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Who Killed Mashrou Nemr?

by Kareem Chehayeb : Editor in Chief of @MetalityBlog, Co-Founder of @cmajormusiclb Last month, I saw Mashrou Leila and Who Killed Bruce Lee posters on the w...

5 Moments You Meet in Heaven: When Songs Make Movie Magic

The art of cinema is the merge of all arts born before it. The storytelling, the poetry, the visual arts, the math and the music. All these elements work together to produce a moment in which the audience is immersed in. The better you balance them, the higher the movie would take you. Now let's inspect the music element on its own...

Learn the Ways of the Cool: How to Love Jazz in 10 Easy Albums

If you’re not very familiar with jazz music I can understand the overwhelming intimidation you might get from the idea of delving deeper into its realms. Structurally, jazz is more complex than the average radio pop anthem because of its improvised nature of multiple melodies and rhythms all working together. Complex time signatures, complex syncopation, complex accents, and seemingly random scales make jazz not the easiest form of music to ‘actively’ listen to, let alone play. I say actively because we all know the stereotypical misconception that jazz is elevator music. Each note counts, yet you find so many of them. Don’t panic. Be patient, it will start to sound more relevant with each listen. But where to start?...

20 Musican-on-Musician Insults

We've collected 20 harsh insults that musicians gave to other musicians. It wasn't hard to find these, as a lot of the people in the music industry are known to...