American punk-rock band Green Day released their latest album in 2009. 21st Century Breakdown takes the group further along their progression towards conventional, radio-friendly pop-rock, but with a more grand, “classic rock” style which gives the work a little more credibility. It has three, five-track long “acts”, …

“Bound for the Floor” is a single by the Illinois band Local H. The song appeared on their debut album “As Good as Dead” and is by far their most popular song. “Bound for the Floor” reached the number 5 spot on Billboard Modern Rock.
Often considered “post grunge”, “Bound …

Garden of Serenity by David & Steve Gordon is one of the few relaxing audio CDs that I did not enjoy. The reason I did not find this CD to be as relaxing or as peaceful is because the nature sounds on this CD are really much too loud …

Overview - Workingman’s Dead, The Grateful Dead’s forth effort, strays extremely far away from the more psychedelic sound that the band developed on Aoxomoxoa and Anthem Of The Sun for a much more folk rock and even country sound. Although there’s a huge change in sound, the band honestly …

This seemed to be quite a heartfelt song from Freddie and Queen. His vocals seem quite relaxed certainly at the start but you can feel him building.
What he songs is very true. It’s as though he just can’t believe how people act on earth. What I do find interesting …

Please is a song by Nine Inch Nails which appears on their album The Fragile. The track starts off with a heavy industrial sound and the synthesizers actually have a pretty interesting sound throughout this section in my opinion. Reznor comes in with the first verse pretty quickly as …

Daddy’s Girl by Red Sovine was a song that my dad used to play all the time when I was a little girl to me and my younger sister. I particularly remember the part about him wanting a boy and getting a girl. Now that I am older and …

The Florida Death Metal band Cannibal Corpse’s 1991 follow up to the 1990 classic death metal album Eaten Back To Life ups the ante. This time around the album cover is even more shocking, (by the name of the album you can take a good guess as to what …

Mastodon is literally not your average Metal band. In our American wasteland of poor excuses for Metal(with the exception of Tool, Deftones, System of a Down, a small handful of other exceptional bands), Mastodon reigns supreme as one of the top bands to emerge from America’s underground scene. Usually, …

Girlfriend by avril lavinge is a song about a girl trying to get other girls guys to date her and make them break up over the matter. Why you wonder she would do that well it’s because that’s is how life goes and she is only doing it out …

Years ago, someone introduced me to the wonderful works of Erich Kunzel, director of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. He’s really quite good. Then the opportunity came along to enjoy Kunzel’s work along with a huge favorite of mine, Star Trek. With a spoken and dramatic introduction …

Of all the music albums completed by worldwide singing sensation Avril Lavigne, the Let Go album should be easily her best in my opinion. But this is not to say the lightning never strikes twice!
On the contrary, the Lavigne album that followed it, was a smash hit as …

“Sucker” is a Peeping Tom off of their album “Peeping Tom”. Peeping Tom is just one of the many associated acts and bands that Mike Patton either formed or contributes to. What made me want to review this particular song “Sucker” is that it quite oddly features the beautiful …

Imagine Frank Sinatra being reborn as a college boy in the 21st century, and you will have a fair picture of what singer Michael Buble is all about. I think he has a French last name, although he was born in Burnaby, Canada instead of the Quebecois region …

There are eighteen tracks that are packaged in albums titled, Back Again … No Matter What. Fifteen songs from the entire contents of this album, is the old songs of their property, the arrangement is not much different from the album The Best of those who were given the …

While the artist might not have had many hits, this one certainly proves to be the most endearing of her discography. It’s a staple of any good 80s soundtrack and still has a punchy enough tune to get the toes tapping now.
For an eighties track, it’s all there. …

I was never really a big fan of Mariah Carey’s but after hearing her new songs on the radio and then obtaining her cd I can defintely say she’s one of hip-hop’s M.V.P. Her cd the Emancipation of Mimi was excellent. She really put her haert in this one. …

Overview - S&M, a collaboration between Metallica and The San Francisco Symphony conducted by Michael Kamen, is a unique and creative mix of Metallica songs being accompanied by an orchestra. Metallica songs on their own carry an extreme amount of energy and intensity to them, and if you were …

Sit Down. Stand Up. (Snakes And Ladders.) is a song by Radiohead which appears on their record Hail To The Thief. The track opens up with a fairly eerie sound to it as it’s led by percussion and other distant instruments before establishing a more solid rhythm and Yorke …

Green Day busted back into the limelight with the highly acclaimed “American Idiot”. Their new album may not be as great a step in the right direction.
Five years in the making, 21st Century Breakdown is Green Day’s newest album. It contains creative and imaginative themes and styles, but may …

One More Weekend is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on his album New Morning. The starts off in a lazy and laid-back fashion with a blues sounding rhythm with Dylan coming in with the vocals. I don’t like the use of background vocals on this track as …

Krayzie Bone is a member of the rap group Bone Thugs N Harmony. I really like his style of rap. He has a very deep and powerful voice. I think he is one of my favorite rappers of all time. I have not heard many rappers that can match …

One of those songs that stick in everybodys head and is a sure rock anthem of the decade is the song Paradise City by Guns N’ Roses. It’s an epic song that has a chorus effect intro played by slash and it really drives well into an intro solo …

