MACOMB (WGEM) – Tuesday afternoon some Western Illinois University students had the opportunity to perform newly composed music in front of an audience.
WIU School of Music held a student concert for friends, family, and the public.
What made this concert really unique was the music being performed was composed by students, giving them some real world experience into music composition.
Some of the students hope the experience they get here will help them later in their careers.
“Grabbing at every opportunity you can to compose is really going to be beneficial. Because the more experience you get with this…
South Korean pop group LE SSERAFIM is officially a Billboard Hot 100-charting act thanks to the group’s new single, “Easy.”
Released Feb. 19 on its new five-track EP of the same name, the song debuts at No. 99 with 5.2 million official streams and 1,000 downloads sold in the US in its first full tracking week (Feb. 23-29), according to Luminate.
The EP concurrently debuts at No. 8 on the Billboard 200 with 41,000 equivalent album units earned. Notably, as TWICE’s With YOU-th EP enters at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, this marks the first week that the top…
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Vaporwave has always been primarily a sampler’s genre. There is, however, a sliver of practitioners who do it with the craft of traditional composers, and prolific Orlando artist Breadbarn is one of the newest worth noting.
Just like accomplished fellow local artist Dan Mason, Breadbarn specializes in a sample-free brand of electronic pop that weaves the vaporwave nostalgia all by hand, rather than the plunderphonic approach that’s endemic to the microgenre.
Brent Barnhart — the mind behind Breadbarn — is precise, even academic, in his pursuit of the vaporwave aesthetic. “I want people to think that what…
TikTok has started to remove songs published by Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) due to an ongoing licensing dispute with its parent company, Universal Music Group (UMG). A report has said that the short video format platform is losing more songs than anticipated, following the removal of songs owned or distributed by UMG in January.A report by TechCrunch said that the removal affected all songs written or co-written by songwriters signed to UMPG, regardless of who owns the recording. This means even songs by artists on other labels could be impacted if they contain UMPG-controlled compositions.Videos using impacted songs will…
SIGNALS, CALLS & MARCHES: One of the things that snuck out while we were sleeping in December is the newest EP from Rag Bags named Sweet Talk. From the opening chords of “Narcan,” which married the unlikely duo of Fugazi and Mission of Burma, I knew this was going to hold my attention. And it did, right on through the classic first-wave emo of “Best Man Wasted” and then the more traditional, if you will, 1990s alt-rock of the title track. The hypnotically paced closer, “103,” pulls the congas back out of the drum closet and runs through the psych-folk…
