Posted by Corey on June 10, 2009 · Leave a Comment
For some strange reason, when I listen to Armen Martirosian I am drawn back to the first time I heard the band Enigma. It’s not that the music is the same, except that it has a nice cultural divergence that Enigma was always able to deliver. The [...]
Posted by Corey on May 21, 2009 · Leave a Comment
I wasn’t alive to see the civil rights movement or even the first British Invasion. I even missed out on Woodstock: an event that some call the crowning act of the 1960’s. To make matters worse, the extent of my knowledge on interesting cultural figures of the [...]
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Posted by Corey on May 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Let me start out by saying that Eternal Essence absolutely rocks. This is so good, I have to grab my pair of Sennhiser headphones for another listen while I write. My initial impression of this band was that it was heavily influenced by Dream Theater. You [...]
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Posted by Corey on April 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment
This one man band, namely Guy chambers, from the UK is too much. The sound effects are eerie, the beat is hypnotic, and the overall feel is like being drug underground and left in a dark cement walled tunnel with the echoes still bouncing around in your head to prove [...]
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Posted by Corey on April 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment
This week I stumbled across a group named Thyateira, a curious band from Crystal Lake, Illinois. I’m going to be honest with you right up front. I have rather mixed feelings about this band (whose name I assume comes from the fourth church of the book of [...]
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Posted by Corey on April 12, 2009 · Leave a Comment
It is time for all my loyal readers to join me inside the fall out shelter for a special announcement. It is my pleasure to present to you the axe master from Budapest Hungary, Jonas Tamas. In the short time I’ve known about Jonas, I’ve just been [...]
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Posted by Corey on March 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Have you ever been surfing online, just looking for something a little, uhm’–out of the ordinary to take a gander at, and you accidentally find it? Well, that is what happened when I ran across the band Unexpect. Okay, let’s start with the disclaimer. Personally, this [...]
Posted by Corey on March 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment
MICHAEL ANGELO BATIO:
In this three part lesson, Michael Angelo Batio takes us through how to harmonize the A harmonic minor scale, applying the Phrygian and Aolean Modes, and some thoughts on his approach to writing songs.
MICHAEL ANGELO BATIO: Harmonizing the A harmonic scale
MICHAEL ANGELO BATIO: Interesting Mode [...]
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Posted by Corey on March 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment
We all dream of it: a two car garage, a job we absolutely hate, and even looking forward to coming home at night to flop down in front of the boob tube to waste what remains of those few precious moments we refer to as life. If we are lucky, [...]
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Posted by Corey on March 16, 2009 · Leave a Comment
In a recent controversial exchange with music industry commentator Bob Lefsetz, a defiant Gene Simmons made a plea to bands and the music
industry corporate structure to urge both to realize the dependency that they share on one another in his grand vision of how to rebuild the music industry. The moment [...]
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