It is also important to point out the development of postmodernism, an umbrella term for the general sense that there is no universal “truth” in the world and that we should instead explore and understand various local, cultural, and more relative values. Walser goes further to say that heavy metal, like the horror genre in film, developed to “restore the sense of security undermined by these disruptions.” What that means is that when George Ramero was filming Night of the Living Dead and Black Sabbath were playing “Iron Man,” they were attempting to find new, undeniable truths—the absoluteness of evil in flesh-eating zombies, the power of aggression in crunching guitars.
.. In Susan Fast’s book on Led Zeppelin, In the Houses of the Holy, she cites fans as saying things like, “I enjoy the sense of magick [sic] in the music”; “A lot of their lyrics portray far off, mystical lands, castles, oceans, etc. The band’s image was known as being mystical and somewhat secretive”; and “They are consummately modern with cores of ancient and original spirits.”
.. There is—in “Stairway to Heaven,” Led Zeppelin, horror, and metal—a longing to go back to a time when the evil spirits in the forest grounded our beliefs in good and evil.
.. While musicologists and critics have often said that the song gradually adds in instruments as it builds to this solo, it’s more true to say that the classical music elements—the recorder, the acoustic guitar—arereplaced by more modern instruments in a sort of movement through time, a summoning of truths and myths through the contemporary. It is a way to bring these past ideals into the now, and Page is the lone guitar hero who can do that.
Pentatonix – On My Way Home: Vimeo Buy Video
Grammy Award-winners and platinum selling recording artists Pentatonix are bringing their concert documentary On My Way Home exclusively to Vimeo On Demand. The documentary follows the group on their 2015 sold out North American tour. Since bursting onto the scene in 2011, Pentatonix has sold more than 2 million albums in the U.S. alone and amassed nearly 1 billion views on their YouTube channel with more than 8.1 million subscribers. Their latest holiday album – That’s Christmas To Me – sold more than 1.1 million copies in the U. S., becoming one of only four acts to release a platinum album in 2014. In February 2015, the group received their first GRAMMY® Award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental and A Cappella for their “Daft Punk” medley. In May, Pentatonix made their film debut in Pitch Perfect 2 and will hit the road with Kelly Clarkson in July.
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When Apple’s $10-a-month subscription plans kick in, the company has said it will pay at least 71.5 percent of the revenue in royalties.
Part of the reason Ms. Swift has been able to challenge the status quo is that she holds an unusual amount of control over her music: Big Machine is independent, and her family owns part of the company. It is a different situation for most artists signed to bigger labels, which often control distribution rights to their recordings, music executives said.
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The music died because Buddy Holly merely wanted what every touring musician wants: to do laundry.
Shoved into unheated buses on a “Winter Dance Party” tour in 1959, Holly — tired of rattling through the Midwest with dirty clothes — chartered a plane on Feb. 3 to fly from Clear Lake, Iowa, to Fargo, N.D., where he hoped he could make an appointment with a washing machine. Joining him on the plane were Ritchie Valens and, after future country star Waylon Jennings gave up his seat, J.P. Richardson, a.k.a. “the Big Bopper.” Taking off in bad weather with a pilot not certified to do so, the plane crashed, killing everyone aboard. The toll was incalculable: The singers of “Peggy Sue” and “Come On Let’s Go” and “Donna” and “La Bamba” were dead. Holly was just 22; incredibly, Valens was just 17. Rock and roll would never be the same.
.. The chorus is so good that it lets you wallow in the confusion and wistfulness of that moment, and be comforted at the same time. It’s bubblegum Dylan, really.”