After about two decades did not release an album, in 2008, New Kids on the Block released an album titled The Block. New Kids on the Block could be the beginning of the era of boy bands of the decade 80. Since the appearance of this group, many boy …

The Fender Squire Stratt is one of the most affordable guitars on the market. A cheaper version of the greatly hailed Stratocaster, the Squire Stratt is a much cheaper version- and it shows. The pickups are Fender Squire stock pickups, and are some of the cheapest and innexpensie out …

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 …

This truly is an astonishing debut. Arcade Fire are a group of ten canadian musicians led by Win Butler and his wife Regine. They include amongst their ranks, pianists, violinist and harp players. Clearly this is not your average rock group and yet when they play live, they invest …

First of all, I love this song. It suits Kelly so well and it’s something you would love to hear on the radio. So then onto the music video, Kelly looks amazing. The old Kelly, young and fun with attitude is back and is better than ever. Kelly looks …

The Eagles Of Death Metal are a somewhat newer band that caught my attention. Being a Queens of The Stone Age fan, I really found this band to be quite different but at the same time very intriguing. It’s kind of hard to describe, it just feels… sleazy when …

No One Else is a song by Weezer which appears on their self-titled debut record, otherwise known as The Blue Album. Opening up with a fast guitar riff, Rivers Cuomo comes in with the vocal melody nearly immediately and I must say that if this is your first time …

Back in 1996, In Flames released ‘The Jester Race’, their most influential album to date, through Nuclear Blast. One year earlier, the two other highlights of the Swedish metal scene, namely At the Gates and Dark Tranquility, came up with their respective ‘Slaughter of the Soul’ and ‘The Gallery’ …

Holy mother of God, out of nowhere one of my favorite alternative/hipster band twenty one pilots dropped a new song! And not just a new random song, it is a song for one of my most anticipated films this year Suicide Squad! Guys, if you haven’t heard it, I …

I am a twenty one year old who loves listening to nearly every type of modern music including different types of metal. When I was younger though, the choice of music I liked listening to was more narrow, and oldies was not usually a part of it. Nevertheless, for …

D.J.s is a song by Sublime and is the twelfth song on their debut release, 40 Oz. To Freedom. Opening up with the vocals right from the beginning, Nowell takes the lead with a multi-layered vocal delivery which creates a nice harmony and opens the sound in a pretty …

As Rush went into the 80’s their sounded changed a quite bit since they started out in the 1980’s. One of the songs they are most known for is the instrumental YYZ off the Moving Pictures album. The song has a really odd timing at the intro but it’t …

The Cranberries was one of the most famous rock bands of the 90’s. On 1999 they released “Promises” as a single of their “Bury the Hatchet” album. That song was a major hit and is my favorite Cranberries song and one of the best songs from the 90’s.
The song …

Visiting Friends is a song by Animal Collective and is the seventh track on their record Sung Tongs. Something I’ll point out immediately is that Visiting Friends is the longest track on the record and clocks in at just over twelve and a half minutes. Opening up with some …

The Postal Service is an almost legendary band in the indie rock scene. A collaborative project by Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie and Jimmy Tamborello of Dntel, it is an electronic indie rock band whose one and only album was released back in 2003. Give Up was …

I think there’s nothing that this sweet lady can’t do. Carnival Ride by Carrie Underwood is something that Carrie’s fans should listen to. I love the CD cover album; all yellowish looking and filled with beautiful and smiling Carrie.
Coming to the songs in this album, there …

I received this CD about 2 christmases ago from a friend. Greenday was my favourite group then, so I was very excited about listening to them. They did not let me down of course. My favourite song in the album was the song “Boulevard of Broken dreams” even though …

Taylor Hicks’ self titled CD is one of my favorite CDs released in the past five years. The CD has thirteen different songs and at least ten of them are very catchy. Most of them are really good songs; the kind of songs you find yourself singing along …

This is the collaboration of the producers/mc’s Madlib and MF Doom. They call themselves Madvillain and claim to be the illest villains. And I couldn’t agree more. The record contains 22 tracks, ordered as followed:
1. The Illest Villains
2. Accordion
3. Meat Grinder
4. Bistro
5. Raid
6. America’s Most Blunted
7. Sickfit
8. Rainbows
9. Curls
10. …

Metallica’s S&M album is a live album recorded by Metallica, with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, recorded on 21 and 22 April 1999 at Berkley Community Theatre. The orchestra was conducted by Michael Kamen who also composed all the symphonic accompaniment. S&M, wich is an abbreviation for “Symphony and …

‘Silent All These Years’ is a haunting and awakening song. The lyrics sing the tale of a young woman who has is down on herself, everyone is always on her case, and she never seems to live up to their expectations. Although the song was originally released in 1991, …

An album that really doesnt stand out in the David Lee Roth era of Van Halen is the album Van Halen 2. I really like this album because it still had the classic Van Halen tone with more of a punchy sound to it. Although no Van Halen album …

Susanne is a song by Weezer which appears on their self-titled debut record, otherwise known as the Blue Album. Opening with some guitar feedback and a simple drum rhythm, I get the feeling as if I’m listening to an old time song with Weezer adding their own electric influence …

Taylor Swift seems to be the new “it” girl these days in both the worlds of country music and pop music. Her records sell tons of copies and her concerts sell out. She has been extremely successful, and after purchasing and listening to her newest album entitled “Speak Now,” …

Black Eyed Peas Where Is The Love is a beautiful song I like listening to because it talks about how the world is today. No lies so far I have found in this song. It talks about how we need to do as we say and proclaim and not …

