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Today’s Top Alternative Artists
Alternative music has changed a lot from the 90s when alt rock became all the rage around the world. Bands such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam, U2, Green Day, Soundgarden, Nirvana, Jane’s Addiction, Radiohead, and many others blasted their way into the public consciousness [...]
To Learn About Classical Music, Start with Baroque Music
While the beginnings of classical music date back many, many centuries to the Italian Renaissance period, what most people consider being classical music today was really started in the late 1600s in the form of a musical style called Baroque music.
Modern popular music with Christian themes in the lyrics is a big industry. Several record labels and radio stations promote Christian music groups. The lyrics vary in their strength of feeling and the Christian message is delivered in different ways. Gospel music has often crossed over into the mainstream and many artists, such [...]
The genesis of folk music and its place in the modern day
Folk music escapes precise definition, even among musicologists and anthropologists, yet most people can recognize it when they hear it. This recognition is not surprising. Most people in the world are exposed to folk songs from the moment they [...]
Dance music songs and the “forbidden genre”
I recently found myself in an online argument with complete strangers over a list of the twenty-five greatest songs of the “oughties.” Or whatever it is we’ve decided to call the decade that ran from the year 2000 to the year 2010. And yes, [...]
A lot of the time, people get caught up with one type of Christian song or another. Maybe it is the gospel music you grew up in, the Christian rock you got into in your teens, or the Christian contemporary that your mom likes to listen to in the car on the way [...]
80s Pop Music: The Beginning of Modern Rock
Modern Rock or Alternative Rock as we know it now began in the 80s with many bands that were considered one-hit wonders or had very short careers. After the implosion of disco music in the late 1970s, music fans were confused and had [...]
Great 80s Music Hits
When most people think of the 80s they do not have very fond memories of the music that was on the air at the time. We tend to think of the 70s as the “disco” era and the 60s as the time when rock music developed. The [...]
70s Music Hits are Unique in Modern Era
As a man born in the 1950s, I had much experience with 70s music hits when they first came out, because I just finished school by that time and started my life as a suppose to be “adult who knows it all”. I [...]
The 1960s are fondly remembered as a particularly rich time in music history. While the birth of rock and roll came a decade previous, the 1960s saw rock and roll become a cultural phenomenon unparalleled before or since. As a result, there are a plethora of 60′s music hits that are still alive [...]
The Best Hits of 90s Alternative Rock
90s alternative rock offered some of the finest rock songs ever recorded by some of the greatest bands in history. The 80s saw the invention of melodic Modern Rock and a host of one hit wonder bands and pop groups but it was 90s [...]
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