The Smashing Pumpkins are often compared with the grunge bands that also emerged in the early 90s, such as Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains, and at the time this album was released, they were seen as —˜the next Nirvana’. I think this is an unfair comparison, as the …

“I wanna dance like it was the last dance of my life!”
After wrapping up her Anti Tour and just before dropping her new best of album Kylie Minogue made a sudden release of a new song entitled Timebomb, as a present …

All Nightmare Long is the track which seems to be the one track from Death Magnetic which the majority of fans would deem as their favorite. I believe that the top three tracks which fans really enjoyed from Death Magnetic were The Judas Kiss, That Was Just Your Life, …

DESTROYER
A multi platiunum success that was THE album that put KISS over the top after the success of ALIVE and provided KISS with the missing component that made them popular to the masses.
This didn’t sit too well with KISS fans as KISS departed from their “Live in the Studio” …

Perfect Day by Various Artists is awesome! You guys have to listen to this song, it was featured a few years back. And the video ain’t that bad as well; truly colorful and featuring the various artists as bits of bits the voices sung through.
One line …

Dillon Francis is one of the biggest DJ’s in electronic music right now, and his style is extremely diverse. Money Sucks, Friends Rule is his first full-length album, and it is an excellent debut. It shows off his diverse style as a DJ and showcases his wide variety of …

Ciara ft. 50 Cent
“Can’t Leave ‘Em Alone”
Ciara: The Evolution
LaFace Records
Director: The Fat Cats
Ciara follows up “Get Up”, “Promise”, and “Like A Boy” with “Can’t Leave ‘Em Alone”, all from her sophomore effort, “Ciara: The Evolution”. Ciara reunites with one of her favorite directors this time around, The Fat Cats. …

LOtUSFLOW3R
Every year, new Prince album, some would say. What makes Prince’s new 3 CD material special is the fact that he returned to what he knows the best - playing electric guitar. First CD LOtUSFLOW3R is full of great guitar playing which is not the case in his recent …

TV Casualty is a song by The Misfits which appears on their record Static Age. The track opens up with a rhythm that I would basically describe as cruising, those who have heard the song probably have some understanding as to what I mean by this. The track has …

Misty Forest Morning by David & Steve Gordon is an audio CD that is a part of my relaxing and soothing music collection and I am happy that it is, too. I really enjoy this CD because the composers do a simply superb job of mixing soft instrumental music …

Road House was an action adventure film from the late 1980’s which starred Patrick Swayze as a philosophical bouncer named Dalton. This review focuses on the musical soundtrack for this Zen-like movie.
I’ll start with my favorite tracks, which naturally are the two songs which Swayze sings. Both …

“Green Machine” is the second song on Kyuss album “Blues For The Red Sun”. This critically acclaimed album was released 1992 and single-handedly defined the “stoner rock” and “desert rock” genres. The song itself was written by the bands drummer Brant Bjork and appears as one of two singles …

Overview - Death Magnetic, Metallica’s most recent album proves that even though the band was in extreme turmoil during St. Anger they did manage to come out of all of that horrible music and manage to make a record which puts them back on course. Although I will say, …

Through The Never, another one of the more aggressive songs on The Black Album, isn’t obviously as good as songs from the first four records, but nevertheless another pretty solid track, similar to Holier Than Thou in that respect. Although the vocal melody is pretty catchy on this track …

U2 is an Irish rock band that has many albums, one of my favourite albums from them is entitled “How to dismantle an atomic bomb.” One of the songs featured on this album is entitled “Love and Peace or else.”
The song itself starts off sort of low key, …

This is System Of A Down’s second album again produced by Rick Rubin and released in September of 2001. This was the band’s breakthrough album and it debuted at number 1 on US and Canadian charts with the help of single Chop Suey! this album did great, not to …

I can’t say that I’m very keen on listening to most black metal music, as the sound and sometimes the lyrics just does not appeal to me. However, when I discovered the black metal band Enslaved some years ago when listening to an online metal radio station, I became …

Artist: Destiny’s Child
Video: Bills, Bills, Bills
Album: The Writings On The Wall
Label: Columbia Records
Director: Darren Grant
Ah yes, this was the era of ‘male-bashing’. First, TLC came onto the scene with “No Scrubs” in early 1999 and then a whole bunch of similar sounds followed shortly after - “Where My Girls …

Lil’ Kim ft. Sisqo
“How Many Licks?”
The Notorious K.I.M.
Queen Bee Entertainment/Atlantic Records
“How Many Licks?” is the second single and music video from Lil’ Kim’s sophomore effort, “The Notorious K.I.M.”, following after “No Matter What They Say”. “How Many Licks?” is basically about all the men she’s been with and the …

For Reverend Green is a song by Animal Collective and is the fourth track to appear on their album Strawberry Jam. Personally, I enjoy the way For Reverend Green opens up because it starts out pretty empty and then gradually has more and more instruments join the mix before …

This video used the most simple scenes to make the video so extra special. It gave me a feeling of happiness whenever I watched it and it filled my head with good memories when I was in high school. I wouldn’t think a video by Katy Perry would be …

Faith Hill, beautiful wife of Tim Mcgraw and loving mother is also an amazing singer with a beautiful voice. She is gifted in more ways that any person has a right to be and she has what appears to be a lifelong marriage to her husband who is also …

The Suburbs is a track by Arcade Fire which is the title track to their most recent release. Right from the beginning of this song, the simple rhythm which is carried heavily by the percussion and by a piano creates a very feel good and easy mood which lends …

Bad Kids is a song by Black Lips which I initially heard on the soundtrack to the film 500 Days Of Summer. I will admit that I’m not that familiar with this band so my review will really focus on this song as a whole rather than being a …

