RIP Zach Sobiech

The world lost a little luster today as Zach Sobiech died of his osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer. The video about Zach and his life speaks for itself. Definitely worth a watch. 

And here's his song Clouds.

Matisyahu's Rise to the Top

2009 dropped “One Day,” a song that took most people by surprise. A new reggae artist had emerged that broke the stereotype. Instead of rocking natty dreadlocks, a beanie, and a baggie shirt, he wore an orthodox beard, peyos, a yamaka, and a traditional Jewish suit. And the kicker? He’s actually… good.

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Canadian Music’s Black Widow?

Avril Lavigne and Chad Kroeger from Nickelback are engaged, and I couldn’t be happier. Why? Well, it’s not out of some good-natured hope for their wellbeing—I think these two people are two of the worst music artists in the world. There is a lot of great Canadian music out there, but it is by no means represented by these horrid artists. No, my happiness stems from the fact that this marriage may just mean the end of Nickelback.

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Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball Review

Wrecking Ball is the first Springsteen album of original material without the E Street band in over seven years. Debuting at number one on both sides of the Atlantic and most likely on this side of the Pacific there is little doubt that the Springsteen brand and message still resonates as loud as ever.

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R.E.M. Disband, A Chapter in the History of Alternative Rock Comes to An End

The 1980s were dominated by progressive rock, disco and bands that still had a hangover of the 60s and 70s sound.R.E.M, when they started as a band in the early 1980s started a sound that was markedly different from the existing sound of that time, and influenced a number of bands to form a sound that became a genre in itself.

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When The Beatles Fought for Civil Rights Movement in the United States of America

The Civil Rights Movement, led by Martin Luther King Juniorand resulted in the eventual banning of racial segregation practiced in the U.S. In the year 1965, Rosa Parks, a black civil rights activist refused to get up from her seat in the bus, and thus started a boycott of public transportation by the black community for almost a year. While the heated activism continued in the hinterlands of America, Britain had already made it illegal to display racial discrimination in a public place.

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Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton Play the Blues – A review

Eric Clapton’s musical journey continues, this time with jazz giant and musicologist, Wynton Marsalis by his side.

Born out of mutual admiration, Play the Blues, as Marsalis says was merely the orchestration of the feeling generated by their friendship. If the concert is testament to their friendship then there is little doubt as to depth and mutual affection between the two men.

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Jeff Bridges, Jeff Bridges - A Review

The self-titled debut album for the academy award winning actor realizes the promise of his musicality as witnessed in his Oscar awarded performance in Crazy Heart.

Produced by renowned songwriter/producer T-Bone Burnett, the album is carefully crafted to play to Bridges’ strengths as a mature performer yet a first time bona fide recording artist. Bridges’ voice and Burnett’s production are a comfortable fit, a trait of Burnett’s producing where the voice is always out front in the mix, see Raising Sand, the Grammy award Robert Plant & Alison Krauss album as an example.

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Maynard and his Mother

 James Maynard Keenan is the lead singer for the band 'Tool.' After the band blew up with the album Aenema, he went on to participate in another band, 'A Perfect Circle.'

In the year 2000, his mother, Judith Marie Keenan, had a stroke and was restricted to a wheel chair. Consequently he wrote the song "Judith," which he explains on the Amotive DVD.

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70 Years of Bob Dylan

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