I met a friend on myspace and he asked me to listen to a couple of songs that he wrote and recorded with his band. My first though was on man because most garage style bands are no good, but I would have never hurt my friends feelings, so …

I am a huge fan of 80’s idie rock and alternative. Well, indie period. My favorite band is Depechmode, and for the first time I have found something that they can be compared to. Now I’m not saying they are equal, but almost and if you are a Depechmode …

Steal this Album! Is unfortunately my least favorite of the System of a Down albums, but that doesn’t make it a bad album; it’s still a fairly good album, because even when System of a Down is at their worst, they’re still fairly good.
The first is Chic’n Stu which …

After hearing the first album by the Pussycat dolls, I was pretty impressed and I liked to listen to it a lot. Time went on for a while, and nothing new had come out from them, until now. As soon as I saw that that The Pussycat dolls were having …

Overview —“ Mama Said, a third music video released for Metallica’s album Load, is the music video for a song which honestly doesn’t strike me, and I’m sure most people, as a Metallica song. I mean even just thinking about the title and the artist, having the word Metallica …

One alternative song from the 90’s that wedged in my mind. It became the official soundtrack of the movie Empire Records. The movie was weird, even the casts, that is why I will not forget about this song. Gin Blossom is an American rock band that popularly sang Hey …

Good Times, Bad Times is a song by The rolling Stones which appears on their record 12 X 5. The song opens up with an acoustic guitar pattern along with a harmonica lead over it which gives the song overall a very folk rock sound. Jagger comes in with …

Kate Bush is a British songwriter and singer who has been around for a while. I was introduced to Kate Bush’s music by a friend several years ago and while some of Kate’s albums have been out for quite some time, I think that Kate Bush’s Hounds Of Love …

This song is one of the realest country songs I have ever heard. My older sister wanted me to make her a country mp3 cd for Christmas, so that’s about one hundred or more songs. So I randomly came across this song, I didn’t even plan on listening to …

An incredibly moving and well laid symbolic interpretation of the song ‘Creep’ by Radiohead. I was blown away by the quality of the flash movie, but more than this (and you will have to wait until the end to see what I mean if you haven’t seen it before), …

Tell me I was dreaming is a love ballad by Travis Tritt. It is the type of song that typically brings tears to most of us. The video is not what I expected the first time I heard the song and then watched the video. It was a unique …

Daily Routine is a song by Animal Collective and the fifth track on their record Merriweather Post Pavilion. Opening up with an introduction that starts off gradual and then builds incredibly abruptly, the vocals violently enter the track with a melody which surprisingly doesn’t flow very well at all …

Kellie Pickler pokes fun at a man who has dropped her for someone else only to realize that life isn’t as great as he thought it was going to be with the new girl. It is an awesome song for women who have been treated in exactly this same …

Iced Honey is a song by Lou Reed and Metallica which is the fifth track on their collaboration album Lulu. I’ll start out very positive and say that this is one of the better examples where Reed actually fits fairly well with the music behind him. The reason for …

In My Time Of Dyin’ is a traditional arranged and performed by Bob Dylan for his self-titled debut record. The song starts off with a folk sounding acoustic guitar riff primarily in the right channel and Dylan comes in with the vocals of the track primarily in the left …

I actually heard the song entitled “All because of you” for the first time on MTV. They were having a countdown and this song was one of the featured songs with a video to go along with it as well. All because of you is a song by an …

Usually, I avoid character songs. Not that I hate them, or that they’re always bad, but they just sound odd sometimes. But Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei already has the girls singing in the openings and endings. One of my favorite character songs of theirs is this song, by Yuu Kobayashi.
It …

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 …

Plug In Baby is a track by Muse which appears on Origin Of Symmetry. Along with Knights Of Cydonia, Plug In Baby seems to be one of the more well known songs by Muse, because it appeared on I believe Guitar Hero or possibly Rock Band. However, the difference …

One of the most popular, trendsetting music artists of the century, Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance single will certainly go down in history as the lady’s trademark song. It has all the elements of what defines the singer: a tune that is fast beat, one you can dance …

This is Pantera’s second album, the title comes from the movie The Exorcist. Released in 1992 and produced by Terry Date again, this album is far more aggressive than the last, tighter, darker, faster, and I don’t think it could have been much heavier. Mouth for war opens the …

I saw Biffy Clyro at Sheffield 02 Academy on Friday 30th April. They have grown significantly in popularity since I first saw them play. In fact, in the UK, you can hardly switch on the radio for 5 minutes at the moment without hearing a Biffy song.
Since …

I like it, I love it by Tim McGraw is my favorite song because it is my friends ring tone and he is in love with country music. This song is so romantic because it talks about how much this guy likes this girl and how much he …

Half of this band before they broke up was actually consisted of System of a Down member Daron Malakian who was the lead guitar player, and John Dolmayan who was the drummer. Daron this time around reprises his former role as a guitar player, but also acts the lead …

When playing guitar,Tone is important and the 10 band equalizer pedal by Mxr really gets the job done. It increases the total output control of all your frequencies on the guitar and in my opinion, adds a lot of high end and more gain for serious rocking out. Not …

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 saw the movie Never Say Never, I was a big Justin fan in the summer and it kind of wore off. I did not notice this song in the movie that much, but when he came out with this song on the album I was absolutly blow away. …

