The final major step in transforming Bill Haley’s hillbilly Saddlemen into a full-blown Rock & Roll band was now in place, though nobody really knew where it was going, and whether or not the money coming in would pay for the new six-member lineup. Haley adapted much of the wild sta...
tuned ears, so something played in this fashion was eventually deemed ragged-time or Ragtime (although the actual origin of the word is more likely derived from the dances or parties called "rags" that were held from the 1880s forward, and at which this musical style was eventually ...
a我在去年讀心理書,這本書教曉何如果處理人際關係,例如怎樣做才能平息別人的怒氣,怎樣做才能提升自己在別人心中的地位 I read the psychological book in last year, this book taught the dawn what if dealt with the interpersonal relationship, how for example did can subside others anger, how did can ...
In-the-cracks and hip-hop Producers like J Dilla and modern drummers like Chris Dave and Karriem Riggins took inspiration from these jazz drumming roots and re-invented the hip-hop feel. Dilla was a master at putting hip-hop rhythms “in-the-cracks” to create a genre-pioneering style of...
It is a movie that makes your heart race and break, that allows Rowlands to use the cage of misogynist reality to press against the limits of cinema and forge a fully realized woman— it is absolutely unforgettable and grows in my esteem year after year. If you know, you know, y’know...
We had it all; the Bicentennial, Tall Ships at Put-in-Bay, the Olympics in Montreal when Bruce Jenner won the Decathlon and Nadia Comaneci, a then 14-year-old Romanian, who made history by becoming the first gymnast to score a perfect 10 for her routine on the uneven bars. The ...
Johnny Dow struggles to make a living at his small town gas station by charging motorists to see the electric guitar used by his late father a one-hit, rock and roll wonder. Legend has it the guitar was carved in the shape of a dragon's head and made in part from an ancient spear ...
but not before Black Milk got a quick lesson on what can happen when a brand pulls fans so close, and then disappoints them. Parker admits they were slow to realize the extent of the problem. "Fans personalized it and it was not wise to defend it to the level we did," he shares....
The moon is also helping to slow down Earth's rotation. In fact, the moon is slowing us down a tiny bit every single day. (If you can divide "microseconds per year" into daily increments, that is.) If we had no moon to slow our roll, we'd be spinning ourselves six-hour days. ...
Music and the brain: What does the research say? Sadly, it now seems pretty clear that the widely proclaimed “Mozart effect” was a myth almost entirely concocted by the media; listening to one particular composer or genre is highly unlikely to transform your intellectual powers. So if you’...