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One Of Coventry’s Finest Sons Has Left Us
Introduction Terry Hall died aged 63 after a short illness, two years younger than me. I first came across Terry as lead singer with the multi cultural Two Tone ska band The Specials with their EP "Too Much Too Young", the title track being a superb social commentary for the time.
Mike Singleton - MikeydredPublished about a month ago in Beat
5 Underrated Songs That Make You Feel The Cold
The cold is an easy thing to talk about but in song form, it can be one of the most powerful topics to put in a poetic way. There are songs that feel cliched because they use the idea of the cold with just the ambiance, but these songs push the idea about the cold further with emotional weight to it. If you're looking for a song that emphasizes the cold weather, this is a mishmash of songs that has one of everything that you're looking for.
Samantha ParrishPublished about a month ago in Beat
Rainbow Fast Unicorn vol 1 - Organic House Mixtape
sparkle ponies watching sparkle ponies flit & flutter; you notice ineffable peace — neon spencer satori, center camp, Burning Man 2017
Neil SpencerPublished about a month ago in Beat
Why Muse's Undisclosed Desires is an Underrated Love Song
Muse has undoubtedly made an impact on the music world in the past two decades. They showed us how far someone can take obsession can go with Hysteria. Time Is Running Out became the anthem of escaping the confinement of any situation or relationship.
Samantha ParrishPublished 2 months ago in Beat
Polymath Actor, Recording Artist, and Filmmaker Amir Royale Releases His ‘Stories of the Lost, Rich & Tormented’ EP
From Amir Royale Sophomore year, NYU Tisch’s Clive Davis Institute, 2017. I created the concept of Stories of the Lost, Rich & Tormented as a "Writing the Hit Song: Deep Cutz" homework assignment. Over the course of 14 weeks, I crafted and reworked about 12 or so ideas. Suddenly, my songwriting professor at the time (Eren Cannata of Cove City Sound Studios, Facethouse Records & Warner Chapel Music), directed us to use all the content we created thus far to formulate an EP. This project would then become one we’d pitch and present to potential A&R scouts. It was our final project. I curated 5 of my best records across the class to showcase a conceptual narrative and description of greed, lust, and youth insecurity within American culture. It is the final entry within my four-EP-long music chronicle (dating back to my 2015 EP, This Is for You.). To let this project go free finally—feels like a blessing. Thank you.
StageScene MagazinePublished 2 months ago in Beat
Sydne Strauss Talks New Song, Growing Up in Taiwan, and What's to Come
With her single, “Upstairs,” out now, we took some time to hear more from Sydne Strauss. Read below to learn more about Sydne Strauss, the story behind her single, and what’s to come.
Meikhel PhilogenePublished 2 months ago in Beat
The Voice, The Icon, The Whitney
Whitney Houston: The Voice of the Generation, The Pop R&B Icon, and the Queen of the Night that has paved her way as a Grammy Award Winning singer and actress. With her upcoming biopic film "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" starring Naomi Ackie as Houston coming to theaters soon on December 25th.
Gladys W. MuturiPublished 2 months ago in Beat
Oh No It's Michael Bublé
Introduction and Background You may think this is because I don’t appreciate Michael Bublé but you would be wrong. Last week I was in the Talbot Arms in Settle and they were playing a Michael Bublé Christmas album and every song sounded like it had had all the life sucked out of it by a lounge jazz vampire, and that lounge jazz vampire’s name is Michael Bublé.
Mike Singleton - MikeydredPublished 2 months ago in Beat
Harry Styles Dream Setlist
Harry Styles has been stealing hearts since early 2010s with his One Direction days.. but in 2017 he took us all by storm and released his first solo song.
What Happened to Alexis Jordan???
Unlike Tiffany Evans who competed on Star Search at a young age during the 2000s, there was Alexis Jordan, a beautiful freckle faced teen from South Carolina who auditioned for America's Got Talent making it the semi finals until she signed with Jay Z's StarRoc and RocNation label. After the release of self titled debut album, her single "Happiness" which became an international success but hasn't reach the US charts. 12 years later, her song Happiness has now gone viral on Tiktok. But what happened to Alexis Jordan and is she currently working on music????
Gladys W. MuturiPublished 2 months ago in Beat
Chances Are Your Favorite Christmas Songs Were Written By Jewish People
For most Christmas lovers, you'd think that the popular Christmas songs they've come to love were created by others who loved the holiday. Right? Well, it might come as a surprise, but most of the Christmas songs we've come to love and celebrate with every year were not written by Christians... they were written by Jews.
Jenika EnochPublished 2 months ago in Beat
From Child Star to Fame Angel: The Story of Irene Cara
In the wake of her passing I decided to write this story in honor of Irene to celebrate her memory. Before she was writing a song that earned her accolades, she was a young child starlet singing Latin music during the 1960s. During the 1980s, she starred in Fame and singing the film's title that topped number one in various countries until she sang "What a Feeling" making it another hit song compared to Fame.
Gladys W. MuturiPublished 2 months ago in Beat