Although I’m a techie, at least for the Boomer Generation, I don’t always have to the have the best and newest. I don’t buy every computer game or gizmo that comes along. I don’t have an Ipod and I don’t carry a cell phone. I can do …

Garth Brooks does a song called Honky Tonk Bar Association. This song makes fun of our government. It talks about going and joining the Honky Tonk Bar Association which stands for going to a bar and getting drunk to solve your everyday problems. The bar does not require …

Welcome To Paradise, one of Green Day’s most well known songs is a track which appears on Dookie. Aside from the tracks which are on American Idiot then I’d actually probably say that Welcome To Paradise, or Longview, would be the most well known Green Day song, and with …

This song is so addictive!! And it’s been a long time since I heard this song, but I was so into it again because just now morning I was preparing myself after shower and I turned on the radio and I heard this song over the radio.
I …

Sting is a very famous singer in the world. But in China, most of people don’t know him well or even don’t hear his name. As a Chinese, I heart his name from the film ‘Leon-The Professional’. Sting sang the theme song ’shape of my heart’ about it. I …

You don’t often find authentic blues but now that there are sites like Myspace and Indie911 you can find all kinds of artists.
I happened along Arthur Lewis on Indie 911. His artist page is: http://www.indie911.com/arthur-louis.
He has a feel to him that isn’t fake or pushed. It sounds more realistic …

Private Ave is a song by Green Day which appears on their record Kerplunk. The song starts off with a repetitive guitar riff along with a slight lead over it before Armstrong comes in with the vocals for the verse. One problem I have thus far with the …

“Quick and to the Pointless” is the seventh track off of Queens of the Stone Age album “Rated R”. The song is incredibly short and in a sense kind of lives up to it’s title. By no means is this song even close to being a single off of …

Feel that fire by Dierks Bentley is a song that is beautiful in a lot of ways because it talks about how this guy knows that his girl needs to feel that fire. This song mainly talks about this one girl and what she wants but in my opinion …

Two Sails On A Sound is a song by Animal Collective which appears on their fourth studio album, Here Comes The Indian. Beginning in a manner which is characteristic to this album, Animal Collective take their time in establishing an introduction before going into any bulk of the song. …

As Daylight Dies is the fourth album by Killswitch Engage, the third album for Roadrunner Records, and second album to feature vocalist Howard Jones, the album was released in 2006 and this time was produced by Adam Dutkiewicz and Joel Stroetzel. The album was reissues with a bonus DVD …

Tim McGraw has been around country music for a while now and he has made a great success of career and his family all at the same time. He, along with his wife, Faith Hill, have been great at what they do no matter what it is. They shine …

Wrathchild is a track by Iron Maiden which appears on their record Killers. Keep in mind that Killers was still an album where Iron Maiden had Paul Di’anno rather than Bruce Dickinson so the vocals on this track lean far more towards a punk sound rather than an operatic …

Luxury is a song by The Rolling Stones which appears on their record It’s Only Rock —˜N Roll. The track opens up with a rhythm guitar part along with a very brief lead guitar bit before the bass and drums quickly join in. Jagger comes in with the vocals …

In This Twilight is a song by Nine Inch Nails which appears on their record Year Zero. The song opens up with a heavy sounding industrial rhythm before Reznor enters in to start singing over it. Reznor sings in his characteristic laid-back fashion which doesn’t exactly go with the …

Overview - Mezmerize, System of a Down’s first half of the double album Mezmerize/Hypnotize, is an album written primarily by Daron Malakian who played an extremely prominent role in the album, most notably on vocals, something most fans didn’t like at all. Mezmerize is a difficult record to summarize …

Sydney boys The Sunpilots mix Indian Carnatic music, courtesy of frontman Raj Siva-Rajah, with Australian alternative rock provided by Bob Spencer, Anthony Soole and Rob Ewan.
The Sunpilots have received phenomenal amount of hype from all quarters. Their first single, Spotlight In The Sun - a taste of the album …

Overview - Broken, the first EP put out by Nine Inch Nails, is basically eight extremely aggressive songs just fueled by anger, which becomes obvious not only through Reznor’s voice but even through his guitar playing. Generally I’m not a huge fan of albums that have just one feel …

Damnation And A Day is Cradle Of Filth’s fifth album, and first to be releases on Sony Records. The album was released in 2003, the album features an entire choir, this album has 4 parts to it, Fantasia down consisting of track 1-4, Paradise Lost are tracks 5-8, sewer …

Jordin Sparks is such an awesome person. Not only is she young, but she is also talented and I think for someone with a nice image as her, she has a nice big voice to boot too. However, the songs inside are quite on average. I think …

Jay-Z ft. Mary J. Blige
“Can’t Knock The Hustle”
Reasonable Doubt
Roc-A-Fella Records
Director: Hype Williams
This is Jay-Z’s third single and music video from the debut album “Reasonable Doubt”, following “Dead Presidents” and “Ain’t No Playa”. The song (which happens to sample “Much Too Much” by Marcus Miller and “Fool’s Paradise” by Meli’sa …

Machine is Static-X’s second album, released in May of 2001 on Warner Bros Records. The album introduction starts with a sound that makes you think you may have the wrong album, and then picks up big time with Get To The Gone, Permanence, Black And White, This Is Not, …