Jazz is a rich and vibrant musical genre that encompasses the influences of many other genres. Acid jazz is no exception to this rule; in fact, it takes the jazz notions of experimentation and...
Fortunately for jazz lovers, jazz is one of the more accessible music genres on the Internet. Since much of the music is now free of copyright issues or was created with a spirit of sharing and...
People often refer to jazz as purely American music. Like America, jazz developed from a seed of independence. At first, it both shocked and astounded listeners. But people kept coming back for...
Jazz is often cited as one of the few original American art forms. The history and origins of jazz are intertwined with the culture and history of America and, subsequently, with the rest of the...
While some of America's greatest recording artists have been from the country music scene, the last thirty years have been devoid of any hint of talent from the genre. It is the easiest path to...
The genre of "Rap" music has been with us now for over twenty five years. It has lasted longer than the evil reigns of the Third Reich, the Khmer Rouge and Bill O'Reilly. Finally, its puzzling...
With its short and simple quatrains, blues has an accessible style that lends itself to creative expression. Blues lyrics can be found from a variety of sources, in print or on the Internet.
So it’s come to this. You’re looking in the mirror at your deranged, unkempt appearance, at the mountains of trash and armies of cats that dominate your apartment, and thinking “This is it. I’ve...
It’s all to easy to be misinformed about the history of British indie rock and put too much focus on Britpop and its modern day descendants. Here are ways to avoid that.
In a previous How-to, I mentioned a number of British post-punk (or "indie) bands, alluding to how indebted modern British and American "indie" (an almost meaningless word that I'll try to avoid)...
Nine months out of every year the highways and byways of Nashville are populated by tourists. Some come to check out the local history and some come to buy antiques, but most people come for the...
It goes without saying that one should know how to conduct themselves in a professional environment. The recording studio is no exception.
Occasionally, an artist will bring along a friend to...
When you're in the music business, self-promotion is the name of the game, and when you're an indie musician, it's all about promoting and maintaining that grassroots cred. Here's how to use that...
The roots of much Haitian and Caribbean music are African, based on tribal rhythms that the slaves brought over with them from their homelands. Once in the Antilles, these sounds were influenced...
When you turn on most radio stations these days and look for music to fit a mature taste, you are likely to find rhyming rappers, screaming hard rockers and "singers" who can hardly sing at all....
I’ve always loved 1920’s hot jazz. My introduction was those brilliant early thirties Fleischer Brothers Betty Boop cartoon, especially those that included musical performances by the likes of...
Since the British Invasion of the mid-1960's, music fans across the globe have argued the case—who is better, the Beatles or the Rolling Stones? From the time both bands’ images began to be...
HorrorPop is a very confusing genre of music and lifestyle and it all begins with the horror films....so here I will try to make sense of it...
Blues is made up of a simple, repetitive structure. Like jazz music it can include improvisation, but the musician's creativity is expressed within the basic structure. The 12-bar blues...
In country-style guitar, players commonly choose to play a "lick" in the key of the song, which is very often in C. The short melodic riffs can be largely based on the open chord structures and...
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