One of the biggest mistakes with the study of any subject is to force one’s self through it. Many people will not move onto other books or subjects until they have completed what they are on, and this is a bad strategy in the long run. When you are bored by a subject you will not really be absorbing the information and considering it as you should. Take boredom to be a sign that you are “full” of a given subject for the time being.

Of course, there are sometimes when circumstances dictate that something must be learned or done within a certain time period, and in those cases, you can only try to motivate yourself as much as possible to get it done, but when studying something on your own, always follow your subconscious interests.

So if you want to make a plan of learning more music history, follow what you are interested in at the time. Don’t just start at the beginning and continue working your way through, unless interested of course. This kind of strict chronological study may seem rational, but what you gain in order you lose in passion, motivation, and greater understanding of the material.

If you want to start learning more music history today, and also happen to currently be interested in the middle ages, start with medieval lute music or whatever most catches your attention in that area. Study it for as long as it interests you and move on to something else when it no longer does. For example, if medieval lute music picks your interest in the foundations of instrumental music, start looking back at that subject.

You cannot learn all of music history in any short amount of time, and just trying to cram through it in one sweep will accomplish little. Take the time to really understand and integrate the areas of it that interest you, and use that to build a good general understanding of all of musical history.

This general strategy of study can also apply to practicing an instrument as well, or studying anything for that matter. Let your interests guide you and do not feel duty-bound to anything in particular. What’s more important in the long run is maintaining interest and passion, and rote learning will never help with that.

Original Article on Music Articles.

It is becoming more and more possible to find a well-made guitar for around $500, but these instruments will have some parts on them that could be, and should be improved. Most of the time, such parts will include the pickup rings, tone and volume knobs, truss rod cover, and maybe a few others. Basically, anything that you see on your guitar that is made out of plastic should be removed and upgraded with some better parts.

Doing so will not only improve the look of your guitar, but it will beneficially affect the sound as well. Plastic parts do not carry sound well and add unfavorable colors to your tone. Getting some wooden parts to go in their place, or at least some metal parts, will have a much better effect on your sound.

With some careful research and planning, you should be able to find some replacement parts online or at a local guitar store that can really improve all aspects of your instrument, and the best part about most of these changes is that they can usually be done yourself with the aid of some simple tools. Pickup rings, knobs, and truss rod covers can be unscrewed and easily removed, and then the new pieces can be screwed back on in their place, provided they fit properly.

Since prices for wooden and metal replacement parts are usually not too bad, the act of customizing your guitar with mods can be relatively cheap and effective, and the end result will be an instrument that rivals some of the higher end guitars that may cost hundreds or thousands more.

It is important for a musician to be working with the best possible instrument that they can. It should be a joy to play your guitar so that you are encouraged to practice and perform more often, and modifying your instrument may be the best way to increase the pleasure you get from playing it. It’s not just pointless vanity to go through the effort of improving your guitar; it can increase your connection to the instrument and help you become a better musician.

If you have an electric guitar that you are not quite happy with, consider what types of simple guitar modifications you can enact to improve its playability, look, and sound.

One thing to keep in mind is that sight reading can be a tough mental task that requires concentration and alertness, so practicing it during the day when you are not tired is important. If you put off your reading practice until late at night you will usually be too tired to even try, and if you do, you will not be performing to the best of your ability and learning as much as possible.

Another important key to sight reading practice is to have a stand and a nice place to do it. This may sound obvious, but it will make it a lot harder to practice if you don’t have a good environment set up for it. Also, if you have to go through a long routine to get out your materials and set them up, this will discourage you a little bit, and keep you from practicing on days when you might not want to. Having a stand in place with your music ready to be read will encourage you to practice it more and help you get in the right mood.

All of these suggestions will help you when you are trying to learn how to sight read, or just improve what you already know, but the most essential aspect is to find music that you will enjoy to read. This can also be the hardest suggestion to enact, but it will be the most effective in helping you make practicing sight reading enjoyable and musically rewarding. Reading music that you love will make practicing seem more like performing, and more like recreation than study.

