SANCHANA KRISHNAN
5 Artists You Absolutely Need to Watch
[Live] In Concert!
Technology is a beautiful thing. It has brought the solar system into our bedrooms and concert rooms into our very ears itself! But if you want
to really live music, not merely allow it to enter and exit through your ears, it is the concert experience you seek. There is something about
feeling of the beats and vibes resonating through your body, that elevates the musical experience. The visual treat at concerts is another miracle
that has greatly been posted by technological advances, now turning them concerts into a splendour of light, colour and smoke. Because we are
living in the time where death metal and dub step exist side by side, here are five diverse, current artists whose concerts you absolutely have
experience in this lifetime if you are a music buff!
Contemporary : Coldplay
Coldplay is a band that has undergone phenomenal transformations since its inception way back in 1996.
The past two decades have seen them shift from rock to pop rock to synth-like elements and instrumental
influences to now, something along the lines of electronically produced dance music. But Coldplay’s music
touches the soul like no other. And Chris Martin is an absolute beast when he is onstage, and you need to
experience Coldplay for that electricity alone! The trippy visuals that dance across huge displays onstage is
another extra mile Coldplay goes towards giving audiences an unforgettable concert experience.
Current favourites : Something Just Like This, All I Think About is You, Adventure of a Lifetime
Pop : Ariana Grande
Ariana has been riding high on the wave of recent news, and for good reason, too. The 24-year old poster has
shown just how large her heart is by being super proactive after the terror attack during her Manchester
concert that killed 22 people. Philanthropy aside, the energy at Ariana’s concerts are crazy. She is big on the
idea of self expression, which clearly passes on to the audience as well. The diversity is huge, the flavours are
varied, the colours are loud and the vibe is positively fantastic.
Current favourites: The Way, Problem, Love Me Harder
Alternate : Radiohead
Thom Yorke is a phenomenon who will change your life, truly. I am very convinced that he inhabits several
dimensions at once. With his eyes half shut as always and a strange vibration roiling off him, the singer
songwriter who leads Radiohead transports you into another state of being all together. You don’t just go to a
Radiohead concert - the concert happens to you. Stand next to the speakers to take your experience towards
the lands of the surreal!
Current favourites : Daydreaming and Burn The Witch from their latest album, A Moon Shaped Pool
Singer-Songwriter : Beyonce
Queen Bey officially established that she can do anything and everything with that leaning chair stunt she
pulled off at the Grammys. This soulful musician has truly proven the range of her talents by allowing us, the
audience to experience her music as a string of emotions punctuated by bold statements. Her latest album,
‘Lemonade’ has been much acclaimed - and with lyrics as powerful as those in ‘Formation’, you can expect a
musical experience that goes above and ‘bey’ond anything you would have ever expected!
Hip Hop, Rap: Kendrick Lamar
Move over Eminem, we gotta new home boy in town! Kendrick Lamar is undoubtedly a force to reckon with.
The Grammy-winning artist has an infectious energy onstage, which sizzles with his capacity to twist and
turn language into a harmony of meaning and melody. It is madness, really, the havoc he wreaks onstage. No
surround sound system yet invented can match up to the splendour that is Kendrick Lamar!
Current Favourites: Humble and Duckworth, from his smashing new album ‘Humble’.
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