Zac Brown Band, a fifteen-year-old group, has been climbing up the charts since their first songs came out. It is a country, and more recently rock band that has been sweeping the country with hit songs like Knee Deep and Chicken Fried. Their concerts have been blowing up, selling out two nights in Fenway alone. But, this success is well earned their band will be one of the greats, and over the past fifteen years and are continuously growing. The songs continue to amaze their audience,…
My heart thumps like a bass drum in my ears as I run. I can barely breathe but I don’t stop. I reach my car, crank the engine and put my foot to the floor. Driving through the streets of Brisbane to the highway, I start to think over Alice’s and my relationship. “You should come over this weekend. We can work on our project.” I messaged her late at night. “Okay, I’ll ask my parents.” Alice answers quickly before confirming she can. On Saturday morning, she arrives at my house. We work on our…
Contemporary rock band Imagine Dragons sang the line “It’s a revolution, I suppose…” in their Grammy Award-winning song “Radioactive”. Surprisingly, Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson, the main character in the book The Titan’s Curse, can relate to this line, as well as the rest of the song. Although The Titan’s Curse is a fiction book based on Ancient Greek Mythology, it shares the same theme with Radioactive, a popular rock song. Both pieces of literature show the reader that you can you can…
Compare and Contrast Goldfinger (1964); Musical Score by John Barry vs Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981); Musical Score by John Williams During the 1960s, popular music played an important role in filmmaking, garnering larger audiences due to the appeal of this genre but also due to the fact that psychologically, people tend to associate the music they are hearing with real life events or emotions. From 1960-1967, film scores began to change. No longer would we see the traditions of the 50s, where…
The song “Faithfully” from 1983, performed by the band Journey on their album Frontiers is thought to be one of many iconic rock songs from the 1980s that has left a legacy for decades and generations. It mixes many different instrumental parts with the concept of the 1980s rock song, having sounds similar to the well known power ballads and the genre of arena rock. “Faithfully”, tells a story as any other song does, using lyrics and the general progression of the music throughout the song to…
Asher roth song “ I Love College” reflects the culture of the 2000S as a college anthem. The song is categorized through its melody , texture, and its word-music relationships. The key instruments used in the song are a drum and a gutier, those instruments are really used in pop, country, and rock music.The way asher roth has the guitar playing out throughout the whole song with the amazing beat is wonderfully laid out it's a catching tune that mostly everybody can sing along too, he put so…
influential music’s that brought people together, but also brought them apart. Rock and Roll brought out a type of persona and a feel, in which people received when this genre was the new “big” thing. There were a few bands, such as the Beatles and The Rolling Stones that brought the true feel and meaning of Rock and Roll. The Beatles were one of the most influential bands that brought the great and unanimous sound of Rock and Roll. The beginning to the genre of Rock and Roll is not what is in…
Julian Opie is an English sculptor, painter, printmaker and installation artist that was born in London in the year 1958 and was raised in Oxford and he belongs to the New British Sculpture movement, he is one of the UK's best-known contemporary artists. He graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London in 1983 The new British sculpture movement started in the United Kingdom and is a term that is applied to a group of young sculptors that first started emerging at exhibitions at the start of…
The Rolling Stones, having outlived almost the greater part of their 1960s counterparts, keep on belting out hits well into middle age. However, the Rolling Stones did not begin with the same as its line-up today. Scarcely, very few, if any groups have ever began that way. The Rolling Stones began as a little high school band named "Young man Blue and the Blue Boys", with Mick Jagger singing and Keith Richards playing guitar. The music they played consisted of many different covers. However the…
The signature sound of Red Hot Chili Peppers has generated long-standing radio staples during their long career in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame career. The known Flea bass sound, Anthony Kiedis rhythmic patter and Chad Smith’s funky beating the drum have create a unique sense that has served the band well, but with The Getaway, it seems that the Chili Peppers show that they have some new tricks up their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame sleeves. For their latest effort, the band collaborate with…