It’s almost too often nowadays that you find your lonely self with just your phone, your earphones and some pretty fast internet to satiate that sudden craving to listen to some good music. Being at work, on a bus or plain sitting at home with nothing to do, finding the right kind of music online poses quite a formidable task with the number of options you have these days. But do you know your options? Are you stuck listening to something that in no way reflects the person that you are? Let’s look at some of the best choices you have to listen to music online.
By Philip Joseph
It’s almost too often nowadays that you find your lonely self with just your phone, your earphones and some pretty fast internet to satiate that sudden craving to listen to some good music. Being at work, on a bus or plain sitting at home with nothing to do, finding the right kind of music online poses quite a formidable task with the number of options you have these days. But do you know your options? Are you stuck listening to something that in no way reflects the person that you are? Let’s look at some of the best choices you have to listen to music online.
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Last year was an exceptional one for EDM and saw a lot of amazing tracks from the likes of Calvin Harris to Martin Garrix, you had everything to make you go bonkers. This is a list of my personal favourites from 2013, rightly called the year of Electronic Dance Music, along with Soundcloud links for you guys to check these tracks out yourself. Warning : Lists don't get more commercial than this. 1. Martin Garrix - "Animals" Martin Garrix had a phenomenal year with his releases "Wizard" and "Animals". Both were insane hits and regulars at festivals all over the world. These two tracks saw him get tours all over the world including Bombay back in November. by Philip Joseph Being the best selling band in the US with 177 million units sold and topping the Billboard magazine's list of all-time most successful artists, you seldom find people around you who haven't listened to the UK based phenomenon, The Beatles. Despite it being decades since their prime, after the release of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) and the self titled record The Beatles (1968), people still listen to songs like "Yesterday", " Let It Be" and "A Hard Day's Night" with the same gusto that hovered over love struck teens in the '60s.
With their immense popularity and commercialisation, they often shadowed other artists around then that were equally active in expressing their journey through music. Some of them crafted their lyrics to a higher level and were divine in instrumental display. Below, I'm going to look at some of the artists who I believe should be better know for the music they've created during the initial rock pop era of the '60s and after. by Philip Joseph Anyone who's a fan of Indie music has a feeling that the genre has been around for decades and has evolved over time with the cultural on-goings of an age being deeply embedded in its substance. I know I do, but the raw fact is that Indie as a genre is fairly a recent discovery and comes from a time where non- commercial music was shunned down by a large part of society. And this society I talk of is mainly Britain and America in the late 70s and early 80s. 'Indie' as a word comes from 'Independent' and tells a story of how musicians in the early 80's found it hard to get record labels to sign them unless they produced music for the masses, music that was socially acceptable and music that would amuse their profit driven minds. The bands that wanted to make their own kind of music, however different from popular culture, had to sign with labels or studios that were independent of the major ones like Warner Music Group, EMI and PolyGram and often enough pays a lot lesser than the million dollar deals other bands in popular culture used to sign those days. Over the years 'Indie' has moved along from being a part of a independent record label with a number of genres to having more definition in style of music and lyrical layout. Bands in the present with the tag do not necessarily come from an independent label but still chose to be called so because they're inspiration and styles often mimic those in the 80's. Some of the most popular 'Indie' bands out there right now are The Strokes, Franz Ferdinand, The Killers and The White Stripes. Next time you listen to them, remember where they've come from. |