music

When people post a link to a song, there is no way to tell what kind of music it is or what period it’s from. To help engagement and the user experience, I suggest we require people to at least write the genre and year in the title of their post. Bonus points for adding some explanation in the body of the post about the...

cross-posted from: yiffit.net/post/678460...

One might assume that there is something dispiriting about performing night after night to audiences for whom music is a mere backdrop to recreation, forgoing the chance to focus on your own songwriting in favour of covering singalong hits to a party crowd. But in a music industry that is increasingly precarious, particularly in...

I’ve been listening to this a bunch lately. This is the cleanest-sounding concert recording I’ve ever found on youtube.

One of my favorite tracks in the game which I often listen while studying or working.

Alternative link: piped.video/watch?v=Y4zfkeTsto0

Alternative link. https://piped.video/watch?v=AeFwEnyMl8A

My view on this very feminist piece is that Winehouse wasn’t anywhere near as influential or impactful to music and other musicians as Nirvana (which is the article’s main point of comparison). Many other musicians and singers have come and gone (both male and female) and are not held in anywhere near the same reverence as...

A video on musical tempo, how we perceive it with our bodies as well as our ears, and where the limits are.

My mother introduced me to the chieftains. This is the song I always think of when I hear Sinéad O’Connor mentioned. Her voice is just so pure and cutting… What is there not to love?

The death has been announced of singer Sinéad O’Connor aged 56.