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 …

4 Minutes by Madonna Featuring Justin Timberlake is not that bad. It also has Timbaland featuring in it as well. For my local radio station, is busy blaring this tune most of the time. I must say that there is a perfect combination for these 2, including …

The song started out with a fast beat of the drum as Kim Walker started to sing the introduction of the song Happy Day. I was really impressed on the way her voice was. Not that high toned pitch but her voice was more of an alto to soprano. …

Paranoid is Black Sabbath’s second album released in 1970 under Vertigo Records in the UK and distributed by Warner Bros in the US. The band recorded the album the same year as their last album with the same producer Rodger Bain. The song Paranoid was recorded at the last …

After watching the show “VH1’s 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs” on New Year’s Eve last year and seeing Guns N’ Roses make the number one spot; I decided to check out some of Guns N’ Roses’ albums for myself. However, since I couldn’t actually find the album at the …

The Struggle Within, the final track of The Black Album, is a song which unfortunately sends the album off on pretty much just an average note. I’ve praised Hetfield’s vocal work and performance throughout this entire album but unfortunately I can’t really say that about this track. I think …

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 …

Blackbird is a song by The Beatles which appears on their self-titled record, otherwise known as The White Album. Although I say that this is a song by The Beatles it’s really a Paul McCartney song as he’s the main writer, if not the only writer, and he is …

Overview —“ Metal Militia, the final track on Metallica’s debut record, Kill —˜Em All, is a track that I will admit that I always never really liked very much. It also wasn’t just Metal Militia wasn’t quite as good as some of the other songs on Kill —˜Em All, …

Blackout is a track by Muse which appears on Absolution. The first thing I want to say about Blackout is that the introduction to this song is the one of the best sections of music that I’ve ever heard Muse write, at least the best out of all the …

should’ve said no by Taylor Swift is a beautiful song about how this guy cheated on his girl friend and he now realizes he should’ve said no. It just shows how we are all human and at times we do things spur of the moment with out thinking who …

The Fallen Angel is a song by Iron Maiden which appears on their record Brave New World. The best way that I can describe the instrumental opening of this track is that it has a very driving sound to it both from the three guitarists, Harris’ galloping rhythm, and …

Usually, I don’t even bother to watch the music videos for the songs I listen to, but my supervisor from a previous job sent me the music video “You Belong With Me”, by Taylor Swift, thinking I might like it. He was right. The video is so cute and …

“Hey Self Defeater” is the opening track on Mark Mulcahy’s debut and overlooked album “Fathering”. At first listen you may notice that “Hey Self Defeater” is a minimalistic and bare bone approach to a song. The whole basis of the song focuses on 2 instruments, a clean electric guitar …

Interstellar Overdrive is a song by Pink Floyd which appears on their debut record, The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn. If you can’t tell by just the title of the track, I’ll mention that this song has a very space-like sound and it’s also sound quite psychedelic as …

Regrets by Jay-Z is the last song off of his debut album “Reasonable Doubt” released June 25, 1996. I personally find it to be a perfect song to conclude the album. The song Regrets samples “It’s So Easy Loving You” by Earl Klugh and Hubert Laws. This makes the …

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)“ …

Puff Daddy ft. The LOX, Lil’ Kim, Foo Fighters, and Notorious B.I.G.
“It’s All About The Benjamins (Rock Remix)”
No Way Out
Bad Boy Records
Director: Spike Jonze
Puff Daddy is all about being spontaneous, isn’t he? Always trying to take things to the next level by doing something you would least expect him …

The danelectro danoblaster guitar that I recenty borrowed froma freind is a neat assembly of parts.This guitar was made in korea and has a floyd rose type bridge that lays flat against the body which only makes it good for diving.It’s painted black with a mother of pearl …

Overview —“ Damage, Inc. the final song on Metallica’s third record, Master Of Puppets, opens up with a layer of bass lines before giving way to one final thrash assault for this record. In a sense this song is pretty similar to the structure of Battery except Damage Inc. …

‘Santa Claus is watching you’ this is a parity song by Ray Stevens. It is based on what many people tell their children when they are little that Santa Claus can see you when you are good and bad so you need to be good all the time. It …

In The Singing Box is a song by Animal Collective and is the final track on their second release, Danse Manatee. The best way I can characterize In The Singing Box is that it seems to be a track which has a fairly constant flow of music interacting with …

Overview —“ After watching the extremely emotional and powerful music video for Turn The Page, part of me wanted to watch a video that was like that and had the same effect on me and part of me wanted a fun video just to balance it out. On Whiskey …

Artist Name: Kid Rock
Album Name: Cocky
Track Listing:
Track 1: Baby Come Home
Track 2: Cocky
Track 3: Drunk In The Morning
Track 4: Forever
Track 5: I’m A Dog
Track 6: I’m Wrong, But You Ain’t Right
Track 7: Lay It On Me
Track 8: Lonely Road of Faith
Track 9: Midnight Train To Memphis
Track 10: Picture (Featuring …

The Spontaneous Combustion Of John is a song by the Flaming Lips which appears on the band’s third effort, Telepathic Surgery. Opening up with a dark clean guitar riff right from the start, a lead guitar enters the track and comes in now and then which does a nice …

