Alice in Chains rose to super stardom in the early 90’s while the “grunge” scene was in full effect.They remain one of my most cherished bands even to this day.Jar Of Flies was released on January 24, 1994.The studio EP revealed the depth of the band and won them …

The US Festival in San Bernadino California was a music event sponsored by Steve Wozniak of apple it started on labor day weekend of 1982 then started again on memorial day 1983. One of the big days of the event was e heavy metal day which featured the Scorpions,Motley …

Sound Peace - David & Steve Gordon is a fairly enjoyable audio CD that offers a combination of flutes, guitar chords, harps, wind chimes, piano melodies and more. All of the instrumental music that appears on this CD is gentle and soft, and is arranged in a way that …

I think that Howl is a very strong album. This is an album, which has a very high emphasis on songs. By that I mean that, with many artists, they would have 10 or 15 songs on an album, and all the songs would sound very similar to each …

This album is amazing. Even though the two previous Pixies records were really good, this one was even better in some crucial respects. I think that what this album turned out to be is simply unpredictable, if you look at what the previous records were. There must have been …

Led Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy is one of the bands greatest accomplishments. The mellow blues styling mixed with the energetic rock and roll makes for a truly enjoyable and uplifting musical experience. Not only is every song perfectly orchestrated, but the overall flow of the CD and …

Going To Stockton is a song by Sledding With Tigers and the third track on their third release, The Arrested Cats. Opening up with a drawn out acoustic guitar chord, the vocals quickly come into the mix and return the sound to a slightly more energetic feel in comparison …

I know that Mariah Carey has so many amazing and awesome songs in her albums over the years, but this one has a distinct specialness on its own. The Ballads by Mariah Carey is a compilaton of the ballad songs that she had done before and to have this …

Artist: SWV ft. Puff Daddy
Video: “Someone”
Album: Release Some Tension
Label: RCA Records
Director: Joseph Kahn
“Someone” is the second single and music video from SWV’s third album called “Release Some Tension”, following the previous single and music video “Can We”. After teaming up with their first music video guest performer (Missy Elliott), …

This song made me cry whenever it is playing. I am imagining myself included on the finalist of American Idol. They are showing my video on how was me on the first time I enter the idol stage until I got into final two. Of course, that is only …

At a time where Van Halen sold out with David Lee Roth is the 1984 although a great rock album, It was one of the bands pop album and last album with keyboards on 3 songs. The awesome introduction called “1984″ and possibly the biggest Van Halen hit …

She’s A Rebel is a track returns to the feel that previous songs on American Idiot had like the title track and Holiday. To put it very simply and briefly, the songwriting is simple, the lyrics aren’t amazing, the vocal melody is catchy, and somehow everything just comes together …

Korn is one of my all-time favorite bands, and they always know how to rocks. However, the recent loss of their guitarist is apparent since he brought a distinctive sound to any song with his loose-string playing, and it brings this CD down. My favorite song on …

Let me first preface this by saying that Regina Spektor’s “Fidelity” is my favorite music video of all time. Regina Spektor is one of the most adorable recording artists of this generation. She has a voice like no other. In my opinion, she is one of the most talented …

The song started with the introduction of choir who sand the first note with the accompaniment of soft keyboard sound. You can hear the great blending of the song as the lead vocalist Becky Lucas started to sing at the second intro of the song and then the instruments …

Take A Bow is a track by Muse which is the opening track of Black Holes And Revelations. I just finished reviewing Starlight which is another track on this record and said that it’s an enjoyable song but not really one to be listening to if you wanted to …

Trivium come back to their roots of pure metal and take a step away from the experimental The Crusade, with the help of producer Nick Raskulinecz they cut the frills on this album and do a good job keeping it heavy, this album is more aggressive than Ascendancy and …

Remember this band, Earth Wind & Fire? Well, I do and my dad was putting on this CD album the other day while we were having a picnic lunch together as a family. The title is Greatest Hits by Earth Wind & Fire. Super cool, I tell …

Danny Elfman is still one of my favorite score writers or soundtrack artists. He has always been dynamic in most of his songs right from Batman on up to his more recent works. One song that stands out in my mind is the theme from the movie, “Red Dragon” …

My first electric guitar was the First Act guitar, a Double Cutaway Electric ME300, most often found in local Walmart stores, and online. This guitar has a pretty full sound for a rather inexpensive piece of musical equipment. Their prices range from around $60 all the …

5446 That’s My Number/Ball And Chain is a song by Sublime and the sixth track on their debut record, 40 Oz. To Freedom. Starting out with one of the more recognizable sections from this record, this song opens up with a moderate tempo comprised of a classic reggae rhythm …

Hearing Barry Manilow sing songs from the 70’s was spine-tingling. He’s not only a musical product of the 70’s himself, but he chose some very popular songs of that era to sing for this CD. All the songs are familiar, yet more-so with Barry’s warm vocals. The songs seem …

“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 …

Take it off: this is one of my favorite songs off of Kesha’s debut
album, animal. When I first listened to the song, i didn’t like it because the beat of the song is electric sounding. It reminds you of some of the Veronica songs but after awhile I got …

“I Gave You Power” is the 4th track off of Nas 1996 album “It Was Written”. Although this song isn’t technically a single, it is one of the more well known tracks off of “It Was Written”. This is one of the best songs to exemplify just how well …

This album is the closest thing to musical perfection in rock and metal that I’ve heard in a long time. Personally, I think that this is a musical masterpiece from Mushroomhead. The first track, “Kill Tomorrow”, begins slow and steady with Jeffrey Nothing’s vocal starting as well. Then the …

