humanity
Humanity topics include pieces on the real lives of music professionals, amateurs, inspiring students, celebrities, lifestyle influencers, and general feel good human stories in the music sphere.
Just So Typically Me... Ooo Baby, Baby
I remember, a few years ago now, on a work team-building trip away, doing a workshop with a coach about time-management. They gave us sheets of paper with a large circle on, which we had to split up to create a pie chart of one full day. So we had to include things like sleep, breakfast, commute, working day, lunch, dinner and getting ready for bed. We had to include how much time these activities took up, and then subtract that from 24 to get how much time in each day we have left over for other activities.
By Connie Matthews4 years ago in Beat
After The Goldrush: Why Neil Young’s Stand Against Spotify is Even Bolder Than it Seems
It’s not news until a celebrity gets involved. When 270 doctors, physicians, and science educators signed an open letter to Spotify calling on the streaming service to take action on Covid-19 misinformation being peddled on the podcasts that it hosts, it barely made any waves in the media. The letter was in response to an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, in which Rogan aired debunked claims that “mass formation psychosis” was to blame for our perception that the Covid-19 vaccine is effective, that the Biden administration is suppressing evidence supporting the efficacy of cattle dewormer Ivermectin as a Covid-19 treatment, and that hospitals are financially incentivised to inflate infection numbers. The Joe Rogan experience is the world’s most popular podcast, and the link to that episode was shared on Facebook nearly 25,000 times. Spotify reportedly paid 100 million dollars to host Rogan’s podcast exclusively.
By Michael Atkins-Prescott4 years ago in Beat
Worse Than Appropriation: What Do We Do With Great Art From The Dark Ages Before Modern Racial Sensitivity?
Nothing illustrates the gulf that exists between the political factions in modern society quite like the same statement being reported to mean different things depending on which media outlet reports said statement. Sure, they can report the same event differently, but you’d think that when someone is directly quoted, their words would be a matter of record. Not so. You see this most often when famous artists discuss the hoary old chestnuts of political correctness, censorship, and cancel culture.
By Michael Atkins-Prescott4 years ago in Beat
This is why I retired from classical music.. Top Story - January 2022.
My first clarinet instructor in high school was of Italian descent, and when he met me, he saw I had an Italian surname. Despite being only 10% Italian, it turns out that I've acquired an Italian last name thanks to my paternal heritage. After I told him that, he waived his hand and said, "Never confess that you are anything other than Italian." He was an intense man who was renowned among my classmates for being intimidating, as evidenced by a remark he made about me to my face during one of my first lessons: "You suck." Despite his well-deserved reputation in the community, his teaching manner did not appeal to me. I'll never forget one thing he said to me over and over again:“If you can imagine yourself doing anything else besides clarinet, do that instead.” He was speaking of how to make a decision about my career path, and I found his perspective deeply disturbing. I had many interests, and although music was chief among them, I couldn’t deny that I could see myself doing other things.
By Grecu Daniel Cristian4 years ago in Beat
A listening
Eye of the aerial, batting it’s pristine awareness on the silver and red corral that lace her fingers. Her hands holding a spirit as old as the red dirt she missed as a child. Her nerve endings and new beginnings wearing a skin as young as the 28th spring. The bones of Poca hear the drops of verity before the canals of her listening could absorb such light. Light is information. Light is energy. Light is what light isn’t too. Trickling down from the blue ceiling, everything inside her becomes still, as the glass on a frozen lake lay placidly, as if there were no such creation of time nor pace, at least when a message is finding its place in her bones, in her wake. As if her blood halts it’s sacred dance and her breath holds sentient space for the unnerving importance of what her Creator might whisper. Spirit has no planner. Spirit defies logic. Spirit knows better than to cap a housing where a ceiling is impermissible.. For the fire we wake to and the lantern we sleep with are the signs of dawn and dusk for only the earthly plane. “Sanity for the mind” claims she. Poca has always detected the space that exists beyond the parameters of time– behind the bell at lunch and the confines of numbers, behind the alarm of her brother's phone that tells his brain he mustn’t rest another second out of fear for another man gaining what his rest aimed to offer, behind the ticking of a clock and the conditioning of a watch to do and to say, to begin your day’s doings and unbecomings, behind the Sun and it’s respectful descent for the day. Ungoverned by this manmade structure, she waits.
By Brianna Garcia 4 years ago in Beat
Living Reflection in a Dream
Let me tell ya about a band I LOVE..... Oh my... they sound so fine! As a longtime fan (okay, "groupie") of "The All American Zeppelin" tribute band, "Get The Led Out", I have been lucky enough to have had tickets to many, many live shows, and even more fortunate to have met and "sorta kinda know" a few of the band members.
By Kristen Cary4 years ago in Beat
Dark Triad
Introduction Each video is a song which you can listen to for free. All of these songs can also be found on any streaming service, so if you like them, please add them to your playlist! Thank you so much for taking the time to read my commentaries on the music and listening to the music that inspired the commentaries!
By C. Rommial Butler4 years ago in Beat
