Latest crew update – Music Trends 2021

Friday Muse: Emmanuelle Proux, lead singer of Men I Trust

Milo — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 15:18:23 +0000

Men I Trust is an indie band from Canada founded in 2014 by two high school friends from Montreal – Jesse Caron and Dragos Kyriak. After school, both entered the University of Laval and labored there until they learned about them, at least among the students.

At this stage, in 2016, they were joined by a girl named Emmanuel Prou. The band has a pretty nice chill sound, but without Emmanuelle they wouldn’t have done much. She not only has a wonderful voice, but also the character and presentation necessary for such music. In other words, she is incredibly good. But this is not a bright flashy attraction, but something more solid, thoughtful and at the same time fragile. In general, the group is doing well with her: behind a tour in China, 4 albums, including Forever Live Sessions 2020. And with such a muse everything will be fine with you.

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Post Malone plays Black Sabbath and Alice in Chains with Slash and other legends

Milo — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 15:11:19 +0000

At the New Year’s show Bud Light Seltzer Sessions Post Malone, known to everyone from the hits of Sunflower and Rockstar, once again proved that he really can in rock. Most of the rapper’s live performance was devoted to his own songs, but in the end he performed covers of Rooster by Alice in Chains and War Pigs by Black Sabbath.

The Rooster cover featuring Post Malone was played by guitar producer Andrew Watt, bassist Chris Cheney of Jane’s Addiction, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith. Slash joined them on War Pigs. The rapper did a great job with both songs. However, for those who saw him last year’s concert of Nirvana covers, this will not come as a surprise! It is worth noting that Post Malone performed his songs with live instruments and in places made the tracks heavier.

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World’s first label for prison musicians to appear in Scottish Prison

Milo — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 15:23:41 +0000

Glasgow is the crime capital of Scotland and all of Britain. And Barlinny Prison is the largest in Glasgow. In general, you can find quite a lot of peculiar personalities in it. Singer Jill Brown teaches music courses for prisoners here, and recently a label with the self-explanatory name Criminal Records was organized on her behalf. Jill believes these walls can be an inspiration for many potentially talented guys. And success in music will help them with further rehabilitation.

So far, it is planned to cooperate only with those convicts who have already been released or are being released. In the future, Criminal Records will start working with those who are still serving time. Although Jill herself admits that there are many difficulties in this, including ethical ones. Will the victims of these criminals be happy that the state is making them stars? So with those who are imprisoned for cruel or especially dangerous crimes, Criminal Records will not have business.

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Sounds of the Forest – an ultra-chill site where you can listen to the sound of forests around the world

Milo — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 15:46:47 +0000

The best sound background for calming and relieving stress is silence, it’s a fact. But there is a particular paradoxical kind of silence that is most soothing. The silence of the forest is an example of a “natural acoustic system”, a whole ocean of sounds constantly filled with rustling foliage, chirping insects, singing birds, streams of water and the crackling of tree bark. Unfortunately, there are fewer and fewer of these loudspeakers, and the Sounds of the Forest enthusiasts are trying to preserve them at least digitally.

The idea came from the participants of the annual British Timber Festival. It takes place in a forest thicket, which they themselves are constantly expanding, planting new trees and cherishing the dream of creating their own huge forest. But in 2020, the festival failed to collect – a pandemic. So the participants decided to be together in at least the network space. This is how Sounds of the Forest was born – a site where you can listen to the sound of forests from all over the world.

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Banana on Wheels, Toilet Wrestling and Stoned Pacman in the Best Bloodhound Gang Videos

Milo — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 15:54:11 +0000

The Bloodhound Gang is a truly iconic Pennsylvania comedy group. They started in 1988 as a rapcore band in the spirit of the Beastie Boys, but became a phenomenon by the mid-nineties, when they finally forgot about seriousness and started fooling around. Over the next ten years, they wrote a ton of immortal, defiantly obscene, but very funny and tenacious songs. At the same time, they always swam in musical styles with amazing ease: funk, punk, metal, country, dance electronics, pop – whatever you say. It’s even hard to believe that the band’s debut album was released 25 years ago – after all, eternal youth literally baked into the tracks of Bloodhound Gang.

In 2015, the gang actually broke up, some say that the rebels just signed up. But their classic material has not lost its relevance anyway. On the occasion of the anniversary of the album Use Your Fingers, I decided to recall five of my favorite Bloodhound Gang videos and figure out what is being sung about in these songs. Although the range of lyrical themes in the group is not very wide!

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Valhalla, I’m coming! What is viking metal and how does it sound today

Milo — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 16:00:10 +0000

Vikings and metal are made for each other. Tales of ancient gods, glorious bloody battles, raids and the raging sea are ideal themes for epic heavy music. However, today viking metal is still not a genre, but a rather vague direction. It came out of classic heavy metal, then crawled into black metal and from there it spread to all heavy music. Take any metal song – if it sings something about Vikings or Scandinavian mythology – this is already Viking metal. The style is not the most massive, but still hundreds of bands play in it – there are enough worthy ones among them. In the text, we will briefly go over the history of Viking metal, and then listen to the five most prominent contemporary representatives of the trend.

The most popular and understandable starting point for Viking metal is the 1970 Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin.

She opens the album Led Zeppelin III. The song was inspired by the concert in Reykjavik and is dedicated to Leif Eriksson, the Viking who first visited North America. In the case of this song, there is no need to dig for a long time in search of Nordic references – everything is on the surface:

The hammer of the gods // We’ll drive our ships to new lands // To fight the horde, and sing and cry // Valhalla, I am coming!

Another important appearance of Vikings in rock music of that time can be considered the song with the self-explanatory name Viking on the album Fool’s Mate by Peter Hammill, the vocalist of the cult prog band Van der Graaf Generator. The disc was released in 1971. The music of Led Zeppelin and Hammill can hardly be called metal – but that’s how it all began. Well, the hardest approach to the topic in the 70s can be considered the song Son of the Northern Light from 1978 from Heavy Load, one of the first heavy bands in Sweden. But then there was no surge of interest in the theme of the Vikings, and things did not go further than single songs.

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