I missed this album when it was first released last year, but recently i had a chance to check it out and i’m pretty glad i did. I hadn’t really heard much from Tracey Bonham since she hit the charts with the song Mother Mother, so i really didn’t …

Ariana Grande has been dubbed as this generation’s Mariah Carey but in my opinion she doesn’t even come close. In terms of vocals, Ariana is slightly ahead most of her peers, and I agree that she really has big vocal ability but comparing her to Mariah she looks like …

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 …

I am a die hard metal fan, and so, like many die hard metal fans I love listening to the band Pantera, even though they have not been together for the longest while. Their albums from the early nineties remain my favourite too, and one of these albums is …

Overview —“ Stuck With Me, the second music video released for Green Day’s album Insomniac is definitely an interesting concept for a video and I personally love the music video of this song, but I’ll explain the video itself later. The song seems to deal with feeling out of …

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 …

Have you ever listened to the very beautiful and soothing tune of Shayne Ward - Breathless? I highly recommend listening to this song. Just in case you guys have not, this song is very special and the lyrics definitely beautiful. I have never listened to a song …

I am a longtime fan of singer Miriam Stockley, so when I heard she had contributed her vocals to the AO Music project “Twirl” I couldn’t wait to buy the album. I was not able to find it locally, but ordered it online. I was hoping for the rich, …

R. Kelly
“Trapped In The Closet, Part 6″
TP-3 Reloaded
Jive Records
 
Here we have Part 6 of the “Trapped In The Closet” music video/Hip Hop Opera series. This episode follows after Sylvester discovers that his wife Gwendolyn was cheating on him with the police officer (James) who gave him the speeding ticket …

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 …

I first heard the song “Entombment of a Machine” from the American Death Metal band “Job for Cowboy” a couple years ago on an online radio station called “L.A. Metal”. I was still newly into the heavy metal and death metal genre, and even though many fans might scoff …

The Best Damn Thing? Does this album really live up to that ambitious title? Well, in a word, no. Not in my opinion. But that’s a bit unfair of me because of several things. I’m not an Avril fan to be honest, I can’t seem to get along with …

Aenima is dark journey through uncharted territory.Tool has a major talent for creating their own unique style and sound.I find their music to be highly visual and imaginative.Their music forces the general public to truly think or else fall behind the driving force of the band.I love the theme …

This review is for the original motion picture soundtrack of Red Dawn which starred Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson and others back in the mid-eighties. The music on the CD was composed and conducted by Basil Poledouris.
Red Dawn is about the Russians invading America creating essentially …

Jason Mraz is one of good musician that I admire. He’s work is always nice to listen eventhough the music seems difficult. Like one of his song, I’m yours. Like usually, Jason Mraz always sing fast on the lyrics like a half rap but it’s really nice.
I’m yours lyrics …

After The Cranberries disbanded in 2002 the bandmembers went back to being with their families, and it took a while until some of them showed any sign of life. Dolores O’Riordan kept a low-profile for several years, she appeared here and there, did some collaborations until she decided to …

I discovered Megadeth only a couple years ago when I still had access to the cable television channel Fuse and the television shows Slave to the Metal and Uranium were hosted by a woman who called herself Metal Mistress Juliya. The thing about both of these shows were …

I am reviewing the newest album by Live.The group that was out before with all of the great music they had.Like, I Alone,Iris,All over You, Lighting Crashes ,as well of a lot of good other song that was on there first album.They just came out with a …

Human Clay is Creed’s second CD. I bought this CD over three years ago and I still listen to it frequently. The music gradually shifts from calm, slow guitar and vocals to loud, yelling, hard rock- this makes the music more exciting than my other CDs which …

There are certain recording artists whose music is criticized by many of the people who consider their own taste in music to be very well refined. Ke$ha so happens to be one of those artists. As a pop star, she has found a lot of success, but she has …

R. Kelly
“Trapped In The Closet, Part 16″
TP-3 Reloaded
Jive Records
It’s Chapter 16 of “Trapped in the Closet” and we seem to all of a sudden find ourselves trapped in the same freaken’ restaurant from Chapters 14 and 15. Twan is in disbelief over the news of his newfound fatherhood at …

“Fun, Fun, Fun” is one of the best known of The Beach Boys’ 1960s hit songs, and it has kept what I think is a deserved popularity right up to the present day. It is a short song, at only two and a third minutes in length, and it …

This is another of Chris Cornell’s solo albums but very different from anything he has ever done before. He worked with Timbaland on this, so already you’ll know it doesn’t sound like Soundgarden, Audioslave or even his other previous solo work.
I’m a huge Chris Cornell fan, so I …

Overview - Side I of The Fragile, Nine Inch Nail’s third full length record, contains some of the best aggressive work and also some of the best melodic work they’ve ever put out through their entire career. Right from the opening track Reznor sounds excellent vocally and shows he …

Pop lock and drop it by Huey is a song I like to dance to because it has easy dance moves. This song is played commonly when ever a whole bunch of girls I know get together and have a dance off. It is perfect for a dance off …

Insomnia is a song by Megadeth which is the first song for their record Risk. The track opens up with a very brief guitar riff before Mustaine comes in nearly immediately with the vocals as he sings above this guitar riff as well as a bass line and the …

From the opening strum of the song, you will eventually come to a conclusion that it will be great. Every time I hear the opening melody I always have the feeling that the song will be great throughout, and that instinct is always right, the song is pure EDM …