This is the key to learning anything in music; your practicing should always be musical in nature. It may seem hard to do if you are a beginner, but there are plenty of easier pieces that can work well for beginners and still be musically interesting, its just a matter of finding them. Whatever style you are looking to play should have pieces that a beginner can handle, and remember that you can always play things as slowly as you need.

If you can make sight reading an enjoyable and rewarding experience you will never feel like practicing it is a task, it will simply be playing music and having fun. Not only will this help you develop your reading skill faster, but it will also allow you to develop them with musicality in mind and make you a better overall player.

But alas- theres more than meets the eye. Looks can be decieving.
These guys are literally talented and I had the chance to sit down in one of their recording sessions with a few other promoters/reviewers…

I was able to talk with Chuey (drummer) and ask him a few questions regarding the C.D.

What can listeners expect from C.D.?

Moderndayfreak music is more of melodic aggressive overtones and lush openness. There are a few heavy songs, and there are also experimental tunes - but there’s not a minute on this C.D that feels like it doesn’t need to be there. Each sound complements the other.

What direction are you going in lyrically?

Well, we’ve been wanting to record stuff thats very melodic but with more of a updated rockish upbeat flare. Does that make sense? I think that’s what we want. I don’t know maybe you should of asked JoJo that quesion. I think with this C.D. it’s more expressive with what each of us some how went through in life. Even though I don’t like sharing my problems, let alone hearing other people problems through music, but I guess thats some how the direction we went with it.

We love songs where we can totally take ourself out of being human. We can sing about really odd things, and they don’t necessarily have to pertain to us at all. It paints a picture. Those are the kind of lyrics I grew up with - like the Cure. Really visual images and no storytelling. I guess it’s somehow a combination of both.

Do you guys have any studio pastimes, or is there anything you can’t live without while recording?

Me personally? Yea it has to be beer!

What do you guys do to relax?

Are you kidding me? I go to school, have a full time job, and did I mentioned that I’m married, which is a full time job within itself? A couple of the other guys work full time and everyone is married I guess except JoJo. Well I guess he’s kinda married but he doesnt see her cause shes doing her thing and its not my business so I guess that’s it. You need to talk with the other guys.

Is there a leader?

Hah! No not really. Everyone gets together to have a good time playing music. Its actually JoJo that gets everyone hyped up because he writes really good music. It’s funny because he has a tendecy to always be late so while we’re waiting for him we all just stand around looking at each other. We might play a couple of songs but then eventually here comes JoJo walking in with a look on his face which is a dead give away because we all know hes been up all night writing music. The guy writes the majority of our music. He’s really good.

Any final words?

Visit our site which is being updated. You can visit JoJo at the soundclick.com site.
www.soundclick.com/moderndayfreak

In Between Both Worlds-

I think my favorite song from these guys is “No tomorrow”. Call me old fashion but to hear the guitar solo at the end of the song reminds me of back in the days when I was growing up. Just to hear that lead guitar wailing through out the song makes me want to replay it over and over again.

The “In Between Both Worlds” C.D. should be out by the middle of this year (2010).

About the Author: William Goodman

Evolution, stated in a very basic way, is how things change over time due to the natural laws and forces of this planet, and the universe as a whole. One of the primary agents of this change is the concept of natural selection, which means that things more suited to the nature of their environment will have a better chance of flourishing, and over time, they will.

So how does this apply to music? In the same way that other elements of culture have spread farther throughout the world and been more successful, so have certain types of music. Western music, and many other elements of Western culture, has established a dominant foothold throughout the world.
The reason western culture has been successful is that its elements have been more in line with the nature of life on this planet. Western political systems have allowed their people to be more productive and inventive. The rational and scientific thought of the Greeks, which gave rise to most western culture today, was naturally selected over time because it produced better results. The Greeks were also responsible for starting the basis for what is today recognized as western music, and the reason it is so popular is because it is, well, better.

