Over Twenty Years Ago, Yet the Parallels are Shocking! Here we are, nearly a decade into the Twenty First Century and in the middle of one of the worst economic struggles that we have faced as a nation. Yet, with the current programming in our media, aside from the sensationalist “News” you’d never know […]
Music Review: Peter Gabriel – Third Album (Melt)
Without any doubt, this album was ahead of its time! I’ll first start with ‘Games Without Frontiers.’ This track perhaps is the best Electronic Pop track of the 1980s. Listen to this with your headphones and you will be blown away. When artists of the era were pumping their Modular Synths full of Reverb so […]
Music Review: Siouxsie & the Banshees – Kelidoscope
From the beginning to the end, this album journeys and transitions through The Banshees influences from Glam, Punk and Exotica to Electronica and psychedelia. Steve Severin’s interest in Krautrock and Brian Eno, Budgie’s Tribal and Disco Influences, Siouxsie’s themes of personality crisis, obsession, alienation and all things macabre are mixed here perfectly. This isn’t The […]
Music Review: Lady GaGa – The Fame
Ha! Well, I admit that I ignored Lady GaGa until this fall but figured I’d see what all the fuss was about and gave The Fame a thorough listen. To start, I’d like to say that she is actually a solid musical talent. She plays piano and writes her own music which for a Pop […]
Music Review: Glassworks – The Best Introduction to Philip Glass
Firstly lets talk about his influence! From Coldplay, Lauri Anderson, Aphex Twin, Portishead, Radiohead, Peter Gabriel, and Brian Eno to numerous other copy cats and com-posers who have used his arpeggiations to build drama and intensity in otherwise minimalist tracks. Philip Glass has forever changed the landscape of both Compositional and Popular Music. Glassworks shows […]