As a college graduation present, my grandmother offered to buy me a horn. I wanted a Conn 8D like my professor and all the really good horn players had. I settled on the Holton Farkas model because it was more in our price range ($1200).
This …

Overview —“ Painkiller, the 12th album released by Judas Priest, is surprisingly one of my favorite albums ever released by them. I said surprisingly because generally, by a band’s 12th album they really aren’t very good anymore, or at least they’re not all that great, but something about this …

Hear Me Now is the third studio album by Secondhand Serenade, released on August 3rd. I was excited for this album, mainly because I’m a pretty big fan of Secondhand Serenade, and couldn’t wait for the release of the whole album. However, when hearing all 12 songs, I found …

Billy Talent The Album
This self-titled album was also the debut album for Canadian band Billy Talent. The album is about 45 minutes long and I bought it for about $10. I think this is the greatest of their three albums. It has the brash, harsh punk sound which seems …

Artist: SWV
Video: “You’re The One”
Album: New Beginning
Label: RCA Records
“You’re The One” is the first single and music video from SWV’s second album titled “New Beginning” (following the previous “It’s About Time”). The three Sisters With Voices (hence the name, SWV) appear in full updated mid-1990s Hip Hop and R&B …

P. Diddy, Black Rob, and G-Dep (Three The Hard Way)
“Let’s Get It”
The Saga Continues…
Bad Boy Entertainment
Director: Little X
After winning a year and a half long court case involving a Manhattan night club shooting as well as getting over the widely publicized break-up with singer/actress Jennifer Lopez, Puffy…err… P. Diddy …

Hinnom, TX is a snog by Bon Iver which appears on their self-titled second album. The track opens up with a sound which I can only describe as being very airy and light. Once a listener hears the intro, it honestly sounds as if they’re listening to a song …

I really like this song. It’s absolutely the real thing that’s happening nowadays. I love how Christina sang this song which really gives justice to women. Even before women are being underestimated. They said that because we are women we cannot do this, we cannot do that. Other people …

I bought Aenima after i had loved Tool’s next album (Lateralus). I found that Aenima is just as good. When Aenima was released Tool was just a promising name in the hard rock genre, this album enstablished the band not only as a great name worldwide, blessed by sales …

The new album by kiss Sonic Boom is an excellent album that shows that kiss is still rocking today and even still making good music with fairly recent drummer Eric Singer and Guitarist Tommy Thayer. The song Modern Day Delilah is the first track off the album and it …

R. Kelly
“Your Body’s Callin’”
12 Play
Jive/Zomba Recordings
This is R. Kelly’s third single and music video, “Your Body’s Callin’”, from the solo album titled “12 Play”. This is the laid back and sexy themed music video of the batch from the album. R. Kelly performs mostly on a beach and on …

Homecoming, the second musical epic of this album along with Jesus Of Suburbia, is honestly just as good as Jesus Of Suburbia in my opinion. I praise both of these tracks heavily, not so much because the parts themselves are brilliant but because the whole song is very well …

The Future Sex/Love Sounds Album of pop idol Justin Timberlake, or JT for short, is to me simply the best he’s had in the music industry. This was JT’s second album, released in 2006.
I have followed JT’s career from the very start, right back to his struggling —˜N …

Taste is a song by Animal Collective and the eighth track on their record Merriweather Post Pavilion. Opening up instrumentally briefly, the vocals quickly join in the mix with a delivery that leaves something to be desired in terms of flow. Having just come out of a track which …

Released in November of 1970, Elvis Presley’s Back In Memphis is just another example of great rock and roll at a great time in history. This ten track album has songs everyone has heard, and no one can get tired of. Though it doesn’t boast some of his most …

Are You Listening - A Love Song for Haiti is a beautiful song of compassion and love by gospel artist, Kirk Franklin. He wrote it about eight years ago, and after the devastating earthquake of January 2010 which has nearly destroyed the small country of Haiti, he …

Released in March of 2008 on Nuclear Blast Records Obzen is the band’s 6th album, the name means to be at peace with the obscure, or at Zen with. The album is really really heavy, the band uses a real drummer on this one, they used a drum …

In my top five of Patrick Swayze films is City of Joy, the story of a suicidal young doctor (okay, they edited the suicidal part out of the released film, but that’s who he was) who travels to India and ends up being rejuvenated. It’s a marvelous film …

Thanks To You is a song by The Flaming Lips and the eighth song on their second effort, Oh My Gawd. Opening up with a clean guitar part, I’m slightly reminded of a tone Led Zeppelin would come up with on one of their earlier records until the vocals …

I recently bought an awesome live music dvd from Best buy. It was a Use your Illusion 1 & 2 concert by Guns N’ Roses from Tokyo, Japan and this dvd came with the full 26 song concert on two disks. I really like this concert because it is …

I remember how I enjoyed this record, used to come back to it again and again. I did not have the lyrics for the album in the booklet, so I printed them out separately, and I would follow the album through with the lyrics, and it was pretty interesting. …

This is a greatest hits collection of songs from Type O Negative. The album was hastily thrown together and released with a generic album cover, and without the consent of the band, Roadrunner Records had the right to do it, so they did. This collection could be the reason …

Long time, no see. The boys from sweden show their work once more.
This is an album wich many of the new listeners will find attractive, though old ones will find rather dissapointing. It´s more cliché than ever, leaves you with a feeling you have listened to the whole album …

The song Try Me is a ballad by the english hard rock melodic band UFO. It is off the album Lights out released in 1977 and in my opinion one of the bands best ballads along with Love to Love. The song starts out with a piano intro …

