Aaliyah
“Rock the Boat”
Aaliyah
Blackground/Virgin
Director: Hype Williams
Aaliyah reunites with another big-time music video director, Hype Williams, and close friend/dance choreographer, Fatima Robinson, for this second video outing from the self-titled album, “Aaliyah”. “Rock the Boat” depicts Aaliyah dancing on a tropical beach (this portion was said to be inspired by the …

Paramore is a relatively new emo band that has released multiple albums and received recognition for a few of their hit songs like “Crushcrushcrush” and “That’s What You Get”. A lot of their music is played in a retail store called Hollister and that is where a lot of …

Invincible was the last album released by Michael Jackson in 2001.It was not as successful as his previous albums but still managed to sell more than 8 million copies worldwide which was regarded as a failure given that his previous albums sold more than 20 million copies …

Taking Chances seemed very appropriate as the album title was taken by Celine Dion. By presenting some old songs and some new songs, which differ with the type of songs that had been sung. Dion to make a change. Since her last album, A New
Day Has Come in 2002, …

Resistance is a track by Muse which is the title track of their most recent release, The Resistance. Like many of the songs on this record, Resistance is a song which is lyrically inspired by George Orwell’s novel, 1984. As a side note, for anyone who has not read …

A Manatee Dance is a song by Animal Collective which is the opening track to their second album, Danse Manatee. Opening up with a synthesized introduction, a listener is introduced to the noise-type of music that was somewhat prominent throughout Animal Collective’s debut record, Spirit They’ve Gone, Spirit They’ve …

Born to Be Wild and Easy Rider is an easy rock song. It is one of the few rock songs that I like. It has a great beat that just gets you to tapping your toes to the beat. It describes how we are all born to be wild …

Hysteria is a track by Muse which appears on Absolution. One thing I will say about Hysteria before really getting into the review, and probably something you will agree with me, is that once you start listening to the song, the rhythms which start the song and stay throughout …

Me and my friends recently got the idea to start a band up. Ive also always had the nack to beat on stuff so i became drummer and purchases a Pearl Vision drum kit. The thing is amazing. It has a proffesional quality at an amatuer price. The Pearl …

The first time I heard of the rockstar Lenny Kravitz was a couple years ago when I was in in my early years of high school. That was in the early two thousands, and I immediately feel in love with his number one hit at the time, “Again”. At …

Gotta Get Away is a song by The Rolling Stones which appears on their album Out Of Our Heads. The track opens up with a fairly slow rhythm where each of the instruments join in the track pretty quickly along with Jagger’s vocals as well. I wouldn’t say that …

Artist: Beyonce
Video: “Sweet Dreams”
Album: I Am… Sasha Fierce
Label: Columbia
Director: Adria Petty
Beyonce ditches the black and white cinematography formula for color once again ( as she did for “Halo”). I’m not sure if a dream with Beyonce would be a nightmare or a sweet dream, it depends - If it …

All Alone is a song by The Gorillaz which appears on their record Demon Days. The song opens up with an interesting electronic rhythm which is then accompanied by a vocal section which sings a repetitive chant of “all alone”. Throughout this section of the track the overall mood …

Kelly Clarkson has attained many achievements since winning American Idol many years back. Her third album was called “My December” and it came out during a really rough time for her. She was having issues with the people who were managing her plus she canceled a tour. It seemed …

R. Kelly
“Happy People”
Happy People/U Saved Me
Jive Records
“Happy People” is the first single and music video from the R. Kelly double album “Happy People/U Saved Me” whose album cover looks like something out of an H&M clothing ad, I might say. Anyway, …

When I heard this song, I thought it was a joke. I knew that Pink and her husband Carey Hart were getting a divorce. So when I saw him in the video, I was really shocked. But apparently, the break-up was such that Hart and …

I really liked this album. It’s so fantastic. All the songs here are my favorites. I got a copy of Thriller album from my friend. It was a ctually my birthday gift from her. And I am so happy with it. This album has songs that still can be appreciated …

Paint It Black is a track by The Rolling Stones which appears on the album Aftermath. The song has become iconic and extremely well known among Rolling Stones fans and just rock fans in general, myself included. The sitar riff on this track has just become so memorable to …

I was never really a big fan of Mariah Carey’s but after hearing her new songs on the radio and then obtaining her cd I can defintely say she’s one of hip-hop’s M.V.P. Her cd the Emancipation of Mimi was excellent. She really put her haert in this one. …

It’s no question that I love to rock, but I’m not much of a drummer. The Ion Digital Drum Studio has been helping with that. This product is far more than a practice machine though. And the part I love about it, it’s only the size of a small …

“Dad, do you know Taylor Swift?”
Aaron Dessner was asked this question by his eight-year-old daughter. Through the mouth of a baby she spoke the truth, because that day a musician from The National recorded one of the songs on “folklore”. “No” - Dessner brazenly deceived the child. The release …

Artist: Beyonce
Video: “Still in Love (Kissing You)”
Album: B-Day
Label: Columbia
“Still in Love (Kissing You)” is yet another (perhaps the last of them) single and music video from Beyonce’s second album titled “B-Day”, following the long-as-ever list: “Deja Vu”, “Ring the Alarm”, “Irreplaceable”, “Upgrade U”, “Beautiful Liar”, “Suga Mama”, “Get Me …

Sugar Magnolia is a song by The Grateful Dead which appears on their record American Beauty. Sugar Magnolia opens up with a bouncy sounding rhythm which has an extremely lighthearted tone to it and you can certainly tell that this song will be a lot better than an average …

