This summer I had the pleasure of meeting one of the best people ever. That person is the lead singer of my favorite band, Nine Days. Around 2001, Nine Days had a popular song on the radio called “Absolutely (Story of a Girl)”. John is the …

As my friend and I were griping about it the other night, I realized it might be interesting to offer a perspective on one of the most popular songs of the past year, “Empire State of Mind,” from rapper Jay-Z’s album “The Blueprint 3″ (released in late 2009) which …

Run Run Run is a song by the Velvet Underground which appears on their debut record, The Velvet Underground and Nico. Opening up with a fairly energetic guitar rhythm, Reed comes in with the vocals of the track which gives the song slightly more of a blues-like sound to …

Rudimentary Peni released “Archaic” EP as their third installment to a string of EP’s released after “Pope Adrian 37th Psychristiatric”. These EP’s seemed to get better with each one, and this one keeps the streak alive. One of RP’s best records to date, the “Archaic” EP packs a hard …

Dhol is Directed by Piya Darshan an music has been given by Preetam. The cast includes Sharman Joshi , Tusshar Kapoor , Kunal Khemu , Tanushree Datta , Rajpal Yadav , Om Puri , Payal Rohatgi , Arbaaz Khan , Murli Sharma , Murli Sharma , Rasika Joshi , …

Little By Little is a cover performed and recorded by The Rolling Stones which appears on their self-titled debut album. The track starts off with a guitar part along with a harmonica before Jagger comes in with the vocals of this track and sings in quite a blues-like delivery, …

Although I do not think that many young people my age will recognize the name of the band “Steppenwolf”, I think very highly of them and believe that they should also be thought very highly of in the metal world of music as well, since I personally believe that …

Cowboys From Hell is the bands Fifth album and second to feature vocalist Phil Anselmo. The album was released in 1990 on Atco Records and produced by Terry Date. Fans consider this the bands first real studio album as previous albums had been glam metal. Cowboys From Hell is …

Well this review should be pretty easy, i mean who doesn’t like The Who? well, if anybody answered that question by saying something like “Yeah, i like their radio singles, but i don’t know about the rest of their stuff”. Now is the time explore some of their more …

This is a track that takes me back to my last year at University, this was when it was released, 2003 I think. I don’t re-call many sharing my opinion as it was So Solid Crew.
Previous tracks had caused offense to some and they had been in the press …

If you love the sound of Death Cab For Cutie, then you’ll enjoy Ben Gibbards otehr project The Postal Service. What makes the postal service a little different than deathcab is the electronic sound and beats within their songs. In most cases the songs could not be recreasted in …

Overview —“ White Light/White Heat, The Velvet Underground’s second album, is an album which was far less straightforward then their debut album and every song on here, with the exception of one, has at least one pretty unique thing as far as songwriting goes in my opinion. Lou Reed …

Overview - Powerslave, Iron Maiden’s fifth effort, continues with the same energy and intensity the group showed on their previous effort, Piece Of Mind. However, it also demonstrates that the songwriting of Steve Harris is maturing even further, particularly on the last two tracks. While Piece Of Mind contained …

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 …

Jay-Z
“Roc Boys (And the Winner Is…)”
American Gangster
Roc-A-Fella Records/Island Def Jam
Director: Chris Robinson
This is probably one of Jay-Z’s most celebrity-packed recent music videos as of yet. Following “Blue Magic”, “Roc Boys (And The Winner Is…)” is the second single and music video off of Jay-Z’s tenth album called “American Gangster” …

The Hangover is a film directed by Todd Phillips which focuses on a bachelor party gone completely wrong in Las Vegas where three friends lose their friend whose getting married. I’ve seen the movie twice and to be honest both times I thought it was pretty funny. I will …

Steal this Album! Is unfortunately my least favorite of the System of a Down albums, but that doesn’t make it a bad album; it’s still a fairly good album, because even when System of a Down is at their worst, they’re still fairly good.
The first is Chic’n Stu which …

This Australian singer, Delta Goodrem makes some good music, or rather, sings some good music. I certainly think that she has some strong vocals and that if you are bored or just wanting to hear some love tunes, then go for this album. The title of her album …

Already Gone by Sugarland is a song about how this girls mother already knew her daughter wasn’t going to listen to her so she let her make her mistakes and learn from them. It’s a lot like that now days because a lot of kids think there parents have …

Overview - Revolver, The Beatles sixth effort, is the most experimental and creative album that they had put out at that time. Songs were becoming far less pop-orientated and included Indian influences: Love You To, psychedelic songs: Tomorrow Never Knows, and this album also showed McCartney really maturing as …

I never really fancy or like listening to any chinese music because many of them sounded too draggy and are very similar to the modern english music.
But this guy made me change my mind about it. He can play 7 or more musical instruments from traditional chinese ones to …

This is the second pop album by Lucky Ali. After the mega success of his debut album Sunoh, Ali came out with this one. It didn’t came anywhere close to the success of Sunoh, but still this album has got some really good collection of melodies. This is …

It’s a Sin is one of the best known of all the Pet Shop Boys’ 1980s smash hits, and although it is perhaps not quite as famous now as it was in its heyday, it is still an excellent track that I feel is more than worth a listen. …

Lil Wayne just released his much awaited cd Tha Carter 3 and having heard so much about his amazing rhymes I thought that I would give the cd a listen. I figured I had nothing to lose since it was supposed to be one of the best cds of …

Maxwell’s first 1996 album “Maxwell’s Urban Hang Suite”, is one of my most favorite albums ever. The album exemplifies Maxwell’s soulful and unique voice. I remember when I went into the music store a while back, the manager in the store recommended that I should try …