Infant Dressing Table is a song by Animal Collective which appears on their fourth release, Here Comes The Indian. The first thing I should mention about Infant Dressing Table is that it certainly takes its time to establish any type of rhythm. For the first few minutes of this …

Little By Little is a cover performed and recorded by The Rolling Stones which appears on their self-titled debut album. The track starts off with a guitar part along with a harmonica before Jagger comes in with the vocals of this track and sings in quite a blues-like delivery, …

It isn’t uncommon for actors to make the jump from screen to a musical career, most of the times with a disastrous ending after a few hits (anyone remember Lindsay Lohan?). Well, on 2007 sexy Scarlett Johansson decided it was her turn to get her very own record but …

I don’t know much about the classic hard rock band UFO but I heard they had Michael Shenker who happens to be the brother of Rudolph Shenker of the Scorpions and they both are amazing guitarists with a very similar style in the way they play. On itunes …

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 …

The Trial, the penultimate track of Pink Floyd’s concept record The Wall, is what I believe an excellent way to wrap up the story, or just about wrap up, and certainly a brilliant track in itself. For those of you who either have not heard The Wall or know …

Your Bats is a song by The Flaming Lips which appears on their album Embryonic. The track opens up with a guitar playing with a wah-wah effect before the drums and other instrumentation also abruptly and awkward join into the mix. Interesting enough, all of this instrumentation drops out …

Terrible Lie is a song by Nine Inch Nails which appears on their debut record, Pretty Hate Machine. The track starts off with a dark sounding synthesizer and drum part, quite characteristic of this album to be honest. A heavy yet simple guitar part comes in which Reznor sings …

The website allhiphop.com is one of the biggest, and most visited hip hop websites in the world. It gives its members a daily plat forum to all the hip hop news. It is run by great people, and good writers who know the hip hop culture. The site was …

It has been quite some time since Diddy and Bad Boy have released a decent R&B album. With the loss of artists like Faith Evans and 112, many wondered if Bad Boy would ever regain its success of the mid 90’s. With his latest effort, making the …

Stone Sour is what i would describe an alternative metal band. Their second album’s title is Come What(ever) May from Roadrunner Records. It came out on August 1 of this year. I picked this up, but not because their lead vocalist is Corey Taylor or not because one of …

If you haven’t heard of Tori Amos, you have missed out on one of the most original, incredible and absolutely riveting female alternative performers in the last half century.
Amos (real name Myra Ellen Amos) is the daughter of a preacher who was considered a piano prodigy and was admitted …

Revenga is a song by System Of A Down which appears on the first half of their double record Mezmerize/Hypnotize. Revenga opens up with some clean sustained guitar chords played above a pounding kick drum rhythm. The song then transitions into a much faster and more aggressive section which …

As a longtime fan of progressive/experimental music, I often gravitate towards sound patterns that seem to buck the norm, and stand out as truly not heard in mainstream music. Closure in Moscow usually does a pretty decent job of creating songs that sound as though they were never meant …

“Vomit The Soul” is the 5th song off of Cannibal Corpse infamous album “Butchered at Birth”. This is classic death metal at it’s best. The album in general is genre defining, considering their albums released before this point of time had more thrash metal roots, I think with Butchered …

Love Henry is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on his album World Gone Wrong. The song opens up with a light acoustic guitar pattern which serves as a nice introduction to the song before Dylan comes in with the vocals. Dylan’s lyrics focus on a story so …

Smashing Pumpkins is a dreamy rock band that came to form in 1988. After 10 years and some lineup changes, the fantastic album Adore, Smashing Pumpkins’ 5th album, was born. This album contains a list of tracks that range anywhere from an upbeat, swift rock songs to relaxing, musing …

This album titled —˜City of Evil’ is the third album to be released by hardcore rockers Avenged Sevenfold, and also the album that boosted the bands popularity and mainstream success. Out of the four albums in total that have been released, this is my personal favourite as it has some …

Def Leppard are one of Britain’s most successful rock bands. They were one of the pioneers of the 80s hard rock sound, achieving massive, million selling success in the 1980s. In the 1990s, their music was no longer fashionable and their career took a slump. They changed their sound …

Lest we Forget is a greatest hits compilation album released in 2004 on Interscope Records. The album includes the Depeche Mode cover Personal Jesus, that was recorded just for this album, also Long Hard Road Out Of Hell, a song that was recorded for the Spawn Soundtrack and never …

This is an incredible album that brought Heavy Metal to a whole new audience.The music is composed brilliantly and brutally.This is about the time Heavy Metal began to see a reincarnate of Classical Music.From the opening track the listener is forced into a heavy landscape where guitars rule and …

R. Kelly
“Gotham City (Remix)”
“Batman & Robin” Soundtrack
Director: Hype Williams
First there was Prince, then there was R. Kelly, the second worst thing to happen to a ‘Batman’ film soundtrack in the history of the entire ‘Batman’ franchise. Well, it looks like the “I Believe I Can Fly” trick didn’t work …

Hank Jones: Sweet Dreams was the second CD released in recent years by the entertainer. Jones actually spends most all of his time now in the field of genealogy, where he’s written many notable books. Before that took center stage for him, though, he was an actor …

Overview - Killers, the second album by Iron maiden and last to feature Paul Di’Anno, expands on some of the more technical sides that they introduced on their self titled debut album and also incorporates more use of harmony, a crucial aspect of their music that Maiden became known …