By “better” we mean more in line with the nature of things. Western music has been more able to provide people with what they seek from music: enjoyment, inspiration, thought, feeling, and so on. The reason that it is overtaking just about any other large tradition of music is that it works better than those types of music, generally speaking.

There will always be people keeping alive the musical traditions of past and present cultures, and this is a great thing to do. Even a lot of what could be called western music has been lost to history, but the current elements of it can be seen taking over strikingly different cultures around the world.
In Iraq today, it is western rock and pop music that are being played and listened to by the younger generation. In Japan, there are more people interested in western styles than traditional Japanese music. These facts speak to the effectiveness that the western musical system must contain. It is able to produce music that can more universally engage people.

This article is not to say that all other music styles should be forgotten. There is an obvious need for and advantage of diversity, and there is also a historical value in preserving styles from the past and less popular ones from today. However, it is clear that the western music system has proven to be a powerful source of great music, and it will be interesting to see how it develops in the future, and if there is another system out there that might be even better.

Original Article on Music Articles.

For those who do not know, the piece in question is performed by having a pianist walk out on stage, open the piano lid, and sit there for four minutes and thirty three seconds, occasionally turning pages of sheet music. John Cage “wrote” it in 1952 and it has been constantly dissected ever since by everyone from curious bystanders to music professors in universities.

However, let us lay this analysis to rest here: four and a half minutes of silence is not music, its silence. Yes, silence can be and is a part of music, but a part of something is not a whole, just as a single ingredient of a dish does not make a dish.

Analyzing 4′33″ as music and talking about its effects on music or anything related to music is ridiculous. It would best be described as performance art or some type of terrible theater, but thats really pretty meaningless. In fact, there is no meaning that can be attached to someone sitting in front of a piano, not in the context John Cage created it at least.

Now, I “get” it. Don’t worry about that. I get that its supposed to make the natural sound of the audience and the auditorium into the music, but thats not what music is. Music is not the natural sound of everyday life, its something completely different. Going to a concert to hear everyday natural sound defeats the purpose and is a complete waste of everyone’s time.

You listen to music to experience emotional power and inspiration, not to be bored by pretentious nonsense like a pianists doing nothing. John Cage made some nice music in the first half of his career, but then he stopped being a composer and started trying to be a postmodernist philosopher. I don’t even know what he was trying to be after that, but it wasn’t something of any use to anybody.

To hear music professors talk about this piece with their classes in any manner other than mockery is both hilarious and sad. Young musicians and composers are being taught to take this destruction of art seriously, and this is something that has to be taught, for any normal person’s reaction would be to dismiss it and spend their time on something worthwhile.

For all of you out there who still care about music, don’t support these modern movements that seek to make something out of nothing, stick to the real substance and ignore those who say otherwise. Ridiculous fads come and go in the art world, but in the end, after the breeze changes, only the work with real weight will remain.

This all starts with having a website. You need somewhere to have samples of your music and information about your services is you wish to be a freelance composer. There are sites like MySpace that you can put music on for free, and this is the best thing to do if you do not have your own site, but with your own site you are afforded much greater flexibility and functionality, and it gives a much more professional impression. This can be an important factor if you want to make a good impression with prospective clients.

Once you have a website that people can visit to hear your music and get a better idea of you, you can start effectively promoting yourself. This should start with getting yourself listed on some of the freelance music composers sites that are out there. Find any directory you can that will let composers submit their name and get some type of listing. These are usually free, and each one of them could bring you some traffic and potential new listeners.

Another good strategy could be to join filmmaking and music composition forums around the web. There are probably tons of these and becoming an established name on them can help you meet others in the business and also get your music out there to a wider audience. Make sure that you put a link back to your website so that people who read your posts can find your music and see what you are all about.

