Faryl Smith Album
In 2008 Faryl Smith stunned the many thousands of watchers on the TV Talent show Britain’s Got Talent. At the age of 13 who voice was truly unbelievable, in a good way that was, she had a voice just as good as the most known professionals in …

Overview —“ The Formation of Damnation, the latest album released by Testament is the first new material released by the band since The Gathering, released nine years previous. This album also marks Alex Skolnick’s return to the band, one huge reason why the guitar riffs on this album are …

I do not know anything about Bruno Mars. This year and just this month, I learned about him when his single was playing on the radio. One time I was riding in a public utility vehicle and was listening to my favorite local radio station 94.7 when the song …

If you are a fan of blues music like I am, than you will find the cd “American Made World Played” by Les Paul and a wonderful lineup of other musicians as awesome as I do. I found this gem quite by accident, and it remains my all-time
favourite blues CD. …

Thirteenth Step is the second studio album from one of my favourite bands, “A Perfect Circle”. It was released a little before my birthday when I was a teenager in 2003, and has become one of my preferred rock music albums to play especially in its entirety. As someone …

The Show Must Go On is a song by Pink Floyd which appears on their concept album, The Wall. The track opens up with harmonized voices singing together in a very melodic fashion over a very basic drum rhythm which gives the song a very calm feel. It’s sort …

Shinedown made their debut back in 2003 with an impressive album titled “Leave A Whisper”.The album is a unique journey into the heart of four musicians who blend their creative outlook, philosophy, and positive message into an unrelenting melody.Rarely, does a band come along that has the power to …

I reviewed about Amanda Peet on Ellen earlier on, and it made me remember the show Finding Nemo, since her daughter loves Dory the character in the movie so much.
Speaking of Finding Nemo, there is this one song that came to my mind all of a sudden and …

Banshee Beat is a song by Animal Collective and the sixth track on their release Feels. Banshee Beat continues to drive the album in a more melodic direction as the preceding track, Bees, as well as an earlier track, Flesh Canoe, did. I should mention that Banshee Beat is …

Strange Days was a solid sophomore effort from The Doors.Riding the fire of their first release and enjoying a little commercial success the band recorded some memorable moments here.I like Strange Days and many of the songs on the album are dark and moody.Jim’s poetic nature is apparent on …

As a lover of contemporary Christian music, I sometimes have trouble deciding which CDs to choose. There’s Christian pop and even Christian rap these days, but when I buy a CD I usually end up liking half the songs by the artist in question and not the other half. …

Lil Waynes newest release The Carter Three is a very wanted and popular album. The album has sixteen songs in total including, his hottest songs, lollipop, a milli, but it also includes the songs, three peat, Mr. Carter, Got money, comfortable, shoot me down, phone home, tie my hands, …

American Idol is one of my favorite TV shows. I’ve watched every show diligently and I must say that I have my favorites and one of them is Elliott Yamin from Season 5. Among the three finalists from that season, the other two being Katherine McPhee and eventual winner …

The Souls of Mischief started out in 1993 with their debut “93 til infinity”, and they defined themselves as intelligent West Coast Rappers with Jazzy beats and decent production.
Pep Love, Tajai, A-Plus, and Phesto along with Casual made their mark in music, proving to everyone that they were a …

I was, for a very long time, a huge Oasis fan. I loved their first albums. Especially I enjoyed the second and the third albums. But all their work after 1998 left me rather disappointed. So, I was very interested as to what was going to occur after the …

I have heard this song many times and find it to be a horrible song for our youth. Miss Underwood portrays herself to be a small town simple girl with a very faith based background. Now I don’t know her denomination of religion but I but its safe to …

Billy Gilman: One Voice CD is the CD that started it all for this country singer. I have always been very impressed with Gilman. He had the right attitude as a young boy, apparently thanks to parents who kept him grounded and had the right kind of …

Macho Man Randy Savage is prominent both in the squared circle wrestling ring as well as on the stage rapping on a microphone from his 2003 rap album, Be A Man. Did Macho Man Randy Savage hurt and harm his pro wrestling career by making this transition from wrestling …

Overview —“ Working Class Hero, Green Day’s cover of John Lennon’s classic work was recorded for the purposes of people who were forced to leave Darfur and I assume, to spread general awareness. I suppose that I would consider this the second song that Green Day recorded for the …

I was on the way home from work this evening when a gentle, lilting little love song came through the speakers. I was listening to Sirius radio which came with the car we just bought and decided to settle onto The Coffeehouse Channel. “Soul On The Line” …

Foolish game is the most my favorite song from Jewel. Though this song is not become hits anymore but it could be my soundtrack of my life ever.
This song is slow and can categorize in ballad song. The lyrics is tell about a girl who think that her boyfriend …

I never really fancy or like listening to any chinese music because many of them sounded too draggy and are very similar to the modern english music.
But this guy made me change my mind about it. He can play 7 or more musical instruments from traditional chinese ones to …

I heard this track the other day, can’t remember where now, but it took me back years to when my mum and dad used to listen to Status Quo and I remembered how much I love this song.
Perhaps it has extra relevance to me now as my friend is …

As much as i enjoy the occasional power metal album, these days there are so many options available and releases in the genre are so frequent that it’s gotten to the point that an album of this style really needs something special if it’s going to draw me in …

Disney soundtrack Bolt by John Powell rocks! And just one word to sum it: COOL. Filled me with suspense, fun and thrill. It befits an animated movie and my expectation from a soundtrack point of music contact to match a Disney animated movie is matched.
I must commend …