I don’t even know why I ever liked this song. It is pretty ridiculous. I guess at the time I was an emotional wreck and I would listen to anything that made me feel a little bit better about myself. But this song, now that I listen to it …

Overview - Led Zeppelin I, the first of Led Zeppelin’s albums, is a mix of different genres and influences ranging everywhere from hard rock to blues. This album also introduced to the band and showed just how well each of the members worked together. On their own, Jimmy Page, …

Madonna has been in the music industry for less than three decades now. She is an icon and a legend in her own way. What I like most of her song are mostly from the 80’s like Like a Virgin, Material Girl and Open your Heart. Whenever I feel …

Ship Of Fools is a track by The Doors which appears on the album Morrison Hotel. Ship Of Fools starts out in a pretty upbeat sounding tone with a vocal line led by Jim Morrison and accompanied by Robbie Krieger’s guitar work and Ray Manzarek’s organ line, which I …

Aaliyah
“One In A Million”
One In A Million
Blackground/Atlantic
Director: Paul Hunter
Aaliyah jumps out with her third video and single from “One In A Million” titled none other than “One In A Million”, the album’s title track itself, following the same trend from her first and previous album. Here she is accompanied …

Overview - Side I of The White Album, The Beatles’ ninth effort, is a very nice mix of McCartney and Lennon compositions, even one by Harrison which covers a lot of different ground as far as feel, lyrics, vocals, and music. While McCartney’s songs are a bit more on …

James Brown is a song by Cage The Elephant which appears on their record of the same name. Opening up with a hanging guitar chord playing alongside with a simple drum rhythm, James Brown then launches into the first verse with the vocals really leading the assault. Though the …

The video clip to the music Face of Love - Wajah Kekasih by Siti Nurhaliza is pretty eerie. In it, Siti wore this particular long and draggy over-sized white long dress and with hair that were let go, and it was such a scary sight.
But she was …

Overview —“ King Nothing, the final music video released by Metallica for their album Load, continues to the band’s original trend of shifting between clips of them playing the song and then a story to explain and accompany the lyrics to the song. Despite the similarity in structure and …

Maggie M’Gill is a song by The Doors which appears on their record Morrison Hotel. The track opens up with a guitar lead which has simultaneous parts going on in the left and right channels with the drums and bass going straight down the center, the effect applied here …

When You Say Nothing At All is the best song that Allison Krauss ever recorded, in my opinion. It is the most amazing love song that you will ever hear. From lyrics to the beat, it is the most romantic song I can think of. She is telling her …

When The Earth Moves Again is a song by Jefferson Airplane which appears on their album Bark. The track opens up with a mix of violin, piano, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, and drums so as you can imagine, right from the start of this track the song has …

Watching Take That’s music video for shine is quite interesting now that I know that Robbie Willians was the focus behind the song. For a start it’s all quite elaborate for Take That. Mark Owen walking down what looks like a silver stairway to heaven. However I think this …

After watching the show “VH1’s 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs” on New Year’s Eve last year and seeing Guns N’ Roses make the number one spot; I decided to check out some of Guns N’ Roses’ albums for myself. However, since I couldn’t actually find the album at the …

Cyndi Lauper is a performer who has not been heard much from in the past few decades. She was very popular in the 1980s, when I was growing up. I remember enjoying her music very much, despite her extremely strange style. She really has a very …

I love this song and first heard it a few years back at Christmas time from a CD comprising of 101 Christmas songs. Little did I know it was sung back in 1960! But the song itself is so cute and I was hooked immediately when I heard it.
The …

2 X 4 is a song by Metallica which appears on Load, the first half of their double album, Load/Reload. The track opens up with a sludgy sounding drum rhythm from Ulrich before Hetfield comes in with the rhythm part which reinforces my statement about this song having sort …

You just never know what you can find on CD, including this musical contribution from western actor, Robert Fuller. Now before you ask what a cowboy is doing singing German songs, a bit a background is important.
Fuller actually began as a song and dance man as part of …

The New York Dolls have always been seen as a band with their own agenda and have never been known to bow down to expectations and trends. For a long time they were considered disbanded and i never thought i would bear witness to an all-new album from them. …

Overview - Aoxomoxoa, the third album by The Grateful Dead, goes back more to traditional song structure and a lot further away from the experimental side they meddled with on Anthem Of The Sun, however you can still hear some pretty experimental sides on certain tracks. Also, the songs …

Sober is a track which appears on Muse’s debut record, Showbiz. Sober is written about alcoholism, as I suppose the name would suggest, and Sober is one of the first songs of Muse that I listened to. I remember listening through their entire debut record and Sober was one …

I had the chance to purchase Dr. Dre 2001, also known as the Chronic 2001 and I thought that it was another classic hip hop album. Granted, it may not have been as good as the Chronic but still the beats were excellent as well as the productions …

Overview —“ Warning, Green Day’s sixth album, really has quite a different sound than what I was expecting it to have and definitely not in a good way. The band seems to try and merge their electric and acoustic influences on this album, but unlike on past works where …

The Brad Bhen Mouthpiece Company is a company started by Brad Bhen that produces handcrafted mouthpieces to suit the professional clarinetist’s needs.
After buying the Model A mouthpiece from Brad Bhen, I was eager to buy their other model (model A was an amazing mouthpiece). The website they had …

Sweet Amber is one of the tracks which appears on arguably Metallica’s worst record, St. Anger. Although I do sound very pessimistic just from the opening line of the review, I want to make it clear that St. Anger just wasn’t a good album at all. I know that …

In 1991, GG Allin collaborated with ANTiSEEN, a prominent punk band of the day, to record “Murder Junkies”. Featuring one of GG Allin’s best backing bands and demonstrating GG Allin’s move toward crossover thrash, “Murder Junkies” is no doubt the best album in GG Allin’s discography.
The recording quality on …