Something else that is quite helpful is to start a YouTube channel and make film composing or film music related videos. This can give you access to YouTube’s tremendous amounts of traffic and can also help you find others who are interested in the same thing. If you can make some music videos for your work you can get them to go a long way towards promoting yourself as a composer, as there is a large audience for music videos on the site. However, promoting your videos on YouTube is another subject in its own right.

The internet has made being a composer or musician a much more viable path for many people who otherwise would not have had a chance at becoming a known composer. Websites can give you an unparalleled reach throughout the world for very little cost, and if you want to make it in today’s film music atmosphere, you will have to take advantage of this fact.

Advertisements in general get a bad rap. People see them as annoying and unnecessary, and they sometimes are, no doubt, but well targeted ads can be both enjoyable and necessary. Advertisements are how people are alerted to the existence of products that they may need or want. More importantly, they allow for many great products and services to be completely free to the consumer, and this includes sites like YouTube and the video content found within.

If you cannot deal with advertisements, the only other option is to deal with actually paying money instead. True, there are illegal methods of getting things online, just as many music videos were illegally uploaded to YouTube and provided for free, but this is a short term gain which usually translates into a long term loss.

If sites like YouTube are forced into banning copyrighted content because the makers of it are not profiting, this helps no one. Just like how torrent sites and the early file sharing sites were shut down eventually, video sites may be shut down if too many lawsuits are filed against them. If advertisements are a way of getting copyrighted content like music videos and films online without having to pay, this benefits everyone.

Makers of music videos and films will not be able to continue to make their products if they are making no money from them. Advertisements allow them to make money while keeping it so viewers everywhere can watch their content without paying. Its essential to the internet that most information be free because most people would not want to deal with paying money to a site to be able to view it.

Music videos with advertisements on YouTube will create a situation where it can be profitable to make them, even beyond the promotional benefits. Anytime you have a profitable product, you will have more competition to produce it and higher quality results over time. For the good of future musical content, viewers should want video producers to profit from their work.

The more that YouTube enables producers of content to profit, the more high quality content will be produced. It benefits everyone for music video makers to profit, and YouTube should put as many commercials on their site as they need to while still maintaining a pleasant experience for the viewer.

Music Articles

So… I shook my criteria up a bit. The band had to have a little something fresh to say, or an attitude that seemed to be just out for the love of the music and the sheer party of performing, and if the money came, “Yea, man, that’s good, too!” I also trimmed up the list significantly by primarily sticking to West Coast bands; however, you will see a group out of Minneapolis that made the cut, simply because there was no-way, no-how they weren’t going to. It is, after all, my list, and therefore I make the rules.

After Midnight Project is based in Hollywood, CA, and is the magna opus of Jason Evigan. He spent 2003 doing a Howard Hughes imitation in his home studio recording songs that spoke from his schizophrenic musical style and his recent heartaches. Feeling adrift, a musician without a band, mourning the meltdown of a two-year relationship, and disconnected from any meaningful type of community, Jason would come home from work around midnight and willingly slaved on into the wee hours of the morning on his music, calling those efforts, “THE After Midnight Project”.

His friends encouraged him to play the songs live so he built a band from the best musicians that word of mouth and craigslist could find. “THE” was dropped from the band’s name and After Midnight Project was born. Jason Evigan is the lead vocals, Spencer Bastian and Christian Meadows are on guitar, TJ Armstrong is the bassist and Danny Morris is the drummer.
Albums out to date for the band includes: The After Midnight Project EP (2005) The Becoming EP (2007) Let’s Build Something to Break (2009)

The band’s song Take Me Home was featured in the PC, Mac and Xbox 360 game “Prey.” A video was also released for the song, which features the band performing Take Me Home in a small room, alongside scenes from “Prey.”
After Midnight Project is on the Vans Warped Tour for 2010.
http://www.myspace.com/aftermidnightproject

The Atomic Outlaws are “Stealin’ back the American Dream…three chords at a time.”
These guys put on a stage-shaking, sassy, guitar-loaded kick in your pants show. Yea, they can deliver the real rock and roll stuff with none of the fluff, but they do it during an actual raw, seemingly unrehearsed, “you’re invited” party. Fans come away with comments such as “Hooked like a fish…”

The Tacoma, WA based Atomic Outlaws have been rocking their fan base locally and around the country with their must-have-Red-Bull-pulsing-through-their-veins brand of rock n roll. The band consists of Zak Eastyn on vocals, Pat and Rev on guitars, Rob Z. on bass and Double J on drums. They played the Key Club in Hollywood with LA rockers “Steel Panther” twice to a SRO audience while there were lines of people winding around the corner down the strip.

