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Professional Victim. Runner-Up in Harmonic Verses Challenge. Top Story - March 2025. Content Warning.
VERSE 1 You're a bleating scapegoat, stepping up to take the fall. Your neck upon the block. A rubber band around your balls.
By Addison Alder11 months ago in Beat
Divorce - Drive to Goldenhammer - Album Review
I've been planning to review more music since the reviews I posted of Franz Ferdinand's The Human Fear and Mogwai's The Bad Fire. I loved the new album from Squid called Cowards—it's odd, and dark in context but with really interesting bright-sounding noises and strange lyrics. Very proggy too. I also love the new Japanese Breakfast album and the new Courting album. For today's review though, I wanted to talk about Divorce's debut album Drive to Goldenhammer.
By Paul Stewart11 months ago in Beat
Letters to Mom
Im still singing at the top of my lungs Still making up songs and how they aught to be sung Still trying to live in the past trying desperately to make times last
By simplicity11 months ago in Beat
The Devils Dirty Work
VERSE ONE You cut the fabric of my heart To assemble your red flags Then wore them like a bloody badge of honor Satisfied I'd played my part
By Kelli Sheckler-Amsden11 months ago in Beat
Broken Bonds, But Bonds Still
Dreamy shoegaze intro with layered guitars, synth and fretless bassline, and snare-heavy drums Verse 1 (Dreamy shoegaze guitars, ethereal vocals that hang back in the mix a la My Bloody Valentine and softer snare-heavy drums)
By Paul Stewart11 months ago in Beat
The Mr. Henry Suite. Content Warning.
This suite was specifically made for the Vocal Media "Harmonic Verses" challenge. Thank you to my friend Tiffany Gordon for encouraging me to enter this challenge.
By Rick Henry Christopher 11 months ago in Beat
Phantom Embrace. Top Story - March 2025.
So I couldn't figure out what I could possibly write a song about. I'm not a song writer, I'm a poet. So I looked through my poems because I mean, that's all I got is a lot of poems and I found one I thought might make a good song. If anyone ever said I would be writing a song out of a poem. I would have laughed them out of the room. But that is exactly what I did. I took a poem I wrote that was originally about someone missing the one they love so desperately that they dreamed them up at night and the pillows and sheets became their body and hands touching. Wound up in these sheets all night, the imagination got carried away and the recreated their lover over and over each night ... So, this song is based on that poem called "Ghost" as listed below:
By ᔕᗩᗰ ᕼᗩᖇTY11 months ago in Beat
Requiem for Nero
*This land is your land This land is my land This land is made for you and me ------------------------------------------------------------------------
By River and Celia in Underland 11 months ago in Beat
Add In Some Trumpets!. Top Story - March 2025.
Okay, here we go, picture it: Something like you’d see in a picture show, a musical, something silly with live actors so that it doesn't go exactly the same as every other time.
By Amos Glade11 months ago in Beat
The Underground Rhythm
A young DJ discovers a secret underground music scene hidden beneath the city. Ethan Parker had always believed that music was his destiny. As an aspiring DJ, he spent his nights mixing tracks in small clubs, dreaming of a breakthrough. But his life changed when he received an anonymous invitation to a party that promised to be unlike any other. It was an invitation to the unknown—a world beyond the mainstream.
By SHAKIB11 months ago in Beat
Penthus. Honorable Mention in Harmonic Verses Challenge.
Verse 1 A shooting star, a futile clue. Just to bring me back to you. Anything to hold you near, Anything to belie this fear.
By River and Celia in Underland 11 months ago in Beat
The Unseen Fight
In the heart of the city, two rival musicians are about to face off in a competition of their lives. The city of Eastwood had always been a place where talent collided with opportunity, but nothing ever captured the public’s attention quite like the annual "Beat Battle." It was a competition that drew aspiring musicians from all corners of the city, where the winner earned a contract with one of the most prestigious record labels in the country. This year, the battle had two competitors who were destined to change the game forever: Jayden and Mia.
By SHAKIB11 months ago in Beat