Jay-Z
“Girls, Girls, Girls”
The Blueprint
Roc-A-Fella Records
Jay-Z follows up “Izzo (H.O.V.A.)” with his second single and music video “Girls, Girls, Girls” from his sixth album titled “The Blueprint”. I will begin by saying the music video has some good production values and is a bit more interesting than his previous tart …

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 …

Common’s Finding Forever marks the second album that will be released under Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music, and will be largely produced by Mr. West himself. J Dilla, DJ Premier, and Bilal also make appearances on the CD’s production and guest singing. There are no other rappers with Common on …

Hinnom, TX is a snog by Bon Iver which appears on their self-titled second album. The track opens up with a sound which I can only describe as being very airy and light. Once a listener hears the intro, it honestly sounds as if they’re listening to a song …

Overview —“ Hangar 18, another of the most well known songs in Megadeth’s entire catalogue is yet another song where Friedman and Mustaine prove why they work so well together. Besides all of the excellent guitar riffs and solos to this song, the lyrical content is actually quite interesting …

Fresh out of Generation X, Billy Idol certainly hit the ground running with his eponymous solo debut. While I wouldn’t consider it his masterpiece (that would be his follow-up tour de force Rebel Yell), there are still a lot of great songs here which I still enjoy as immensely …

Before i listened to this album i had a totally different perception of Lifehouse. I liked a few of their songs but nothing really stood out to me. This album is sensational, all the songs are inspiring in it and opens your eyes to everything you can achieve. The …

Since Beyonce has embarked on her solo career, she has really raunched up her image and shows a lot more flesh than in the videos from her demure Destiny’s Child days. She is a sexy woman so I guess she is being clever and reckoning that sex sells, …

I think this is one of the best cds they have out. It had a combination of different mood songs. “This Love” is basically a bittersweet love song. I can’t stop thinking about this song. “Popular” is a good club song. It’s catchy, has …

Best Thing In Town is a song by Green Day which appears on their record Kerplunk. The song starts off with a rapid chord pattern from Armstrong as he comes in with the vocals nearly right away and is accompanied by a simple drum part and I assume the …

The Only Broadway CD You’ll Ever Need CD is a great collection of Broadway performances. These are sometimes performed by those we may know from the movies, or not. The songs themselves are so good that it almost doesn’t matter who the singers are.
The liner jacket is …

Overview —“ Humanity: Hour I, the sixteenth album and latest by The Scorpions is a very dark toned album yet definitely an album that I really enjoy. In fact I remember that when this record first came out and I heard it, I was extremely impressed and I really …

“In the end , it doesn’t really matter”. from the song In the end by Linkin Park. This song became popular when I was in 3rd year highschool. This is the song, that made me become a fan of Linkin Park. I have heard songs from them before “In …

Badfish is a song by Sublime and is the seventh track on their debut album, 40 Oz. To Freedom. Beginning with a recording of some background noise before an acoustic guitar enters the track, I must admit that Badfish has always been one of my favorite songs from this …

Graze is a song by Animal Collective and is the opening track to their EP Fall Be Kind. Opening up with a classical music-like tone, Tare soon enters the mix with his vocal performance which is the focal point of the track in my opinion. Aside from some steady …

Ever had one of those moments when you see who is number 1 in the singles chart and when you see the artist you feel so far removed from mainstream music that you literally say, “Who?”.
I had one of these moments but thought I would have a listen to …

The song “I just came back from a war” is sung by Darrell Worley. It is about a soldier trying to catch up on old times with a group of friends and how he has changed sinse comeing back from a war where he was not appreciated. This song …

Now I have never been known to be a proper fan of rock music, but recently I came across a Dire Straits album, titled —˜Brothers In Arms’, that somehow enticed me to pop it in and give it a listen, purely because of the profound title and I was …

Since it is the holidays everyone has to be a little festive especially with some good christmas music. I recently found a pretty cool song that is christmas related by virtuoso guitarist Bumblefoot or Ron Thal who now plays in the group Guns N’ Roses.
The track off one …

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 …

Lil’ Kim
“No Matter What They Say”
The Notorious K.I.M.
Queen Bee Entertainment/Atlantic Records
After about a four year long wait, Lil’ Kim returns with her sophomore album “The Notorious K.I.M.” with her first single and music video from the album being “No Matter What They Say” which finds Lil’ Kim, Mary J. …

The Bleeding is Cannibal Corpse’s fourth album, and last to feature Chris Barnes on vocals, who is now the vocalist for Six Feet Under. The album was released in 1994 on Metal Blade Records, and produced by Scott Burns. The album is not as fast all the way through, …

This is Lucky Ali’s third album after Sunoh and sifar. This one is lucky ali for th third time in a row. This album came after a long gap of 2 years from his second album sifar. This album is yet another add to the list of LA’s …

