Friday, February 12, 2010

Emo Hair Styles for Boys & Girls

Emo is the newly developed fashion, regarding hair styles all the way with fashion with it's own attitude. Not willing to follow the "dress code" of others emo has developed its own way of fashion.

The 411 on this includes incredibly jet black hair with possible brighter colors such as blue, a maroon-red or a possible pink. These can be highlighted throughout the hair to give more definition and tone to the emo look. The style of the hair is usually asymmetric its Greek meaning it has lack of proportion making it look like a three year old took scissors to your hair, different shapes and length levels. A cheap box of die and some choppy scissors will help you to create your own emo hairstyle. Below are a lot of emo hair styles, which pic is your favorite?


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There is no need for concern when making your emo hairstyle, what you feel like doing goes! It's not a normal look so therefore people expect it to be all over the place and to be and over all crazy hair cut. Most emo girls and men guys to the jet black hair for their hair cut and they like the unnatural, uneven look it gives it more spunk. Even though the emo look is becoming more common, it is still an uncommon way for a hair cut. So have fun with it dye it black, chop it up and add some crazy highlights.

Emo hairstyles can be made by you, your best friend or your little brother. The style does not require a professional stylist or beautician. You can just cut the dyed hair all over in different shapes but the hair usually is always longer in the front hiding the face. You can also razor it in the back to have it spiky with the longer bangs for a weird looking hair cut. Both of these are considered an emo hairstyle. No matter what you do to your hair choppy, buzzed in the back as long as you have some uneven pieces framing the face your in the clear.


Emo hairstyles are usually spiky and shaggy a definition of how you felt at that time. It's an all over the place crazy style so use gel and hair glue to your advantage. Adding hair glue to the bangs in the front to make them straight and stiff is a must when trying to create the emo hairstyle. You can add gel to the back of your hair as well to make it stand straight out if you have the back shorter. If the back is long and shaggy just mix and match gel and hair glue to make it a crazy bold effect. Remember the more unusual and different your hair looks the better off you are.


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Emo Music

Emo music is something that is rather ambiguously defined. It can be something that has heavy punk chords and influence such as what we've heard from the Sex Pistols, but it can also be something with soft melodic characteristics like what we've heard from the Cure. This is why emo is such a hard concept to define. It is an expression of emotion in some way.

Emo music is a type of rock music but with a solid difference. Originating in the Washington DC area in the 1990s, emo (which stands for emotional hardcore) music has gained notoriety with the emergence of such bands as One Last Wish, Embrace and Fire Party. Emo music has been compared to indie rock.

Emo music also spawned a subculture which is inherently punk-rock. Teens attending emo concerts and shouting "screamo" spotted tight pants, dyed hair and ragged jeans. This style has been widely associated with the 50s-era appearances at Frank Sinatra concerts but it has been taken a step further recently. Emo adherents spot gothic looks such as faces painted chalk white and hair and nails dyed black. This "zombie" appearance, complete with Celtic crosses and jewelry has not gone without its critics.

In recent years emo music has even moved away from the punk sound and many bands are starting to adopt more electronic elements to their sound. Death Cab for Cutie is a perfect example, whose lead singer Ben Gibbard also fronts the entirely electronic project the Postal Service. Emo Music is becoming very popular among teens.


Emo music got its roots from punk rock and the infusion of indie rock. The genre developed in the early 1980’s arguably from such influences as the Cure and Sunny Day Real Estate. In the 1990’s one example of Emo bands would be Fugazi or Texas Is the Reason. Texas Is the Reason is a more indie version of Emo while Fugazi is certainly punk. While a band like Modest Mouse might easily be mistaken for an Emo band because they are punk influenced, highly emotional, and extremely fashionable, they are not Emo. The reason is that their lyrics are more metaphors than straight forwardly emotional lyrics.


Lyrics that talk about crying in despair after a death in the family are Emo. The second lyrics do not leave the listener to wonder what is being expressed. The desert could be a reference to drying out from alcohol abuse or it could be a metaphor for death or bareness. Because there are different styles of Emo music such as emocore and screamo, what is Emo music is an ambiguous definition.

Loosely defined, Emo music is music that is highly emotional and very straightforward in the expression of that emotion. However, Emo music could be as potent and raging as something like what we hear from Suicidal Tendencies. The screaming anger and aggression that comes from Suicidal Tendencies is emotional just like Cat Power, but the delivery is much different. The important overarching theme here is in potent Emotions. Some of the contributions to the Emo scene in the last ten years have come from such artists as: Further Seems Forever, the Promise Ring, Benton Falls, or Army of Ponch.


