What is the best music app?

When I got my first ipod, I noticed that there were many music apps for free.  At first, I had Pandora. I really liked it at first. You could make a station by song, artist,album and genre. Eventually, Pandora got annoying an kept playing the same old songs over and over. Then I found another music App, 8 tracks. This app featured playlists created by people themselves, typically with a certain topic or theme. I found this to be very interesting. For example, some playlists featured movie soundtracks and tv soundtracks, feautued a certain decade, or had specific themes such as "love, rainy day, or dance party. I really liked these apps, then I got picky about what playlists I  liked. I still use this app but I haven't used it in a while.  My current music app that I an using is spotify. I really liked this app because you can choose playlists created by others, but you can create your own as well from a very broad music library. I feel like they should have more playlists because I see a lot of the same ones. I got a deal for $1.00 you can get 3 months of unlimited listening which I really enjoyed. I now just have the free one and it is very irritating. I almost tempted to pay the 10 dollars a month because the ads are so annoying. They play the same add over and over and they can be very awkward. What is your favorite music app? Any comments on the ones I mentioned?

Montage of Heck: New Nirvana/ Kurt Cobain Documentary featuring a chilling Beatles cover.

This new and exiting Nirvana documentary appeared at the Sundance Music Festival and had gotten great reviews! It appears in theaters on April  24th,( Probably no where in Michigan, of course.:( This documentary includes unreleased music, home videos, Nirvana concert footage and other material from the late Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain who passed away from a tragic suicide in 1994.This movie features a chilling cover of "And I love her" by Kurt Cobain. I wasn't able to listen to it on the Rolling Stone website, but I found it on youtube. It is very distorted and you can hear a woman's voice in the background. I have a box set of some of Nirvanas "unreleased" songs and Demos and I will admit it's pretty eerie to hear. You can hear Kurt goofing around, talking to his band members or cursing in frustration in the middle of a song because he made a mistake, I recall in one demo that you could hear a baby crying and im assuming it was his only daughter.The box set I own features a few covers. One was originally by The Velvet Underground( Here She Comes Now"- which was very well done. This demos are really strange and im looking forward to the movie. Ive been a Nirvana fan for as long as I can remember and I hope to see this movie somehow since I don't have HBO the last time I checked.

PS. Don't worry though, if you have HBO this documentary will appear on May 4th.

Here is a link to the chilling cover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdcA_ozN17Q
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/hear-kurt-cobains-chilling-unreleased-beatles-cover-20150421

Summer Concert tours 2015!

I love going to concert in the summertime the most, I prefer to be at outside venues like ballpark. My friend Maddeigh called me last August before I started school and asked if I wanted to go to Fifth Third Ballpark to see the Goo Goo Dolls,Daughtry, and The plain White T's in concert, I was a fan of an album of two from each band and was happy to go. We just had general admission seats but it was a great concert and loved every moment. This Summer there are a lot of hot concerts. One of the top ones is the Rolling Stones at Comerica Park in Detroit. I personally checked the price for these tickets at the were far too much for decent seats at least (260 dollars per ticket) Fredrick Meijer Gardens just released there summer concert list which you can view from the bottom of this post) Artists Range from the Steve Miller Band to Christina Perri. Are you ready for all of this summer fun? I sure am. Spending time with friends, the energy of the music and the concert ts are something I really look forward to!(Im going to see Aerosmith with my friend Summer in August and I cannot wait!)


http://www.meijergardens.org/calendar/category/concerts/P10/

Record Store Day!:)

This Saturday is known as Record Store day. Studies show that this day actually draws a youmger crowed, its not just for the nostalgia of older people. Most people would think not any young adults would own not own records, just Ipods. A UK study confirmed that 14% of 18-24 year olds had purchased vinyl compared to 5% of 35 to 50 year olds.
The top consumer to buy records is 25 to 25 year olds at 26%..
I personally think vinyl records are great even though I own very few. I also think its cool how they put modern albums on vinyl. For example,I own Justin Timberlake 20/20 on a vinyl that I found at Target, of all places. Vinyl can last a long time, if you take good care of it. My uncle has a few shelves full at his house that still work.

The Who's last tour?

"Blurred Lines" Lawsuit

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/pharrell-talks-blurred-lines-lawsuit-for-first-time-20150319

Artist Pharrell Williams is being sued for his song "Blurred Lines" that he did with artist Robin Thicke. The amount Pharrell is being sued for is 7.3 Million dollars. The reason he is being sued is because it the hook of the song sounds a lot similar to Marvin Gaye's "Got to Give it up"  Even though Marvin Gaye had passed away many years ago, his family is suing pharrell. It sounds very similar but its not exact. Im not sure if Gayes family is worried about his legacy or if they just are money hungry. I was a huge fan of this song when it first came out because of the catchy hook, I will admit I hate the lyrics.( Way to promote rape as a positive thing!) The video is pretty awful too. I remember seeing something on the news about Robin Thicke's commentary about the lawsuit, he pretty much threw Pharrell under the bus and made excuses for himself. Claiming that "He didn't write much of the song and he was high on alcohol and Vicodin at the time." Wow... what a moron.
Pharrell is pretty upset about the lawsuit. He exclaims that "This applies to fashion, music, design… anything. If we lose our freedom to be inspired, we're going to look up one day and the entertainment industry as we know it will be frozen in litigation." 

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/pharrell-talks-blurred-lines-lawsuit-for-first-time-20150319#ixzz3VAgvlv00

The Festival of the Arts

This weekend I got to perform at the Festival of the arts with my choir. It was at in our high school in the small gym. I am in Mrs. Millers's 6th hr concert choir. We performed with the honors choir for two songs. Our first song was " Dream a little Dream of Me." We did very well on this song. Our blend was perfect and we nailed our crescendo in a certain part of the song. The next piece was a compilation for the Phantom The Opera, lasting 11 minutes.(Much longer than our original songs) We started out with great intensity and went thought the song like it was nothing. Then the concert choir was off stage,
I stood outside to watch some of the Honors choir performance, they sounded beautiful as always. I then talked to some friends and went home.