New York's Aesop Rock is and has always been an anomaly among modern Hip Hop artists. In a study done by Poly-graph.co on the vocabulary of a large number of MC’s, it was found that the now almost 40-year-old rapper had the largest vocabulary of...
It is growing exponentially difficult to make Emo/Pop Punk music that stands out. The sub-genre, known for better or worse as Emo, has roots to the mid '80s and heavily defined by music from the '90s where some of the greats made their genre defining...
Northern California's Death Grips is easily the most difficult band to describe in short terms. Their genre is argued about across the internet, iTunes has listed them as Punk Rock, their vocal delivery unquestionably has roots in Hip Hop, and their instrumentation ranges from maximalist...
The term “side project” is something music lovers either gravitate to or discount simply by the nature of the words. Some of these projects are exhilarating, while others fall short, despite an artist's creative intents. With that said, the musical entity as ambitious as The...
New York City based Beau began as two young teenagers writing music about their daily struggles in school. Their early songwriting process involved using drama at school to write quick songs, when the two members were only thirteen years old at the time. Heather Golden...
It is a common belief perpetuated by modern music critics that music that is simple is often bad. People critical of modern Pop music will bring up its simplicity as a negative factor, saying the songs lack creativity and are not unique. Artists like American...
When an artist experiments musically, listeners often praise them for “pushing the boundaries” of what they define as music. With an artist such as Japan's Merzbow, it is hard to see his music as simply pushing boundaries, but rather shattering them, picking up the pieces...
