My Guitar Progression From 2016-2019

How Ice Cube’s Good Day Represented a Safe Haven in Hyperviolent LA

The good day in Ice Cube’s “It Was A Good Day” from 1993 is the celebration of a time when he didn’t have to live in fear of anyone or anything, just vibing and enjoying his life on this earth. Living in Los Angeles during the 80s and 90s was an extremely dangerous experience, as

Eminem – a Shining Gem of the Hip-Hop Genre

Marshall Bruce Mathers III, more commonly known as Eminem, is one of the most prolific rappers of our time. His music has always been incredibly artistic; the rhymes he uses are often unorthodox, his cadence is fast and aggressive, and he has never once mumbled his lyrics as is the trend with modern hip-hop. His

The Love of Music – How Music is an Integral Part of U of Minnesota Concertist Sanjay Gotur

My friend and former bandmate Sanjay Gotur currently attends the University of Minnesota. As they are also a Big Ten school, I felt it was appropriate to get an opinion of the music program since music is one of the things in which Rutgers is surprisingly competent, perhaps even more so than them. It’s a

The Golden Age of Hip Hop

How the War-Torn World Developed the Psychedelic Rock Scene

Psychedelic rock focuses greatly on the human experience and largely all the suffering that makes us who we are. This scene was formed during a time of meaningless yet endless war that has had a detrimental effect on an innumerable amount of soldiers wanting to defend and serve their country. When the genre of psychedelic

How “The Great Gig in the Sky” Gives a Deathly Experience With a Piano and Some Yelling

Pink Floyd’s “The Great Gig in the Sky” gives you a vivid image of the passage of life via the usual inclusion of piano and drums but also the atypical sounds of the steel guitar and an entirely improvised, soul-filled vocal track.  The song begins with a simple but incredibly powerful piano introduction that already

Headbanging Tunes

In this piece, I’ll be exploring a headbanging playlist of mine that really gets you bobbing your head to the beat, no matter where you are. These songs have been so powerful that sometimes, I think of these songs in class and play them in my mind, distracting me from whatever the professor is lecturing

David Gilmour’s Stunning Performance at Pompeii

David Gilmour’s performance at Pompeii created intimate feelings of farewells and veneration now that he runs without his old band and close friends. With his passionate vocals, both with his actual voice and his guitar’s, he expressed deep emotions that captivated the whole crowd. David Gilmour was known most prominently for his role in Pink

Can You Still Listen to “Dark Side of the Moon” in Today’s Changing World?

The Dark Side of the Moon, by Pink Floyd, gives a chilling experience with psychedelic synth waves and haunting lyrics that make you ponder your own demons but it potentially loses relevance today due to the mechanics with which the album was developed. Pink Floyd was a British rock band that was most prominent around