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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

History Of Rock Music Indonesia

Embryo born underground rock music scene in Indonesia is difficult released from the evolution of pioneer rocker rocker-70s-era as his predecessor. Call it like God Bless, Gang Pegangsaan, Gypsy (Jakarta), Giant Step, Super Kid (Bandung), Terncem (Solo), AKA / SAS (Surabaya), Bentoel (Malang) until Rawe Rontek from Banten. They are the first generation of rockers Indonesia. The term itself actually underground magazine has been used since the early era Aktuil 70 - an. The term is used magazines and music pioneer lifestyles from Bandung was to identify the bands that played loud music with a style that is more `wild 'and` extreme' for the size of his era. And to be honest, the songs played by the bands mentioned above are not the work of their own songs, but bands of foreign kinds Deep Purple, Jefferson Airplane, Black Sabbath, Genesis, Led Zeppelin, Kansas, Rolling Stones to ELP . This counterproductive tradition and history his name had fragrant on the national stage. Call it like El Pamas, Grass Rock (Malang), Power Metal (Surabaya), Adi Metal Rock (Solo), Val Halla (Medan) to Roxx (Jakarta). Also log too, who gave birth to the birth of the label's first rock record in Indonesia, Logiss Records. The first product is an album labels God Bless the third, "Black Ants" was released in 1988 and sold up to 400,000 records in Indonesia.

Toward the end of the 80s era, the whole world at that time a young child is experiencing fever thrash metal music. A development of musical style that is more extreme metal more than heavy metal. Bands who became his gods include Slayer, Metallica, Exodus, Megadeth, Kreator, Sodom, Anthrax to Sepultura. Most big cities in Indonesia like Jakarta, Bandung, Jogjakarta, Surabaya, Malang to Bali, scene undergroundnya first born of the extreme music genre. In Jakarta alone metal community first appeared in public in early 1988. Community child metal (the term was not yet popular underground) was used to hang out at the Pid Pub, a small pub in the shopping area Pondok Indah, South Jakarta. According to Krisna J. Sadrach, frontman Sucker Head, other than hanging out, kids who hang out there by Aunt Esther, Pid Pub owner, given the opportunity to get a gig there. Every Saturday night there is usually always a live show of the new bands in the Pid Pub and most bands that carry the rock or metal music.

Bands that often hang out at the scene Pid Pub, among others Roxx (Metallica & Anthrax), Sucker Head (Kreator & Sepultura), commotion Of Resources (Exodus), Painfull Death, Rotor (Kreator), Razzle (GN'R) , husky (DRI & MOD), body, until the Alien Scream Mortus (Obituary). Some bands on the next trip much splitting into new bands. Commotion Of Resources is the embryo of sap gothic metal band, while the rough is the embryo death metal band Alien Scream lawas. In addition Oddie, Painfull Death vocalist then formed Sic Mynded industrial group in the United States with Rudi Soedjarwo (director Ada Apa Dengan Cinta?). The rotor itself was formed in 1992 after guitarist cabutnya Sucker Head, Irvan Sembiring who felt the concept of Head Sucker music was still less extreme for him.
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Grunge Music

In the mid 80's a small movement was brewing in an unlikely place, Seattle, Washington. This movement was not actually lead by Nirvana as many have said when they released "Nevermind" in September of 91 but actually went back to other Seattle bands like Melvins and Mudhoney. It was due in large part to Nirvana and Pearl Jam that the movement came to the forefront of mainstream success, a move which combined with the tragedy of Kurt Cobain's death conspired to kill the movement. While alternative music was a term for underground rock bands, Grunge bands combined guitar rock with punk and metal to give birth to a new movement. By the mid 90s the two movements combined in the eyes of the public to one big genre known as grunge. As a offshoot of this situation rock emerged and returned to the roots of the alternative movement and took the mantle of what was formerly known as alternative or college rock. Grunge moved from a local sound in Seattle through national and international venues and became a part of the musical vocabulary of most subsequent bands. Most modern musicians owe a debt of gratitude to those plaid wearing teens from Seattle. What caused this phenomenon? No one knows exactly but there are some possible causes to consider.

Seattle in the early 80s was an isolated place culturally. Major bands didn't tour Seattle, the live scene was awash with derivative bands, and it rained a lot which brings people inside together. In the words of local record producer Jack Endino, "when the weather's crappy you don't feel like going outside, you go into a basement and make a lot of noise to take out your frustration." In the mid eighties British punk began to make its presence known in Seattle. Bands formed and played small gigs they set up for themselves to an audience mostly of other bands in tiny venues or clubs. It was a friendly scene playing to entertain themselves and escape from boredom and the rain. We did mention the rain right? Lots of rain? Small independent record companies started up making handshake deals producing vinyl records which were cheap and abundant. Fanzines also helped glue the scene together and keep grunge enthusiasts informed on the new bands and shows. Jonathan Poneman and Bruce Pavitof of the famed and infamous rock record label Sub Pop began to spread beyond the north west exerting their influence on a national level. After starting with the simple goal of getting a relatively unknown local band Soundgarden on record they soon became a driving force in the movement that was quickly sweeping the nation. In November 1988 they established the "Sub Pop Singles Club" producing limited editions of singles from local bands, released monthly. It started with a thousand copies of a thoroughly unknown Nirvana's "Love Buzz/Big Cheese". Other local bands like Green River, Tad, Mudhoney, and Soundgarden put out Sub Pop singles. King Snake Roost, Lubricated Goat, Surgery, Helmet, Tar, Silverfish, Melvins, Cows, and Steel Pole Bath Tub began to be well known on the local scene and the roots of the movement began to take hold.

