The Kids Quartet is a track by MGMT which appears on their first record, Climbing To New Lows. The song opens up with a very odd opening, there’s an odd vocal effect along with a drum rhythm which leads into what sounds like a synthesizer coming in and out …

Red Sovine sings the song Phantom 309 which is about a truck driver that gave his life to save a bunch kids on a school bus. It is about a true hero that was willing to make the ultimate sacrifice of his life for others. Now days I wonder …

Sheryl Crow’s sixth studio album, Detours, reflects globally and on Crow herself. Crow’s lyrics are maternal, religious, hopeful and at times political. Spaced between them are monotonous “oh”s and “yeah yeah yeah”s (good example in “Gasoline”). Disappointingly, this album does not show Crow’s powerful, playful vocals made her a …

This 2002 album is a 2 disc set, the first featuring the bands hits, and the second disc has B Sides. It may have been released to complete a contract with Music For Nations. I usually don’t like greatest hits albums, because if I like the band, I want …

Holocene is a song by Bon Iver which appears on their second self-titled record. The track opens up with a sound very characteristic to Bon Iver: a guitar establishes a very melodic atmosphere which is soon sung over by a delicate voice which accompanies and suits the guitar’s opening …

Adele has been a performer on shows like, “Dancing With the Stars”, and her songs have been used by contestans on American Idol as well as flooding the radio with her one of a kind voice. She isa very talented artist with powerful songs that I, and I’m …

Havent heard a lot from Taylor lately since her last album. I was kind of drifting away from her music because i wanted some other songs from her. Finally it is here! This single is everything Taylor Swift is about and this song is absolutely incredible. I bought the …

In 1990, Helmet released their debut “Strap It On”, which packed one of the hardest punches of the early 90s. Two years later, they released their follow-up, “Meantime”, which was just as insanely brutal. In an era of some of the greatest rock n roll in history, Helmet came …

I went to see Mark Knopfler, the ex Dire Straits guitar supremo, last Wednesday in the O2 Arena in Dublin. In a word it was magic ! I am quite a critical person but this gig just ticked all my boxes and it just got better as the night …

Staind is a band fronted by a singer by the name of Aaron Lewis. The band is quite famous for jumping between genres whenever they feel like it, from garage to grunge to emotional, they have it all! I�ve had the pleasure of seeing Staind live in concert, and …

Jay-Z ft. Amil and Ja Rule
“Can I Get A…”
Volume 2… Hard Knock Life
Roc-A-Fella Records
After the lackluster sophomore album that was “In My Lifetime, Volume 1″, Jay-Z returned a year later with a vengeance with his third album “Volume 2… Hard Knock Life” and blew charts and listeners away, putting …

I have a great CD to review, and that is of the rock band Queen’s album, Greatest Hits. I love Queen and consider the band to be one of the great classic rock bands of the past century. Freddie Mercury was a genius at writing songs and his vocals …

OneRepublic’s “Dreaming Out Loud” is a stellar debut album, in my humble opinion. OneRepublic is a rock band that recently became very popular on the radio, MTV, MySpace, and pretty much everywhere else in the music scene. It came out awhile ago but I just recently picked it up …

“Hollow” is the last track on “Vulgar Display of Power”. The song happens to be one of the plethora of singles that appear on the album. Needless to say, this is a classic metal album that everyone should own. Although it is technically Pantera’s 6th studio album, most people …

I do not usually get very excited over indie bands, and indie rock music on a whole, but after hearing a few songs from the Canadian indie rock band “The New Pornographers”, I decided that not all indie rock bands are monotonous after all.
One of the biggest …

Aberdeen is a song by Cage The Elephant which appears on their record Thank You, Happy Birthday. The track opens up with a lead guitar line before the rest of the band really comes in and a steady rhythm is set for the song. While setting up the verse, …

Unbroken Chain is a song by The Grateful Dead which appears on their album Grateful Dead From The Mars Hotel. The song starts off in an incredibly melodic fashion which includes an acoustic guitar, a piano, and a very melodic bass line as well. Phil Lesh takes lead vocals …

I always love tune to a good dance music. And in this Pulse album, there’s lots of reason to dance and at the same time, exercise. This CD album features lots of CD compilation albums and certainly every track gives me some kind of adrenaline pumping and …

Sing The Sorrow is AFI’s 6th full length and first major label album, released in March of 2003 on Dreamworks Records and produced by Butch Vig, Jerry Finn and Jade Puget. This is the album where the band started to change, they move away from punk and take a …

Now, Beyonce has a wonderfully amazing voice that has pretty much always seemed to grab the attention of the listener whenever one of her songs was played on the radio. But nothing has compared to the song, “Smash Into You”, which was played at the end of the film …

Crush is a song by The Smashing Pumpkins which appears on their first record, Gish. Opening up with a nice melodic atmosphere, the band establishes possibly the most interesting sound I’ve heard thus far on the record. Though the parts are simple, the interplay among the different instruments is …

Moth In The Incubator is a track by the Flaming Lips which appears as the eighth song on their album Transmissions From The Satellite Heart. Opening up with brief feedback, Coyne comes in with more multi-layered vocals which is a tactic that has been working throughout this record. One …

Relient K is one of my favorite bands of all time. They are a Christian rock band that seems to have found the perfect balance of Christian lyrics and meanings and great rock music. What makes them very unique is their outstanding versatility. They have some acoustic love songs, …

Chrome Plated Suicide is a song by the Flaming Lips which appears on their third album, Telepathic Surgery. Opening up with some guitar feedback, the band surprisingly introduces a clean guitar pattern to the track which gives the song a very melodic feel which surprisingly works well with the …

I have always been a fan of Lana Del Rey. She has an incredibly, one of a kind voice, a sexy and sultry style, and meaningful lyrics. “Ultraviolence” is her third album, and as a fan, I was not disappointed. I have heard all of her previous work so …

