Different chords ring true, different phrases stand out, and different chapters make more sense. Last time, I unknowingly focused on anything related to internal happiness. My own joy. What I took from the book this time was its focus on others. You can’t just find happiness within ...
To the extent you can put it into words, what's going through your head when you play? I know you're not a trained musician who thinks in terms of notes and chords. Sometimes, not musically at all. Sometimes it's concepts. I may be thinking pattern-ly or lines. Like if I just ...
Randy Blythe screams like a slaughtered banshee (that’s a good thing!) and acts out his most animalistic self onstage. Lamb of God go on a rampage when performing live, letting their groove / melody hybrid flag fly high. Blythe spends a good deal of his performance airborne, and when h...
This desire to let it all go for a moment, to breath into life come what may, reveals itself inPleasure’s danceable New Wave aesthetic. “It’s more bombastic and shameless than anything I’ve done before – it’s very liberating,” Sondre exclaims, “I w...
I went in to write with Noah Breakfast and as soon as he started playing the chords I immediately grabbed the lyrics I’d written and started singing the melody, like a stream of consciousness. I feel like this song shows more of my 90’s R&B Jill Scott/Brandy...
moments of their catalog. Frontman Davey Havok racks up sky miles, leaping off risers, monitors, boxed platforms and anything else with a measurable height. The rest of the band mirrors this showmanship when they’re able to sustain a few chords and divert their attention for some raucous ...
SG: I gravitated to country originally because when you learn how to play the guitar, you learn three chords, which basically make up most country songs. It became the only way I could write songs. I also like country and folk because they’re good storytelling genres and a great way to...