Christopher McArdle Music News, Reviews, and Poetry

Future Friends EP by. Superfruit Music, A Review by Christopher McArdle Poetry Hello, and welcome to this weeks one and only music review blog. Sorry that I only have this one but I was involved in some volunteer stuff at my church this week, working with the youth group doing several service projects and having fun. So if you want to see some of that please go check out the video for this blog post. I will have some of my footage from that playing before the music review. But never the less, let's get in to the review for this blog. The review this week will be about the EP named "Future Friends", and the track titled "Imaginary Parties".  This is a seven track EP by the music duo Mitch Grassi, and Scott Hoying. These two are members of the A Capella group known as "Pentatonix" . Together they created their YouTube channel named "Superfruit, (SUP3RFRUIT)"  back in 2013 and have amassed just over 2.4 million subscribers in the four...

Saint & Sinners by. GRITS Music, A Review by Christopher McArdle Poetry Hello, and welcome to Friday's installment of my music review blog. In today's blog I will be covering a group that I had previously thought I would not get the opportunity to. The group I am talking about is GRITS, a Christian Hip-Hop/Rap group that has recently released new music for the first time in seven years. That of course is their EP "Saints & Sinners" and the title track off of which I will be reviewing in this blog. Having been a fan of theirs for the longest time I am excited to get this review underway. But I had one little setback in the lyrics department. There were none posted online at the time of writing this article so I had to transcribe what I could of the lyrics and all I got was the first flow written down. But the message that I heard overall the tracks entirety stems off of the first flow, painting it's message in different points of view. So let's tak...

Heaven in Hiding by. Halsey Music, A Review by Christopher McArdle Poetry Hello, and welcome to Wednesdays edition of my music blog. In today's blog I will be covering a track off of Halsey's June 2nd album "Hopeless Fountain Kingdom". The track is titled "Heaven in Hiding".  The album is her second album, coming two years after her debut album "Badlands".  Having recently encountered her work earlier this year (After hearing her on the track "Closer", yes, that track), I can say that I am going to be a fan for some time to come. Her music is solid, she brings personal experience into her writing, also bringing in real world topics. Such as the one discussed in this song. Which one is that? Keep reading to find out. So let's break it down and discover the theme of the song through it's lyrics, instrumentals, and overall composition. Verse One Starting right odd the bat we get a modern telling of Romeo and Jul...

Champion by. Fall Out Boy Music, A Review by Christopher McArdle Poetry Hello, welcome to another music review blog post. In this review I will be covering the brand new single from "Fall Out Boy"  called "Champion".  The track was released on Thursday, June 22nd, 2017 and is the second single from the bands next studio album called "Mania".  The track continues on the evolution of the bands sound. Becoming a little more pop, and a little less rock/pop-punk. The band has been slowly bringing in this evolution of their sound for about four years now. Ever since 2013's "Save Rock'n Roll" . Continuing into an even bigger transition in 2015's "American Beauty, American Psycho" . Now as far as the transitioning of genres is concerned. In my opinion. People need to slow down on the hate spewing. If they were to release all of their albums in the style of "From Under The Cork Tree" , or "Take This To Your Gr...

Are You Infected - "Virus" by. Memphis May Fire Music, A Review by Christopher McArdle Poetry Hello, and welcome to another edition of my music review blog. In this one we will get back to artist/song/album reviews. The track for this one is a fresh one called "Virus" by a band named Memphis May Fire. This band has been one of my faves for the longest time now and after their album "This Light I hold" that was released back in October of 2016 I have been curious as to what direction the band was going to go in. And now we have a clearer picture of the evolution of Memphis May Fire. And I gotta say I love it! Their sound is starting to remind of a another band called Skillet. And if those two bands toured together I think I would go crazy! But enough of that. Let's get down to the breakdown and review of this track. Verse One; starts off with lyrics the  "I feel it deep within. Its underneath my skin"  that immediately remind me...

Why do people eat their microphones on stage? Music, A Review by. Christopher McArdle Poetry Hello, welcome to another edition of my music review blog. In this blog I will be covering an aspect of the gear used by musicians on stage during shows. The piece of gear being the microphone  used by musicians and speakers on stage during their performances, and why it looks like they are eating them. So lets dig into this little nugget of curiosity, and hopefully all your burning questions will be answered. Unless, of course, you are a music pro or audio engineer, then you will probably already know the answers. What is a Microphone and how does it work? First off, lets take a look at what a microphone is and how it works. The first part is pretty easy to give a simple answer to. A microphone is a piece of equipment that picks a singers/speakers voice and sends it out to be amplified so that an entire crowd can here it, or it can be recorded and put on a video, or audio ...

What's Wrong With People Sometimes? Music, A Review: By Christopher McArdle Poetry This is not how I wanted this blog post to go. But this is something that affects me, and hits me deeply. As you may have heard. A YouTuber/Musician (I happen to be both), named Austin Jones was officially arrested and charged with two counts in the production of child pornography. Now before I get too deep into this blog let me first say that I do not have an opinion on whether he is guilty or not at the moment. I still believe in what the laws says, you are innocent until proven guilty in the court of law. And any statements I make to his person are simply those that I have observed prior to his arrest. And I am bu no means intending any hate towards him. I only know him through his channel and his music, which is where I get a lot of my statements about him and/or his character. Now, how this affects me first and foremost is in the fact that I am an uncle to more kids than I can spea...