2000s

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Male Vocal
La Bikina: the Mexican song of pride and loneliness

La Bikina was written in 1964 by Mexican composer, violinist, arranger, and producer Rubén Fuentes. The song became one…

July 23, 2026
Film
Cucurrucucú Paloma: the Mexican dove song of love and grief

Composed by Mexican songwriter Tomás Méndez in 1954, Cucurrucucú Paloma entered popular memory as a huapango-style song…

July 13, 2026
Male Vocal
Somos Novios: exploring the meaning of Manzanero's famous bolero

In 1968, Mexican songwriter Armando Manzanero released the enchanting love song Somos Novios. Two years later, American…

July 1, 2023
Songwriter
Aserejé: meaning behind The Ketchup Song

In 2002, the Spanish pop group Las Ketchup turned Aserejé, also known as The Ketchup Song, into a worldwide summer hit…

May 20, 2023
Songwriter
Butterflies and Hurricanes: piano intermezzo meets the chaos theory

Butterflies and Hurricanes is a powerful track by the English rock band Muse first released on their 2003 album…

September 20, 2021
Film
Concerning Hobbits: portraying home with the penny whistle

Concerning Hobbits is a two-minute tune originally composed by Canadian composer Howard Shore for Peter Jackson's 2001…

May 31, 2021
Film
Hedwig’s Theme: magical mood cast by the celesta melody

Hedwig's Theme, also known as the main theme of all eight Harry Potter films, was the first piece written by John…

April 28, 2021
Songwriter
A Dios le Pido: Juanes' Spanish lyrics behind the song success

A Dios le Pido or I beg to God is the best-known track of the Colombian songwriter and guitarist Juanes who made…

April 9, 2021
Songwriter
Knights of Cydonia: Dorian-mode refrain boosting best Muse song

Knights of Cydonia by English alternative rock band Muse has been repeatedly placed at the top of many fan-voted charts…

April 3, 2021
Songwriter
Mariposa Traicionera: meaning and flamenco roots of Maná's top hit

Mariposa Traicionera is one of the best-known tracks by Maná, a multi-awarded Mexican quartet whose flexible style…

March 31, 20212 comments
Music Theory
8 songs to introduce Aeolian mode and natural minor scale

Over the past centuries, the composition of polyphonic music has been primarily focused on seven diatonic scales…

November 12, 2020
Guitar Amplifier
Bogner Shiva: boutique guitar amplifier found its tracking in metal genres

Bogner Shiva is a powerful guitar amplifier that has earned the title of a true guitarist's darling, being the first…

November 1, 2020
Music Theory
Plagal cadence exemplified by 9 songs in all diatonic modes

In musical theory, the term cadence is applied to the chord progressions that create a sense of resolution at the end…

October 29, 20202 comments
Songwriter
Rollin' and Tumblin' as the essence of slide guitar technique combined with lyrics diversity

Rollin' and Tumblin' is one of the great Delta blues songs that has been interpreted by many blues artists long before…

September 4, 2020
Music Theory
Locrian mode: music examples and harmonic structure

Music theory describes seven diatonic scales of which the major and minor scales are the most functional and therefore…

June 17, 2020
Music Theory
Microtonality: the variety of approaches to microtonal music in world cultures

In theory, microtonal music describes a piece that contains one or more intervals measuring below a semitone. Although…

February 19, 2020
Guitar
The art of Caribbean rhythms by the Garifuna Collective

Garifuna music is closely related to the culture of the Garifuna people living primarily on the Caribbean coast of…

January 26, 2020
Songwriter
Traditions of Malian music spread worldwide through Afel Bocoum and Damon Albarn collaboration

The famous Malian songwriter Afel Bocoum began his musical career in the 1960s at the age of thirteen when he joined…

January 5, 2020
Electric Guitar
Adrian Belew's spellbinding guitar tricks saturate prog music with the sounds of space

American multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Adrian Belew managed to extract entirely extraordinary sounds from his…

September 15, 2019
Songwriter
The morna: essential music of the Cape Verde archipelago reached mainland thanks to Cesária Évora's voice

With roots in the 18th-century Cape Verde, the morna music is a vital and culturally definitive genre of the…

September 8, 2019
Songwriter
The resonance of African tribal heritage in Ali Farka Touré's guitar

Ali Farka Touré was one of the first Malian songwriters to arrange African folk music for acoustic and electric guitar,…

July 20, 2019
Synthesizer
The analog synthesizers of Isao Tomita programming fresh sound for all-time classics

Japanese composer Isao Tomita was one of the first to explore analog synthesizers in search for new sounds that would…

July 10, 2019
Band
Tinariwen: 40 years of nomadic desert music driven by Ibrahim Ag Alhabib's guitar

Formed by Ibrahim Ag Alhabib in the late 1970s, the African band Tinariwen always had a clear mission to preserve the…

June 19, 2019
Guitar
Charley Patton's guitar tricks bridged the genre gap between Delta blues and rock'n'roll

Charley Patton played a crucial role in developing the early blues movement in the Delta region of northwestern…

June 12, 20191 comment
Piano
Zawinul incited his electric piano to report the jazz weather

European jazz pianist Joe Zawinul is best known for his founding the iconic band Weather Report which is highly…

March 8, 2019
Film
The necessity of undramatic humanity in Coffee and Cigarettes by Jim Jarmusch

A set of 11 short stories collected in the film Coffee and Cigarettes depicts the nostalgic era every older smoker…

January 8, 2019
Santour
Azam Ali's magnificent vocal journeys through languages

In recent decades, the mixing of styles and cultures in popular and classical music has grown into quite a common trend…

December 28, 2018
Piano
Sgt. Pepper's inspiration behind Carla Bley's revolutionary jazz album

Born in Oakland, California, Carla Bley was raised in a Christian fundamentalist household and received remarkably…

November 20, 2018
Electric Guitar
Monnette Sudler: the first lady of jazz guitar

Grammy-nominated jazz guitarist Monnette Sudler is known as the “First Lady of Jazz Guitar,” among other titles. Her…

October 30, 2018
Piano
Gondolier songs as the inspiration behind the romantic genre of Barcarolle

Originally a Venetian gondolier’s song, Barcarolle is characterized by gently rocking rhythms reminiscent of the…

October 14, 2018