It’s not very often that an entertainment genre has music, dance, and an instrument all specifically designed for it, but this is precisely the case when it comes to the art of flamenco. Flamenco is a Spanish musical genre, arguable the most famous, which is probably due to the dramatic dance style associated with the […]
When I was in high school, I was on the dance team and during football season, we worked with the band for the halftime show. I remember there was a running joke about the drum line, the upshot of which was that if you did not get out of their way, they would run you […]
Subwoofers, or “woofers,” have always seemed quintessentially masculine to me. I suppose it’s because of all the young men I’ve met who have shown me their car trunks, the entire interiors of which have been taken up with gigantic speakers. Yet as silly as it can sometimes seem, the subwoofer is an important part of […]
Too many times lately has the phrase “making a comeback” been thrown around when referring to the return of a barely missed pop act. A boy band that realised the game was up five years ago whose members find that acting in soap operas or sitting on the sofa doesn’t pay as much decide to […]
Perhaps it’s because there’s a close cultural connection between great music and smoky bars. Anyone who knows anything about jazz knows that its truly legendary improvisers - Coltrane, Bird, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie - cut their teeth playing in bars so smoky that it’s a good thing everybody was too busy improvising to need sheet […]
A good love song involves meaningful lyrics, quality craftsmanship and the ability to provoke an emotional reaction. For every decent love song, there are countless others that rely on weak lyrics and cliches in an attempt to become a big-seller as the number one wedding song of that year.
Just by reading the lyrics of a […]