Sentences with phrase «of backing music»

Removed from their original context — and detached from emotive vocals and the driving force of backing music — the lyrics lose their original conviction and descend into disaffected gibberish.

The researchers chose an advert for chocolate and asked 25 volunteers to describe an appropriate piece of backing music using a fixed list of adjectives.

The favourite piece of backing music was appropriate and moderately complex.

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For example, licensing can provide the cash a band or individual might need to sponsor their next tour or go back into the studio, says Heather Gardner, head of music supervision and licensing at Toronto's Vapor Mmusic supervision and licensing at Toronto's Vapor MusicMusic.

Back in 2006, Evans was studying law at Melbourne's Monash University while also organizing a charity music gig, an Australian version of the Make Poverty History concerts that had started in the U.K..

Co-founders Devin Haman and Jeff Bozz (last we saw them, they were firing a pair of hard - partying friends named Holly and Molly) will be back for a new season on E! later this year... AmieStreet.com, a music - downloading start - up that raises the price of a song as it gains popularity, hit the jackpot when users found recordings on the site by Ashley Alexandra Dupré, the woman linked with former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer.

Thanks to that innovation, music revenues have steadily crept back up: Spotify boasts 140 million customers, of whom 70 million are paying monthly — a gusher of cash for artists and record labels.

Swift has had a long - running and highly publicised feud with the music streaming service, accusing the industry of failing to properly value musicians» art and pulling her library from the platform back in 2014.

The mega-star musician is allowing her music back on the music streaming service, to the delight of her fans.

Back in February, Apple included three months of Apple Music with its new Beats wireless earphones.

When I stopped by the Horseshoe, he was buying drinks for everyone who showed up — friend, acquaintance or media — urging people to try out a bike or enjoy a complimentary taco and then settling in the back of the club when the music started: a couple of little - known local indie bands played, and Broken Social Scene member Brendan Canning — dressed as if he'd just arrived from Wimbledon's centre court — did a DJ set.

«To me, the biggest part of the story is that the music industry missed such an amazing opportunity, back when they could have owned streaming.

While donation - based crowdfunding has blossomed on the public stage for getting arts and music projects funded, the majority of crowdfunding campaigns back social causes or startups.

One of the surprise contributors to this success is the Amazon Echo, a smart speaker that's capable of answering your questions, playing back music and podcasts, and controlling smart devices in your home.

Many services rake in billions of dollars for themselves on the backs of music's popularity but pay only relative pennies for artists and labels.

The rise of Tidal to the top was undoubtedly helped by West's decision to hold back the sale of his latest album on his website for a week, giving the new streaming site true exclusivity over competitors like Spotify and Apple Music, and a golden chance to gain new subscribers:

Harmonix Music VR, from the creators of Guitar Hero, invites players to sit back and watch trippy three - dimensional visualizations set to mMusic VR, from the creators of Guitar Hero, invites players to sit back and watch trippy three - dimensional visualizations set to musicmusic.

Ever since the late Steve Jobs pulled an iPod out of his jeans pocket back in 2001, proclaiming a «quantum leap» in portable music, it's been assumed Apple's success flowed directly from its ability to deliver novel, game - changing devices and services.

The little vulgar newsshoprint freebie that started in Montreal back in 1994 now has more than 800 full - time employees in 34 countries making books, films, video, magazines, events and music, all funded through partnerships with some of the globe's biggest brands.

Seven Grammy awards, a dozen Country Music Awards — and of course her victory on the «American Idol» stage back in 2005.

The country music capital offers a laid - back pace, dirt cheap living costs and some of the best mesquite BBQ this side of the Mississippi.

LONDON (Reuters)- Smartphone app developer Shazam has found an unlikely ally in the form of Carlos Slim, one of the world's richest men, who is investing $ 40 million to back the development of the start - up best known for helping music fans identify catchy songs.

Getting back to the larger, more comprehensive (and somewhat overwhelming) list of possible initiatives your company can undertake, we have something that'll be music to your ears.

Back in 2004, iPod sales were growing by triple digits, and the music players accounted for 40 percent of the company's overall revenue.

Our music always comes back to a message of hope.

Back in the»80s, if you didn't listen to the» right music,» you were considered to be someone who had not heard of the latest attempt at making the new atonal, para-rhythmic noise.

