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...

Music hasn’t changed in millions of years.  Not really.  It’s still made when someone with a better than average imagination puts sounds and feelings together in a way that other people can relate to.  Good music has always been universally appreciated by humanity since the dawn of sentience, and yet, many evolutions have taken place within it’s basic formats in the last century alone.  How have people changed the way...

After eight years without an album, the 70′s new wave punk band Blondie has just released their latest EP, Panic of Girls. Always at the forefront of what the latest trends are in alternative music, Debbie Harry & Co. show us why they are still a powerful force in rock music with their latest. Having taking several hiatuses after their first round of chart-topping success back in the late 70′s and early 80′s, the band...

With the advent of Spotify, Grooveshark, Pandora, and other streaming services that base their service success largely on their ability to deliver free high-quality music, a serious question about music ownership is brought up yet again. When should people have to pay for listening to a certain track? When does the promotion of an artist through free outlets stop adding extra marketing exposure for the artist and start losing them money...