I love listening to music a lot!! & to be honest I’m not a fan of the newest songs & artists, but I’m a huge fan of my girl keyshia Cole. She has a strong & amazing voice, she is very inspirational. I love her newest CD, but one …

I never really pay attention to Demi Lovato. All of a sudden, her new single released and it was everywhere. It also went straight to #1 on itunes. I was so surprised so I did a little research and found out she had eating disorders, cut herself, and went …

As You Said is a song by Cream which appears on their record Wheels Of Fire. Interestingly enough, the song opens up with a string section before a guitar also comes into the mix before the vocals also come in. The vocal melody that Cream has on this song …

If you haven’t heard of Nerina Pallot, I don’t know where you have been! She has had so much media hype and 5 star reviews in all the right places. And for once, the hype can be believed!
Nerina’s album, Fires, is an incredibly strong album and you can listen …

Old School Hollywood is a song by System Of A Down which appears on their record Mezmerize, the first half of their double album Mezmerize/Hypnotize. The track opens up with a synthesizer along with a drum pattern, something very rare for System Of A Down to utilize but an …

Ciara ft. 50 Cent
“Can’t Leave ‘Em Alone”
Ciara: The Evolution
LaFace Records
Director: The Fat Cats
Ciara follows up “Get Up”, “Promise”, and “Like A Boy” with “Can’t Leave ‘Em Alone”, all from her sophomore effort, “Ciara: The Evolution”. Ciara reunites with one of her favorite directors this time around, The Fat Cats. …

HOTTER THAN HELL
Kiss seemed to believe they would capture the public’s imagination with this second LP but it didn’t work out that way despite its high quality.
Better than some have suggested.
This one also didn’t sell when first released but greater things was soon to come. Album contains Gene Simmons’ …

Neil Diamond was always a favourite singer of mine way back to the 1970’s. As a fan of the Monkees, too, I loved what they did with ‘I’m a Believer’ and ‘Little Bit Me, Little Bit You’.
He was a mash in the film ‘The Jazz Singer.’
His newest album Home …

After Van Halen Split up David Lee Roth still pulled off an excellent solo career wih an ep like Crazy From the Heat and the 1986 release of Eat’Em and Smile. One of the tracks that most people are familiar with is the song Yankee Rose which is a …

Futureal is a song by Iron Maiden which appears on their album Virtual XI. The song opens up with a pretty energetic guitar riff which works pretty well and would seem to lead nicely into the first verse. Harris’ bass has a very nice heavy tone as well which …

When Did You Leave Heaven is a cover performed by Bob Dylan which appears on his record Down In The Groove. The song opens up with a drum rhythm along with some synthesizers which is a sound that Dylan rarely ever experiments with. Thus far the overall sound of …

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 …

Garth Brooks sings a song called Standing Outside the Fire. It is about a group of people who are often left out when it comes to even some of the simplest events. Some of them have special needs and against all odds try to win a race against …

It Ain’t Me Babe is a track by Bob Dylan which appears on Another Side Of Bob Dylan. As with many of songs from Dylan’s earlier records, the instrumentation is extremely stripped down and primarily just features an acoustic guitar playing a basic pattern which Dylan sings over and …

I am a huge fan of and specialist in KMFDM music. I have been listening to them for a very long time. I find their music very original, very special and characteristic to them. They created their own style, and they follow by it. But, on this album, this …

I was a fan of Sevendust way back in my NU-Metal days. Their debut album was really good sans a few forgettable tracks, and at the time different from most of the music being released. Their vocalist, being R and B Soul singing trained, is able to present a …

Kino is a song by The Knife which appears on their self-titled record. The track opens up with a quick electronic introduction which has a certain youthful bounce to it that sets up a potentially interesting atmosphere for the rest of the track. Unfortunately, when the vocals do come …

Supermassive Black Hole is a track by Muse which appears on their album Black Holes And Revelations. I’m sure that many more people know this song now than when it first came out due to how it’s now featured on the soundtrack for one of the Twilight films, but …

Artist: Beyonce ft. Missy Elliott, MC Lyte, and Free
Video: “Fighting Temptation”
Album: “The Fighting Temptations”: Music from the Motion Picture
Label: Columbia
Director: Antti Jokinen
“Fighting Temptation” is a single and music video off of the official motion picture soundtrack for the 2003 film starring Beyonce Knowles and Cuba Gooding, Jr. called “The …

White Blank Page is a song by Mumford and Sons which appears on their debut album Sign No More. The track opens up with an acoustic guitar pattern which also has some nice bass fills throughout the intro as well before the vocals also join in the track. Following …

A Great instrumental song by the german hard rock band The Scorpions is the track Coast To Coast off of the album Lovedrive. I really like this instrumental, I even got to see it live and it is the one track where a third guitar is played by the …

Ciara
“And I”
Goodies
LaFace Records
Director: The Fat Cats
Finally, Ciara does a music video by herself and without any guest artists featured in it. Sweet. This is the fourth and final single/music video from the “Goodies” album, titled “And I”. The song is a slow R&B ballad and is a unique departure …

GG Allin’s second to last release and his last punk album before his death, “Brutality and Bloodshed For All” comes up as one of his best. Now working with his band The Murder Junkies, GG Allin came through with one of the biggest highlights of his discography. The album …

First off, I want to say that Linda Davis: Shoot for the Moon CD has a great liner jacket. On quality paper, all of the lyrics are printed in a readable fashion, with a decent font and light background. Better still for her fans, when you open …

