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Say it on the Huffington Post
As the cool days of fall are now upon us, I naturally escape to thoughts of a warmer place and ponder where I'll go for my next vacation. Last year's travels were pretty epic; they took me to a place that I've yearned to go since I first caught the travel bug: Thailand.
America's Favorite Dragapella Beautyshop Quartet, The Kinsey Sicks, want to be the first to issue a musical response.
When a band decides to name their brand new album "deviations," one would think the goal would be to deliver something musically different from the usual. Far from being out of the usual run of things, Aurganic's new EP is missing magic.
When my publisher asked me to solicit blurbs -- the positive comments that appear on the back cover of books -- I wasn't enthusiastic.
It's easier than ever to find new music to like or love, but our mechanisms for collecting that music in a meaningful way haven't kept pace with all of those discovery methods.
The problem is not the things we like, it's the way we do business. It's the way huge corporations handle distributing goods, maximizing profits. We absolutely have the power to turn this around, to whatever extent that we really want to turn it around.
On "Nothing Was the Same" Drake does this even more successfully than on previous projects and helps to keep the hip hop album as a narrative vehicle as opposed to just a dumping ground for hyped up studio sessions
This week's playlist includes music by Crabby Appleton, Tangerine Dream, Marlena Shaw, Kendra Morris, and more.
Don't you just love how a certain song or smell or moment triggers a floodgate of memories and takes you right back to that moment? That Sarah McLachlan song did it for me. All of the sudden, it's 1998 and I'm 17. I'm in my car with my girlfriends and we're soaking in the entire Surfacing album.
This is an "anything can happen" environment -- you make plans to do something in ten minutes and then another person will inject their ideas. Everything is constantly shifting. But I always think, collaboration and improvisation are so important.
From the first years of our label, to our last one at the company, it was important to express ourselves with a sense of humor, not only in our product, but in the way we marketed our label.
We are desperately in need of a new kind of music appreciation program -- one that offers everyone the "why" of music, impresses upon us its deeper values, and helps people better understand how we can most effectively harness its tremendous benefits and better integrate those into our daily lives.
With my music, I decided to do what came naturally. My music stylistically has a Latin undertone but my lyrics are in English. The language has become less of a barrier in the arts--we're less confined in regards to what we create, especially in the music landscape.
The stories we tell and the themes that we communicate through music do have a lasting effect on the audience. We as musicians and composers have with us a unique opportunity and a responsibility; that of telling stories that can empower communities and enable six billion of us human beings to create new possibilities for a shared future.
I'm sitting at the top of the steps of the Met Museum on this late afternoon. The sun has dipped and so has the temperature. I finish my afternoo...
Lily Kershaw writes serious, introspective music but doesn't take herself seriously. There's a sweet heart pumping and a radiant soul glowing inside t...
