As a lady, listening to Reunion by Black Sabbath takes a good amount of courage from me, I have to say. I was given this track as a birthday present last year and I’ve yet to find out who the “mystery” user was up till now. The …

Operator is a song by the Grateful Dead which appears on their album American Beauty. Opening up with a light guitar rhythm and a background rhythm, the song immediately has a fairly country-like feel to it and this is only reinforced once the vocals come in. I should mention …

Money is a song by Serj Tankian which appears on his debut album away from System Of A Down, Elect The Dead. Money opens with a piano part which moves very quickly and actually has a pretty interesting rhythm as it first starts up. The piano continues to play …

This album contains one of the most difficult songs to sing. “And I’m Telling You I’m Not Going”, was originally sung by Jennifer Halliday in the Broadway hit Dreamgirls (1982). She won the Tony Award for her performance and since then the song was headed to the …

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 …

Bounce is a song by System Of A Down which appears on their second album, Toxicity. Right from the start the song is extremely aggressive and Tankian matches the intensity of the music with his own vocal delivery. The track is pretty hectic, although to no extreme sense, it …

With her video, “Single Ladies: Put A Ring On It” attracting over 45,000,000 views on YouTube, it’s no reason why Beyonce Knowles is securing her spot as the number one “Diva” on the music charts. I tried to ask myself why the video was so important, so I watched …

Carry That Weight is one of the very last tracks on Abbey Road and although it is only 1:36 in track length, I feel like it offers quite a lot of music for that short amount of running space. I make a point to stress the time and length …

There There (The Boney King Of Nowhere.) is a song by Radiohead which appears on their album Hail To The Thief. Opening up with a drum rhythm that sounds somewhat tribal, Radiohead does a good job of establishing an incredibly interesting instrumental section which primarily relies on the rhythms …

I bought Kerplunk a few years ago, wanting to explore more of Green Day’s earlier music. And I’m very glad I did. Years later, I still listen to the CD and enjoy the wonderful music on it.
Released in 1992, I believe that Kerplunk has a different vibe to many …

The Saturdays are a relatively new band which has already made some chart topping hits. Most noticeably is their new EP “Just can’t enough” I at first wasn’t all that too sure if it would be a”hit” and a great rendition to the original from dépêche mode. Never the less …

Lump Sum is a track by Bon Iver which is the second track on the band’s debut album, For Emma, Forever Ago. The track opens up with an airy atmosphere before an acoustic guitar comes in and establishes a more definitive rhythm, though some background voices help to maintain …

Highway to hell by Ac/dc is a song both of my friends like and so far I can see why. I’ve heard this song like a hundred times cause it’s a classic and that is all my two friends are into which is classic rock. This song has an …

I recently purchased a new Fender Frontman 25R Practice amp for a room that I have set up, and I have to say that for a small, inexpensive amp, it does very well. I was able to play at fairly high levels, without hearing …

Surfing on the web I found this blog that has the recording of the first date of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds North American tour of their latest recording ‘Dig!!!, Lazarus, Digg!!!’ The night was September 16, 2008, the venue was the 4th & B, at San Diego, …

Jedi Mind Tricks is a rap group that puts out underground rap music with legendary and original beats by one of the greatest East Coast DJ’s on the face of this planet. Stoupe THa Enemy of Mankind has perfected the art of sampling beats and melodies and always knows …

Idioteque is a song by Radiohead which appears on their album Kid A. Opening up with an interesting and aggressive synthesizer part, Yorke soon comes in with the vocal delivery which has a vocal melody that does a very nice job of matching the rhythm behind him. Transitioning into …

Team Sleep is music evolved.
Melding guitars and drums with turntables, computers and keyboards, they depict a post appocalyptic future painted in an Eon Blue haze.
Eletricity runs through this music in a way that is completely original and unique. This album literally sounds like the soundtrack to a sprawling futuristic …

Audioslaves 2nd album, releases in May of 2005 produced by Rick Rubin, the title is a reference to the band’s exile from the first album, how they started as part rage against the machine part soundgarden and now they are their own band. This is a good album, the …

This album is really good, and I think that it deserves a lot more credit, when one looks at it retrospectively. By this I mean that most people associate Blur with their first records, and the songs that were on their first albums, whereas the later ones kind of …

Blue Jay Way, one of the more psychedelic or at least calming tracks by The Beatles, is one of the tracks to appear on what I would consider to be easily their most Also, to be honest, this track really strikes me as a work which I would associate …

You don’t often find authentic blues but now that there are sites like Myspace and Indie911 you can find all kinds of artists.
I happened along Arthur Lewis on Indie 911. His artist page is: http://www.indie911.com/arthur-louis.
He has a feel to him that isn’t fake or pushed. It sounds more realistic …

This is Korns 5th album, produced this time by Korn, and Michael Beinhorn, this is the first album not to include bagpipes, and not much rap thankfully. This album doesn’t have the heavy feel as the others, they used some new techniques on this one to create a creepy …

Jordin Sparks hit single tattoo was leaked on to radio stations and online august twenty third when the actual release date was august twenty seventh two thousand and seven. This girl is only seventeen and she was on American idol and won the competition. after she won she signed …

