Music Reviews Archives - MARKGRAGO.COM ✍🏻 https://markgrago.com/category/music-reviews/ I'm a writer&poet&vlogger from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. You are invited on my journey! βœπŸ»πŸ“½πŸ“Έ Sun, 08 Dec 2024 19:18:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/markgrago.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/imageedit_2_3033854795.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Music Reviews Archives - MARKGRAGO.COM ✍🏻 https://markgrago.com/category/music-reviews/ 32 32 128556770 KISS “Destroyer”: The Shedding of an Era into a Dynasty 🎸🎸🎸🎡 https://markgrago.com/kiss-destroyer-the-shedding-of-an-era-into-a-dynasty-%f0%9f%8e%b8%f0%9f%8e%b8%f0%9f%8e%b8%f0%9f%8e%b5/ https://markgrago.com/kiss-destroyer-the-shedding-of-an-era-into-a-dynasty-%f0%9f%8e%b8%f0%9f%8e%b8%f0%9f%8e%b8%f0%9f%8e%b5/#respond Sun, 08 Dec 2024 19:04:01 +0000 https://markgrago.com/?p=549   Destroyer is a transition of power for KISS. This is their finest work up-to-date. However, more importantly, this is a musical/vocal procedure that will have the band test their creativity and flash their virtuosity into a pantheon of vibrancy and illumination that will gain them the qualified recognition that was absent from their previous …

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]]> https://markgrago.com/kiss-destroyer-the-shedding-of-an-era-into-a-dynasty-%f0%9f%8e%b8%f0%9f%8e%b8%f0%9f%8e%b8%f0%9f%8e%b5/feed/ 0 549 Never Mind The Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols: The Musical Landmark of Rebellion and Authority 🎸 https://markgrago.com/never-mind-the-bollocks-heres-the-sex-pistols-the-musical-landmark-of-rebellion-and-authority-%f0%9f%8e%b8/ https://markgrago.com/never-mind-the-bollocks-heres-the-sex-pistols-the-musical-landmark-of-rebellion-and-authority-%f0%9f%8e%b8/#respond Thu, 21 Nov 2024 15:48:08 +0000 https://markgrago.com/?p=464   In the year 1977, things in music were about to change. While the world danced to disco music and was being introduced to a cosmological style of guitar playing by Eddie Van Halen, a new era in music would plunder its way into the ears of innocent teenagers and annoy the most authoritarian parents. …

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]]> https://markgrago.com/lorde-melodrama-the-emergence-of-beauty-and-battle/feed/ 0 382 “Hoodie SZN” by A Boogie wit da Hoodie: The Soul Circumference of Personalized Bristly HipHop https://markgrago.com/hoodie-szn-by-a-boogie-wit-da-hoodie-the-soul-circumference-of-personalized-bristly-hiphop/ https://markgrago.com/hoodie-szn-by-a-boogie-wit-da-hoodie-the-soul-circumference-of-personalized-bristly-hiphop/#respond Sun, 20 Oct 2024 14:41:09 +0000 https://markgrago.com/?p=362   The most laconic assertion I can make in this review is that Boogie SZN is from The Bronx, and that has labeled him a Star. Rap was born in The Bronx and so are the struggles of this young star on the rise; one of the first impressions I received from this album was …

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]]> https://markgrago.com/hoodie-szn-by-a-boogie-wit-da-hoodie-the-soul-circumference-of-personalized-bristly-hiphop/feed/ 0 362 VAN HALEN: THE RESURRECTION OF HARD ROCK 🎸🎸🎸 https://markgrago.com/van-halen-the-resurrection-of-hard-rock-%f0%9f%8e%b8%f0%9f%8e%b8%f0%9f%8e%b8/ https://markgrago.com/van-halen-the-resurrection-of-hard-rock-%f0%9f%8e%b8%f0%9f%8e%b8%f0%9f%8e%b8/#respond Sat, 28 Sep 2024 17:34:45 +0000 https://markgrago.com/?p=315 The year was 1978 and music was undergoing a massive mutation of dynamics and expansion. Disco was enhancing our radio speakers, John Travolta was the grand dancer of the era, and new music was oozing through the political and cultural geography of the time; Punk Rock. The previous giant bands like Led Zeppelin and The …

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]]> https://markgrago.com/jay-z-444-the-parthenon-of-hip-hop-architecture-%f0%9f%8e%ba/feed/ 0 263 The Cure Three Imaginary Boys The Dismantling and Reassembling of A Post Punk Apocolyptic Milky Way https://markgrago.com/the-cure-three-imaginary-boys-the-dismantling-and-reassembling-of-a-post-punk-apocolyptic-milky-way/ https://markgrago.com/the-cure-three-imaginary-boys-the-dismantling-and-reassembling-of-a-post-punk-apocolyptic-milky-way/#respond Thu, 11 Jul 2024 16:52:24 +0000 https://markgrago.com/?p=204   1979 was a year full of change in music; just a year earlier, Van Halen made their mammoth preview with their self-titled album and Eddie Van Halen forever hurled the guitar into a cosmic chaos of tameless frets and gorgeously exaggerated tremolo blows; his venture was astonishingly poetic and placed the electric guitar into …

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]]> https://markgrago.com/the-cure-three-imaginary-boys-the-dismantling-and-reassembling-of-a-post-punk-apocolyptic-milky-way/feed/ 0 204 THE BEATLES: Sgt. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND: A DREAMCICLE FANTASY OF MYTHICAL ENDEAVORS πŸŒˆπŸ’œπŸ’Ž https://markgrago.com/the-beatles-sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band-a-dreamcicle-fantasy-of-mythical-endeavors-%f0%9f%8c%88%f0%9f%92%9c%f0%9f%92%8e/ https://markgrago.com/the-beatles-sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band-a-dreamcicle-fantasy-of-mythical-endeavors-%f0%9f%8c%88%f0%9f%92%9c%f0%9f%92%8e/#respond Sun, 16 Jun 2024 18:17:10 +0000 https://markgrago.com/?p=166 Color. Imagery. Fantasy. Arrangement. Fashion. Themes. These became remarkable conservatories of creativity that would never suggest a location in an orthodox genre again. Apothegms are not permitted in one of the most profound storybooks of music ever created or recorded. This album is the β€˜Alice in Wonderland’ of creative expression in music. In this episode, …

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