Perfect Situation is a song by Weezer which appears on their album Make Believe. Opening up with a simple guitar line and drum rhythm which both do a good job of building the energy for the track, a more definitive rhythm is established after about twenty seconds into the …

Prospect Hummer is an EP released by Animal Collective in 2005. Comprised of four songs, Prospect Hummer features the vocal talents of Vashti Bunyan who sings on three of the four tracks along with Avey Tare. In terms of a comparison I could make, Prospect Hummer sounds somewhat similar …

I’ve been following Japanese surf rock band Go!Go!7188 for over 5 years now, and I was really excited to get my copy of their 2009 album, Antenna, which promised some different sounds while still showing the classic Go!Go!7188 rock.
True enough, the album featured songs that I can’t really say …

Jay-Z ft. Foxy Brown
“Ain’t No Playa”
Reasonable Doubt
Roc-A-Fella Records
“Ain’t No Playa” is the second single and music video from Jay-Z’s debut album “Reasonable Doubt”, following “Dead Presidents”. It is also on the soundtrack for the 1996 Eddie Murphy comedy film “The Nutty Professor” (because you know there ain’t no playa …

Long before the fiasco of Milli Vanilli, producer Frank Farian gathered Liz Mitchell, Marcia Barrett, Maizie Williams and Bobby Farrell together to form Boney M. Boney M was one of the most prominent Euro Disco bands of the 1970’s and 1980’s, particularly in Britain. While Mitchell and Barrett did …

Jay-Z
“D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)”
The Blueprint 3
Roc-A-Fella Records
Director: Philip Andelman
Jay-Z finally speaks out about today’s crappy music! Thank God. “Death of Auto-Tune” aka “D.O.A.” is the first single and music video from his latest album (to be released this coming Fall) titled “The Blueprint 3″. Jay-Z is back with a …

Some people say that Standing on the Shoulder of Giants is the first bad album by Oasis, while others say that it is their second bad album. But I disagree with both such statements. I disagree with the description of this album as a bad one. I think that …

Sometimes it’s good to just listen to music that stands apart from the regular. I find that escape when I listen to 311. Nick Hexum just has such a mellow voice and I love the how reggae sound they mix with the rock sound. Some of my favorite 311 …

New Potato Caboose is a song by The Grateful Dead which appears on their record Anthem Of The Sun. The track starts off with a mellow organ line followed by a clean guitar riff and a faint bass line as well. The track starts off fairly quietly before further …

Overview —“ The Day That Never Comes, the first video released by Metallica for the album Death Magnetic, is a video that takes place in an Eastern setting and goes from an approach that Metallica really isn’t gone with before. I do remember an interview where James Hetfield stated …

R. Kelly & Public Announcement
“Honey Love”
Born Into The 90s
Jive/Zomba Recording
R. Kelly and Public Announcement followed up “She’s Got That Vibe” with “Honey Love”, the second single and music video from their album titled “Born Into The 90s”. This song was also featured in the film, “Menace II Society” (1993). …

The first time I saw John Tesh was as the co-host of Entertainment Tonight. Slowly, his musical talent began to be discussed on the show, and then he started doing recording. The rest is history for the pianist. I’m not big time into instrumentals, but every …

James Blunt seems to be about one of my favorite singers when it comes to being sad and down, because he can just help me get all of my emotions all out at once. His songs are amazingly accurate, about how most people feel after break ups, extreme hardships, …

Overview - After Bathing At Baxter’s, Jefferson Airplane’s third effort, continues and expands on the psychedelic sound that the band developed on their previous album, Surrealistic Pillow. This album is very energetic for the most part, although it does have some slightly more melodic songs as well as experimental …

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 …

I own every Johnny Cash CD, and have a huge signed photograph of him blown up on my wall. I have been a huge fan of his for many years now, and will continue to be even now after he has passed away. The legacy lives on in his …

Following up the lackluster 2006 release “The Information” should not be a difficult thing for loser iconoclast Beck, but “Modern Guilt” is yet another disappointing effort in a period of artistic decline that began with 2005’s “Guero”. It was in 2005 that Beck began to recycle ideas he had …

Mercy, Mercy is a cover performed by The Rolling Stones which appears on their album Out Of Our Heads. The track starts off with a nice sounding clean guitar part before shifting into a distorted riff which Jagger starts so sing over. To be honest I love the rhythm …

Oxford Comma is a song by Vampire Weekend which appears on their debut self-titled record. The song opens up with a very simple yet definitive rhythm before the vocals come in for the first verse. One thing about Oxford Comma is I find it incredibly hard to not enjoy …

The musician David Guetta is one of my favourite EDM Disc Jockeys. Even though he’s been around from the early 2000s, I only took notice of him when I really got into Electronic Dance Music in 2010 or 2011. He’s become one of my favourites because I find his mixes …

Britney’s comeback is truly what ‘Circus’ is all about. The song tells about her being a showbiz entertainer. She knows her place. She knows what she wants on stage and off cam. Well, I hope she’s better be good now after a lot of hard beats the people had …

The wave of Disney stars are never very successful at crossing over to the music industry. They always try to mold themselves into triple threats when the main reason they got booked to begin with was just for acting. It has happened with Hilary Duff, Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez, …

Cannibal (2006) is the fifth album by Static-X and in my opinion the band’s most aggressive and best album yet, while many bands in their position would make a horrible experimental album, Static-X makes an even heavier album, with better guitar solos, and a faster tempo. The album was …

Time Passes Slowly is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on his album New Morning. This track opens up with a piano which gradually builds up and somewhat reminded me of jazz if it would’ve continued, but unfortunately it doesn’t go on for too long. Dylan comes in …

