Awesome Sauce Music Friday

There is an all girl metal band in Indonesia, who, according to NPR have been told that playing metal is wrong and they should stop.  Nonetheless, they persist and sing about protecting the environment. Featured image credit:Jill Robidoux via flickr

Opera Politico has some Rossini for Trump   Featured image credit: katch via flickr

This showed up in my FB news feed and it makes me very very happy.  Not exactly accurate in all places, but non euphemistic, and makes me happy with its approach specifically to men who just don’t want to know anything about it. Featured image credit: Connor Gaston via flickr

One of the more interesting things I think, music wise, that made an appearance on the golden records is a song by the girls of a pygmy tribe in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.  These tribes are known for extremely dense and complex vocal music, to a …

In this amazing music video, a group of Saudi Women are singing and dancing for women’s rights! Some of it is explained in this captioned video for those of us who don’t speak Arabic. The best protests are those with singing and dancing. Featured image:  cross-stitch ninja via flickr

The interstellar record fails a little at being a truly diverse collection of earth music.  Out of the 90 minutes or so of music, Johann Sebastian Bach is featured three times.  Yes, he’s a great composer, and the music selected is excellent. but I’m sure we could have thought of …

Continuing with the Voyager Interstellar Record, because I love that I live in an age where such a thing is available in its entirety on youtube, this is the Queen of the Night’s Aria, “Der Holle Rache Kocht in Meinem Herzen” from Mozart’s The Magic Flute.  I absolutely love this aria, …

The inclusion of “Johnny B Goode” on the Voyager interstellar record was criticized as being “adolescent” music, to which Carl Sagan famously replied that our planet is full of adolescents.  Obviously, we do not regard adolescence here as some sort of intrinsically bad trait, but what do you think, dear …