The Atomic Outlaws influences range from 1970’s punk and “Classic Rock”, 80’s and 90’s rock and AOR music to “Anything with great guitars and a cool melody”.
Check out The Atomic Outlaws at theatomicoutlaws.com.

Black Velvet Deluxe takes you straight back to rock n roll’s pure roots. Great hooks, driving chords and powerful lyrics pay homage to sleaze rock’s pioneers. New fans are mesmerized and die-hard rock fans are intrigued with Black Velvet Deluxe’s commitment to gritty, raw rock n roll.

The band calls L.A., CA home, and is comprised of four exceptionally talented musicians. Carlos Castenada is the rapturous voice leading the crew, delivering a spectacle of unrivaled sensuality on one song and then a knock-you-down with it’s grittiness explosion on the next. Then there’s BVD’s guitar player, Nate Beck…
On rock guitar, “There’s Good…There’s Better…and then my friends, there’s Beck.”
Nate’s technique pays homage to the pioneers of the sub-genre sleaze rock while infusing the riffs, chords and melodies with the mode of today’s rock music. Salvador Acosta III (Sal-Daddy) has some serious skills, and as we all know from Napoleon Dynamite, girls love guys with skills! Sal’s bad boy bass sounds are reminiscent of “Poison’s” Bobby Dall and Duff McKagan of “Guns N Roses.” We sure can’t fault the man for going there, can we? Josh Lewis is the drummer for BVD, and this guy blasts his drums so hard the skins should have a layer of Kevlar on them.

“Rider Magazine” selected BVD’s song My Pride to highlight their online video premiering Honda’s 2010 VRF1200F motorcycle. These guys have their sights on playing at this years Lollapalooza in August, and I see no reason why they should not be counted among the groups included. The debut album for BVD, Sin City Tonight, will be available in February. Until then, singles can be purchased on their web page.
http://www.blackvelvetdeluxe.com/home.cfm

Cold War Kids, out of college town Fullerton, CA, have some deep music roots that are spread far and wide with diverse influences such as the nearly obligatory Dylan, and blues legend Billy Holiday. You’ll hear it in their unique bluesy indie rock style, and it adds to their magical mystique. The group formed in 2004, and quickly began recording demos in L.A. . Cold War Kids is made up of Nathan Willett at lead vocals, piano and guitar, Jonnie Russell on guitar, vocals and some percussion, and Matt Maust as the bassist, while Matt Aveiro is making sure the drum keeps pounding a rhythm to our brains.

CWK stir their fans emotions with fervent live performances, and released a well-received debut EP, Mulberry Street, in early 2005, appearing at that year’s Lollapalooza, as well. Also that year, they signed with Downtown Records, and the band’s initial full-length album, Robbers & Cowards, was released that fall. Loyalty to Loyalty, which moves in an even slower, bluesy direction than earlier efforts, followed in 2008. The newest release, Behave Yourself, is an EP.
http://www.coldwarkids.com/

Santa Cruz’s Dirty Penny began in 2005 playing covers by the band “Poison,” and then grew to include covers of “Motley Crue” and “LA Guns.” They are a double blink back in time, with their 1980’s Sunset Strip big hair and heavy eyeliner, however, these guys don’t just walk it, they can certainly talk it, as well. Wailing out the ’80s in a hot new way is what these guys do best. Dirty Penny released a debut album in July 2007 titled Take it Sleezy, which includes 12 original tracks.