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 …

KISS - DYNASTY
The last ‘big’ KISS album and the beginning of the end for the band. (Peter Criss doesn’t even play drums here…anton Fig fills in although he never received credit)
Alot of coplaints on this album dealt with KISS going ‘disco’ with the inclusion of I WAS MADE FOR …

Closing Time was the very first album from Tom Waits, one of the most noted and acclaimed songwriters in American history. Since its release, Waits has spent more than thirty years making some of the most innovative and original music in the world today. However, when Closing Time …

And just what were U2 thinking when they were recording, and subsequently, releasing this album? It is one of the mysteries I have always been puzzled by. I am a huge U2 fan. Probably, currently not as big of a fan as I was in the past, in my …

“Low” is the number 1 single by the band Cracker. I’m actually kind of surprised that nobody has written a review for such a memorable and catchy song already. “Low” single handedly brought recognition for the band Cracker and significantly boosted their record sales for their 1993 album “Kerosene …

Campfire Songs is the third studio album by Animal Collective. Comprised of five songs, Campfire Songs is incredibly different than Spirit They’ve Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished or Danse Manatee, the first two records released by the band. Whereas these two albums relied on experimental songwriting, Campfire Songs is based …

Here we have another one of those bands i just don’t get with another album that is so far severely over rated. And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead have been indie rock darlings for a fair while now and have stood out from the …

Every Planet We Reach Is Dead is a song by The Gorillaz which appears on their album Demon Days. The track opens up with a rhythm that I think could best described as fairly lazy. I also do not mean to use this term in a negative connotation here, …

Fahrenheit is one of the best albums owned by Toto. At least, it is my opinion, and I’m sure with many people who have the same opinion. Composition of sweet song and very melodic, even though I know that is very difficult to play songs that have Toto’s tempo …

I love Timbaland, and he’s always so sensual and melodramatic sometimes when it comes to his songs but they’re really wholesome, and when I heard Katy Perry was going to sing her too I was very ecstatic as I love her, and although they might have come off as …

Crazy Mama is a song by The Rolling Stones which appears on their album Black And Blue. The song starts out in a pretty laid-back fashion with sort of a lazy and casual guitar riff which gives way to a short lead played over it. Jagger comes with the …

I love the new song Womanizer by Britney Spears very much. My friends were saying that the song is lame and all that, but I think not. This is the latest of Britney Spears that one could really get a-hold of. Do watch the music video clip. …

Essplode is a song by Animal Collective which appears on their second album, Danse Manatee. Opening up with a more traditional sound, I’m somewhat reassured by this and hope that the band doesn’t push the song to a dissonant extreme as they’ve done already with two tracks on the …

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 …

Hoobastank was one of those bands that I remember had a lot of hits when I was a teenager. I wasn’t a huge fan per se, but I did like a lot of their music. These days, when going through some of their earlier music and listening to some of …

In this third album, Pissed Jeans, a band who came from Pennsylvania, USA, still looks consistent. If you like the type of punk rock offered Jesus Lizard or maybe Butthole Surfers, you will really enjoy the Pissed Jeans. If not, you will feel lost, because the King Of Jeans …

The Murder Mystery is a song by The Velvet Underground which appears on their album of the same name. Interestingly enough, I just finished reviewing another track from the same album entitled Beginning To See The Light and I must say that I think these two songs are completely …

James Brown is a song by Cage The Elephant which appears on their record of the same name. Opening up with a hanging guitar chord playing alongside with a simple drum rhythm, James Brown then launches into the first verse with the vocals really leading the assault. Though the …

I like this album a lot. And there are numerous reasons for it. I think that Korn managed to intensify their emotional strength on this album. Their previous album was rather dark, and very aggressive, of course, and it dealt rather well with serious emotional subjects. This album does …

The Man In Me is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on his record New Morning. This song is actually pretty well known not so much because the album was good, as it wasn’t, but because it’s the opening song for the film The Big Lebowski. As a …

Blowin’ In The Wind, one of Bob Dylan’s most famous and ionic songs throughout his extremely lengthy career proves to certainly meet it’s reputation as the track itself is just great. As with most early Bob Dylan, or rather most Bob Dylan for that matter, the track isn’t driven …

The “Under My Skin” album is Canadian pop diva Avril Lavigne’s second foray at original album making. It was released between 2004 to 2005, single by single.
Since Avril writes most of her songs, this album was no different. The album’s first single, “Breakaway” was a song the …

Sweet Child O’ Mine is a song written by Axl Rose and performed by his band, the legendary Guns ‘N’ Roses.
Sweet Child O’ Mine is one of my all time favorite songs. I currently have the Guns N Roses greatest hits album in my gym and pretty much …

On the fifth album, Counting Crows deliberately to display two different themes. On side A, we are treated to color hard rock music, while the B side, bringing us to the nuances of folk. This album in a short time was ranked 3rd U.S. Billboard 200. Long enough for …

The One I Want is a song by Green Day which appears on their debut record, 1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours. The track starts off basically by going back and forth between this faster and slower section, but this doesn’t last for very long as Armstrong comes in with the …

Different Names For The Same Thing is a song by Death Cab For Cutie which appears on their record Plans. The song opens up with a piano-led introduction which then gives way to the vocal performance which seems to have some effect on it which makes it seem slightly …

“Wolves is a journey about finding love,” while that description feels cliche for all the countless songs that shares the same theme, Wolves does indeed sound like a journey. This is Selena Gomez’ second EDM (electronic dance music) after her successful collaboration with Kygo for “It Ain’t Me” earlier …