“Speechless” by Lady Gaga is probably one of my favorite songs by her for the simple fact it justifies her fame more than anything else she’s recorded. Don’t get me wrong. I love pretty much all her songs but I think Speechless shows off how good her voice …

R. Kelly
“Thoia Thoing”
Chocolate Factory
Jive Records
“Thoia Thoing” is the third single and music video from R. Kelly’s 2003 solo album “Chocolate Factory”, it follows “Ignition (Remix)” and “Snake”. In “Ignition (Remix)”, he gave us another one of those generic Hip Hop party settings; in “Snake”, it was all about Egypt …

Pantera released “Official Live:101 Proof” in 1997.It showcases the band’s awesome live performance and delivers in every aspect.Many bands dread recording the live album because it captures their music in it’s most vulnerable state.However, Pantera succeed at doing this because they stick to raw materials to begin with.The live …

This song just came out as a single on itunes and it is currently free! When I saw this I freaked out, this has always been one of my favorite songs of Cody’s. I never actually heard it as a studio version before this song. I have only heard …

Ashin’ Kusher is a song by Kid Cudi which appears on his second album Man On The Moon II: The Legend Of Mr. Rager. Opening up with an interesting electronic drum rhythm, Kid Cudi enters with the first verse of the track pretty quickly with a melody that I …

“Watching You” is a song by popular country music and southern rock artist, Rodney Atkins. The song itself is perfect for fathers day! It is one I hold very close to my heart and very dear to me, the lyrics in this song are beautiful and it dictates the …

Normally B.C. Rich doesn’t compare to other big time companies like Fender, but with this guitar it beats Fender any day. Some of its features include: Wrap-around bridge, A great paintjob that will take forever to wear out, and Dual BDSM Humbukkers. Not to mention it is INCREDIBLY light …

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 …

Overview —“ Minority, the first music video released by Green Day in support of their album Warning, is a music video that I personally think is for one of Green Day’s catchiest songs. Warning was the album that showed signs of where Green Day would be going for their …

This 2002 album is a 2 disc set, the first featuring the bands hits, and the second disc has B Sides. It may have been released to complete a contract with Music For Nations. I usually don’t like greatest hits albums, because if I like the band, I want …

I think that the American rock band “Good Charlotte” used to be one of the more popular rock bands about since they had so many hits songs around a particular period of time. I think that part of the reason might also be the fact that the vocalist “Joel” …

The first time I saw John Tesh was as the co-host of Entertainment Tonight. Slowly, his musical talent began to be discussed on the show, and then he started doing recording. The rest is history for the pianist. I’m not big time into instrumentals, but every …

I’m Already There is a song by Lonestar. It reminds me of the many times when my husband was out on the road working in Washington DC with a crew that remodeled BP gas stations. He would call on Wednesday nights to talk to the kids and tell …

This song maybe not be one of the newest songs out there, but it has a lasting legacy. I heard this song at a younger age, liked it, but really didn’t understand what it was saying, I liked the tune. Ten years later I listen to this song again …

The second edition of the debut album from Tokio Hotel. I bought this album around October of last year after hearing them on a television channel called IMF which has recently gone out of business. I fell in love with the lead singers voice despite the fact …

I Just Wanna Say I Love You is a first single released by Potret (Melly Goeslaw, Anto Hoed and Wong Aksan) from a soundtrack album for Indonesian Movie called “Chika”. What I love about this song is, Melly as the composer gives a real evident that lyric is nothing …

Lord I believe in You is a song popularized by Crystal Lewis. I have a copy of this song of hers. A friend shared to me her MP3 of this popular song of Crystal Lewis. The copy is very clear and vivid.
What would I say of this song? Well …

Rudimentary Peni released “Farce” the same year as their debut self titled EP. I really enjoyed their first release, however with this one I am not so impressed. With that being said, every RP record is excellent and above par for punk, and this one is no exception. I …

Invisible Touch by Genesis is a classic album from the 1980s. Released in the late 80’s the popular rock group Genesis, this album became popular very quickly. I remember waiting in line to buy the tape cassette when it came out. I was very enthusiastic about …

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, …

Come Thirsty CD of The Perrys was accidentally discovered by me when I was looking for the lyrics to the song “Mary For a While”. I got so in love with this beautiful song that really touched my heart and soul. Further I was really so fascinated with the …

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 …

I received a “Lost Highway” cd by Bon Jovi for an early birthday present. I am a Bon Jovi fan from way back around when they first came out, I was in my teens.
I am aware this CD has been out since 2007, yet I have not got …

I love avril Lavigne so much since she came up first time with the single complicated and skater boy in her first album let go, so do in the second album under my skin. Her songs feels so rock.
But in the third album the best damn thing, I feel …

It has been quite a while since a singer has released an album with so many singles that I really, really like with the last such albums going back to Tamia’s self titled album, Puff Johnson’s ‘Miracle’ and Anita Baker’s ‘Caught up in a Rapture’.
Alicia Key’s latest offering, ‘The …

Another talented person in my eyes would be Tracy Chapman. You just need to listen to Our Bright Future by Tracy Chapman to know that she is a real singer and the real deal. Most of her songs are about life and love in general and sometimes about …

Cuckoo Cuckoo is a song by Animal Collective and is the penultimate track on their album Strawberry Jam. Opening up with an introduction which initially has a somewhat confusing sound, the band establishes a firmer structure after around a minute where a piano carries the rhythm and the vocals …