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3Mind Blight Music
3Mind Blight hails from Tulsa, Oklahoma. After 15 years of experience as a music producer and multiple songwriting awards, 3Mind Blight embarked on a solo career in 2018.
By Tammy Reese4 years ago in Beat
Rapper, Actor, Entertainer: Deniro Bossa
Career Explorer defines a music artist as someone who creates, performs, and releases music either independently or through a record label. The commitment level of a music artist is extreme, living sometimes a nomadic and taxing lifestyle and spending long days and nights in the studio recording music. They travel constantly, performing their music to small and large audiences with the goal of expanding their fan base.
By Tammy Reese4 years ago in Beat
When you Love a Narcissist
I like to tend to reserve this song for my bad days. I mean those terrible, darkness-filled days where all you feel is empty. I believe that it is okay to let yourself feel emotions to prevent them from spilling over onto other people. It's a hard lesson I have learned in this life. Especially while being inside a mental hospital this past year. It's hard not to bleed on people who didn't cut you, especially while you're still healing from your own wounds. I learned that lesson very loudly and proudly this year.
By Chloe Rose Violet 🌹4 years ago in Beat
Johnny Foreigner | Live Review
Well, well, well. Where to start? I met my lovely partner, Nick, four years ago today (the day I am writing), and it was through him that I was introduced to Johnny Foreigner. Although it wasn't quite as straightforward as that, he took me to see Yr Poetry and I adored them, met Alexei, added him on the ol' socials, bonded with him over the fact he said I looked like my aunt Donna, then listened to his other musical projects (Johnny Foreigner, itoldyouiwouldeatyou) and then commissioned him to write a soppy love song for Nick, as he is his hero, and I am a disgustingly romantic partner, and BREATHE.
By Connie Matthews4 years ago in Beat
Ten reasons you shouldn’t snub other genres
From an early age we are exposed to genres of music that, as we grow, become “un-cool” among our peers, I was guilty of this until I turned 16.
By Phill Ross4 years ago in Beat
Just An Ordinary Girl
I was very sad to hear that Sarah Harding has died, losing her battle with Breast cancer. Why do the good and beautiful die so young? She was only 39 years of age! A member of one of my favourite Girl Bands “Girls Aloud”, Sarah will always be the girl next door to me. She was so talented, being an actress as well as a singer, I’ll always remember Sarah in St.Trinian’s.
By Ruth Elizabeth Stiff5 years ago in Beat
Thoughts on Charlie
Charlie was our darling. Yes, the heartbeat of the band many consider to be the greatest rock and roll band of all time – the Rolling Stones, if you needed a reminder – has been taken away from us. Eighty years young and cancer stepped in to take him off the world stage. I was in front of a computer screen at home, surfing and scrolling at documents for work and to pretend I was into my job, and I just had to stop for a moment and consider the moment. Most of us knew that he was ill and that a tour had been delayed (now cancelled?) but this was not on my list of possibilities. Why not? Well, he was a Rolling Stone…
By Kendall Defoe 5 years ago in Beat
Courtney "O.C." Smith
Courtney “O.C.” Smith is a passionate woman who enjoys helping people from all walks of life through various endeavors. Growing up, Courtney was immersed in arts, culture, politics and introduced to entrepreneurship through her family. Courtney tried her hand at many career paths and majors in College before deciding that she had what it takes to do this on her own. Through her own research, Courtney then secured contracts with lobbying firms, real estate firms, and telecommunications companies. None of which truly allowed her the freedom she longed for. Organically, Courtney began to amass a network of friends who were artists, actors, and public figures.
By Tammy Reese5 years ago in Beat
David Bowie 5 years on
David Bowie. You hear the name and immediately people’s minds will flash to a skinny, androgynous guy with a bushy red/coppery mane of hair, heavy make-up and a lightning bolt flashed down the middle of his face. This is David Bowie, or rather Ziggy Stardust – a persona he adopted for a few years in the early 70’s before changing or growing into the Aladdin Sane character (the lightning bolt image you have is from this album cover), described by himself as ‘Ziggy goes to America’. Again, he would morph later into the Thin White Duke persona for subsequent albums. Change was a constant motif of Bowie’s (as well as an excellent record by him), something he would make a career out of. Create a character, explore a musical soundscape, release an album, then when he was tired, bin it and start again. In his breakthrough record ‘Space Oddity’ in 1969 he sang of Major Tom, an astronaut lost in space (this being the first of his persona’s, and a comment on himself felling quite adrift and different from other music of that time). Even before the breakthrough, he was known by a completely different name – Davy Jones, or David Jones. Ironically, this isn’t even a persona, it’s the name he was born and christened with in 1947 by his parents. So, you see this whole time, Bowie has almost always been toying with us, and since we’ve ever ‘known’ him he has been the ever-changing morphing persona, evolved to play the part and fit the music needed for the time.
By Gary Packer5 years ago in Beat
Rumble effect of the pandemic in the world of music
For most of the artists, pandemic came as a nightmare and pulled back most of the opportunities. From a life full of glamour interactions, shows, and tours in a blink of an eye, It completely moved towards a room filled with gadgets and musical instruments. All of us want a vacation from work but not in the way we got. Almost everyone got affected by the pandemic especially the music industry
By Shruti Gupta 5 years ago in Beat
1st Base Runner Releases Haunting New Single, Teams Up With Legendary Director Matt Mahurin for “Break Even” Music Video
Austin, TX-based Singer Songwriter 1st Base Runner continues his flurry of new releases with new single “Break Even” on July 9, the 3rd track to be released from forthcoming album ‘Seven Years of Silence’ (due July 30). A music video by Matt Mahurin (Tom Waits, Peter Gabriel, Alice in Chains) was premiered at Folk n’ Rock.1st Base Runner‘s outsider artistic vision is colored liberally with the melancholy, gothic and avant-garde. Tim Husmann works with the meticulousness of a Trent Reznor or slow play masters Godspeed You! Black Emperor, wrapping each of his astral post-punk pieces in airy layers of cosmic synthesis.
By Independent Music Promotions5 years ago in Beat
JIDE'S GAMES Ep. 1: "Guess The Video!"
Welcome Hello hello hello and Welcome to this Sample Episode of a brand new game show that will be hosted by me every week simply titled: JIDE'S GAMES.
By Jide Okonjo5 years ago in Beat