Author: Christian
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Buried In Life
How do you define yourself? what do you do to stand out? What do you do to conform? Everyone has things they do that they would say defines them, but we never really think about how what we don’t do can be just as important when defining ourselves. In “Standard Loneliness Package” the main character,…
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Dream Pop – Ethereal 80’s Sounds
Dream pop is a music genre that grew out of the 1980s alternative rock, gothic rock, and neo-psychedelia scenes. It is known for its vast soundscapes, ethereal sounds and melodies you can get lost in.
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A Musical Vacation, Cities in Song
Experience a look at some of the world’s cities and have a soundtrack to go along with it. A new environment can be incredibly inspiring to an artist, places seem to exude their own energy that can have an impact on a musician to try and make something new. I would like to show you…
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Four Music Venues to Check Out in Nashville
Nashville is an amazing place full of great food, beer, important history and culture. So let’s talk about Nashville and the culture of music. Music is so synonymous with the city that everyone knows Nashville as “Music City,” but where should you go to see the best live music? Let me tell you about some…
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Computerwife is online…
Let me preface this by saying it does feel a little bit weird to be writing a profile about an artist with hardly any public information, no music videos, and only has 1 EP released at this time, but since the release of said EP she has amassed over 37,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. Addie,…
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The History Of Sleater-Kinney
What makes a modern girl? Is it happiness, hunger, or anger? Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney claims all of these things make her a modern girl on their most popular song “Modern Girl.” Sleater-Kinney is an American indie rock band that formed in 1994 in Olympia, Washington. It is spearheaded by founding members Corin Tucker, who…
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Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You Album Review
Big Thief’s Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You begins “Change like the wind/Like the water, like skin/Change like the sky/Like the leaves, like a butterfly,” a down-to-earth opener that confronts us with mortality and questions if it’s such a bad thing. Adrianne Lenker, Big Thief’s primary songwriter, continues to insert reminders of change…
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Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Album Review
West on this album is telling the listener a story, whether the subject he is rapping about is Racism in America on “Gorgeous” or explaining to us why no one man should have all the power he has it is all a part of his Twisted Fantasy. Kanye starts the story with the opening track…
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Beach House – Bloom Album Review
Beach House’s fourth album Bloom is the band’s fully realized sound in high definition. On Beach House’s third album, Teen Dream, the songs were more ambitious than any of their previous output, but they expand on those ideas even further on Bloom. Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand’s typical instrument pallet, synthesizers, electric guitars, and drum machines,…
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Beach House – Teen Dream Album Review
At this point in Beach House’s career the two members, Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally, have had time to carefully construct their signature sound, and on their third album, Teen Dream, we see that sound evolve. Beach House’s first two albums were hazy and lonely, the albums sounded like something you would listen to by…