Bryan Adams is my favorite rock singer. He basically sings arena and soft rock songs. What I like most about his songs is his unorthodox voice that complements kind of songs perfectly that he sings. Also, his his guitar notes and lyrics are easy flowing, understandable , and most …

Erykah Badu’s “New Amerykah part 1: World war 4″ is a classic to me. I state this, because not a lot of people liked this album. With the release of her hit single “Honey” everyone thought the entire album would spawn similar sounding songs. They were wrong. I like …

“No Need To Argue” was a natural evolution from their previous album. The Cranberries recreated exactly what they’ve achieved on “Everybody ” except they did it on a different scale. Stronger, angrier, longer, the album has that self-confidence “Everybody ” lacked. Supposedly this mixture was the one which rocketed …

Gyptian is a reggae artist who seems new on the scene but he really isn’t that new, he has been doing a lot of collaborations but he recently released his first single with the name entitled “Beautiful Lady.”
I first heard this song on the local radio airwaves and it …

This is not the only song I love with Otown; it is just that this is memorable because someone sang it for me. What I am not sure is, if he deliberately means the words. This song uses metaphor to describe what this song is trying to convey.
Let me …

Glen Campbell: Glen Campbell Live was recorded at the Goodtime Theater in August 1994. I love live albums that let you have a feel for the audience and how the performer responds to it. I have a similar album back in the middle of Campbell’s heyday and …

Many people may the Rolling stones for one of their biggest hit Jumping Jack Flash. This song seems to be be watered down with tons of bands locally or famous who do their own spin on ot. One of the bands that really did a terrible renditon of this …

King For A Day is a song by Green Day which appears on their album Nimrod. The song opens up with a very humorous sounding rhythm due to the use of a trumpet and a very moving bass line, you’d have to hear it to understand what I’m trying …

The Electro Harmonix Poly Chorus is an all analog effects pedal for guitar. It has four different modes of function, first is the filter matrix, the filter matrix is basically a stationary flanger, you can determine the exact point in the sweep you want to isolate and how …

I was going through a music spree yesterday, just youtubing good music and I came across this song. I love country and Jason Aldean, so finding this song and falling in love with it was not really a surprise for me but a lot of things in this song …

Apna Asman has been composed leslie lewis and cast include in Irfaan Khan and Shobhna in lead. This is basically an instrumental album fantastically composed by leslie lewis. The songs are different moods of dawn, day, midnight, night, twilight the composer has given some soothing music. Each song composition …

This tenor is off the chart! I saw Yu Qiang Dai perform with the Los Angeles Opera in Puccini’s opera Turandot and immediately after I purchased his first CD. He has a powerful, rich voice and is an equal to a younger Pavarotti. This Chinese-born tenor sang Nessun Dorma …

Blackbird is a song by The Beatles which appears on their self-titled record, otherwise known as The White Album. Although I say that this is a song by The Beatles it’s really a Paul McCartney song as he’s the main writer, if not the only writer, and he is …

The wide variety of guitars in the market today makes guitar shopping a tough challenge for beginning musicians. With today’s economy the instrument of choice should deliver the needs of the musician with an affordable deal.
The Yamaha F-325 Steel String Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar is a prime choice …

Gavin DeGraw is an American singer which specializes in the rock and pop rock genres of music. He is a very talented individual as far as I am concerned and his new song entitled “In Love with a Girl” seems to be very popular.
The first time I heard this …

I really like music that mixes a few good genres into something that is a nice swirl of both. Among my favorite combinations of genres is the mix of rock with jazz inspired pieces. There really is something about a piano, and sometimes horns, in a band that really …

The Steve Vai Morley wah 2 is the efficient pedal for adding those wah effects that Vai the virtuoso himself used on his records as well.This wah has two selectable footswitches the Bad Horsie mode and the counter mode, for your own wah tone that you can create with …

It has been years since Tool had released “Lateralus”, their most complex, tribal infused, conceptualized and mathematical album, and many were expecting their next release to completely blow its predecessor out of the water. I regard Lateralus as one of the Best albums of our generation, and one of …

IF Z-Man is part of the Hieroglyphics extended family, then he is one the outer, outer branches of the family tree. He actually is part of the Hiero crew, but not an immediate member, but signed to their label, Hiero Imperium. Z-Man’s lyrics are in a league of …

Bad Kids is a song by Black Lips which I initially heard on the soundtrack to the film 500 Days Of Summer. I will admit that I’m not that familiar with this band so my review will really focus on this song as a whole rather than being a …

“Dead By Bong” is the 5th song off of Cannabis Corpse album “Beneath Grow Lights Thou Shalt Rise” which was released in 2011. It was produced by Erik Rutan of “Hate Eternal” fame and whom I might add produced some of “Cannibal Corpse” newer albums. In other words, it …

Graze is a song by Animal Collective and is the opening track to their EP Fall Be Kind. Opening up with a classical music-like tone, Tare soon enters the mix with his vocal performance which is the focal point of the track in my opinion. Aside from some steady …

This is the band’s debut album, released in 2000 of Ferret Records and produced by drummer Adam Dutkiewicz. The album is a really impressive debt from the band, several of the songs Temple From Within, Without A Name, and Vida Infra appear on the bands future album Alive Or …

Mountain Side is a song by the Flaming Lips and is the ninth song on their fourth studio album, In A Priest Driven Ambulance. Returning to a more distorted and aggressive sound than the preceding track on the album, Mountain side opens up with a driving rhythm due to …

You Me At Six have eventually managed to impress me! I actually like their new album. I think I didn’t like their debut album Take Off Your Colours because I did not like Josh’ voice, but his vocals have vastly improved for their new album. The only thing I …