Most know Zack de la Rocha as the vocalist of the well known political rap-metal band Rage Against The Machine. Only some know him as the former front-man of Inside Out, a lesser known hardcore punk band, as well. During their somewhat-short time as a band, Inside Out released …

To this date, still know as Robbie Williams best ever song, though it’s often forgotten that it never actually reached number 1 in the U.K.
Although this was wrote during his time with Guy Chambers, you would have to question whether this was a sign of what was to come …

Shadow Zone is Static-X’s third album, produced by Josh Abraham, released on Warner Bros Records in 2003, this is the last album to feature Tripp Eisen on guitar. The album continues the same formula as the bands last albums, more of the last album Machine than Wisconsin Death Trip, …

The Dance, sung by Garth Brooks, holds different meaning to different people. For me, it is about the death of a child. To others, it is about lost love. It truly can be whatever you want it to be about. This is one of my favorite Garth Brooks songs. …

Who would have thought that a 20 year-old guy from the land down under would deliver the album I always wanted to hear?
Troye Sivan is an openly gay singer from Perth, Australia. He released his debut album last week, it is called “Blue Neighbourhood”, from the lyrics of the …

Turn It On is a song by The Flaming Lips and appears as the opening song on the band’s sixth release, Transmissions From The Satellite Heart. Opening up with an acoustic guitar yet a surprisingly heavy backing rhythm, the first thing I notice about Turn It On is that …

2000 Light Years From Home is a song by The Rolling Stones which appears on their album Their Satanic Majesties Request. The track starts off with some brief noise before giving way to an extremely dissonant and just odd sounding piano. If you’ve heard Sysyphus Pt. 2 by Pink …

Meet The Light Child is a song by Animal Collective which appears on their second record, Danse Manatee. Opening up with somewhat of a lazy drone-like sound, Meet The Light Child shares a problem with some of the tracks on Animal Collective’s previous album in that the vocals get …

Utada Hikaru’s Apple and Cinnamon song is the right amount of song that makes you go through your daily life situations. You can listen to this when you are sad. You can listen to this when you are happy. You can also listen to this …

Hold Your Head is a song by the Flaming Lips which appears on their album Hit To Death In The Future Head. Opening up with some noise effects, actual instrumentation begins to come in after around twenty seconds to create an atmosphere which sounds pretty empty and confusing in …

I don’t think anybody could disagree with the fact that Iron maiden are one of the most important heavy metal bands in the history of music. If you aren’t sure why this album, Somewhere In Time is as good a place as any to start your listening journey.
Sure, …

Marty Sampson has a very husky voice in singing this song All I Need Is You. I really like the song because of the wonderful message and the composition of it was also amazing.
He also leads the guitar as he sings although you can obviously hear from Marty’s voice …

Death Of An Interior Designer is a song by Death Cab For Cutie which appears on their record Transatlanticism. The song opens up with an odd drum rhythm before a calming guitar pattern comes in over the top and a subtle bass rhythm can also be heard in the …

Ah good ole Rock & Roll. Who doesn’t remember Steve Miller? One of his most popular songs was the Joker. I love this song. Steve Miller band Greatest Hits 1974-78 has all the bands best songs on it. Wow so many great songs! Swingtown, Jungle love, Take the money …

Junior Dad is a song by Lou Reed and Metallica and is the final track on their collaboration album Lulu. Opening up with a very melodic intro, Reed places some vocals over this section which creates a fairly calm and peaceful sound. As I have said several times before, …

Linkin Park is no doubt one of the best Rock Bands ever, as far as I am concerned, of course. Their songs left a mark in me, to this time I still have a couple of their old songs and I just never get tired of their song. Their …

I Am One is a song by The Smashing Pumpkins and the first song on their debut album, Gish. Opening with a drum rhythm, a bass guitar soon joins in the mix of the track before the rhythm guitar comes in and gives the track a fairly dark alternative …

Surfing on the web I found this blog that has the recording of the first date of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds North American tour of their latest recording ‘Dig!!!, Lazarus, Digg!!!’ The night was September 16, 2008, the venue was the 4th & B, at San Diego, …

If you have heard the “I Fly Above” song by Kandi Burruss, you’ll know that this song is about her ability to shake off the people in her life who don’t wish her the best. Kandi Burruss is a singer from the former girl group, Xscape. …

Saving Jane is an alternative rock band which consists of five members, to my knowledge. The first song I ever heard from this band was called “Saving Jane”
I first heard this song on a local radio station and I think it relates very well to how many girls must …

I have read that this album has sold over ten million records worldwide. There must have been many reasons for that, but I would go so far as to claim that the music proper was not the biggest reason for this album’s commercial success.
I was about twelve when I …

Sad Songs is a track by Andrew Jackson Jihad which is the tenth track on their latest album, Knife Man. Opening up with a catchy rhythm, the vocals quickly come into the song with a melody that is just as catchy as the rhythm itself. Something to note about …

Portugal. The Man has been a favorite of mine ever since Waitor: You Vultures, and I consider them one of the most fluid bands around. By fluid, I mean they change a hell of a lot from album to album. American Ghetto is definitely no exception. It starts off …

Children Sing for Children: 25 Christmas Songs is a great purchase for this holiday season. I bought an audio CD of Children for Children and indeed the kids at home are having great time listening to this. I myself and the whole family do also enjoy the song …

Heresy, one of the darkest sounding Nine Inch Nails tracks throughout their entire discography, is a track which appears on what is considered the band’s best work, The Downward Spiral. I just finished reviewing the track Only which I reviewed as being pretty eerie but not so much of …