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#musicmonday: symphony of light [free MP3 downloads]
WHAT IS #MUSICMONDAY? Every week, Komplicated posts a lot of links to free music you can download. Why? Why the hell not? We're not hosting the links, we didn't upload 'em, we have no legal liability...
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Respect: Happy Birthday Curtis Mayfield [1942-1999]
Seventy years ago, Curtis Mayfield was born in Chicago. An icon in the music world, in the words of our ancestors we say anedge hirak Curtis Mayfield, and thank you. [Source: Wikipedia, WHATAFY]
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Music: The GZA Looks To The Stars For New Album, Dark Matter [@therealgza]
Often considered the most cerebral member of the platinum recording group The Wu-Tang Clan, Gary Grice — more popularly known as the Genius or the GZA, as named by his younger cousins the RZA (then...
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Music: Brutha Gimel’s Spin City for June 5, 2012 [musical recommendations...
In an effort to further explore the myriad and "Komplicated" musical tastes of the modern "post-Black" denizens of the world, we present Spin City, which will feature recommendations from some of the...
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Respect: Happy Birthday, Kanye West [@kanyewest]
Presented without comment. [Source: Rappers Doing Normal Sh**]
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Music: The Perfect Chord From @darrylzero: Tricky
The Perfect Chord looks back at albums you may have missed when they dropped, or miss now that they've faded from memory. This week's glimpse into the crates: Tricky – Pre-Millenium Tension Less than...
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Music: Brutha Gimel’s Spin City for June 12, 2012 [musical recommendations...
NOTE: In conjunction with the drastic change in Komplicated's day to day runnings, this is the last column to be posted under the old regime. Starting next week, Brutha Gimel will come to you live and...
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A City That Has Outgrown its Britches
Austin has changed a lot since I was young, but it is still a great city and a place I love. Keep it real, Texas.—I have to say this with an extreme amount of reverence and gratitude, as I am a Texas...
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St Patrick’s Day Songs 2016 – Irish Songs – Part 1
There’s nothing better than celebrating a holiday (St. Patrick’s Day in this case) with traditional music, U2 isn’t necessarily traditional Irish music so we included the following video.—Holiday’s...
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SXSW – An Ode to the Days of Old
Even with explosive building and population influx, Austin retains its signature self. If only SXSW could find a way to do the same.—So I lived in Austin for a while. Five and a half years, to be...
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I Saw a Fragment of My Former Self in The Music Scene
Patrick J. Dalton sought stability in a lifethat required pure chaos to maintain.___Dedicated to Jorge OrsovayEach one of us may view our lives differently in hindsight as we age. The chronology may...
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Do You Know The Man In The Photo? He’s the World’s Greatest Singer
You’re truly missing out if you haven’t heard the music of these artists. Jesse Kornbluth on some seriously talented Muslim musicians.___Check out the music on Amazon here.If you don’t know better,...
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How Music Changed (or Saved) my Life
Embed from Getty Images—It’s never quiet in my head; there’s always music. What’s playing largely depends on my mood or what I was just listening to in the car. Once in a while, it’s an earworm, which...
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A Call for the Open Reclamation of Transcendental and Ordinary Music
Embed from Getty Images—Steve Martin produced one of the first hymns for the atheist crowd in, well, probably ever, which he termed the “the entire atheist hymnal” (Martin, 2017; V1de0Lovr, 2011).And...
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Does Your Son Have Musical Talent?
—Does Your Son Have Musical Talent? —Does your son speak the language of music? Do they tap away at surfaces and hum tunes when they stare off into space? Maybe your son has some budding musical...
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How Musical History and Compositions Connect With Human Evolution
— Some religious groups oppose the concept of biological evolution, but others accept the idea of “evolutionary creation,” which posits that God created the universe and biological evolution is a...
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Aftershock 2019: In the Blink of an Eye
Closing out the Monster Energy stage on the second night of the enthralling Aftershock Festival, Grammy Award-Winning group Blink-182 provided the audience of roughly 8,000 an awe-inspiring...
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The Brexit Ballet Nears it’s Final Act – Or Does It?
I see myself as Hungarian first and European second, so I sympathize with the people of the UK but their decision to leave the EU was still a shock. We Hungarians have always appreciated the UK as a...
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What Makes Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet What It Is?
By Dr John MacAuslan What makes a great work of music what it is? What integrates a given piece as one coherent whole? It may help to step back and ask what makes any given thing essentially itself....
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Humor: MC Mjolnir, Don’t Hurt ‘Em! [@mchammer]
Presented without comment. [Source: Fail Blog] The post Humor: MC Mjolnir, Don’t Hurt ‘Em! [@mchammer] appeared first on The Good Men Project.
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