Every music lover has at one time or another fantasized about being able to actually sing well, or play the guitar or the drums. Maybe that’s where you find yourself right now: you’ve idealized this perfect life in which you get to live the part of the lead guitarist in your favorite band — but like Bill and Ted, you have to learn to play, first. Twenty years ago, this would have been nearly impossible. Well not...

Do you believe in Nargles?  Well, Luna Lovegood does.  Who is that, you ask?  She’s one of the more colorful supporting characters in J.K. Rowling’s wildly successful Harry Potter series of books — which has blossomed into a lucrative film franchise since the early 1990s, a complete set of movies that just came to a conclusion in the summer of 2011 with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part II.  The Harry Potter...

Recent news stories in the media have described in detail the situation between Adam Levine and Fox News on Dish Network regarding Levine’s protest against the news channel to prevent them from playing Maroon 5 songs on the network.  The dispute took place via Twitter with Levine initiating things with a foul worded tweet at Fox putting down the integrity of the network.  Two anchors responded with derogatory remarks as well, telling...

I’m not talking a generation or two ago. I’m talking beginning of music. Truly amazing work of art that are played on some of the oldest instruments that the human race takes for granted. The violin, the cello, and the piano are truly beautiful instruments to hear played by the most gifted men of their time. The best, people like: Chopin – Concertos to inspire emotion. Beethoven – Commonplace in all things...

One of the most popular types of music today is rap music. Most rap artists are well known, greatly paid people who make their music on famous record labels. What is interesting is that rap music comes from a history that is very humble, places that focus on inner cities and cities of poverty. Rap music is sometimes called emceeing and is a type of music that the singer literally speaks in rhyme or verses to beats or instrumental sounds....