I didn’t hear real cursing in music until Limp Bizkit’s Three Dollar Bill, Y’all$ in 1997. That was when music changed for me. I was already exposed to the band Korn, but hearing Limp Bizkit was a whole other level for me. It seemed like a lot of bands with the parental advisory sticker were coming out nowhere in the …
Shoe Box
When I found that Amanda Marshall CD I also found something else along with it. The Shoe Box EP by Barenaked Ladies. I found it in a shoe box. Would you believe that? If you were a kid in the mid-’90s you may have heard your parents laughing to a particular song. If you got curious they may have played …
Last Exit to Eden
The last three songs were from an interesting period of time for me. I was in university studying jazz and classical music. I was in a full-time band called The Day He Quit and we were trying to make it to the top. During that time I was transitioning my education path to pure music composition. My music antenna was …
Banshee (Ghost Fame)
As I go through the music I never got a chance to share I am feeling lots of emotion. These feelings are mixed with excitement and melancholy. Not all the bands I go back to are still active. The next band we are going to talk about it Letlive, and they have since broken up. Their Wikipedia page and other …
The Moments In Between
This song is a special one for me. I heard it during the Christmas season in 2011. They ended up on Reddit tagged as a holiday style tune. My first impression of them was of a jazzy holiday band. Then I looked at their discography and found The Moments in Between from their first album Rhythm, Chord & Melody. My …
On With Disease
When I look back to my life as a musician my biggest regret is that I didn’t share enough music. I never used social media when I was a performer, and whenever I shared music it was in the company of others. I shared music privately and never to a wide-open space like the internet. This regret serves as the …
How To Critique Music Objectively
While studying music composition we learned how to objectively critique music by considering eight attributes of music: Dynamics, Rhythm (duration), Pitch (range), Timbre, Direction and Space, Attack (articulation), Texture, and Density. Writing a good music critique can be hard without a core blue print. If you can talk about each individual attribute it will all add up to a decent …
Why New Due Review?
Where did the name come from? Why Newduereview? I thought I would pose this question to you right away before we get any deeper into the tangle of the music world. The quick answer is the name Newduereview comes from the concept of musical appropriation. I appreciate the Wikipedia definition of appropriation: “Appropriation in art is the use of pre-existing …