• Focusing on Atmosphere like Loathe
    Jul 27 2019

    This Cold Sun Track by Track Guide

    Sean Hermanis on the Narrative of Worlds Apart

    Get „This Cold Song“ from Amazon!

    Coheed and Cambria’s „The Armory Wars“

    Alesana’s „The Annabel Trilogy“

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    5 mins
  • The Relationship of Politics and Music
    Jul 13 2019

    How can you derive meaning from music? What is the relationship of Politics and Music? Today, I try to answer these questions and present my opinion and frameworks to look at this subject.

    List of controversial Rally songs (Including „Born in The USA“)

    Trent Reznor Calling out Taylor Swift

    List of Right Wing Bands to avoid (german)

    Censorship in the Soviet Union

    Putin „Directing“ Rap

    China banning Hip-Hop Culture

    I also found Audible’s original Podcast “Pitch” and This Book on the Sociology in music really helpful for this Episode.

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    6 mins
  • A case for „unpolished“ music
    Jun 29 2019

    Sources:
    Arte on Emo Trap 1 and 2

    Ross Robinson on Tape Op

    Ross Robinson’s Discography

    Juice Wrld on Death Race for Love

    The Punkrock MBA reflecting on the channel

    Oathbreaker on Songexploder

    Check out Oathbreaker on Bandcamp!

    Check out Touche Amore on Bandcamp!

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    8 mins
  • Keeping the spirits and energy high like Beartooth
    Jun 15 2019

    How Tempo affects us

    Attack Attack Breaking up

    Celeb Shomo’s Statement on parting with Attack Attack

    Check out Beartooth!

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    6 mins
  • How does Ice Nine Kills execute a concept?
    Jun 1 2019

    The Sources I used for this Piece are publically available data on Billboard and the Band’s Bio. No interviews. Go check out Ice Nine Kills!

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    9 mins
  • The Key to inaccessible music
    May 18 2019

    Today, let’s take a look at „Rituals“ by Rolo Tomassi, to examine how to make odd time signatures and unusual structures work and how they work in our brain.

    Sources:
    Dopamine while listening to music 1 and 2

    Find Rolo Tomassi’s Music on Bandcamp

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    6 mins
  • Self Expression through Chaos
    May 4 2019

    Let’s take a look at chaotic, abrassive Music today, to understand how people use it to express themselves.

    Interview with Botch:
    https://music.avclub.com/with-we-are-the-romans-botch-helped-redefine-hardcore-1798253844

    Interview With The Dillinger Ecape Plan:
    https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/the-dillinger-escape-plan-interview-the-only-way-to-finish-this-correctly-is-to-do-it-in-a-way-that-a7359221.html

    Tosin Abasi on Guitar Power:
    https://youtu.be/ZMv8739BtiA?t=83

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    5 mins
  • Using Screaming in Music
    Apr 20 2019

    Today I talk about the range of emotion you can express with Screaming in music. Often, screaming is reduced to aggressiveness, but I think there’s far more nuance to this.

    Resources:

    Death Metal/Throat Vocal Analysis

    SPECTROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF VOCAL TECHNIQUES IN EXTREME METAL FOR MUSICOLOGICAL ANALYSIS

    Find Birds in Row on Bandcamp

    Find Make Them Suffer on Amazon

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    6 mins