The history of modern music is draped in the power of music myth and rumor, from the “Paul is dead” buzz to Led Zeppelin’s filthy mud shark incident. Sometimes, the stories that serve as the foundation for such mythos are so fantastic, so cool, or so flat out weird, it doesn’t much matter whether they’re … Read more
If you’re like me, you probably remember the old days of uploading your songs to MySpace and Soundcloud. It was cool to hit the charts and get a ton of plays, but there wasn’t a readily available way of monetizing those plays. The best you could do on these streaming sites was link people out … Read more
Weird musical instruments abound. Strings, brass, percussion… even ones with animals in them exist in the present, and that’s not even counting the theoretical ones throughout history that got a little too bizarre. 21 Weird Instruments Let’s take a look at the strangest and most unusual instruments out there, in no particular order. Now, there … Read more
The Aztecs made countless types of noisemakers and musical instruments. Using clay, sugar cane, turkey feathers, ores, frog skins, and much more, they were able to create sounds to be associated with many life events, but most jarringly, the Aztec death whistle. They had conch shells for ceremonies, ocarinas for making animal grunts to attract … Read more
Anyone even slightly familiar with music instruments knows about Zildjian. Their name is synonymous with the cymbals that can be found on almost every drum set you come across. That’s amazing and is likely due to one of the most interesting facts about them… Beyond totally dominating an entire sector of the music instrument industry… … Read more
The mental_floss magazine tasked John Green of their List Show to compile 25 Facts About the Science of Music… He went above and beyond to make sure these were actually surprising, amazing, and conversation-inducing. Check out the 10 minute video below or scroll down for our TL;DR version: While won’t suck all the life out … Read more
Most of you likely have never even heard of Chap Hop, let alone realized there’s already a feud amongst the two leaders of the rap sub-genre. This feud is between Professor Elemental and Mr. B the Gentleman Rhymer, already leading to battle tracks and disses in various songs. Of course, the beef is satire just … Read more
Twas another hot, slightly overcast day in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The sweat was beading up as even the birds were seeking the shade of the surrounding trees. Emily Kraus rolled along in her car with the windows down, jamming her favorite Dave Matthews Band album as she inched closer to the venue… Emily had been a … Read more
History was made today as it was announced that Kendrick Lamar, an intellectual rapper from Compton, California who made his rise through the ranks a reality around 2014, won the first ever Pulitzer Prize awarded to a rapper. Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer Prize As a matter of fact, he’s the first musician to win that wasn’t … Read more
Get ready to take an emotional rollercoaster. There are some real despicable people out there doing horrible things for selfish reasons, but in the end justice can prevail when given the opportunity. The Context – Mastering the Clarinet That’s how it went down for Eric Abramovitz. From the early age of seven he’d already earned … Read more