The current queen of pop has released her long awaited 3rd album, and at least the cover of the album hasn’t dissappointed “little monsters” I feel this album has left me wishing for more, it doesn’t have the mass appeal or catchy chous’s of the Fame Monster but is …

One genre of music that I feel is hugely underrated and underdeveloped is jazz/rock. It seems that rarely will I find a good jazz/rock combination band, despite the fact that the two styles of music compliment each other so well. The Reign of Kindo is a band that stands …

If there is one song that moves me and transports me to a different place in time, that song would be ‘Peach, Plum, Pear’ by Joanna Newsom.
I have to admit that I could not stand this song the first fifty or so times that I had it crammed down …

Rascal Flatts singing about heart break is also heartbreaking. They know how to get their audience to feel emotion and that’s extremely important for singers to do. This song talks about how hard it is to love someone who does not love you back. Even if you can’t relate …

Overview —“ Sweet Children, Green Day’s third EP, is surprisingly what I would consider their worst release yet. I figured that since it was released later than either of their first EPs, 1,000 Hours or Slappy, the songwriting would’ve improved and everything like that but this wasn’t the case …

The Osmonds: The Plan CD is a very special compilation. Actually, compilation isn’t the right word. This project was a labor of both love and inspiration, written by the Osmonds and which musically told their religious beliefs. It’s tender and rock both and takes listeners on …

I usually don’t like listening to the new reggae songs because many of them tend to have lyrics and sound which just don’t appeal to me. Nevertheless, I am still into the older reggae music and artistes, especially some who had internationally popular songs in the nineteen eighties. One …

Unfortunately the excellent Neuropa album “The Blitz”, with its (admittedly fairly obvious) World War 2 type plane design on the front, is not easily obtainable in physical form in the United Kingdom, although it is offered by Amazon in individual track form as MP3 downloads. This is rather a …

Dear Doctor is a song by The Rolling Stones which appears on their album Beggars Banquet. The vocals start in right away along with an acoustic guitar part and a slight harmonica as well which gives it somewhat of a folk rock sound in my opinion. Jagger’s vocal melody …

Mr Dappy, after a long and successful career as 1/3 of UK group N-Dubz, decides to break free and begin his solo career. He had a good start to his career though, 2 number 1 singles “Rockstar (featuring Brian May) and “Good Intentions”.
This album was anticipated by most of …

Frogs is a song by The Flaming Lips and the penultimate track on their album Hit To Death In The Future Head. Opening up with a confusing and dissonant sound, the bass and drums enter the mix to give the song a somewhat more solid foundation. Though I’m surprised …

Banal pop music is an easy target even for the less than brilliant observers among us, and cultural satirists regularly jab at flash-in-the-pan musical phenomena. Is it always deserved? Or accurate? Or eerily prescient in terms of where such acts are headed in the mainstream musical landscape? Perhaps not. …

This little beauty can be your resident musician’s best friend. My husband purchased this for himself recently when he bought a new guitar. At the cost of $185.00 USD, it was still more inexpensive than other ones of the same type.
This pedal does it all! You will have to …

As a lover of contemporary Christian music, I sometimes have trouble deciding which CDs to choose. There’s Christian pop and even Christian rap these days, but when I buy a CD I usually end up liking half the songs by the artist in question and not the other half. …

Kill ‘Em All by Metallica is probably one of the most amazing sounds I’ve ever heard ever. I even dare to say that this is Metallica in their truly best form as well. But I wish, for once that the CD cover would be more nicer and …

David Allan Coe sings the song If That Ain’t Country. It’s an odd song at best that remind me of how people believe in stereo types. David Allen Coe has always been a good singer but I was shocked the first time I saw a video with him in …

This band has influenced me tremendously as a heavy metal vocalist just starting out. Of course, I have other influences such as the band Arch Enemy which has a female lead singer like me; but there have been many things I have adored about the band Pantera.
If you’ve ever …

Picture to burn by Taylor Swift is a song about how a girl is upset and is going to burn the picture of her ex boyfriend. I understand what the song means on so many levels because there are some people’s pictures I still have, I’ve thought of burning …

Sara Bareilles is such a lovely lady, and her voice is angelic. There’s something in her cold voice that is so soothing and ethereal. Like every time I listen to her voice, I almost always get shrills and goosebumps because it’s just so beautiful.
In case you don’t know her, …

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 …

Church On Sunday is a song by Green Day which appears on their album Warning. The track starts off with a very brief drum part before leading into the traditional power-chords from Armstrong which Green Day has become associated with. Armstrong soon joins in with the vocals in a …

Alvin Row is a song by Animal Collective and the final song on their debut record Spirit They’ve Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished. Opening up with a dissonant sound from the start, I must admit that I’m slightly discouraged by this considering the fact that this is the longest song …

I’m like a lawyer the way I’m always trying to get you off (me and you) is a song by Fall out boy that I like listening to all the time because of how the lyrics are. The whole song is beautiful and confusing all at the same time. …

Overview —“ Peace Sells—¦ But Whose Buying, Megadeth’s second album, expands on Dave Mustaine’s songwriting and pushes it even further than what he showed on the debut album. Poland and Mustaine continue to really lead and dominate throughout this album with their riffs and soloing and it’s truly mesmerizing …

The first time I heard the song I can say the song is an average song until it is use in the movie Confession of a Shopaholic as a theme song. It fit the two characters in the movie and I begin to like it. Stuck with each other …

