Tag: musician
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Vintage Album Covers From Yugoslavia Are Amazingly Awkward
Music was a great source of unity for the Yugoslavs, with people enjoying genres from folk to disco and heavy metal performed by artists from a variety of ethnic and religious backgrounds. Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Macedonians, Bosnians and Montenegrins shared the stage to create beautiful music, alongside soulful Roma and Albanian artists who brought even…
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Woman Started Drumming In 1920 And She’s Still Got What It Takes At The Age Of 106
Musicians rejoice! Because legendary percussionist Viola Smith may have discovered the secret for a long and healthy life: energetic drumming and the moderate consumption of good wine. Now aged 106 and actively drumming until recently in a Costa Mesa band called Forever Young Band: America’s Oldest Act of Professional Entertainers, Viola’s remarkably long career has…
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Twenty Instruments Reconstructed to Play Through the Keys of a Vintage Piano
When the Ukrainian band Brunettes Shoot Blondes came across a vintage broken piano, they decided to transform it into a unique and completely analog hybrid of 20 different instruments that are each connected and controlled by the piano keys. The band prominently featured this wonderful instrument in the music video for their song “Houston”. The…
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The Most Awkward Metal Band Photos That Are So Bad They’re Good
Rock stars are supposed to be charismatic. The gig requires being able to a) get up in front of people and perform convincingly, b) create compelling songs that evoke emotions, c) have a sense of style your fans would want to emulate, and, of course, d) be sexy. That’s a lot of requirements, and some…
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The Worst Album Art Covers Of All Time Will Leave You Asking “Why?”
The 1970’s and 1980’s were full of lots of good things, but also lots of bad things. To celebrate this era, Vintage Everyday recently came up with a list of the worst and creepiest examples of album cover art ever dreamed up. Some of them are so horribly bad, one wonders what the artist was…
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RIP Aretha Franklin: Celebrate Her Life With Her Most Powerful Early Performances
Aretha Franklin, whose gospel-rooted singing and bluesy yet expansive delivery earned her the title “the Queen of Soul,” has died, a family statement said Thursday. She was 76. The news has brought tearful tributes from celebrities and fans; lengthy retrospectives of her almost sixty-year career will follow. In a life as rich, troubled, and glamorous…
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A Man Plays Smooth Criminal on a Barrel Organ in a Wood Pile
Running the biggest art sales and blog site in the world, we get sent A LOT of content from artists all around the globe who ask us to share their work to our millions of followers. Sometimes, something truly amazing drops into our inbox which simply stops us in our tracks. This is one such item…