Another White Singer (Little White Glove) is a song by Animal Collective which appears on their second release, Danse Manatee. I can thankfully report that in comparison to the previous two tracks on this record, the sound is far less dissonant on Another White Singer, but this is not …

R. Kelly & Public Announcement
“She’s Got That Vibe”
Born Into The 90s
Jive/Zomba Recording
This is where it all started for R. Kelly, with a group called Public Announcement. This is their very first single and music video titled “She’s Got That Vibe” from the album, “Born Into The 90s”. This was …

The famous East African, Kenyan born boy band, Sauti Sol are at it again with their new track ‘Melanin’ featuring Patoranking. The song, released only this week, caused a lot of frenzy on social media as it led to sweet and sour opinions about the music video.
‘Melanin’ is a …

The craziness that is Asia; remains to captivate me to this day from when I first heard one of their songs called “Heat of the Moment.” It’s one of those one hit wonder bands from the eighties that turned out to be way more talented and enjoyable than the …

I am not personally a big fan of Avril Lavigne, I don’t enjoy the way she jumps from ‘punk rock princess’ to ‘pop queen’ every ten minutes, it gets annoying after a while. She should stick to the genre in which she is best at, that being new age …

I first heard Never Let Go on the local radio airwaves here and I was instantly hooked to it. It has a nice conscious reggae beat to it and of course you just can’t match or beat the voices of these reggae artists. At least it seems so when …

I think the song and video titled “Start A Band” with Keith Urban and Brad Paisley is a cute, upbeat song. The music and lyrics blend very nicely.
I didn’t realize they had collaborated. I think they have done a good job with the song. Their voices blend …

Interstellar Overdrive is a song by Pink Floyd which appears on their debut record, The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn. If you can’t tell by just the title of the track, I’ll mention that this song has a very space-like sound and it’s also sound quite psychedelic as …

Dark Fantasy is a song by Kanye West and is the opening track to his most recent album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Opening up with a female voice and a spoken word section, the track gradually transitions into the bulk of the song with West coming in with …

If I Needed Someone is a song by The Beatles which appears on their record Rubber Soul. Something important about Rubber Soul is that it certainly acted as an indication that The Beatles were really starting to move away from the traditional pop-rock sound that they had into a …

Send It To Me is a song written by The Rolling Stones which appears on their record Emotional Rescue. The track opens up with a very moving guitar riff by Richards and goes into a very reggae sounding rhythm for the verse of the song which obviously carries a …

Overview —“ Aerials, the first single released by System Of A Down for their second record, Toxicity, returns the band to very metaphorical lyrics and video that they introduced on certain singles, Spiders and Sugar in particular. I suppose that if System Of A Down were to have something …

The End Of Heartache is Killswitch Engage’s third album, second album on Roadrunner Records, and first album to feature vocalist Howard Jones as Jesse Leach’s replacement. The album was released in 2004, and like the last 2 albums was again produced by drummer Adam Dutkiewicz. If you are looking …

Corporal Clegg is a track by Pink Floyd which appears on their second record, A Saucerful Of Secrets. Something interesting about the first two albums by Pink Floyd was that the first album, The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, was primarily filled with the music of Syd Barrett …

R. Kelly
“Snake”
Chocolate Factory
Jive Records
I guess the ghetto-ness of songs like “Ignition (Remix)” and “Feeling On Yo’ Booty” were beginning to run dry for R. Kelly so now he’s decided to depart from his ghetto ways and do something out of the ordinary, taking a page from Mystikal’s “Danger” video …

Overview —“ The Unnamed Feeling, the third music video in promotion of St. Anger, is a music video which focuses on various people experiencing a certain emotion or feeling. As with most Metallica videos, the music video shifts between a performance of the song and then the story to …

Penny Dreadfuls is a song by Animal Collective which appears on their debut record Spirit They’ve Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished. Opening up with some background noise, a piano gradually joins the track before the vocals also come in. In strict contrast to the previous instrumental track, Untitled, the tone …

Apotheosis sound of the band Jimmy Miller, who in the mid-60s reconverted the beethelian copy into a single group, introducing the black sound across the Atlantic. Not surprisingly, for this reason, I found the very Ry Cooder and Al Kooper in the credits, putting the album in a worthy …

Godzilla Flick is a song by the Flaming Lips which appears on their album Hear It Is. Opening up with an acoustic guitar pattern, the vocals to the track come in pretty quickly and although I can hear hints of Coyne’s typical tone, it seems as if I’m listening …

Part of the lyrics, ‘I hate you, but I love you’ from the song, Stuck by Stacie Orrico. I think she’s half Latin or something. She looks kind of gorgeous and this song is super amazing. Something that I have listened to over the years but seemingly …

Radiohead’s new album The King of Limbs was released this morning by surprise instead of Saturday. It seemed as though this enigmatic album popped out of nowhere. It starts out with a track called “Bloom” it begins with a blur of sampled piano, blipping synth, and a cool dark …

Beyonce hit the nail on the head for millions of women when she recorded this song. Single Ladies (Put a Ring on it), has a great dance beat and more women than men probably like the song. I absolutely love this song from start to finish. Beyonce has a …

Last Sunday afternoon, I was trying to create my heroine’s character for yet another sappy romance novel I am yet to submit to my editor. The house was so quiet so I decided to open the media player on my laptop and a random song played from my song …

David Allan Coe sings the song If That Ain’t Country. It’s an odd song at best that remind me of how people believe in stereo types. David Allen Coe has always been a good singer but I was shocked the first time I saw a video with him in …

Lightning Strikes Twice is a song by Iron Maiden which appears on their record Virtual XI. The track starts off in a very melodic fashion with a clean guitar part as well as a lead melodic solo coming through the left channel of the track as you can also …