‘Without music, life would be a mistake.’
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Well, he knew what he was talking about. The fact remains that music, as a whole, is such an integral part of our lives, of the mind, of our humanity, that we cannot conceive a world without it. One is compelled to ask why: just what is it about music that makes it so necessary, so natural, that we can’t imagine life without it?

The question is not an easy one to answer, even superficially: nor is it an isolated one, for as soon as you’ve asked it, you’ve…

What bands today are doing is not expressing themselves, but taking the quicker way out to money and fame. It's not art in any form. What is the single most important element of art? It's emotion. Without emotion, art couldn't be art, it would be a mere showing off. Now you take this single most important element and what do you do with it? You use it to form some crappy new genre, and call it "emo". Hello? What sense does that make? Does that mean that just because you've dyed your hair black and have this particular hairstyle, you…