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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: Alt Rock Concept Albums: Part 2
Description: Every song comes from some sort of story. Sometimes it’s just the story of a feeling…good or bad…or maybe it’s just a way of getting a point of view across.
Other songs are actual stories. They have a narrative, characters, drama, beginning, middle and end.
But what if you’re a composer and you have a story that is too long….too complex to fit in the standard four minute song. Well then maybe you need to think about breaking it out to its constituent parts and telling the story across multiple son...