In 1989 British journalist Andy Catlin came to Seattle. Poneman and Pavit escorted him to a Mudhoney show. They showed him around town and the result was a big story in Britain's Melody Maker, 1989, titled "Seattle, Rock City". Suddenly the US underground was buzzing with the news about the Seattle movement. Art Chantry aptly described the upcoming months as "an explosion of subculture". Many locals bands hated the attention. In 1990 it seemed all the hype was overblown. Sub Pop had fallen on such hard times Poneman and Pavit created a T shirt in 1991 which stated bluntly "WHICH PART OF WE HAVE NO MONEY DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND?"

It seemed it was much ado about nothing. Then quietly in September of 91 Nirvana's second album "Nevermind" hit the shelves. Nirvana were still a small local act from the tiny logging town of Aberdeen. No one expected much of the album. The when MTV placed "Smells Like Teen Spirit" in high rotation suddenly almost overnight it became a national phenomenon which some have called the anthem of a generation. Kurt Cobain suddenly found himself as the unexpected spokesman of what was beginning to be referred to as generation X. Nirvana toured Australia and suddenly Grunge was a part of popular global culture. The merciless exploitation was not far behind. As Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam stated bluntly, "when commerce is involved, everything changes". Vanity Fair magazine did a Grunge fashion spread which appeared on the runway of 7th Avenue New York fashion shows. Chain stores advertised grunge wear for all ages. At the local level in Seattle the grunge scene was limited to gigs in local clubs, the production of fanzines, record releases on small local labels staying true to its roots and keeping the movement alive but the kids in plaid couldn't keep the corporate wolves at bay forever. Grunge was big business and artists need money like everyone else. Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Nirvana had big success on the charts and the big five wanted a piece of the action. Geffen Records purchased Nirvana's contract from Sub Pop, Alice in Chains signed with Columbia and Pearl Jam signed with Epic. Suddenly out of nowhere all the major labels descended upon Seattle looking for the "next big thing". Kurt Cobain said of Teen Spirit in his last major interview (US Rolling Stone issue 674, Jan 27, 1994), "Everyone has focused on that song so much. The reason it gets a big reaction is people have seen it on MTV a million times. It's been pounded into their brains." That was the problem. The music was being overplayed and it was only a matter of time before their was a backlash.

Once mainstream success came along local control of Grunge was gone. National magazines heralded the "new sound" and major successes like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains and Soundgarden were in great demand. Suddenly grunge artists became big celebrities and the gossip mill wanted to know every little detail. Kim Thayil of Soundgarden was quoted saying "that's what makes pop culture so significant to all the little consumers out there, they have no interest in history or economics... they're interested more in gossip and the nature of celebrity". Suddenly grunge became embedded in the popular culture and to the artists who pioneered the movement it lost its appeal at the same time. Groups began to distance themselves from the movement. In December, of 1992, Spin magazine reported "Seattle...it's currently to the rock world what Bethlehem was to Christianity" When the New York Times called Sub Pop to get the inside scoop on "Grunge" employee Megan Jasper made up a whole series of words which were allegedly the Grunge translation of common terms. It was a total lie but was printed just the same. When the story was exposed the hypocrisy of over commercialization began to become apparent and the movement began to unravel.

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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Top 10 Most Influential Rock Bands In The World

Contemporary rock bands owe a debt to legendary artists like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, but a collection of more recent groups created the thematic and sonic blueprint that’s still being followed today. Here is a list of the most essential rock bands – if you love a current group, there’s a good chance they were influenced by at least one of these artists.

1. NIRVANA
Frontman Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic went through a series of drummers before they found their man: former Scream member Dave Grohl. With their trio in place, they recorded Nevermind, an album that went on to sell more than 25 million copies worldwide. Nirvana represent a bridge from the arena rock of the ‘70s and ‘80s to the alternative and contemporary rock of the ‘90s to the present. Any modern-day songwriter who details his personal anguish with accessible, passionate rock music is following in Cobain’s massive footprints.