Joshua Radin is a modern day singer/songwriter. I first heard him on the soundtrack to the Zach Braff movie, “The Last Kiss”. He has a very distinctive voice that instantly calms my nerves and puts me at ease. His voice is so gentle, soft, romantic, and full of …

I saw Biffy Clyro at Sheffield 02 Academy on Friday 30th April. They have grown significantly in popularity since I first saw them play. In fact, in the UK, you can hardly switch on the radio for 5 minutes at the moment without hearing a Biffy song.
Since …

It was a common occurrence in the ’80s where a punk band’s first release is probably their best, no matter how many records they release afterwords or how long they stay together. They may release a lot of amazing records, but nothing can top their first. This holds true …

Lenny Kravitz again to release the album in 2008. Kravitz still survive with the kind of rhythm from previous albums. However, that looks great, this musician is still making music genre that he played, still comfortable to hear. Not too different from the album It Is Time For A …

Wesley Willis is one of those weird musicians that I’ve heard. He was a guy who made random albums over a five year period using mostly keyboard sampling. There pretty funny because most of them sound similar and they use beats that sound the same. He also uses …

U2 for about five years break from the recording studio, now they appear more energetic and look even younger. After How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (2004), now Bono and his friends kicked back the music industry with their flagship hits No Line On The Horizon from the album …

I’m almost always undecided about whether I like Cascada, the person who sings the song “Evacuate the Dancefloor”. She tends to remake songs and turn them into something I just can’t listen to. She has done that with a few slow country songs and she doesn’t understand that some …

Baby is the third single of Justin Bieber from the album My World 2. It became number one in France, Canada, United Kingdom, Norway and Japan. This song is right on time produce as Justin is now in the midst of his popularity and another memorable song like this …

Overview —“ Nothing Else Matters, another music video released by Metallica in support of The Black Album, takes the viewer inside to get a look at the recording of the song and of The Black Album. This is just my opinion, but the order that Metallica was releasing music …

For Tracy Chapman, the change could mean as something very mean, 22 years have passed since the debut self-titled album, Tracy remained in the same line, color music that was barely changed, and still the same observation details, about the shape of human life, one thing is becoming scarcer, …

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 …

When I first heard the songs in the album Destination Anywhere, I feel less like the kind of music played by Jon Bon Jovi and accompanying musicians. At first, I was quickly bored with the composition of the tone that I find seem monotonous. This is very different from …

Lady Gaga’s newest album, The Fame Monster, is a really good album! I’m mostly into hard rock and classic rock and rarely like pop music, however this CD instantly caught my attention.
It’s not too often that you hear quality pop artists anymore, but Lady Gaga and The Fame …

R. Kelly
“Trapped In The Closet, Part 11″
TP-3 Reloaded
Jive Records
We’ve had a somewhat successful and mostly borderline interesting ten chapters so far in this series. And so begins Chapter 11 of R. Kelly’s “Trapped in the Closet” series. We have a protagonist, his brother in law, a policeman, his …

Nuguns is a song by System Of A Down which appears on their third record, Steal This Album. The song opens up with a fairly quick tempo and has Malakian playing a distorted rhythm before transitioning into more of a background riff for Tankian to come in with the …

The Osmonds: 21 Hits CD was released in 1995 by Curb Records and is a celebration of five singing Osmond brothers. The liner notes are nothing special and is less than what Donny Osmond got for his 25 Hits CD put out the same year. Somehow, that …

The Kids Will Be Alright, Eventually is a song by Sledding With Tigers and is the opening song on their third album, The Arrested Cats. Opening up with an acoustic guitar pattern, the track starts off at a very fair pace and an empty sound. Despite this, the sound …

Brooks and Dunn finally hung up their singing hats and retired in 2010. They had a big blow out party on television celebrating their contributions to country music and Ain’t Nothin’ About You was right in there with all the rest of their great hits. The lyrics of this …

Across The Sea is a track by Weezer which appears on their second record, Pinkerton. Unlike some of the other songs on Pinkerton, Across The Sea isn’t very aggressive in its tone and it actually has a fairly melodic sound coming from the vocal delivery of Cuomo. The lyrics …

Ticket To Ride is a song by The Beatles which appears on their album Help. I’ll say right now that among the earlier records by The Beatles, this track is one of the few which stands out to me as being a very well developed song and certainly a …

If You Have Love In Your Heart is a song by Andrew Jackson Jihad and is the eighth song on the record. Opening up with a simple acoustic guitar strumming pattern, the band establishes a very laidback and mellow atmosphere before the vocals come in and sing with a …

Overview —“ Sad But True, yet another music video released in promotion for Metallica’s Black Album pretty much follows the same trend of the music video for Wherever I May Roam as it’s made up of live clips of the band performing during their Nowhere Else To Roam tour. …

When I first heard on Plan B I simply ignored his music. It seemed such an odd name I didn’t think that what he would produce would be anything that good but the more I listen the more I like this guy.
His varied style I really like, his songs …

Artist: Mariah Carey
Video: I Don’t Wanna Cry
Album: Mariah Carey
Label: Columbia Records
Director: Larry Jordan
“I Don’t Wanna Cry” is the fourth single and music video from Mariah Carey’s first self-titled effort, following the previous singles and music videos which are “Vision of Love”, “Love Takes Time”, and “Someday”. Larry Jordan, who …

Great and Inspirational. That are just two words of the very many that I could come up with to describe this fantastic song. This is a second version of the song “Airplanes”. It includes its original artists B.o.B and Hayley Williams of Paramore, but it also includes Eminem, a …