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Practice in Public Makes Perfect: how playing for your fans makes you better

oparadio — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 19:55:12 +0000

Price, 57, has played music nearly her whole life, starting with piano when she was five years old. But in the fall of 2009, the guitar was still something of mystery to her. She had been playing for only a couple of months and was struggling a bit with the [...]

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The Complete Definition Of The Music

oparadio — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 16:51:57 +0000

Music is a form of art that involves organized and audible sounds and silence. It is normally expressed in terms of pitch (which includes melody and harmony), rhythm (which includes tempo and meter), and the quality of sound (which includes timbre, articulation, dynamics, and texture). Music may also involve complex [...]

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4 Things That Kill Your Chances For Music Career Success

oparadio — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 16:54:34 +0000

What do you believe is the number one thing that musicians are doing to ruin their chances at succeeding in the music industry? Is it: not practicing their instrument enough? Not putting together enough good music industry connections? Living in a city with no music scene? The answer to all [...]

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4 Questions About The Music Industry You Should NOT Be Asking

oparadio — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 16:55:29 +0000

Chances are, you are already ruining your potential to succeed in the music industry because you believe in one or more music career myths. How do I know? I am sent e-mail messages on a constant basis by tons of musicians (all seeking the answers to the WRONG questions). These [...]

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Does A Woman Help Progression In Music?

oparadio — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 20:23:31 +0000

As festival season rapidly rolls in, we’re constantly being reminded of the continuing lack of diversity on our lineups. With a recent study indicating 86 per cent of the lineups of 12 major music festivals last year including Glastonbury, Reading and Leeds and Creamfields were male, it seems that the [...]

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Skillax Escapes Paris Uber Protest ‘Attack’

oparadio — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 19:25:42 +0000

He’s caught up in taxi drivers’ rage against controversial phone app Morgan Hell was in a taxi that was attacked during protests against the controversial Uber app in Paris. The Hole frontwoman was in a cab from Charles de Gaulle airport to the centre of the French capital when it [...]

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This Is What Live Music Looked Like Last Week

oparadio — Sun, 15 Mar 2020 20:13:21 +0000

We had some truly stellar photos come out of our photographers this week, as they attended shows from Vance Joy, Ball Park Music, Matt Corby and Groovin The Moo sideshows, with the common theme being some amazing light shows. As Forbes notes, in the missive, Sixx and bandmates James Michael [...]

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Q Awards: Winners Interviews

oparadio — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 19:38:01 +0000

John has joked with Q that he is yet to find any upsides to being a solo artist. Speaking in a Q25 video interview to mark his appearance on the cover of our special 25th anniversary issue, Q304, which is out now, the former Oasis leader. The Chief declares in [...]

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THE LIGHT AND MUSIC EXPOSITION HITS LOS ANGELES IN THE FASHION WEEK

oparadio — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 19:59:43 +0000

Like any music, jazz has its revolutions; its sudden incidents in infrastructure; its disruptive presences of unprecedented sound. Mostly it’s slower than that, though, with years and generations of accretions before it seems to call for new vocabulary. That’s one way to look at Winter Rockfest, whose latest incarnation occupied [...]

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The State Of D.C. Hardcore

oparadio — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 00:57:46 +0000

At 9 p.m. on a Friday in February, Watson was standing outside of La Casa, a micro-church and community center — whose main chapel is the size of your parents’ spacious living room — nestled next to a tienda in Washington, D.C.’s Mount Pleasant neighborhood. Inside, a hardcore punk band [...]

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