We're going back to Athens to take a good little bit of time for the holidays in December and January to be at home and just work on music.

Podcasts that point me back to Jesus in the midst of a crazy world, music that focuses my attention on Him and sermons that keep my mind grounded in truth — these are the types of things I try to fill gaps of free time with.

It was such a fun process flying back and forth from Kansas to Seattle, having my mom take notes and write down lyrics while driving around in the middle of June, listening to Christmas music — all the while trying to plan a wedding.

Now that Thanksgiving is over, we can finally start listening to Christmas music (if you started back in September, you should be ashamed of yourself).

After I had pushed back some, in part by noting wm's love of some rock music, in part by pointing to the old Puritan case against Shakespearean drama, he replied:

My Songbook, for example, is about to grapple with what the ubiquity of love song in pop music, going back many many decades, has gradually done to us.

Waits» music not only teaches us about our own brokenness, it serves to bring people who should be the focus of our attention, our mercy and our kindness back into the limelight.

For this album, they went back to pre-rock American music and found inspiration in the likes of Cole Porter and Frank Loesser, and, with the help of producer Brad Jones, added more diverse instrumentation like strings and horns.

The paradox of my Rock Songbook is that song-wise, it mainly looks at rock ones, even though I hold that rock has been, even from it's exciting mid-60s beginning, inferior to the rock n» roll it came out of, and to the fine - arts music it turned its back upon.

This week Knapp burst back onto the music scene with news of a comeback and a coming out.

Here's a look back at 10 of the greatest Christian music videos ever to grace religious TV networks, public access station airwaves or church sanctuaries.

We discard old music, old clothes, and even old friends that might lead us back into old ways of living.

Then it's time for a «hymn» — or whatever one calls religious music that is not a dirge, not a joyous folk song, but a pop ditty whose beat and back - up would fit it to the format of any middle - of - the - road radio station, were it not for the lyrics (try «I Am the Righteousness of God in Christ» to the tune of «Up, Up and Away»).

But so much of popular music started in the black church, and today the black church talked back.

[This spirit of sisterhood can be summed up in one of the highlights of the conference: On Friday afternoon, Emily Scott told a story about how her high school band director, surprised that she had chosen as «unfeminine» an instrument as the trombone, tried to keep her from closing her eyes and swaying to the music by literally pulling her shoulders back and standing on her feet as she played.

Developing an argument published here («Back to the Future,» August / September 1999), the author provides reason for hope that the sundry debasements of popular music during the rock era may be coming to an end.

It's been a while since I've been to a game, and I confess that the vast sea of people, the music and singing and food, the giant elephant statue making it's way down the boulevard in the back of a pickup truck, and general religious fervor of the whole enterprise reminded me a bit of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in India, which honors the Elephant deity.

Yet it was his openness to new cultural styles, including laid - back music and funky fashions of California's early surfer scene, that helped him reach young idealists and inspire a trend toward seeker - sensitive congregations.

I want to provide a little Protestant push - back (against Alexis, not Peter), and to expose a little of my own academic work in Postmodern Conservative, since I actually do not spend all my time philosophizing about pop music!

Instead, he peters out into vague predictions of a new golden era of black music, speculating that «some kind of spirit is rising, like a bright cloud of monarchs finally migrating back after an extended stay at Michoacán... I don't know, and it's not for me to say.»

As a compromise, they switch channels back and forth during the commercials, and, if Mom and Dad give up, may very possibly stay with the new music - TV channel which entrances both Junior and Sis, who at this point may be doing part of their homework at the same time.

The contention within Christian hip - hop (under the hashtag abbreviation CHH on Twitter) community of how to present Christianity within music can be traced back at least 25 years, to when fans and fellow artists tended to align with either Cross Movement, a group who claimed to «rap the Gospel,» almost exclusively at shows held in churches and on CDs sold in Christian book stores, or Tunnel Rats, an LA crew whose music took plotted a more mainstream course.

This one moment when you're driving down the road, the music is on loud, you tip your head back and the light is flashing between the trees, faster and faster, a blur of light and leaves.

Now they have the rock music loving pro-capitalism neo-fundamentalists solidly on the pro-christmas side, liberal christians can now comfortably sit back and enjoy christmas and harry potter without being accused of being irrelevant to their religion.