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...
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We've had a rough year, in Lebanon that is. But there was light and harmony at the end of the tunnel...
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...
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?...
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My electro music education has been based on music labels Nova Tunes and How to Kill The DJ. The latter led me to discover big notorieties on the P...
My initial approach for the review of the event was a typical concert highlight with a 1-to-5 rating for each band's performance and an overall evaluation of th...
Despite the tension and political instability, we are being blessed lately with so many great music initiatives in this country. After Wickerpark and Beirut Ope...
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...
The opening chord of The Beatles' A Hard Day's Night is one of the most famous chords in history, mostly because of the debate surrounding its actual compositio...
“We started looking at the role of comfort in our lives and the societies we grew up in. It was very intriguing to us, the way the world functions and how it en...
Wickerpark Music Festival is back with a line-up of seriously the best and most eccentric Lebanese artists. In an effort to promote local talent and raise envir...