that really struck me as interesting. It was focused on the indie rock scene that has grown out of some of the youth culture of that city and country. Lebanon has been torn by war and both ...
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Alison Krauss and Union Station: Man of Constant Sorrow
2007-09-20 07:01:00
The first time I heard of Alison Krauss was at this years Crossroads Guitar Festival actually, and I was quite impressed. I’d heard Dan Tyminski playing before but not the whole band. I was never really a big fan of country or bluegrass, but this group of very talented musicians I can ...
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Slide Show Baby Might Defy First Expectations
2007-09-19 07:01:00
When you think of a young guys in a band playing music you might assume that they’re a rock or pop band, but I don’t think anyone would immediately leaps to Celtic music… at least at first glance. Now if you say that it was a band that hailed from Nashville, does that ...
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The State of Rock and Roll in the Music Industry
2007-09-18 07:01:00
I can’t really remember a time without rock and roll. Growing up in the late 80s and early 90s, I was part of the alternative era, long after rock and roll was born, and when some would claim, it began to die. That seems to be a general consensus with many of ...
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Chuck Berry Back in the Good Ole Days: Johnny B. Goode
2007-09-16 07:01:00
In these modern days of rock and roll, with so many different variations and styles it’s easy to forget where everything started. It’s especially easy for people like me who have never known days without rock and roll and have never known days before the rock and roll greats existed. To keep ...
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5 Favorite Underrated Songs from the Foo Fighters
2007-09-14 07:01:00
With a new release from the Foo Fighters on the way, due out the end of September 2007, I thought I’d do a little piece about the band and their music. When they first debuted, I’ll admit I almost dismissed these alternative rock heroes as something of a Nirvana wannabe group. ...
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Thoughts on Led Zeppelin To Play Ahmet Ertegun Tribute
2007-09-13 07:01:00
Perhaps you didn’t catch the big rock and roll news from yesterday, but it’s true, Led Zeppelin will be reuniting. As exciting as that is, don’t get your hopes up too much, (or perhaps do), as at this time it will only be for a one time tribute show to legendary Atlantic Records ...
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Progressive Sonic Landscapes from Phoenix and the Turtle
2007-09-11 07:01:00
Some bands have art and the cerebral embedded in their music from the very start. I’m thinking about bands like Pink Floyd, Sonic Youth, Radiohead, Tool… bands that I like listening to in the dark to be better immersed in their sounds and musical textures… bands that just seem to beg higher thought. I can see Phoenix and the Turtle being a band I can add to that list, although they are certainly not clones of any of the ones I mentioned, or any band really. Heralding from Yucaipa, California, Phoenix and the Turtle are definitely in the progressive realm of rock and roll, with a sweeping symphonic sound that is subtle, but full of incredible textural depth. Normally I’m not one for more symphonic sounds as I feel that strings on rock records has been vastly overused and a bit of a cliché, but I don’t get that feeling with this band at all. Their instrumentation, which includes guitars, bass, drums, keyboards, strings and who knows what else, seem...
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Blues Jam: BB King, Albert King, and Stevie Ray Vaughan
2007-09-09 07:01:00
Blues is a genre that continues to inspire me everyday for it’s pure soul and emotional outpourings in musical form. Nothing in my mind is a better example of this than a great blues jam between a bunch of amazing musicians, each seeming to inspire the others to new heights. What could ...
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