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If music is only defined as vibrations passing through space, how is it possible that it has magical powers? Why is it that music can engage every part of the brain? And could we survive in a world without music? | Photo: Mohammad Metri (Unsplash)
TOP 5 Reasons Why We're Obsessed with Music
Should I tell stories about the lyrics, be funny, encourage action, or just play and let the music do the talking? Communication with the audience is a delicate thing. Berlin Manson has nailed it. | Photo: Aleš Kuča
TOP 5 Tips for Better Communication with the Audience
What is the best way to sell a luxury SUV? Hire unsuspecting child musicians and make fun of them. Uh, but no one's laughing. | Photo: YouTube
The Commercial that Outraged All Musicians
You don't want to be a musician who gets on other people's nerves with slow packing on stage, annoying self-promotion or pompous behaviour. | Photo: Sander Sammy (Unsplash)
TOP 5 Bad Habits in the Music World
"Sir, why do they sell those strings UNTUNED?" | Photo: Felix Koutchinski (Unsplash)
Quotes from the Music School: Guitar Taps, Talking Clefs and the Art of Excuses
Human creativity has indeed no limits. We can invent quite incredible musical instruments. | Photo: British Library
TOP 10 Crazy Musical Instruments
It's no longer cool to smash your own instruments against the speakers. Just destroy the local equipment. They'll love you. | Photo: Xavier Von Erlach (Unsplash)
5 Tips on How to Bug Music Event Organizers
The festival season is in full swing, but not all events go well. Sometimes due to weather, sloppy organisation or cancelled performances of popular headliners. | Photo: Aliane Schwartzhaupt
TOP 3 Disastrous Festivals
David Bowie once said: "A mistake is a mistake, even if you repeat it. But when you make it a third time, that's style." | Photo: Etienne Girardet
TOP 5 Mistakes in Famous Songs
To what extent am I still the original creator of a song where the AI programmed the drums, prepared the chord combination, generated the melody, and then did the mix and master? It can already do all that at a very high level. | Photo: Possessed Photography
TOP 3 Possible Scenarios of AI Development in Music
MonoNeon, the artist with an unmistakable microtonal approach, a lover of fart pedals and an existential funker in action with his signature Fender instrument. | Photo: Ken Spielman Photography
TOP 7 Tips for Artists from MonoNeon
Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between a perfectly normal effort to make enough money to run a band and survive and pure greed and opportunism.| Photo: Austin Neill (Unsplash)
TOP 10 Rock Bands That Didn’t "Sell Out"
Sometimes it's hard to tell the line between insanity and brilliance. And that applies to bands, too.| Photo: Mihail Trebugov (Unsplash)
TOP 5 Weirdest Bands
Hip hop & rap, country and pop have a surprising connection. Their artists often refer to alcohol in their lyrics as a source of inspiration, happiness or success. | Photo: Anthony Torres (Unsplash)
TOP 5 Reasons Why to Make Music Sober
As a musician you want only one thing – to buy one more guitar, one more effect, a bigger pedalboard and a better amp. | Photo: Unsplash
TOP 5 Musicians’ Quirks That "Normal" Mortals Don’t Understand
Play an instrument, sing and make music with whatever you have at hand. Your brain (and heart, of course) will reward you with incredible excursions into the unexplored corners of your hemispheres! | Photo: Miles Giles (Unsplash)
TOP 5 Reasons Why Music is Not a Superfluous Luxury