A.C. Plays Guitar!

Trance Music

The music fans all over the world are so different in styles and genres, that we can define completely different social groups formed by their music addiction (and in some cases the large mens clothing that they wear no matter how small they are). It has always been an influential factor, however, music in the late 20th and 21st centuries has become much more than that -nawadays many people just live according to the music they listen to, clubs they More

Solar Summer Festival

Forget spending the summer in a property in Antalya, because there is no bigger and more wanted event in the world of house music in Bulgaria than the Solar Summer Festival in Cacao Beach, situated in the famous resort Sunny Beach. It attracts thousands of fans and is famous for the stars taking part in the event - from famous DJs and top performers to one of the most skilled dancers in More

Bret Michaels has still got it

Bret Michaels has been one of the greatest rockers ever. He has been rocking for decades and has still got it. He recently had some health issues but after a few treatments and a relaxing time skiing in italy, he has bounced back better than ever. After rocking for many years Bret decided to give television a try. A few years ago he was featured on his own show called Rock Of Love. On Rock Of Love there were More

Classic Albums - Peepshow.

Siouxsie and the Banshees had already released eight studio albums by 1988, but they were about to change direction. I realize this was a long time ago, far before I was even considering taking myself seriously and looking for a secondary education job. Still a classic none the less.

Since forming in 1976, the band had dabbled in a variety of different styles; the most notable of these had been Punk Rock and Goth. But with ‘Peepshow’ they wowed More

Hip-Hop For Strings (In G Major).

I am all for culture and crossover when it comes to art and music. It is great to have some musical experimentation going on; and without it no new styles would ever be born. Until today, I thought that one of the best Classical/Dance examples was probably DJ Tiesto’s version of Albinoni’s ‘Adagio for Strings’. However, that was before I stumbled across this major cultural contender…

You wouldn’t think a couple of Korean break-dancers, a record scratcher and a beatbox More

He’s Odd

Frank Zappa is odd. That’s an understatement. You can’t help but listen to his music and wonder how it ever got produced. Not because people wouldn’t listen to his stuff—because you have to hear it to believe it—but because it is so–Loose. Untamed and confused to the point of no-control, Zappa’s music is never less than a wandering tangle of lyrics, weird musical instruments and bizarre humour. In other words it’s impressive. In a paradise of over-produced pop-hits, Zappa’s musical More

What’s With Muse?

I love Muse. They’re a great, innovative band that have been producing incredible music for a long time, that and the CD packaging stands above the rest of the bands in their league. But I’m sure that even the most defensive Muse fan will admit that the band have recently changed. Much of their new material has very little in common with their old stuff, the songs that put them where they are today. And so the inevitable question: should More

Forever Strong: Foo Fighters

Few bands stay around long enough to produce as much consistently good work as the Foo Fighters; fewer still, as is to be reasonably expected, are lead by a front-man with as much experience / drive / musical talent as Dave Grohl.

Listing Grohl’s musical abilities would be a thoroughly pointless exercise. Listing his lack of musical abilities would also be tedious: the guy can play pretty much anything he puts his mind to, and has done so sporadically More

Fugazi: Need To Know

If you took apart and re-assembled everything Ian Mackaye—lead singer of legendary Washington D.C. hardcore bands Minor Threat, Fugazi and Embrace—had ever done under a different band name with another lead singer, something which would take you a very, very long time, that version of Ian Mackaye might be all the makings of a house-hold Indy-rock hero; but Fugazi, the main-stay of Mackaye’s illustrious career, were anything but a house-hold name, even though they commanded a generation of More

LCD: Best Kind Of System!

LCD Sound-System should not work. That’s it, really. They cram tens of instruments into every track, let tracks wander and stumble around for minutes on end as if drunk out of their blissfull little minds, and then suddenly stop playing completely without warning, breaking into a new and odd beat, totally different from the last, but equally bizarre. But they do work. Don’t ask how. Not being able to work out how they do it is one of the beautiful More