...but only to monkey musicNewswise - Music is one of the surest ways to influence human emotions; most people unconsciously recognize and respond to music that is happy, sad, fearful or mellow. But psychologists who have tried to trace the evolutionary roots of these responses usually hit a dead end. Nonhuman primates scarcely respond to human music, and instead prefer silence. A new report [h...
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Monkeys Get a Groove On…
Piping hot new podcast
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This week's audio podcast episode features interviews with Medeski, Martin and Wood's Billy Martin and Nashville performer Brennin and covers the topics of social change through music, reaching "higher states" through performing, and more. CLICK HERE to visit our Podcast page to download this and other episodes of the RockOm Podcast. Grab it for your [...]
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The highest of all missions
"Music may achieve the highest of all missions: She may be a bond between nations, races and states, who are strangers to one another in many ways; She may unite what is disunited, and bring peace to what is hostile."[Dr. Max Bendiner]
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SONGS ABOUT: Friendship
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The soul of the universe
"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything." [Plato]
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What’s Rockin’ @ RockOm: 9/1
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Masters of their craft. Innovators. Cutting-edge. Avant-garde. All of this and more has been used to describe the two artists interviewed this week at RockOm. Click below to read more about our interviews with Dream Theater's James LaBrie [pictured]; Medeski, Martin and Wood's Billy Martin; as well as info about this week's Featured Track of the Week.
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Featured Track of the Week
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by BrenninVisit Brennin at...Brennin.comMySpaceFacebookTwitteriTunesNashville's Brennin has released a new album of honest, conscious rock entitled Bring Back Tomorrow. Inspired by the likes of The Eagles, Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye and Chris Cornell, Brennin's music embodies a "timeless" quality and explores themes of social responsibility, cultural and religious tolerance and transformatio...
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MMW and the Power of Creation
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Billy Martin, drummer of the avant-groove fusion band Medeski, Martin and Wood, talks about their Radiolarians Series, the band's willingness to take chances and the "motherly" power in creating something new.
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Living the lyrics
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"Writing a song doesn't heal things. Even if the song comes up with a solution, it's still only a theory. Going out and living my lyrics is a whole other deal. That takes courage." [Alanis Morissette]RockOm says: That goes for the lyrics we listen to as well!
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SONGS ABOUT: Investing Time
How we use or invest our time says a lot about what we value. Time can be utilized positively in worthwhile projects, compassionate outreaches or spiritually-enhancing activities. It can equally be piddled away or even overtaken by mundane, daily tasks. Sometimes, though, just knowing this isn't enough. It's just too damn easy to take the path of least resistance and let the time fly by without...
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Worth living and dying for
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"Music, in its higher state, for me, is worth living and dying for. It's worth traipsing around the globe, it's worth the accolades and the other side of the accolades... I always have sung to the angels and the higher parts of people's souls." [Cyndi Lauper]
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Harmony
With such widely divergent personalities and perceptions, how could an orchestra ever come together to make such wonderful music? The answer is simple: regardless of how those musicians view each other, they subordinate their feelings and biases to the leadership of the conductor. A lesson on harmony and surrender...
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Universality
"I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality." [H.A. Overstreet]
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New podcast released
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This week's (just released) podcast episode includes the behind-the-scenes audio of our interviews with John Cooper of Skillet and Jonathan Walls of Playing for Change. You've read the articles, now hear it all straight from the artists' mouths. CLICK HERE to visit our Podcast page to download this and other episodes of the RockOm Podcast. [...]
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Fieldy’s “Got the Life”
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You may recall that several years ago guitarist Brian "Head" Welch left the Grammy Award-winning rock band Korn due in large part to his newfound faith in Jesus Christ and desire to stay off of drugs. In fact, RockOm had an interview with Head back in Februrary where he talked about his faith and new album. Now, according to this article and interview with Beliefnet, "another member of the band...
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The Yearning for Harmony
"[Music] symbolizes the yearning for harmony, with oneself and others, with nature and the spiritual and the sacred within us and around us. There is something in music that transcends and unites. This is evident in the sacred music of every community - music that expresses the universal yearning that is shared by people all [...]
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If I were to begin again…
If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth."[Sydney Smith]
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