Their throwback style draws heavily on their “hair metal” roots, however their fans love how roughly they treat their sacred cow influences. Everywhere they show up it just seems like a party has arrived, and they righteously deliver the music to go with the mood. Tyno Vincent is the bassist, Spanky Savage is back there beating the drums into submission, Jonny Prynce is on guitar, and Binge Daniels is the lead vocals for the group. Dirty Penny released their second album, Young & Reckless, in September 2009, which they followed with a 10-week national tour.
http://www.dirtypennysucks.com/

The Fling is a Long Beach, CA based band that blends a distinctive mix of folk, pop, and psychedelic rock to create a sound that is at once both familiar and stunningly fresh. While clearly influenced by the use of three and four part harmonies from such sixties groups as “The Beach Boys”, the group keeps an unexpected and experimental side in the strain of bands like “Grizzly Bear” and “The Pixies.” Their songs can range anywhere from a slow, mind-bending tune to an all-encompassing wall of blazing sound. Constantly developing new ways to surprise their fans with multi-layered harmonies and new arrangements the result is always interesting, and certainly never same old-same old.
www.myspace.com/thefling….

Vocalist Austin Carlile founded Of Mice & Men, originally with “Attack Attack,” and bassist Jaxin Hall, from Auckland, New Zealand. The two recorded the demo, Seven Thousand Miles for What?, and then searched for other members for a month until they met up with drummer Tino Arteaga, of “Lower Definition,” and guitarist Phil Manansala, who was with “A Static Lullaby.” Austin and Jaxin moved to SO CA to join up with the two, and began writing. Eventually, OM&M brought Shayley Bourget from “Chapters” and “Covette” on rhythm guitar, keyboard and vocals. Of Mice & Men have already recorded their debut album to be released in February 2010 and have hit the road with a purple passion. They will be participating in the entire Vans Warped Tour 2010.
http://www.myspace.com/ofmice

Pistol Opera is the wildly fused talents of Eli Braden and Toby Semain, two guys who are intense in their belief that an album should be good from start to finish. L.A. based Eli and Toby write, record, and produce their music almost entirely on their own. Eli is the singer and bassist, and writes the lion’s share of the lyrics. Toby is the guitarist and drummer, although as of yet, not concurrently; he is also the engineer and producer for the band’s recordings. Pistol Opera’s friend Mike Stromsoe steps in to mix the finished product. 2007 saw their debut album.
http://www.pistolopera.com

Scarlet Haze out of Minneapolis, MN is a hard rock, female-fronted band that will take you all the way back to “Tom Petty,” “U2,” “Sting,” “Spiders and Snakes,” “Blind Hate,” “Sammy Hagar,” and “Stone Gods.” Quite an eclectic crew of influences!

They were founded in 2004, and released a full-length album called Out of the Dark in 2005. The Bootleg EP was released in 2007.

Kat Perkins destroys all within earshot with her explosive vocals, and supplies the songwriting skills to the group. Kat shakes some mean tambourine from time to time, also. Casey Smith is often on guitar and Tony Wilson is usually laying down the bass lines. Shane Speltz is always back there on the drums, and provides massive amounts of the bands creative energy. Scarlet Haze opened for “Bon Jovi” at The Target Center in October 2006.
www.scarlethaze.com

Searchlight began in 2005, when lead singer and guitar player Adam Michaels, and bass player Kevin Abdon made the move from Lake Havasu City, “London Bridge is our Claim to Fame,” AZ to Las Vegas to start a band. Shortly after the move to “What Happens Here Stays Here,” they met up with Ricky Torres, who would become their demon on the drums, and guitarist Matt Hopkins.

