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popularity and continued to grow even when the band was told they couldn’t do it because of the peoples believes that women could not get the attention of the public. But despite all that, Selena would late become known as the Queen of Tejano and her album Ven Conmigo would reach the Gold Record status.…

stating last year, first with the Northtown EP and then through the underground hit of On the Regular. With tons of cowbells and dancing synthesizers, Shamir managed to create a bomb of a track, halfway between hip-hop and house music. A first full album was released last spring and harvested praise from everyone from Spin and Pitchfork and major newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune. And, of course, Sound of Awesome was in the train to Shamir station as well. Upon…

When I think of Anderson Paak., a soulful recording artist and mastermind producer, I picture California. After one’s the first listen of Paak.’s critically acclaimed album, Malibu, if they had never stepped foot on Californian soil, they could instantly be taken away to a Southern California beach, where they could feel the sand between their toes and the breeze toying with their hair, during a day with perfect weather of a seventy-four degrees. With a deeper look at Anderson’s cultural…

win a Grammy, and is the top-selling digital artist in music history. Speak Now was released in 2010 when she was 21. In 2011 she became the Billboard’s Woman of the Year, and Speak Now World Tour Live was released. When Swift was 24 her first pop album, 1989, came…

believe. Third on my list is a song called “My Girls” By Animal Collective. This Experimental pop band made in 2003 has some very colorful ways of mixing really old fashioned love songs and giving them a little twist. I listened to their entire album with a person I was romantically involved with and now I cannot listen to one of their songs without thinking of that person. A bit cliche but nevertheless true. This would make it to the list because I’m a little bit nostalgic. Getting close to…

This song in particular has a very deep meaning to it; to rise above your fears. ” I know that together we can rise above the fear – in our country, and around the world.” – Katy Perry (McCreesh). Katy has been working on this song since her last album in 2013, and decided to finish this year. This is the first song she has released since 2013, and many fans love the song. Her other songs like California Gurls, and Firework are songs you can dance and sing along to. Rise is a song that soldiers,…

Sinatra’s Impact and Controversies As an award-winning singer and actor, Frank Sinatra held a show business career for more than fifty years. In those fifty years, he sang with bands, as a solo artist, and even acted in many films. One of which he won a supporting actor Oscar. “Frank Sinatra was one of the most popular entertainers of the 20th century, forging a career as an award-winning singer and film actor” (“Frank” 1). While Frank Sinatra was one of the most important and most influential…

When Mastodon came on the bass player came out with his hands held high above his head shouting at the crowd. They then began playing their set opening with Oblivion, off their album they just came out with. I really started paying attention to guitars when the guitar player, Brent Hinds, brought out his see through Flying V guitar. It was one of the most amazing guitars I had ever seen. I left that night feeling pretty good.…

career with his brothers when he was only 5 years old. At the age of eleven, Michael Jackson was known to be a pop and disco star. Jackson began is solo career in 1971 and by late 1970s he became the first solo artist to score the top 10 hits from one album. Jackson wasn’t only the biggest pop singer of his era but he changed the music style in the 70’s and 80’s. By the 20th century, Jackson was a defining star who became a global music phenomenon, broke country borders and racial barriers with…

After gaining some indie momentum and critical success from 2013’s The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas, Courtney Barnett is finally ready to release her debut album via Mom + Pop. Along with the announcement of Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit due out March 24th, Barnett released her first single, “Pedestrian at Best.” The song is a roaring, headfirst dive into the ever-so-charming wordsmith that is Courtney Barnett. The singer-songwriter out of Melbourne, Australia is known…