Whats Your Favorite Music Artist

What is your favorite music, and who is your favorite artist?

My favorite music is from the olden times, especially ‘60-’80 Bollywood and Tollywood (the one in Bengal) songs, and Rabindra Sangeet (musics by Rabindranath Tagore) if sung by a good artist.My favorite artist is difficult to state. It’s a tie between Hemanta Mukherjee[1] and Kishore Kumar[2] . I really love the baritone voice of Hemanta and his amazing ability to inflict romance, and I also admire Kishore’s diversity in singing styles, and mesmerizing ability to blend in with the theme of the song.Among others, Mukesh[3] is also one of my favorites when it comes to sad songs, and Shyamal Mitra[4] for Bengali romantic songs.And of course, I can’t forget Manna Dey[5] , another pillar of the golden age of Indian music.Here are my most favorite songs from each of them -Amay Prosno Kore - By HemantaMere Sapnon Ki Rani - By KishoreKahin Door Jab Din Dhal Jaye - By MukeshBhiru Bhiru Chokhe - By Shyamal MitraZindagi Kaisi Hai Paheli - By Manna DeyFootnotes[1] Hemanta Mukherjee - Wikipedia[2] Kishore Kumar - Wikipedia[3] Mukesh (singer) - Wikipedia[4] Shyamal Mitra - Wikipedia[5] Manna Dey - Wikipedia

What's your favorite new music artist/band that you discovered in 2017?

I’ve been a regular critic of electronic music.I hate that it mostly comes from a laptop, and not the person who is actually playing. Composed largely of MIDI sounds, there’s very little soul in them. To have an assortment of patches, samples, and tracks that one has cobbled together just doesn’t appeal to me.I’m more of a Clapton, SRV, Dean Martin, Buble, Sinatra, Queen, Floyd kind of guy.I recently discovered 2 artistes whom I loved. They use technology to play, but they still do play instruments, and sing their hearts out. These 2 artistes play a melody, rhythm, backing track, etc. and then play it on loop while they then play/sing on top of it. They frequently use samples, but they integrate it with what they are playing.Check out TASH SULTANA - JUNGLE (LIVE BEDROOM RECORDING) and Fkj & Tom Misch - Losing My Way.They throw everything they can at their music - effects, loops, patches and more - without taking the heart away.You can see the passion on their faces and I love every bit of it. Still, nothing can take away from some Sinatra, and a glass of whiskey.

What is your favourite music or artist?

My favorite music is alt-country—sometimes also called Roots rock or Americana—and my favorite artist is from that genre, Say Zuzu, out of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, from 1992–2003. I like alt-country because it’s still rock—my favorite music genre—but it blends in elements of country in an enjoyable way. A couple bands from the past that, in retrospect, could have been considered alt-country at the time, even though the term was not in use yet, were Creedence Clearwater Revival and The Eagles. Other artists from the past, although they were rock-and-roll artists, often brought the “twang” of country music into particular songs: The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, R.E.M., and The Replacements, for example. Uncle Tupelo is acknowledged as the band that started the alt-country genre in name, out of Belleville, Illinois, from 1987–1994. Alt-country differs from mainstream country or pop-country music in that it was, most often, rock-and-roll at its heart but blended in country tropes. It should be said that, as I type this, many mainstream country or pop-country-music artists nowadays have begun to blend rock elements into their songs, although I’m not sure how well it’s being done in general. One of my friends says “country music today is like rock music in the ‘80s,” and he doesn’t mean that as a compliment, as he’s referring to pop rock or “hair metal” bands of that decade. Alt-country music artists often didn’t achieve popularity because mainstream- or pop-rock radio stations wouldn’t play them because they were “too country,” and Nashville-controlled mainstream- or pop-country music stations wouldn’t play them because they “weren’t country enough.” Often, alt-country artists, if they found a place on the radio at all, was on college-music radio stations that were funded by their respective colleges as a student activity or as a part of an academic program and not as beholden to commercial concerns. In the case of Say Zuzu, I’d recommend 1998’s album Bull—perhaps their finest record—although the four other studio albums the band recorded are excellent as well. Alt-country is the epitome of an American music form, and Say Zuzu exercised their powers in the form better than most.