I remember this seemed odd for a while, that Neil Diamond would do a holiday album since he’s Jewish. There was talk that since Barbra Streisand was doing another one, it somehow was okay for him to do one. I don’t recall the specifics much now, but …

Overview —“ Redundant, the third music video released by Green Day for promotion of their album Nimrod makes commentary on the routine that society has fallen into and how the citizens in it have fallen asleep, although I make it seem more critical than it actually is. I’ve read …

Undercover Of The Night is a song by The Rolling Stones which appears on their album Undercover. I’m not exactly sure how to adequately describe the introduction of this song, it sort of has a disco rhythm to it or sort of a funk rhythm, whatever it is, it’s …

Lessons To Be Learned by Gabriella Cilmi is amazing and I love the cover very much. I’ve been listening to this CD pretty recently and this is what I have got to say. This really gorgeous artiste could go a long way and when I listen to tracks …

Aaliyah
“Try Again”
Romeo Must Die: The Album
Blackground/Virgin
Director: Wayne Isham
Aaliyah and choreographer Fatima Robinson reunite once again for “Try Again” which is off of the soundtrack for 2000’s “Romeo Must Die”, a great action/martial arts thriller which starred Aaliyah and Jet Li, who also appears in this music video. The video …

Where The Boys Go is a song by The Rolling Stones which appears on their record Emotional Rescue. The song starts out with a very steady rock and roll rhythm with Jagger coming in with the vocal part very quickly and he has a melody which I personally think …

Six years after releasing 2 phenomenal hardcore-packed EP’s, “Rudimentary Peni” and “Farce”, Rudimentary Peni released “Death Church”, one of the darkest, gloomiest, bleakest punk records ever pressed and by far their most solid release to date.
Nick Blinko’s vocal style changes yet again; here it is a lot like …

If you haven�t yet heard the new debut CD by the band Daughtry or you just haven�t decided to go out and buy it; let me set your mind at ease and make the decision easy for you. Run, do not walk, drive, or …

This is one of the most romantic songs ever recorded as far as I am concerned. Engelbert Humperdink was well known for his romantic songs. This is absolutely the love song of the century. Engelbert has one of those voices that had the ability to melt women’s hearts. He …

Queen, quite simply a legendary band, with the best entertainer of all time fronting the band. An absolute classic that is always played when a sports team wins a trophy in the U.K, is We Are The Champions.
What I love about this song is the very start. The way …

It’s All Too Much is a song by The Beatles which appears on their record Yellow Submarine. The track starts off with some guitar distortion, having somewhat of a psychedelic sound, before an organ part also enters in the song which reinforces this psychedelic tone. Once the main rhythm …

I think that the Ancestors would a band with folk metal genre. Arrangement simple logic, Neptune is the god of the sea, which in the title of this album, in contrast with fire, so, Ancestors is a group with the genre of folk metal proud of the values of …

Honey Bunny is a track by MGMT which appears on their record Climbing To New Lows, the first album they released. Returning to the traditional song structure of earlier track son this album like Hot Love Drama and Money To Burn, Honey Bunny is one of my favorite tracks …

Overview - Coda, Led Zeppelin’s final studio record, is a collection of previously recorded tracks sometime in Zeppelin’s career that were never released on an album. Unfortunately I have to say right now, it isn’t too difficult to see why some of these songs never made it to the …

Celine Dion & R. Kelly
“I’m Your Angel”
These Are Special Times
Columbia/Epic
Director: Billie Woodruff
R. Kelly teams up with Celine Dion on her album titled “These Are Special Times” for the song and music video titled “I’m Your Angel”. R. Kelly shows up in his Pimp-Mobile wearing a professional suit (I guess …

Golden Memories of Stage & Screen - CD is a four disk set that was released by Reader’s Digest Music. It’s a collector’s edition of original recordings, as it describes itself on the cover, and that is an apt description.
I find it very hard to even skip ahead …

A-Punk is a song by Vampire Weekend which appears on their self-titled debut record. As with more Vampire Weekend songs, the track opens up with a very light-hearted guitar riff which simply radiates with feelings of youthfulness and playfulness. The vocals soon come in with the first verse and …

Overview —“ Haunting The Chapel, Slayer’s first EP, is three tracks which pass by incredibly fast and all have an extremely aggressive feel to them. The drumming by Lombardo, who is one of the few drummers who I actually tend to pay attention to, is excellent as always and …

Astronomy is a track which was originally written by the band Blue Oyster Cult but for this review I shall be reviewing the cover version which Metallica reordered and placed on their cover record, Garage. Inc. I’ll waste no time in this review and state right now that out …

Minstrel Boy is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on his record Self Portrait. The song opens up with some background noise before a group of voices come in with the first vocal section in sort of a harmonized gospel-like sound, it’s an interesting idea but the sound …

“What Time Is It?” is the second song off of the Spin Doctors debut album Pocket Full of Kryptonite. It’s a rather interesting placement of the song where generally the singles always seem to be the first few songs.
The song starts off with either radio or television banter that …

Bizzy Bone’s album The Gift is a very deep and emotional. This CD shows Bizzy Bone’s emotional side. I think that this album is a work of art in my view. The beats and production was just great on the album. Bizzy Bone displays his rap talent by showing …