Love him or hate him, there is one undeniable fact: Michael Jackson changed the face of pop music forever. Jackson was the perfect mix of The Beatles and Elvis Presley blending catchy pop hooks with feverish dance beats and dance moves. People either loved it and emulated him or hated it and created something different. I am aware of all the problems that he fell into during the 90s, and do not plan on discussing them, I feel his music will leave a much larger footprint on the world than anything else.
You cannot underestimate the influence Jackson had on pop... Archive for June, 2009
The Man in the Mirror
June 30th, 2009 Posted by J FrazzettaLove him or hate him, there is one undeniable fact: Michael Jackson changed the face of pop music forever. Jackson was the perfect mix of The Beatles and Elvis Presley blending catchy pop hooks with feverish dance beats and dance moves. People either loved it and emulated him or hated it and created something different. I am aware of all the problems that he fell into during the 90s, and do not plan on discussing them, I feel his music will leave a much larger footprint on the world than anything else.
You cannot underestimate the influence Jackson had on pop... Zee Avi
June 25th, 2009 Posted by Gumer Liston
It was not her intention to become a recording artist when she uploaded her videos to Youtube, all she wanted was to show one of her friends a song she has written. But Zee Avi, a Malaysian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and ukulele player, ended up becoming a recording artist when Brushfire Records signed her a few months after her videos were on Youtube.
“I went on there without any expectations or intentions for it to be a marketing tool, because I’ve never perceived YouTube to be that, I saw it as an outlet for entertainment and for me to share my music.... Gig Review: Live, Meadowbrook Farms, 6/19/09
June 23rd, 2009 Posted by J Frazzetta
For a few hours Friday night it felt like 1994 all over again. This was a night of firsts: first time going to Meadowbrook Farms, first time seeing Live in concert and my first time seeing Candlebox in concert. A friend of mine could not attend the show, and rather than choke on the tickets, he passed them off to me instead, and it was a good time.
Candlebox, known for their biggest hit, “Far Behind”, opened the evening with a solid hour set of 90s rock. Throwing in tracks from their latest release, 2008’s Into The Sun, they mixed in...
Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King
June 16th, 2009 Posted by Gumer Liston
Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King was not intended by Dave Matthews Band to be a tribute to LeRoi Moore, their saxophonist, but it somehow ended that way. Moore died in an ATV accident while the band was halfway through recording the album, and the band members reacted to the loss by turning the album into their tribute to their longtime friend and comrade. The death of LeRoi somehow brought the band back to how they sounded in the 90s-- rough but clean, dark but warm, edgy but smooth.
You can sense how the band feels about the sudden loss of... Song Memories From Youth
June 11th, 2009 Posted by TK
As you grow older memories become a greater part of your life. This makes perfect sense as you have a greater pool of topics to pull memories from. But the more important part of this phenomena is that as you increase in years there are certain moments that you cling to. And music pulls these out into your conscious. Many of the song stories that are being shared at Song Journals deal with the events of youth. In our week-long study of how songs move people, we are going to look at the musical memories of youth:
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