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ADVERTISEMENT Break-ups hurt.  A lot.  And any surgeon will tell you that any amputation requires a great deal of analgesia to numb the pain in the aftermath.  Such is the case in the separation of two conjoined lovers, who suddenly wish to no longer meet at the hip.  Rather than indulge in booze and pills [...]

The one thing we all undergo at some point or another is a childhood. And after that, every belt-notch year leading up to a fully-realized adulthood. As an adult, we often think of nothing but our youth; what we did right or wrong, or might have done differently. In youth, we didn’t cherish time as [...]

After you’ve listened to a song often enough that you can sing the whole thing karaoke –style without a screen assist (and make it even more embarrassing when you screw it up), you can either move on to new music or try to approach it in a new way. Since we can all happily laugh [...]

When playing an instrument, being able to see is definitely helpful, right? For anyone who has fumbled about with a guitar, learned their first chord, their second, even a third and then given up when it came time to put all three together, imagine doing all that again, only without the help of the sense [...]

The annals of Pop Music history are rightly filled with the talented and charismatic men and women who played, sang, and danced their way into the public consciousness. Fans memorize their songs, see their shows, and most importantly, buy their records. But great albums and singles don’t just come out of nowhere. It takes a [...]

Music has come a long way since its humble inception many thousands of years ago. With new genres of music constantly being created, recombined, or spliced together, by the time this article is published the ten genres within it could be completely irrelevant! Just in the past decade we have seen an extremely rapid proliferation [...]

Harry Benson is a photojournalist that I recently became familiar with. Born in Scotland, Harry Benson was introduced to the United States when he landed with the Beatles when they toured America in 1964. His work has not only spanned decades but he has also photographed a wide variety of places and people. Some of [...]

One of the greatest mysteries of life surrounds the process of death.  No one can be sure what happens when you die, but the final moments of life are usually filled with honesty.  Some people are given the chance to prepare for death, while others are not.  A person’s final words are extremely revealing.  These [...]

Everyone makes bad decisions in life. Fortunately for most of us, the bad decisions we make aren’t broadcast to the world. When you’re a major corporation and you trip and fall flat on your face for all the world to see? Heck, even that isn’t as bad as all the money you may lose your [...]

There are certain moments in musical history when we wish we could say I was there (although not in some cases). Here is a list, in time order, of some of those events, the controversial, the groundbreaking, the political, the tragic, and the wonderful. David Tudor (composer – John Cage) August 29, 1952 – Maverick [...]