Rock music was decaying in the late 80's. The rock scene was suffering from a repetetive pattern of big hair, flashy clothes, long guitar solos, and lyrics that weren't relating to the listeners. The music industry was begging for something new. This is the beat up state that rock was ...

Breaking Boundaries with Music "So-called facts are fraud they want us to allege and pledge and bow down to their God lost culture, the culture loss spun our minds and through time ignorance has taken over; we gotta take the power back, bam! Here's the plan, mother fuck'n Uncle Sam; step ...

It's in our homes, our cars, our work and almost every other place we go. It invades our silence, manipulates our thoughts and plays on our emotions. It has been with us almost as long as mans very existence, has survived World Wars, famine, and disease and is constantly changing, while still ...

Music plays an important role in today's culture. Whether you're driving in your car, watching a movie, or are at a sporting event, music is all around you. It pleases your emotions, soothes your soul and takes away all the worries in the world. But it's not just one type of music ...

From Elvis Presley to Ozzy Osbourne, different genres of music have been misunderstood and looked down upon throughout time. Lately though, people have become over obsessed with this new brand of pretty, punk style music featuring a bunch of nasal sounding kids from California due to the media's dow...

As in most generations, the youth engages in some type of new and rebellious activity against the mores of their parent\'s previous generation. One type of rebellion that turned up in the music of the youth and becoming widely popular in the 1980s, however having origins from years before, is heavy ...

Downtown Madison at night is full of amazing sights and sounds that you can't see anywhere else in town. The large dome of the capital is lit up at night and is like a light house calling people out from there homes and into the wild nightlife that awaits them at the bottom of its white stone...

This is Spinal Tap While attempting to be nothing more than a comical spoof of the music industry, "Spinal Tap" was instead rocketed to cult icon status. The characters in the movie are so fully thought out that almost all rock and roll bands that became popular prior to and half a dec...

Metallica Assignment MusicologyDuration Metre and RhythmMost songs are in the usual rock metre of common or cut time although some songs are in ¾ or 6/8. At the end of some 4/4 phrases a ¾ or 2/4 bar is used to push the beat. The rhythm, in the first few albums, was typically very fast with its r...

Metallica has not always been the talented group of rock musicians that they are today. It took many years and many albums to bring the band to its current standing as the "kings of rock." Metallica has undergone changes in its lineup and its musical writing style. Comparing and contrasting the m...

What music do you listen to? Is it the greatest composers of the eighteenth century, or the sounds of the London Symphony Orchestra? It's mostly rap, hip-hop, pop, and all that normal stuff out there isn't it? I'm trying to keep the faith in classical and instrumental music so that i...

In the heart of downtown Flint, in a strip full of run down old stores, the Flint Local 432, a former run down old store itself now an all ages venue hides away during the day; waiting for the sun to drop to come to life with music. On my first visit to the club, as I stood in line waiting to get in...