The Music Machine was an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1966. Fronted by chief songwriter and lead vocalist, Sean Bonniwell.. The band cultivated a characteristically dark and rebellious image reflected with an untamed musical approach. M ...
I have my qualms and hesitancies, but I genuinely cared about Jefferson Airplane. Psychedelic rock is something to treasure, and its key era is one of the most influential periods in the history of music, rock, and politics. Forming in 1965, the “Airplane” played a gargantuan pa ...
The year 1978 was an awfully weird time to be young in Southern California. Perhaps nowhere else at that time could a young person be so well attuned to the cultural contradictions of the American ideology. The gap between the media’s California dream vs. the reality of the California nightmare wa ...
Any band that has ever tried to weld a “Beatlesque” melody into a power chord and maintain an anti-bourgeois attitude owes their influence to English glam band, Slade…Of all the 1970s rock-rock acts, Slade were arguably most in tune with punk's premium on three-chord simplicity, raw-powered ri ...
Listening to Rock ‘n’ Roll allows you to break through the numbness that overtakes you when you're feeling helpless. It teaches you that desperation is a temporary state and can be overcomed with a song.... They're moments amid the chaos that reveals a band’s care and precision—a sliver of s ...
Back in the year, 1915.. Ms.Carrie Sims of New Orleans was commonly referred to as the “Suicide Queen” by local police and hospital officials. Ms. Sims had a long history of suicide attempts. The official reports claimed she had dreams to commit self- murder and after more than ...
70’s glam rock, despite all of its gender-bending female posturing, was still inherently a male dominated movement. The great trinity of Glam consisted of David Bowie, T.Rex and Roxy Music. They were known for their pioneering the movement through the music, fashion and lifestyle.Never mind the ap ...
The "California Dream” has become a verbal tic in speeches, a graffiti scrawl, a newspaper headline and the theme for many rock songs. Shit, the Beach Boys spearheaded a lifestyle through their music. Their lyrics were more about hope and less about promise. Songs of the California dream are about ...
Originally a derivative of the West Coast punk rock scene "Skate Punk" has became popular amongst the skate board community. Its music can be defined as being more melodic than punk rock, however when combined with the high energy of punk rock it creates a sound that's distinctive to the skatebo ...
Often underrated or unappreciated, many female innovators of blues music are equipped with a staggering amount of raw talent, undeniable moxie and impressionable guitar skills. These women reference the pioneers who excelled despite time periods, that were oozing with sensuality while maintaining th ...
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