Posted in Music Culture, tagged Best of 2008, Editorial Review, Music, Music Industry, Music review, Rolling Stone, Twitter on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Yesterday, I shared Rolling Stone’s Top Albums of 2008 on Twitter, and this was my Tweet: “so Rolling Stone has their top Albums of 2008 up. This is why editorial reviews are a thing of the past. http://twurl.nl/p04sx5.” A Tweetmate suggested I write a blog post and expand on my comment. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Carnegie Hall, Classical, Classical Music, Lang Lang, Music, online symphony orchestra, orchestra, Tan Dun, Valery Gergiev, YouTube on December 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
As a marketer, I always hear social media gurus chatting about how businesses should be used for business…blah blah blah. If social media is social, then an even larger question is: how it social media help to progress society? Yesterday, I was happily surprised that YouTube is kicked up a notch by supporting the arts, [...]
Posted in New Music, tagged Axl Rose, Chinese Democracy, guns n roses, Hard Rock, Music, Rock on November 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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I can’t help but wonder if anyone waiting for Guns N’ Roses to make a “come back” thinks it was worth it. I was driving home from work earlier this week when I heard “Paradise City” played on the radio. Isn’t that a great song? I was reminded the upcoming album, Chinese [...]
Posted in Classical Music, tagged Caminos del Inka, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Alomía Robles, Inca Empire, Inca road system, Inca Trail, Latin America, Machu Picchu, Music, orchestra, Peru, South America on November 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It is very rare to hear the Chicago Symphony Orchestra perform an entire concert of Latin American inspired works. A more typical concert from an orchestra as renowned as the CSO is usually comprised of traditional repertoire from Mozart, Beethoven or Brahms with perhaps a little something “different” or contemporary to mix things up a [...]
Posted in Music, tagged 1980s, 80s, 80s music, Bon Jovi, Danzig, Jon Bon Jovi, Music, Music video on October 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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Why anyone would want to spend all their time organizing 80’s music videos is really beyond me. Over at NoiseAddicts, a new music blog gaining my attention lately, shared this site. Now, I will be the first to admit, I am a product of the eighties. A lot of the music I love [...]
Posted in Music, tagged Art rock, Arts and Entertainment, Music, Progressive rock, Rock and roll, Rock music, Rock N' Roll on October 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Several weeks ago I started to decipher progressive rock. I concluded that music is naturally progressive and labels, such as progressive rock and alternative, assigned to artists are really a marketing ploy.
Today, I thought I’d contemplate how we should define progressive rock. As a starting point, I looked up the definition of progressive rock [...]
Posted in Music, tagged American Music Award, Grammy, MTV Video Music Awards, Music, music award, music award shows, Music Industry, VMA on September 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Does anyone care about music award shows? Last night, I chose to watch Monday Night Football, with the Chicago Bears surprising the Indianapolis Colts in a 29-13 victory, instead of the MTV Video Music Awards. I just didn’t think I was going to miss much, so tolerate stupidity and the “return” of BS aka Britney [...]
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