Unplugged Music Reviews

Okay, so for this blog post, I'm going to take a look at one of the bigger bands in history. Masterfully orchestrated music by one of the more common prog-rock bands, Rush. I was showed Rush's music when I was very young by my father. He had grown up listening them and now so have I. I believe Rush to be one of those bands that everyone can appreciate a few of their songs and the other songs are for their more niche fans. Their Moving Pictures album will be the focus of this post. Recorded and mastered beautifully for it's time, it really added depth to what you could achieve in music. Synthesizers mixed with tradition rock instruments blended a rock sound with a almost techno type sound. And they capture this really well in their live show. I went to their Time Machine Tour when I was a kid. It was actually my first concert I went to by a big time band. I absolutely loved the show and it remains at one of my favorite live bands ever since. The atmosphere they created ...

Slightly Stoopid has to be one of my all-time favorite bands. A mix of Reggae, Ska, and with some rock and Pop influences, they create a very unique sound from the base Reggae genre. They originate from California and have been in the mainstream light for years now. Their earlier music had a more tradition Reggae sound while their more recent ventures have taken on a more Poppy influence to them. They have expanded and experimented with different sounds and succeeded in perfecting them. Their studio music is well mixed and is an amazing contrast to a majority of Reggae artists who embrace a grungy type style to their in-studio recordings. I started listening to Slightly Stoopid my Sophomore year of high school and have been to two of their live shows since then. They have had  openers such as The Dirty Heads and The Expendables who also have a reggae/rock/pop type sound to them. Their concerts are a very good balance between focusing on the music and the show itself. Most conce...

I have been following This Will Destroy You since I was 13 and in middle school. They are among one of my favorite bands not just for their type of music, but for their originality in and progression they have made. You might know them for their song "Quiet" used in the trailer for the movie "The Purge". Their music does not use any singers and has no existing vocals that most bands have. Not even for harmony purposes. But this is what I love about the band. In a age of harmonizing vocals just for the sake of using them, This Will Destroy You has not given into the hype. This is what makes them so original and beautiful. Their music is a progressing trip of building and softening and building and softening, then exploding into an aurora of sound and instrumentals that most bands fail to achieve. Just like my previous review on "Mogwai", This Will Destroy You pushes the limits on song structure and creates a whole new experience in modern instrumental or...

Mogwai is a post-rock/ambient style band that really has shifted to a "pop" feel with some of their newer songs while still sticking to their old roots. This has gained them more fame and fans while still keeping their original fan base that has been around since the beginning of their more underground days. Their new Album "Every Country's Sun" has really revolutionized their music with their album titles song having lyrics and singing in it. Their music has religiously stuck to instrumentals since their forming and only as of recent have dabbled in singing. And they couldn't have done it better. Their live show starts off with a lot of energy. Mogwai songs have an art to them. Like most post-rock songs, they start of with one instrument and slowly more are added and built upon. This tangle of instruments then lead into "verse" riffs but this is where it's different. They tangle through and don't stick to a structured path of "Ve...