Did you wear down your parents when you were twelve and they finally let you quit? Were you too busy with sports and other extracurricular activities to have time for music?
Maybe your parents simply could not afford the lessons or the instrument. There are many reasons why grown-ups are learning to play the piano and [...]
Indianapolis’ own Lucas Oil Stadium is the gem of a venue where Indianapolis Colts fans enjoyed intense football action in 2008 in its inaugural season as the new home of the Colts (taking over for the now-deflated RCA Dome,) but many concertgoers did not enjoy the venue’s inaugural concert last year, when country music superstar [...]
One must only look at his stage name to see the kind of music Kid Rock gravitates toward. According to his latest romance rumors, however, Kid Rock may be looking to add a little more country to his life. Kid Rock has been more than a little controversial since the beginning because of his I-don’t-care [...]
In the current issue of NME magazine, the Arcade Fire’s Win Butler revealed that the band has starting penning songs for their next album. Butler told the U.K. music mag, “Before Funeral, me and Regine had this big room to rehearse in … People would come by and work on a song. Now the guys [...]
Although Jack White’s new band the Dead Weather may be comprised of members of the White Stripes, the Kills and the Raconteurs, the band members are quick to point out that the birth of their new band doesn’t mean the death of their former groups. The project originated out of pure dumb (or, actually, bad) [...]
Just because the Fray’s sophomore album has been out for only five months doesn’t mean the band isn’t already thinking about its next release. A rumor that the band would release an EP even before churning out its third album surfaced recently, but the Fray’s drummer Ben Wysocki told Billboard.com that it is “only [...]
In our never ending quest to find new music, and new bands destined for great things we present this week two hot new bands to look out for.
First, may we present “Carolina Liar”. Surprisingly, most of the band are from Sweden. I don’t mean that Sweden doesn’t produce great bands, Abba, Roxette and The Cardigans [...]
The term, “Western Music” includes genres of music originating in the Western world (which includes Europe) that are differentiated from music from the Orient or Middle East. Put simply, Western music, for the most part, is built on major, minor, and pentatonic scales.
There is liberal use of octaves, fourths, and fifths. Music from the [...]
A grace note should perhaps be thought of as an extra bit of flourish by the composer and player. Many call a grace note an “ornament” to be used in the ornamentation of music.
In music notation, a grace note is printed smaller than a regular note, sometimes with a slash through the note stem [...]
Almost everyone likes some type of music and many people like music games online. This combination has spawned a great idea for a game called Rockfree. And why not when console game system based games have been very popular such as Guitar Hero and Rock Band. Millions of dollars are spent on those two games [...]
