humanity
Humanity topics include pieces on the real lives of music professionals, amateurs, inspiring students, celebrities, lifestyle influencers, and general feel good human stories in the music sphere.
An Ode to Mothers
Like many other little girls in the early 2000s my sister and I had fallen victim to the Jonas Brothers. Whether it was spending way too long in the magazine aisle at Duane Read reading teen magazines and deciding if the ones with the pull-out Jonas Brothers magazine were worth the $4.99 or sitting in our room listening to songs we illegally downloaded on Limewire, we were obsessed. Of course my sister went for the bad boy middle brother, Joe, while I was more into the younger sensitive type, Nick. Kevin was also part of the band but I’m convinced he was just there for optical symmetry. I’m not quite sure how my sister stumbled upon the information but she found out that on a random October day the Jonas Brothers would be performing at Six Flags of all places. Six Flags was in the state over and about a two hour drive from our house. This was before the smartphone, google map days. It was during those days that any road trip meant the risk of taking one wrong turn, casting the printed out Mapquest directions useless and subsequently trying to make sense of the contradictory directions collected from random pedestrians. With none of this responsibility to bear, my sister ardently begged my mother to take us to six flags on the day of the performance.
By Maesia Farah5 years ago in Beat
LET'S HEAR A TRUMPET SOLO
As a Roadie for a local traveling band operating on a broken shoe-string budget, you get used to getting by with what's on hand to get the job done. Rule number 1... duct tape fixes everything. Rule number 2, don't run out of duct tape.
By Lailokken le`Gras5 years ago in Beat
A True Folk Hero
On 28 February 1982 Nic Jones was involved in a serious road traffic accident. Returning home by car after a gig at Glossop Folk Club, on the road between Peterborough and March in Cambridgeshire, Jones, tired, inadvertently drove into a lorry pulling out of Whittlesea brickworks. He suffered serious injuries, including many broken bones and brain damage, and required intensive care treatment and hospitalization for a total of eight months.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 5 years ago in Beat
Losing The Beat
Punk Music Is My Life You can ask anybody I know, that if I had one true passion, and one true thing that I care about, the answer is always music. Specifically punk and hardcore music. From the fiery lyrics speaking out against corruption and injustices that bring along such a Positive Mental Attitude, to the fast-paced riffs and the slow beatdowns, hardcore/punk is something that has brought me and so many other people together. People from all walks of life, all with their own, different story, coming together to share their love for music. Playing in a hardcore band, and going to see other similar bands has saved my life and shaped me into the person I am today.
By King Davie5 years ago in Beat
Things That Heal Me
Music. It heals, it nurtures, it guides, it soothes. It does more than serve as entertainment or art. Music is where human creation meet spiritual cleansing, where our 4 bodies merge as one, in tempo with a multi-dimensional flow. It doesn’t matter whether you are dancing, listening, singing, making or feeling it, music has a vibration that changes the way our energy moves and exists. It swings and dips, expands and pulsates moving energy around, releasing it, or even super charging it. Music is energy in one of its most observable and human/spirit integrative forms, for our mind, our body, our energy, and our emotional body.
By Jilly Amann5 years ago in Beat
Discovering My Love For Piano. Top Story - August 2021.
Music is the centerfold of my family. I definitely got my abilities from my mom, but my dad played the part of being the biggest supporter. He’s shown up to every halftime show, concert, performance- you name it. All three of us kids were involved in every single band activity possible, me and my two older sisters.
By Grace Linn5 years ago in Beat
