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Coming up with a decent chord progression is a difficult task for some songwriters. Some take the easy way out and just use tired, clichéd progression that we've heard a thousand times before (I'm looking at you, every artist in this Wikipedia article I found), while others make the odd decision to do away with progressions entirely, playing one chord and nothing else. Here are six great songs written with just one chord. -
6 Incredible Songs That Took Lyrics from Other Songs: Radiohead, The White Stripes, and more
There's a very fine line between homage and plagiarism, but these six artists walked that line masterfully when writing the lyrics to these songs. Here are six incredible songs that took lyrics from other songs. -
8 Great Punk Covers of Classic Songs: Minor Threat, Big Black, and more
If an artist does a cover version of a song, but doesn't really change anything about it, then there's not really a point in doing it at all (listen to Seal's version of "Let's Stay Together" and tell me why it had to be made). However, these eight bands took songs by non-punk bands and put their own noisy punk spin of them. -
11 Initial Thoughts On Lana Del Rey's 'West Coast' Video
After pulling the video from Youtube yesterday, Lana Del Rey re-released the video for her single “West Coast” today, and these are all of my thoughts after watching the video just one time. -
6 Artists Who Have Reused Their Lyrics: The Smiths, Bruce Springsteen, and more
A lot of artists get accused of writing the same songs over and over again (AC/DC, the Ramones...), but some artists have literally taken parts of their songs and used them twice. Here are six artists who have recycled their own lyrics. -
Q&A: Jon Herington on touring with Steely Dan, his new album and life in the studio [EXCLUSIVE]
The life of a musician can go dozens of ways, and for guitarist Jon Herington he gets to do all of them at once. Though he's probably best known for being the touring and studio guitarist for classic rock band Steely Dan, the 60-year-old musician also bides his time as a studio artist, solo performer and as a member of The Jon Herington Band. -
7 Artists Who Released Multiple Classic Albums in One Year: Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, and more
It’s rare enough for an artist to release just one classic album over the span of their entire career, but somehow, these seven artists managed to release multiple classic albums over the span of a single year. -
6 Bands That Continued After Their Songwriter Left: Misfits, Pink Floyd and more
It's not uncommon for a band to shift personnel every once in a while, but one thing a band rarely survives is the loss of the primary songwriter. However, sometimes a band overcomes this loss and continues making music, and as these six bands proved, this can either an improvement or a horrible mistake. -
9 Incredible Albums with Awful Titles: Green Day, the Beatles and more
There are some albums where everything comes together perfectly: the music, the lyrics, the cover, the title, everything. However, some of the greatest albums of all time were given titles that don't serve the music at all. Here are nine great albums that were given awful titles. -
Prince's 10 Dirtiest Lyrics
After nearly 40 years in the music business, Prince revealed yesterday that he would no longer be cursing in his songs. Of course, bad words aren't even close to being the most scandalous part of Prince's songs. Here's a sampling of some of Prince's dirtiest lyrics. -
MIXTAPE MONDAY: Check out new songs from Baths, Tigers Jaw, Sharon Van Etten, Kite Party and many more!
Some of our favorite artists released a bunch of great music this past week so we'd like to share our favorites with you in mixtape-form. Just like every week, we've compiled new songs from the previous week in case you missed them. This time around we have new tunes from Kite Party, Hooray For Earth, Kristeen Young and many more! -
5 Bands Who Hit Their Stride After Adding a New Member: Nirvana, Rush, and more
Any musician can tell you about inexplicable musical chemistry. There are some people, who for one reason or another, just bring out the best in your playing and writing. Lennon and McCartney had this chemistry together, but some bands don't find this chemistry until after they've started making music. Here are five bands that hit their stride only after adding someone new to the line-up.
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