The band got down to writing some seriously good stuff, and soon garnered the interest of producer, Branden Steineckert (former drummer of “The Used,” and current drummer of the punk legends, “Rancid”). Searchlight then made the short trek to Orem, Utah to record with Steineckert at Unknown Studios. One song that came out of that session was Contagious, which landed a prize spot on the Resident Evil: Extinction soundtrack and was played during the ending credits of the film. In February 2009, Searchlight released their debut album, Until the End and After and began touring the album in August 2009.
http://www.myspace.com/searchlightmusic

The Thermals are an indie alternative post-pop-punk rock band from Portland, OR, that formed in the summer of 2002. Their breakout album, More Parts per Million, was conjured up and then recorded in the tiny kitchen of singer Hutch Harris’s house, on a 4-track cassette machine, with total tracking costs of around ten bucks. A demo of the record was passed from Ben Gibbard, of “Death Cab For Cutie” and “The Postal Service” fame to indie giant Sub Pop Records, who signed The Thermals after they had played just a smidgen of gigs. MPPM was then mixed by “Death Cab for Cutie’s” Chris Walla at The Hall of Justice in Seattle, WA and Sub Pop released the record in March 2003. The Thermals quickly became what is referred to as a power trio.

The Thermals have recently released their fourth and perhaps best album to date, Now We Can See. After saying friendly good-byes to the folks at Sub Pop, the band signed with the iconic Northwest label Kill Rock Stars, and recently relocated to Portland, OR. Lots of naked punked-out energy combined with sterling melodies and thoughtful lyrics keep their fan base blooming. Hutch Harris, Kathy Foster and Westin Glass make up the current members of the band. The band earned some straight-up respect for discovering a fourth chord in pop-punk. (It’s F# minor, for the uninitiated.)
http://www.thethermals.com/home.html

Vains of Jenna was formed in the small town of Falkenberg, Sweden in January 2005. Lead Vocalist Lizzy DeVine and bassist JP White were discussing a new band, and had been checking out guitarist Nicki Kin and drummer Jacki Stone to bring it all together.

During the spring of 2005, Vains of Jenna was offered a chance to play the epic, “Whisky a Go-Go” in Hollywood. They staggered the crowd with their blazing energy, brashness, and total sleaze throwback style. Just a few days later, the band was cutting tracks with former “Guns N Roses” guitarist Gilby Clarke at his Redrum Studios. You don’t want anybody waking you up when dreams like that start coming true…
Tour dates started going crazy-mad and fan bases grew like poppies outside the Emerald City. Don’t take your eyes, or ears, off of this band. Vains of Jenna has the heartbeat of sleaze rock by the main artery.
http://www.myspace.com/vainsofjenna

So, there’s the list, not the standard “Top Ten”, but, as I said, it is my list and they are my rules, right? Comment all you want, please do. I would be really interested to see what bands you come up with that were on my original list, and if you come up with any that I had not considered. However, for now, here are the ones that will live in infamy …at least on this, the only list that really matters…in my never to be humble opinion.

Angela Sanchez

Original Article on Music Articles.

About the Author: I have been a production assistant for an indie music studio, done road managing for touring performing artists, organized album release concerts, and have done extensive freelance writing. I also raise partridges in pear trees in my spare time, and am the proud mom of seven children, including a U.S. Marine.

With a magazine that was of value in the first place, you might say something like “stick to music,” but the truth is that Rolling Stone had nothing more to say after hair bands died out. Now they try to seem hip by ragging on successful industrialists and investors. One problem with this plan: global warming is past its prime.

With the climate-gate emails proving that some of the major climate changes scientists were being fraudulent with their data, and the fact that all warming seems to have stopped in the last decade, the global warming frenzy is quieting down. Figures that Rolling Stone would be their usual obsolete and outdated self and jump on the bandwagon after it has derailed.

Instead of pushing the latest idiots of the mainstream music scene, Rolling Stone has not degenerated into pushing the latest political fad of the left, by lambasting some of the most productive people in the world as dangers to us all. How about this, how about we stop supporting stupid music magazines run by highschoolers who need a cause to be attached to and worry about maintaining a free market and society so that real music can continue to be made, and lame magazines can continue to ignore it.