Author: Matt Monroe
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Should We Care About The GRAMMYs? – Matt’s Music Corner
Matt Monroe Webmaster Every year, I see at least a hundred tweets of people saying they don’t care about the Grammys. Then, when their favorite artist doesn’t win, it’s an outrage and all…
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The Best Albums of 2017 So Far – Matt’s Music Corner
Matt Monroe Webmaster Around this time in 2016, I was still reeling from the death of David Bowie and the impact his last album, Blackstar (released two days prior to his death), had…
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President Donald Trump Does Not Deserve a Chance
Matt Monroe Webmaster Since Donald J. Trump was elected president on Nov. 8, 2016, I’ve consistently heard one excuse about the now-President of the United States: “Give him a chance.” And while this…
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The Best Songs of 2016
Matt Monroe Webmaster Song lists have always been pretty difficult for me. I’m generally a very album-centric guy, so when it came to picking out my favorite songs of previous years, I could…
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Taking A Quick Look Back on Music in 2016
Matt Monroe Webmaster For all 31 days in December, I posted a video album review every day on my social media accounts. Specifically, albums that came out in 2016. And also these reviews…
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Why Vincent van Gogh Cut His Ear Off
Matt Monroe Webmaster For over a century, historians have come up with a number of theories for why legendary artist Vincent van Gogh cut off his own ear in late 1888 and gave…
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Donald Trump Wins the Presidency
Matt Monroe Webmaster In a stunning upset, Donald J. Trump has won the presidency with 290 electoral votes over Hillary Clinton’s 232 electoral votes. However, Clinton took the popular vote with a nearly…
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2016 Offers Some Great Music
Matt Monroe Webmaster Overall, 2016 has been a great, but tragic year for music. While we had incredible releases all across the board, we also suffered the loss of some of music’s most…
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Album Catchup for the Fall
Matt Monroe Webmaster Now that we’re well into fall, I wanted to look into some of my favorite, and least favorite, albums of the season so far, as September and October have been…
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Frank Ocean Finds Himself On “Blonde”
Matt Monroe Webmaster In July 2012, Frank Ocean came out with his debut “channel ORANGE,” and I didn’t quite understand it. At the time it wasn’t the album I needed considering my music…