Invisible Touch by Genesis is a classic album from the 1980s. Released in the late 80’s the popular rock group Genesis, this album became popular very quickly. I remember waiting in line to buy the tape cassette when it came out. I was very enthusiastic about …

Mr. Tambourine Man is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on Bringing It All Back Home, one of my favorite albums by Dylan. Mr. Tambourine Man is an extremely well known songs by fans of Dylan and I can certainly see why. Although this track is extremely stripped …

Americana is The Offspring’s 5th album, it was was produced by Dave Jerden and released in 1998, the album has sold 12 million plus copies, and had several very successful singles, Pretty Fly, The Kids Aren’t Alright, and Why Don’t You Get a Job?. I got into the album …

Overview —“ Trust, the lead-off song of Megadeth’s seventh record, Cryptic Writings, is a video and song that I remember being praised and gaining a lot of airplay on MTV so I’m curious to see if I agree with that opinion. I’ll admit that the albums between Countdown To …

The first time that I heard of the popular American singer and rapper Eve was not in the late nineteen nineties when she had released her first studio album, but instead in the early two thousands when I was still in my early years of high school, and her …

The popularity of Just the Way you are, the first single of Bruno Mars from his album Doo-Woops and Hooligans, is the reason why I keep following him from the day one. I just accidentally switched television channel when I saw the music video of Grenade. The song is …

The Timeless Favorites: Lerner & Loewe CD comes courtesy of Reader’s Digest Music and gives us 20 tracks of famous songs composed by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. These are well known, much beloved songs from the stage and screen.
The journey begins with Robert Peterson’s masterful rendition …

Overview —“ Foreclosure Of A Dream, another single released by Megadeth for their critically acclaimed fifth release, Countdown To Extinction, would be the one track on the record that I would choose to call the power ballad. Up until I just read about the track I didn’t know that …

If you want to know where to start listening to Sonic Youth, so that to get right to the heart of the band and understand who they are, there is a trilogy of consecutive albums which would do the job best of all. I mean the albums released in …

Overview —“ Master Of Reality, Black Sabbath’s third shows the band continuing on with the extremely innovative metal sound that they developed on their self titled record and on Paranoid, but now they’re also including more melodic and acoustic songs, a sign of musical development. And for anyone thinking, …

Jay-Z
“Song Cry”
The Blueprint
Roc-A-Fella Records
Jay-Z bangs out his line of singles and music videos with his third one called “Song Cry” from his sixth album “The Blueprint”, following “Izzo (H.O.V.A.)” and “Girls, Girls, Girls”. Jay-Z takes us away from the paparazzi and the crowds of women for a slow, quiet, …

The Way You Look Tonight is a song that Rod Stewart recorded much later in his career when he had a strong foothold on his audience. He became a much more mellow singer as he grew a bit older and the songs that he sings will melt the heart …

Disturbed Down with the sickness is a song a lot of my friends like and I have not yet figured out why. The song is confusing and metal mush to me but to them it’s like the words speak to them in some weird language people like them only …

It was a song by Hillsong but this particular song was sung by Kate Spence. A very good singer with a tranquil voice that will make you sing along as the melody gives smooth to the ears when you listen to it.
I like how soft the guitar strum is …

American Tune is a song by Andrew Jackson Jihad and is the third track on their most recent 2011 release, Knife Man. In contrast to the previous track on the record, American Tune opens up with an acoustic guitar rhythm before the vocals come in the track and interestingly …

Barry Manilow is one of the great entertainers, and he’s a favorite of mine. Thus, I loved it when my sister gave me his “The Greatest Songs of the Seventies” CD.
What I love about these classics is that Barry stays true to the song but makes it his …

Charged GBH- one of the most legendary and longest lasting bands in the history of UK punk. Since 1978, GBH has raised hell non-stop. Their releases, with sounds ranging from classic punk to metal, never fail to become an essential piece in any rock n roll collection. As if …

This album was supposedly 15 years in the making and is rumoured to have cost Axl Rose 15 million dollars. There have been stories and rumours about its recording and release ever since Guns’ untimely demise in the first half of the nineties. As a big fan of the …

Paper Lanterns is a track by Green Day which appears on their first album, 1039/Smoothed Out Happy Hours. Although the introduction of this song sounds like something I’ve heard from Green Day countless times before, I like how it sounds pretty raw and really doesn’t sound all that produced …

This is Marilyn Manson’s first major label album released in 1994 on Nothing/Interscope Records. The album was produced by Marilyn Manson alongside Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. The album starts off with Prelude the family trip it includes words from charlie and the chocolate factory, the song My …

Better Than Me by Hinder is a song about how a guy is feeling down about his girl and realizing that the girl deserves better than him. obviously he was not treating the girl right and has tried to convince himself that he is not going to miss her. …

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 Me Mine is a song by The Beatles which appears on their final record Let It Be. The track is primarily written, and also sung, by George Harrison and the title refers to the idea of the ego and true identity from Hinduism which is something that he’d …

Delta is the newest CD that is released by singer/songwriter Delta Goodrem. The album being released in 2007, has many new and fresh songs by Delta.
I do believe the album is unique to the older ones, I have seen many different styles in the new album. Some of which …

Hold It Don’t Drop It by Jennifer Lopez works for me. I have always known the fact that J.Lo couldn’t really sing that well, but she is a person that tries her best and she has this style of choosing songs that could suit her vocal range. She …

On the fifth album, Counting Crows deliberately to display two different themes. On side A, we are treated to color hard rock music, while the B side, bringing us to the nuances of folk. This album in a short time was ranked 3rd U.S. Billboard 200. Long enough for …