The roaring sound of thousands (or even millions) of fans of the most popular folk band of the decade might be deafening, #BringBackTheBanjo even trended in Twitter when they released the first taste of their electrified change.
“Believe” did sound like Coldplay, but only in its first half it borrowed …

Rihanna is one of my favorite recording artists. Despite all the drama with Chris Brown being abusive towards her, she has remained a strong female figure that I can see inspiring a younger generation of little girls. She is a talented live singer who does not rely too heavily …

I’ve never been a huge fan of Fergie nor the Black Eyed Peas, don’t get me wrong I liked a few of their tracks like “Where Is The Love?” and Fergie’s solo carrier has some nice parts as well such as “A Little Party Never Killed Nobody (All We Got)“ …

Artist: Beyonce
Video: “Green Light”
Album: B-Day
Label: Columbia
Director: Melina and Beyonce
“Green Light” is the eighth and final music video and single (followed by “Deja Vu”, “Ring the Alarm”, “Irreplaceable”, “Upgrade U”, “Beautiful Liar”, “Suga Mama”, and “Get Me Bodied”) from Beyonce’s second album titled “B-Day”. For the millionth time, Beyonce once …

I recently purchased something awesome from the Marshall line of Amplifiers. What I bought was the Marshall JVM 210H head and I just love the tone out of this amp. The head came with a channel board that came with 6 foot switchable presets you can get out of …

Ozzy Osbourne is quite simply my music Messiah, the God of all things metal, the Prince Of Darkness! I have seen him live in concert on July 6th in what was truly the most amazing night of my life, seeing my hero and God LIVE why I was only …

My Heart will go on is the team song of Titanic. I find the Movie very Beautiful and the Song matches well.The song is simple but have a meaningful message for those people who are truly in love. Celine Dion really have powerful voice.The message of this song is …

I first heard of the legendary Adele back in 2010, when the world never cared for her the way it does now. The song that I first heard? A cover of Bob Dylan’s “Make You Feel My Love”.
It’s not even a normal cover, it’s one of those gorgeous …

Hold Back is a song by The Rolling Stones which appears on their record Dirty Work. Dirty Work starts off with a pounding drum rhythm along with a guitar riff which isn’t quite as loud in the mix, but as it’s nothing all that special this isn’t a big …

Hank Williams Jr. sings a song called “A Country Boy Can Survive”. It is about how they grow a garden to supply a lot of their own food, they hunt and fish but don’t bother anyone else. That they are better prepared than the people who live in …

It was my mother who first told me about the R&B music group “Debarge” even though I had heard their music playing sometimes on the radio over the years. I was familiar with a few of their songs, and while I had heard them playing, I just was not …

Serious is the opening song of Scars On Broadway’s self-titled debut record. As this being the first record, some fans were not sure what to expect from Daron Malakian, whether he’d go with the sound that he had in System Of A Down or whether he’d go in a …

Overview - American Beauty, the fifth album by The Grateful Dead, continues in the same style of they started with on Workingman’s Dead by writing from more of a folk rock and country style rather than the electric and psychedelic driven songs from their first three albums. I’ll say …

Gates Of Tomorrow is a song by Iron Maiden which appears on their record Dance Of Death. The track opens up with a pretty upbeat sounding guitar riff, which Harris’ bass reinforces, before leading into a slightly more aggressive section which has a slight galloping riff to it. The …

Since Beyonce has embarked on her solo career, she has really raunched up her image and shows a lot more flesh than in the videos from her demure Destiny’s Child days. She is a sexy woman so I guess she is being clever and reckoning that sex sells, …

This is probably one of the most heartbreaking, tear-wrenching songs I have ever heard. It is based on a true story, and one of Tay’s rare songs that doesn’t sing about boys and one-sided love. It tells of a young mother’s groundbreaking sorrow of losing her beloved youngest son …

Overview —“ 1,000 Hours, an EP released by Green Day and also their first release in their entire career was pretty interesting to listen to. Now personally I’m a lot more accustomed to more recent Green Day work, or even work in the middle of their career, so going …

This is Lucky Ali’s third album after Sunoh and sifar. This one is lucky ali for th third time in a row. This album came after a long gap of 2 years from his second album sifar. This album is yet another add to the list of LA’s …

I discovered the folk metal band Eluveitie who are from Switzerland when one of their songs was playing on a heavy metal radio station used to listen to a lot some years ago. At the time, it was my first encounter with folk metal, and I liked what I …

Anyone who has seen this movie must have made an effort to look up the soundtrack too. I have watched this movie, fell in love with it, with the characters, the story, and even more with the soundtrack!
The soundtrack has 11 cuts, all of which are heard in …

After following the musical epic of Homecoming, I genuinely believe that Whatsername is the best way that Green Day could’ve ended this record, or story I should really say. Whereas Homecoming was really just ten minutes of excellent writing, I really have no other way to put it, Whatsername …

Overview - Although Side IV of The Wall isn’t as good as side III, it still has some very good songs on it and wraps up the story behind this album very well in the end. In fact I’d have to say that this side has two of my …

Knowing that I have wanted to learn to play the drums for years, my daughter and son-in-law bought this set for me for Christmas a couple of years ago. I don’t know what they paid for them since it was a gift but I know that they have been …

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 …

See Emily Play is one of the early singles released by Pink Floyd which never appeared on a studio record but did show up as a single and then on some reissues of early records or compilation albums. The track starts off with a nice psychedelic sound organ lead …

I went to check out guitars since my friend suddenly has an interest in learning to play a musical instrument. Since my cousin brother is a guitar player, I asked for his advice on getting one. He recommended Ibanez AEB10E to me.
When I first …