The Trouble With Concerts

Buying concert tickets isn't what it used to be When I was a kid, it was a lot easier to go see your favorite band. Before Ticketmaster had a huge presence on the internet (and for that matter, before the internet had a huge presence in our lives), buying concert tickets was a rather feasible thing to do. In the late 90s and early 00s, Rock concerts would generally ...

Viva La Vida could be better A few months ago, I wrote an article on the upcoming Coldplay release with eager anticipation. I expected the album to be quite good given the wide range of influences the band was pursuing. The new album, Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends fell far short of that. This albums shows, once again, how far Coldplay is straying from the ...

How To Make Music Everyone Likes Through the ages, there have been two important elements to music that have lasted and remained relatively unchanged. Although lots of people enjoy different genres and styles of music, there are two main components to songwriting that appeal to almost all people. These are a catchy melody, and a dancing beat. How you go about creating these two or combining them depends on ...

The electronic underground makes a promising return This is the second album produced by Morcheeba without Skye Edwards' jazzy vocals, which was the only reason I started listening to the band. This record is sort of a collection of different singers, with a new vocalist, including a few guys, on almost every track. The beats are still really interesting and worth checking out if you're into slow trance/trip-hop. The ...