Suite-Pee is a song by System Of A Down which appears on their self-titled debut record. Malakian opens the track with an interesting riff which focuses on the use of natural harmonics before going into a traditional System Of A Down rhythm which is characterized by a heavy rhythm …

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 …

Oh! Sweet Nuthin’ is a song by The Velvet Underground which appears on their album Loaded. The track opens up with an incredibly laidback rhythm established by a guitar and a simple drum beat behind it along with some subtle bass fills throughout. The band decides to stick with …

Jay-Z ft. Babyface and Foxy Brown
“(Always Be My) Sunshine”
In My Lifetime, Volume 1
Roc-A-Fella Records
Director: Hype Williams
“(Always Be My) Sunshine” is the first single and music video from Jay-Z’s second album “In My Lifetime, Volume 1″ which follows the previous album “Reasonable Doubt”. Welcome to the Shiny Suit era of …

“Let Go” is Avril Lavigne’s debut album released in the year 2002, which made her a hit in the West as well as in Asia.
The CD included thirteen tracks as follows: Losing Grip, Complicated, Sk8er Boi, I’m with you, Mobile, Unwanted, Tomorrow, Anything but ordinary, Things I’ll …

Overview —“ King Nothing, the final music video released by Metallica for their album Load, continues to the band’s original trend of shifting between clips of them playing the song and then a story to explain and accompany the lyrics to the song. Despite the similarity in structure and …

Heart Of Mine is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on his record Shot Of Love. The song starts off with a piano part which then leads into Dylan singing some lyrics before the rest of the instrumentation soon comes in. The lyrics focus on Dylan, or the …

I really like the song Girl Next Door by saving Jane. I think many young girls can relate to it. The song tells about how the popular girls get everything they want and how the other girls get ignored, left out, or pushed to the side. A line that …

Being a fan of this band for some time now I have started to notice that each album they release is more experimental and less heavy, it’s the same with this album, while the musicianship and skill on the album is great I find it hard to believe this …

If you ever want to check out an awesome piece of guitar work, then I would suggest you listen to Eruption by Guitar virtuoso Eddie Van Halen. Released on the first Van Halen album, Eruption is 1 and a half minute instrumental album that Eddie originally used as a …

Subliminal-just when you thought it was over
Subliminal’s new/ not so new album is something that was destined to get mixed reviews. On one hand, he continues his legacy of excellence and presents us with well crafted and executed songs. On the other hand, it is clear that …

More than a year ago or so, everyone was so devastated to hear that the heartthrob member Zayn Malik of the highly-popular band One Direction decided to leave the band. At that point, no one was sure why he decided to leave a band so popular. However, just a …

Let me go by three doors down is about how this guy tells this girl to let him go because he don’t know how to really love her. She is in his thoughts but he don’t know how to let her in. this song is a sad song in …

Run Over By A Truck is a song by Weezer which appears on their record Raditude. Right from the title, you should be able to tell that this track is certainly going to have a different feel, for lack of a better description. The song is driven by a …

Although not well known in the United States until her song “Possibility” was featured on the “New Moon” movie soundtrack, Swede Lykke Li was already well known in her native country.
An independent musician, Li could best be described as a living, breathing work of art. If I could define …

I have been a fan Of Blink-182 for a very long time but when I heard that they broke up, well I was not happy. Then I learned that the lead vocalist started his own band, Angels and Airwaves, and I was curious to see how they would do. …

This album occupies a special part in my heart. Every time I listen to it I am making a trip down memory lane, recalling the time when I was twelve-year old pre-pubescent Boy. This is why I try not to listen to it too often, to keep this album …

I first heard Taylor Swift’s “You Belong with Me” in my boyfriend’s iPod, and he was singing along with it like some lunatic so I just had to listen to it for myself to know what the hype was all about. Then wow, I was instantly hooked.
Personally I …

This is an okay CD, but it was greatly disappointing in light of Ill Nino’s previous release Revolution/Revolucion. Their first effort was a seamless mix of hard rock and Spanish rhythms. But for this CD, they left most of their Latin flavor behind in favor of generic …

I was searching for a positive affirmation quotes on the net when I bump on this lyrics. Then I remember from reading the lyrics that I have heard this song playing as the background song for NBA Playoffs. In addition, I was right; it is the official song for …

Overview —“ Jump In The Fire, the fourth track from Kill —˜Em All, is thankfully a much better track than the song to precede it, Motorbreath. If you read my review of Motorbreath then it’s pretty obvious that I really don’t enjoy that song very much at all but …

When I was younger and had a little more interest in R&B anmd rap music, the rapper Ludacris used to be one of my favourite rappers. However, these days even though I am not as interested in those two genres of music as I used to be, along with …

If I were a record company executive, I would definitely sign up Kenyan rock band Murfy’s Flaw. Three things make this band appealing to me. First of all, five out of six of the band members are female. Being female myself, I can only celebrate this fact since the …

This album was one of the first albums by the Cure that I listened to. It was quite a long time ago. It took place, in fact, probably in the year when this album was released. And then I loved these songs a lot. They seemed magic and otherworldly. …

I think I am in love with a young man from hawaii with a guitar, a vintage quiff and a sweet serenade. I love him and his album, this album is positive it makes me as a woman feel good about myself, it makes me smile and it makes …