Let Me Sing Your Blues Away is a song by The Grateful Dead which appears on their record Wake Of The Flood. The track starts off with in a very energetic fashion thanks to an opening saxophone solo being prominent throughout the intro and first bits of this song. …

We danced by Brad Paisley is a beautiful song about how this woman left her purse at a cafe and the guy working there closing up asked her if she would dance with him. Well that started a relationship between them and she stopped by one day after his …

Garden of Serenity by David & Steve Gordon is one of the few relaxing audio CDs that I did not enjoy. The reason I did not find this CD to be as relaxing or as peaceful is because the nature sounds on this CD are really much too loud …

Alice Cooper is one of the surviving founding fathers of the Heavy Metal genre, and the inventor and CREATOR of on-stage heavy metal Horror! I have been a huge fan of Alice Cooper for countless years and have more or less every album he has released. He is a …

I have been listening to Bob Weir for 29 years now and he still amazes me; i just really, really, like his guitar playing. Although he is by no means the greatest of all guitar players, he is by far one of the greats. In my opinion he has …

Wait is a song by The Beatles which appears on their record Rubber Soul. The track opens up with the vocals coming first before the rest of the instrumentation coming in to join the vocals on the song. Though a listener can certainly hear the unique sound of the …

People II 2: Still Peoplin’ is a song by Andrew Jackson Jihad which appears on their 2011 release, Knife Man. Opening up with a light vocal section, an acoustic guitar rhythm can be heard strumming along before the first verse comes in which features a vocal delivery where the …

Cry To Me is a cover performed by The Rolling Stones which appears on their record Out Of Our Heads. The song opens up with a clean guitar part with a tempo that has a ballad feel to it. Once Jagger comes in with the vocals my suspicion that …

I’m Lonely (But I Ain’t That Lonely Yet) is a song by the White Stripes which appears on their album, Get Behind Me Satan. What I like about this song is that it’s extremely stripped down so you really get a sense of what Jack White’s voice sounds like …

I’m a person who has tended to gravitate to mostly different kinds of rock and electronic music ever since I was a teenager. However, that does not and has never stopped me from exploring other genres of music and having other favourite artistes from those same genres. Nevertheless, it …

On The Way Down by Ryan Cabrera is about this guy thanking this girl who saves him when he is feeling super down. This girl helped him see that life is good on the out side and the inside if he just looks and what made him see that …

This offering from Australia band Starky follows the same vein as pop rockers The Killers and The Bravery, with a mix of new-wave and power-pop.
Having recently been singled to the UK’s Island Records (U2, PJ Harvey) and made a name for themselves internationally playing tours and festivals, Starky have …

Seattle, written by Hugo Montenegro, Jack Keller and Ernie Sheldon, has been around for quite a while. It was written for the TV series, Here Come the Brides, in 1969. The series in its first season used an instrumental version, but then in the second season they …

The Peavy Vypyr 30 is a 30 watt solid state modeling amp. It has loads of features. It models 12 different famous guitar amps such as the Fender Twin and the Peavey 6505, with a clean and distorted version of each, making 24. It …

When released, Barbra Streisand: One Voice CD got a lot of attention and for good reason. It’s not everyday that this amazing singer gives a concert. This was back in 1987, before her big concert tours of the 90’s. Barbra gave a concert in her backyard, …

I believe in getting the compilations of the individual albums from the artists, they are better than the individual albums. The best assortments come with the “Best Of” series. Now this collection has the very well known tracks from Randy Crawford from Give Me The Night to Everything Must …

Well I have been following this band for some time and I must say that they have impressed me. This latest CD as well as the first, contain mostly covers but it is still a great work of art. It contains covers of Metallica, Pantera, Sepultura, and Faith No …

Before i listened to this album i had a totally different perception of Lifehouse. I liked a few of their songs but nothing really stood out to me. This album is sensational, all the songs are inspiring in it and opens your eyes to everything you can achieve. The …

KISS
A rock and roll classic! One of the best LP’s of the 1970’s.
This was the bands first album and it debuted in 1973 and no one bought it (it ended up going platinum after the band became a worldwide sensation) An underrated masterpiece.
1973 was too early for the world …

Aaliyah
“Are You That Somebody?”
“Dr. Dolittle” Soundtrack
Blackground/Atlantic
Director: Mark Gerard
“Are You That Somebody?” is one of Aaliyah’s biggest hit songs and music videos, this one being from 1998’s “Dr. Dolittle” Soundtrack. Just like “Hot Like Fire”, Fatima Robinson also did the choreography for this one. The video opens with Timbaland and …

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 …

Don’t Trust Me by 3OH!3 (pronounced 303) is a great song that has recently come out. However, due to its popularity, the song has become slightly overplayed. I had this song recommended to me on itunes months before it became popular and now it played so frequently, …

For us those who are old enough to catch the tail-end of 80’s rock, rock icons Guns N’ Roses are definitely something we can be nostalgic about. Hard-core fans definitely miss the music of unique guitar sounds, equally unique and incredible song structure and craftsmanship and wildcat howls …

If you aren’t familiar with “Fun House,” then not only are you missing out on one of the greatest rock albums ever made…but you haven’t even HEARD true rock music, not the way it’s meant to be, at least. This album is everything that’s great about rock: it’s dirty, …

Unnatural Selection is a track by Muse which appears on their most recent record, The Resistance. Unnatural Selection is one of the more guitar driven tracks on the entire album which is something that I enjoy a lot about it. One thing about The Resistance is that a lot …