Stream Bruce Springsteen's New Album and Read Our Review
It's been over 40 years since his debut and yetBruce Springsteenis still finding a way to generate "firsts" in his storied career. This time it'sHigh Hopes, a collection of covers and outtakes recorded over the last year. The E Street Band is in tow, as well asTom Morello, who has been serving as a fill-in forSteven Van Zandton tour and appears on over half the album's tracks, including a lead vocal spot on "The Ghost of Tom Joad." Our Stephen Thomas Erlewine says the collection"oscillates between the moody and militant"in his review, and you can hear it in full below.
Update: The full album stream has expired, but enjoy the title track.
There are literally hundreds of different methods used to write a song, and every musician has tailored their own rhyme and reason of doing things. Sometimes it’s as easy as playing some piano and having the words write themselves, or it can start with a poem and a mission to find the right music to fit it. I have compiled some of the ways I have come across to write your own music. Please keep in mind that these are only a few of many different ways to come up with your own material, and these are great ways to learn. But you get much more satisfaction if you start from scratch. Enjoy, and I hope this helps. Scaffolding Stuck? Here’s an old trick to get you going. What a good song offers is structure, repetition, form and balance. Not always easy to create, but easy to borrow. You can build on the form of another song, without sounding at all like that song. Much as a scaffold is used to frame a skyscraper — the scaffold may look familiar, but once removed yields a...
Fenders Early Bass Designs. 1951 - Fender Precision Bass - Telecaster inspired design, slab construction. 20 fret, bolt on one piece maple neck and fret board with black fret markers. Single layer white or black plastic "tele-bass" pick guard. old school split coil pickup 1 volume 1 tone knob. The "skunk" stripe, was a piece of dark wood (usually walnut or rosewood) fitted into the back of the neck where they routed out for the truss rod assembly. They eventually stopped doing this when they started using a 2 piece necks, but they brought it back for the vintage look of the reissue models. 1953 - Fender Precision Bass - First upgrade was made in 1953 when the Pbass got contoured edges making it more comfortable to hold and play. 1957 - Fender Precision Bass - Rethought and reinvigorated the Pbass was redesigned to look more like the stratoca...
1) It has been proven that the chills we get while listening to a certain song is caused be the brains release of dopamine into the blood. Scientists recruited people who reliably get shivers when listening to an affective score. The chills are a consistent, in the moment measure of pleasure than asking how test subjects felt. Scientists used brain-imaging techniques that revealed that the music caused dopamine peaks coupled with emotional arousal. The release of dopamine during music explains why such a high value is put on it and why music can manipulate our emotions. The effect that music has on us is quite comparable to other pleasures. Some examples are the joy of eating food, sex, and other tangible rewards. Music can quite literally move us or the chemicals in our brains. The fact that music can really give us a rush like sex does is incredible. Well, the sensation is released from the same part of the brain at least. Listening to actual non-terrible music has an additi...
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