Indie rock

something the size of a watermelon. It was also weird taking a shower because the doctor said it could get wet but I couldn't trust him. At school people all wanted to know what happened, I thought it was embarrassing telling people that I fell over a rock so I just told them that my brother pushed me really hard. It had gotten filled with signatures. All the signatures came from my school and of course my mom wanted to sign it too. What I learned from the story is the i need to pay more…

“How Did Lightning Kill More Than 300 Reindeer?”, written on the New York Times website, discusses the cause of death of 323 reindeer in Norway. According to the article, a lightning bolt struck the hillside on the Hardangervidda mountain plateau. The electrical current traveled 250 feet in diameter from the striking point, leading to the death of the reindeer via electrocution and cardiac arrest. When looking at pictures of the scene, people were suspicious that over 300 hundred reindeer…

have chosen is Rock. Common instruments used in Rock music are mostly amplified instruments, like the electric guitar and electric bass. Rock also uses strong baseline and driving rhythms. Rock music, which was developed from rock ‘n’ roll, originated from the late 1940’s in the United States. It was influenced by country and blues music that started making a new sound using electric guitars and a balanced drum beat, which was a faster beat and rhythm instead of a slow one. Rock music also…

I never knew so many alternative rock bands were also considered hard rock bands. So many people around the world are major listeners of so many subgenres of rock music. I found that the most popular genres are alternative and hard rock. Personally my phone is full of music from both genres of rock. The two genres seem to be so different from one another to have so many of the same bands in them. A very popular rock back these days Avenged Sevenfold is under both classifications. I guess this…

The first reading mentions that most think that there are a lot of rock songs with political themes and rock songs that are essentially protest songs, and goes on to say that this doesn’t actually hold up. However, it mentions that there are a lot of songs with themes that are against some sort of authority or power. This seemed slightly contradictory and could easily be discussed in class. In addition to this, some people may view certain songs as protest songs, whereas other might just hear…

Alternative music is known as a distinction from mainstream rock music. It is different due to a different, somewhat distorted, guitar sound, insubordinate lyric, and a casual, or defiant, attitude being portrayed in the music. However, there are many sub genres included in alternative music ranging from rock to soft guitar playing. The subgenres are grunge, indie pop, indie rock, reggae, electronic music, jazz, and underground music. This type of music is normally kept out of mainstream, and is…

Introduction The 1950’s saw the birth of rock and roll. Ever since then, rock has not only survived, but thrived. Artists like Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry paved the way for The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, and many others in the 1960s and 1970s. In turn, they made way for the new metal, punk, and grunge artists of the 1980s and 1990s. 1950s jazz, blues, and R&B have served as the basis for eighties and nineties R&B, hip hop, and rap. Pop has continued to develop with the changing minds…

Number Eight: Kurt Cobain on Indie Bands Signing to Major Labels When grunge was starting to become big in the late 1980s and early 1990s, major labels were looking into signing hot, underground…

When thinking of influential music artists, there are a few household names sure to come up first. Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson are known as the Kings of Rock and Pop because of what they did for their respective genres, and The Beatles were a global sensation often credited with changing music forever. However, there is one name that is often glossed over. Whether it’s because they are marginalized as a hippie fad or just that the average person doesn’t stop to consider their impact, the…

attitude in the late 1960's. These reasons caused a youth movement in San Francisco, California. Pink Floyd's music along with other musicians like Jimi Hendrix and Cream, brought a complex sound characterized that represents the beginning of acid (space) rock. The hallucination drugs brought consciousness, auditory and vista hallucinations to enhance the liking of the surrounding space. The drug use was a state of hippie movement beside with Ken Kesey leading the drug revolution in 1964.…