Everyone in Texas knows about ZZ Top unless you have been living on another planet in the last 30 years. ZZ Top is Texas spun and homegrown, southern fried rock and roll that everyone from young to old loves to sing and dance to. ZZ Top came out with …

The God That Failed is actually a song that I didn’t have a great memory of, probably because I never really listened to this song very much, but after listening to it again, it isn’t too bad of a song. The thing about The Black Album is that none …

The Fender Frontman is a great amp, and is one of the few things that aren’t crazy expensive that Fender makes that are actually good! I don’t need a lot of special effects, I just need really good gain/ overdrive mode, and this amp really has it! It …

I had the chance to purchase Dr. Dre 2001, also known as the Chronic 2001 and I thought that it was another classic hip hop album. Granted, it may not have been as good as the Chronic but still the beats were excellent as well as the productions …

I am not thoroughly familiar with Kanye West’s previous works, but I have listened to his recently released single with Rihanna, “Famous” and I can definitely say that this man is some kind of a genius!
I can certainly remember the time when everyone was angry with Rihanna and him …

Flo Rida is a new rap artist on the scene and one of my favourite songs from this artist is called “Elevator”
I first heard the song on a radio station that plays “Top 40 hits” and immediately took a liking to it.
It starts of relatively slow and jumps across …

This pedal allows you to control nearly every imaginable aspect of your tremolo sound. You can choose between 3 different circuitry sounds: Opto (mid-60s American amplifiers), Bias (late 50’s British amplifiers), and Pan (pans signal back and forth between a left and right output[GOOD FEATURE TO HAVE!!!]). Each circuit …

Meet The Light Child is a song by Animal Collective which appears on their second record, Danse Manatee. Opening up with somewhat of a lazy drone-like sound, Meet The Light Child shares a problem with some of the tracks on Animal Collective’s previous album in that the vocals get …

Adelitas Way is a rock band.They released their first album in 2009, with a self-titled name.Their style of music is at the same time strong and somwhat delicated.Their fastest songs still ahve a very melodic tone.They can keep a very low tone when playing a fast song, one carachteristic …

Lonesome Day Blues is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on his album Love And Theft. As you can tell from the title, the track has a very blues-rock feel but I actually think that this works pretty well with Dylan on this song. Dylan’s vocal melody works …

I have to admit that Cyanide is one track from Death Magnetic which I’ve had quite an interesting relationship with. For those of you who followed Metallica the summer before Death Magnetic was released, you’ll know that they performed this track at Ozzfest live and this was the first …

I think that this album is really good. I would not say that the whole album is perfect, because it has some minor weird components, from my point of view, but the majority of stuff on this record is really good, and it sounds truly convincing. I think that …

The world’s biggest and arguably the only legitimate popstar left has released the lead single for her 4th studio album. It has been more than 3 years since Katy Perry released a studio album and the wait has certainly been long. She released an Olympic song last year “Rise” …

Can’t Stand You is a cover by Slayer which appears on their record full of punk covers, which I still don’t understand why they chose to do and release, Undisputed Attitude. The problem I had with Undisputed Attitude is that many of the songs ended up having the same …

Fade To Black, the ballad of Ride The Lightning, is certainly the song where I believe Metallica truly proved that they were much more than a thrash band from the 1980s who were completely driven by energy. I feel like the progression and development …

Overview - Houses Of The Holy, Led Zeppelin’s fifth effort, is an album filled with songs that all have something unique about each one of them, a crucial reason as to why I enjoy this album so much. A lot of times bands can put out an album filled …

Innocence by Avril Lavinge is a song that is simple about how being innocent is not hard. I like this song because it reminds me of a child who does not know any different and is innocent and thinks life is all simple. This song is sad in some …

City Of Delusion is a track by Muse which appears on Black Holes And Revelation. Although I do not consider City Of Delusion to be quite as good as some of the other tracks on this record such as Take A Bow or Map Of The Problematique, I certainly …

Susanne is a song by Weezer which appears on their self-titled debut record, otherwise known as the Blue Album. Opening with some guitar feedback and a simple drum rhythm, I get the feeling as if I’m listening to an old time song with Weezer adding their own electric influence …

Overview - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, one of the most, if not the absolute most, praised records The Beatles ever released during their career, and for obvious reasons. The song has a nice balance between Lennon and McCartney as well as between feels and energies. This track …

Having been invited to their live video recording performance, what I expected of the Soweto Gospel Choir is nothing close to what I actually witnessed, and I mean that in the most positive way possible.
From what I had experienced before, a lot of choral music didn’t really appeal to …

At my local MAE music store, I recently bought a new toy to add to my rig for my band. Since my band have been saying that my solos are often unaudible in the mix of our sound, I bought a Boost Line Driver by MXR. It was …

Father Of Night is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on his record New Morning. The song starts off with a piano line accompanied by some background singers singing in the left channel. Dylan comes in down the middle of the track in a vocal melody which fits …

I think that the 1999 Issues is Korn’s greatest work. It is the first album by them that I got hold of, and I was strongly impressed by the music. I was rather young when I got a hold of this record, it was before their 2002 release Untouchables, …

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 …