2. PEARL JAM
Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder is a lethal combination of manly good looks, socially-conscious lyricist and volcanic vocalist. Embodying strength and vulnerability in equal measure, Vedder became the model for impassioned frontmen, and his booming baritone can be heard in the deliveries of everyone from Chris Daughtry to Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger. Pearl Jam’s brand of heavy, melodic rock encompasses sensitive ballads and enraged protest songs, setting the sonic framework for their contemporaries to continue exploring. Perhaps just as importantly, the band not only discuss politics in their music but also speak out for the causes they support.

3. FOO FIGHTERS
When Nirvana broke up, who would have given odds that Dave Grohl’s next band would last longer than his old one did? The longevity of the Foo Fighters can be attributed to many things, but primarily it’s due to Grohl’s skill at crafting radio-ready rock songs. Though he sports a fiery urgency reminiscent of Nirvana’s best work, Grohl injects a likable everyman quality into his material, making his lost-love laments feel like the musings of your typical Joe. Foo Fighters specialize in songs of self-reliance that pair hopeful lyrics with surging guitars and assertive drums, and their fans respond to the hard-earned optimism of Grohl’s albums.

4. SOUNDGARDEN
For years, Soundgarden worked to make their songs appropriately heavy, piling on the guitars and moody atmospherics until they formed an unbreakable spell. And with that completed, this Seattle band proceeded to take over the world with Superunknown, a majestically dark and thoughtful look at a world crumbling down because of corruption, lapsed morals, cynicism and failed interpersonal relationships. Amazingly, Superunknown managed to do all that while being exceptionally engaging at the same time, drawing strength from its willingness to confront life’s bleakness in plain terms.

5. RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
This Los Angeles band battled substance abuse, death and lineup changes, but they have remained a commercial juggernaut since 1991. Of their many contributions to rock music, Red Hot Chili Peppers broke down the boundaries of what even constitutes “rock music.” Funk, punk, hard rock, pop and metal all have their say in RHCP’s songs, and the band’s albums are overstuffed with sonic ideas. And unlike many of their peers, this band, led by singer Anthony Kiedis, have embraced the sexual hedonism that powered rock ‘n’ roll’s earliest acts, bringing that lascivious spirit to the modern age.

6. STONE TEMPLE PILOTS
Stone Temple Pilots were proudly out of step with their ‘90s contemporaries. Instead of focusing on tortured self-examination and grunge musicianship, STP flaunted a sensual allure in their hard rock, aiming for arena glory and introducing glam elements in their highly accessible songs. Frontman Scott Weiland came across as a mix between David Bowie’s androgynous sexuality and Jim Morrison’s lethal charisma, and Dean DeLeo’s guitar work incorporated distortion and fluidity, depending on the song. Though they entered the scene as sleazy, lounge-lizard rockers, they developed into adept craftsmen comfortable with pop ballads and moody postpunk.

7. NINE INCH NAILS
Though the fact is sometimes obscured by his band’s wall of dense, violent industrial rock, Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor might be contemporary rock’s most candid songwriter, with each new album an opportunity to sneak a peek into the latest quandaries eating away at his soul. But by placing those self-doubts and feelings of alienation in bracingly dynamic hard rock songs, Reznor manages to make the personal universal, speaking for a lot of listeners struggling with internal and external stresses. And as he’s developed as an artist, he’s been more willing to look outside himself, specifically after 9/11, which has inspired angry, politically-relevant material that’s some of the strongest in his career.

8. RATM ( Rage Against The Machine )
Reviving rock’s spirit of social protest in a large way, Rage Against the Machine combined singer Zack de la Rocha’s rapped and ranted lyrics with guitarist Tom Morello’s metal-tinged riffs for combustive songs that took aim at elected officials, censorship and warmongers. Unlike bands that pretend to be edgy, RATM wielded an intimidating stage presence – their live shows felt dangerous and anarchic, and their energy suggested the fervor of a political rally. Many subsequent groups didn’t seem as interested in the messages, but that didn’t stop them from borrowing Rage’s pioneering amalgam of rap, rock and metal for their own purposes.

9. LIVE
As grunge was beginning to lose steam, Live were one of the first groups who figured out how to adapt the genre’s heaviness into a mainstream sound. Injecting spirituality into his lyrics, frontman Ed Kowalczyk projects a brooding, sensitive quality to his vocals, and his band’s music tilts toward earnest anthems. Groups like Breaking Benjamin and Daughtry have borrowed a page or two from the Live playbook when trying to emote and rock simultaneously.

10. KORN
Turning adolescent angst into disturbing songs that mixed childhood images with howling vocals, Korn are a band that use elements of metal and rock in their occasionally experimental arrangements. Dabbling in rap-rock and industrial, the group, led by singer Jonathan Davis, hit their peak with Follow the Leader, a gripping soundtrack for hating the world around you but hating yourself even more.
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