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It is unfortunate that the music Joy Division is often overshadowed by the suicide of their lead singer, Ian Curtis, and the subsequent...

As soon as I heard about the documentary Woodstock ‘99: Peace, Love, and Rage, I put it on my watchlist...but I knew it would sit there...

When it comes to albums, I’m a romantic. Not only do I appreciate a well-crafted collection of songs, I remember what it was like to save...

Music is always bred within a culture, and inherently reflects its society. Some music goes further than that, and is created for a...

Usually when I am listening to a multi-movement instrumental work, the second movement catches my ear. Being a card-carrying introvert, I...

I’ve always thought that the intense emotion expressed in the music of The Cure resembled that of Italian madrigals. It’s amazing how a...

Out of all the special places in music history, the Classical giants that were influenced by Vienna in the eighteenth century and the...

“Sonata form” could be considered the pop song of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Like the pop song, once it originated, sonata...

Minimalism: it’s not just a great way to save money – its concepts and philosophy has a presence throughout music history. There seems to...

The first time that I heard Kid A, Radiohead’s fourth studio album, I did not see it as such a departure from what the band had done...