Black Swan is a song by Thom Yorke which appears on his solo debut record, The Eraser. Although The Eraser did not strike me as an album which had that many great songs after a few listens, Black Swan was certainly one of the songs which did manage to …

Record Exchange
1600 Spring Garden St
Greensboro, NC 27403
(336) 273-6300
If you like music, then you will be a fan of the record exchange. This psuedo independent record store on west market street is a music lovers dream. One of the greatest features of this store is taht they have musicians come …

Do You Hear the People Sing a song from the play Les Miserables. This play ran on Broadway, and has the distinction of being the most popular musical in the world. More people went to see Les Miserables in the years that it ran than any other …

The back street boys are not a bad band and they are actually quite good and I like the fact that each band member had a different look than one another which was cool because this made them quite diverse. I also liked how every member of the band …

Level was an entertaining album filled with possible radio hits and chart toppers. There simple lyrics about women and typical country stories make it easy to sing along and a perfect background for a party setting. I have personally seen this band live and there CD to …

R. Kelly
“Snake”
Chocolate Factory
Jive Records
I guess the ghetto-ness of songs like “Ignition (Remix)” and “Feeling On Yo’ Booty” were beginning to run dry for R. Kelly so now he’s decided to depart from his ghetto ways and do something out of the ordinary, taking a page from Mystikal’s “Danger” video …

ray Charles as a fantastic musician of his time and today. the movie Ray is an excellent portayal of the life of Ray Charles, as well as a fantastic entertaining movie. In the movie ray charles is played by actor jamie Fox, who not only does an excellent job …

I very clearly remember the first time I heard “Vision of Love” on the radio. I heard those first few notes on my local radio station and stopped everything I was doing. I just listened. I remember thinking at first it was Whitney Houston but then …

David Bowie is the very definition of LEGEND in the music industry. I have been a fan of David’s for many years, and I actually heard about him from his films, not from his music. The specific film being Labyrinth, in which he was one of the main characters, …

I have been a fan of the Cure since I was 13 years old. I heard their albums 17 Seconds and Pornography and I fell in love with those albums. I really thought that they were amazing records. And at the time when I was listening to them when …

Hustling (Life On The Nickel) is a song by Foster The People which appears on their debut record Torches. The track opens up with an unconventional opening comprised of an electronic intro before other instrumentation joins in the track and a rhythm is actually established. Though the band takes …

Panopticon is a one-man black-metal band from Louisville, Kentucky. The band is sole member Austin Lunn, who in my opinion is an amazing multi-instrumentalist. In the album Roads to the North, Panopticon not only brings in your typical instruments (guitars, drums and vocals) that you find in a rock/metal …

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 …

Eminem- Curtain Call (The Hits)
Is it just me or is Eminem always supposedly retiring from the hip hop scene only to come back with yet another release? Well, not that I’m complaining of course, The more music from this rap genius the better as far as I’m concerned! This …

Christian Bautista is a famous singer here in the Philippines. He was discovered when he joined Star in a Million here in the country. He was just a runner up but he’s as popular as the grand champion. I’m a great fan of this singer. Not that I would …

Mono is a post-rock band from Japan that has amazed the fans of Mogwai Godspeed You! Black Emperor etc with their powerful mixture of guitar cascades and symphonic soundscape beauty. Karelia begins in the lowest possible tempo, but rises slowly to a ravaging sound, not the tiniest bit angry, …

Lots of new stuff,new songs u hear now and then u hum with it and forget.But that is not what Kishoreda’s songs are, u keep on rewinding nad forwarding to hear them again and again. Who will not agree with me? A Zindagi gale laga le,intiha ho gayi,songs from …

In early 2007, there was news that Coldplay will release an album that will be different from the three previous albums. I was afraid, that this experiment will be a problem for Coldplay, who has become the leading band. However, after hearing that there are 10 songs on the …

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 …

When I first heard of this band, I didn’t really know to much about them other than they sounded a lot like Killswitch Engage. Well I got more than I bargained for. When I borrowed this CD from my friend Jacob, I was soon to find out that they …

When I first heard this song I almost wrote a letter to Eden’s Edge asking if they wrote this song for me. Every line of this song is parrelel with my experiences. I had never heard of this band before this song. I saw it as one of the …

I’ve been listening to Pleasure P’s Boyfriend Number 2 on YouTube for a while now and it has been my favorite song of his. I’m not a go out and buy posters type of girl, but I do like listening to Pleasure P’s music and I was even more …

I did not really know much about Meg & Dia until I heard one of their songs while on MySpace. That is where they became popular initially. They won the MySpace band award for Warped a few years back. Meg & Dia are two sisters who released two albums …

Former Miss America, Sharlene Wells Hawkes brings us a fascinating album with her When All Will Believe CD. I highly recommend reading her comments in the liner jacket which explain the evolution of this religious musical production. I found it very interesting to see how the project …

Overview —“ The self-titled debut album by System Of A Down definitely made a new mark on the genre of metal in my opinion. During the time of this album’s release, there honestly wasn’t a whole lot of good heavy music still going on like it had been during …

The music was good, but how the mighty Dixie Chicks have fallen. Years back, they became country music outcasts, right in the middle of being huge successes. They made some untoward comments about then President George Bush. It was their end singing country. I believe …