Rock Music and Dance Music – Popular Music Genres
Rock Music enjoys continued popularity since last fifty years. It is, by far, the best selling music among all genres and forms. That clearly shows its popularity through out the world including U.S.A, U.K, Germany, France, and Australia. It enjoys great popularity in Asia, Africa and Americas as well. It was born as Rock and Roll in 1950s. It was a fusion form of Rhythm & Blues, Country and other popular forms. It became instant hit across the United States of America. Bo Didley and Chuck Berry were the early rock artists. Little Richards and Fats Domino were also popular. It was widely accepted as popular form of music and spread to Britain and other countries. Its spread to United Kingdom was fast and swift. Cliff Richards and John Lennon were the early artists. Both of them achieved great success. John Lennon later formed the legendary ‘The Beatles’. [...]
The history of Soul Music and R&B
Soul Music has its beginnings in Gospel and R&B of the 1940s and 1950s. They both had major influences on key soul singers including Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin, just to name a couple. The birthplace of Soul Music, to be quite honest is unknown. What is known? The United States inner cities, including Chicago, Detroit, Florence, Memphis, and New York, all created and produced their own soul music styles based on their demographics at the same time, thus making a âbeautiful mixtureâ of sound variety across the states for us all to enjoy. In the 1970s, Hip Hop was born, which had a huge influence on the Soul Music that followed. New Jack Swing (aka Swing Beat), which combined Soul, Hip Hop, Gospel and Jazz, was absolutely rocking. Disco and Funk Music also came to fruition in the 1970s, and started to decline in the early 1980s. Undoubtedly, Soul [...]
Goldfrapp Tickets—the Honey-voiced Siren of Lush Electronica is on Tour Again
Goldfrapp tickets are now available and can be bought or sold online at Stubhub.com. Allison Goldfrappâs voice is as striking as her movie star looksâbut sheâs in a different class than the blockbuster starlets of today. Sheâs more like Marlene Dietrich, possessing an exotic, almost cinematic beauty thatâs intoxicating. The cover of her first album, Felt Mountain, suggested as much, symmetrically reflecting her face and curly hair in black and white. If you arenât familiar with Goldfrappâs music, youâre in luck: She happens to be on tour, and Goldfrapp tickets are on sale now. With a new album out, sheâs proved she not only has talent but can keep her listeners on their toes, changing styles and evolving from strict electronic music to a more mellow, acoustic-based form of electronic pop. Goldfrapp was studying painting at Middlesex University in the â90s, when her flair for performance and theatrical visuals (not [...]
Trance
Trance As a musical genre that came into existence in the latter part of the 20th century, trance music is an art form that relies heavily on the use of electronic equipment and a specific tempo range to create a musical arrangement that is understood to have somewhat hypnotic qualities. Trance music is generally considered to be a form of electronic music that has been influenced by other electronic music genres, such as house music, techno, and ambient music. The exact origins of trance music are usually traced to the late 1980s, where the first compositions considered to be trance in nature emerged from the acid house movement in the United Kingdom. The emerging compositions included beat ranges that were in the range of 130 to 160 beats per minute, and involved repetitious chains of melodies that were connected with a series of crescendos and breakdowns. While most of the [...]
Music Review of Fantasy Black Channel by Late Of The Pier
âLate Of The Pierâ are a four-piece indie rock band from Castle Donington, London. Late Of The Pier are Samuel Eastgate (Vocals, Guitar and Synthesizers), Andrew Faley (Bass and Synthesizers), Sam Potter (Sampler) and Ross Dawson (Drums). All of them have pseudonyms and known as Samuel Dust, Francis Dudley Dance, Jack Paradise and Red Dog Consuela respectively. Late Of The Pier are very much into electronica and their music genres cover indie rock, electronica, synth pop and dance-punk. Late Of The Pierâs Fantasy Black Channel opens with roaring guitar instrumental âHot Tent Bluesâ. It seems that Late Of The Pier have been using a sampler to make this track. The guitar on this track revives the 80s rock scene where itâs filled with pitching and echoic guitar. The bass and drums provide cushion in the background as the guitar plays on. Once it reaches the remaining 13 seconds, the track [...]