Til I Forget About You is what really made me like Big Time Rush. Being one of the first songs I heard by them, I am not easy to please with music by all means but by the second time I was listening to this song I loved it! …

Artist: Destiny’s Child
Video: 8 Days of Christmas
Album: 8 Days of Christmas
Label: Columbia Records
Director: Sanaa Hamri
“8 Days of Christmas” is a promotional single and music video off of Destiny Child’s 2001 Christmas album of the same name. Directed by Sanaa Hamri (who also directed “Nasty Girl” for them), the music …

One of Velvet Revolvers biggest hits of all time is the song Slither. It is off their debut album Contraband. I really like the raw feel to this song. It starts off with sort of a pick scratching by Slash with a really cool bass line by Duff …

It’s odd that you would look at the performance of potentially the biggest boy band in the world and notice how much they had grown in a matter of weeks, but this is what I noticed with Take That. Only weeks before they had performed together with Robbie Williams …

My favorite genre of music is alternative, and one of my most favorite bands ever is Coldplay. Their songs are often my soundtracks to the things I do everyday. I have a favorite Coldplay song for when I feel sad, when I’m running, when I’m driving, before …

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 …

U2 is an Irish rick band and they brought out an album a while back named “How to dismantle and atomic bomb.” Interesting title if I do say so myself.
I bought the album for one of the songs in particular but other songs from it has grown on …

I listen to nearly all genres of music, but I do not have any particular artist or bands that I like. I just listen to what is pleasing to my ears. One of the songs that I have been hearing a lot for the past couple of weeks is …

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 …

Kelly Clarkson is a former American Idol who recently came out with an album entitled “All I Ever Wanted”. Overall, it is a pretty good album that has produced some solid hits that have been played on the radio a lot.
“All I Ever Wanted”, the song that the album …

I love this album by Avenged Sevenfold, it is one of my favorites next to “Live in LBC and Diamonds in the Rough” because it has some amazing solos and the songs are really fun to play on guitar. Shadows’ vocals are pretty good in this album, but they …

My best friend is a song by Tim McGraw. It talks about a husband and wife that have a great relationship.
It idealizes how a great marriage should be if it is going to last through the sea of times. It talks about people and things and the way they …

Ozzy Osbourne is quite simply my music Messiah, the God of all things metal, the Prince Of Darkness! I have seen him live in concert on July 6th in what was truly the most amazing night of my life, seeing my hero and God LIVE why I was only …

It’s very rare that i hear a country music based alum that doesn’t annoy the crud out of me, but this new album from Ted Russell Kamp managed to hold my interest pretty much all the way through and is actually a pretty fun album.
Maybe it’s because i …

Black Diamond Bay is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on his record Desire. The track starts off with a harmonica lead over a very nice rhythm under it which establishes an excellent rhythm for Dylan and he certainly doesn’t disappoint, this track has always stuck out to …

Artist: SWV
Video: “Right Here (Human Nature Mix)”
Album: It’s About Time
Label: RCA Records
“Right Here (Human Nature Mix)” is the remixed version of SWV’s first hit single and music video “Right Here” (off of their debut album “It’s About Time”) and it does things a little more professionally this time around …

By the time I was about thirteen or fourteen and still in high school, rock music had become one of my favourite genres to listen to. One of my friends who had the same taste in music introduced me to a band called “The Vines”. They eventually became one …

Britney Spears has started out her career at a very young age. It was clear that she was always driven and determined to succeed. Her first gig was as a singer in the very successful show at the time The Mikey Mouse Club. Later on she kept on …

As one of the most popular country music songs between the years 2003 and 2005, the song ‘Sweet Southern Comfort’ by the first ever ‘Nashville Star’ winner Buddy Jewell is one that I will never be able to shake from my mind.
This wonderfully written song follows country music …

Backwater is the number one single that appears on the Meat Puppets album “Too High to Die”. This song single handedly propelled the Meat Puppets into the mainstream audience. “Backwater” ended up reaching #2 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart.
The song starts off with a bang. The lead …

Let It Be Me is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on his record Self Portrait. The track starts off with a nice acoustic guitar part along with a piano which reminds me of The Rolling Stones for some reason, although not to any major extent. Unfortunately, the …

Sometimes it’s good to just listen to music that stands apart from the regular. I find that escape when I listen to 311. Nick Hexum just has such a mellow voice and I love the how reggae sound they mix with the rock sound. Some of my favorite 311 …

Daughtry has come such a long way from his first appearance on American Idol years ago, and this album definitely shows how far hes come. Overall its a great album with not one song i dislike. Thats how you know an albums good, when you can listen through …

Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Off Her Clothes by Panic! At The Disco is an awesome song in some ways because it is talking about how a girl can lie and have lots of fun without taking her clothes off and sleeping with …

I love Timbaland, and he’s always so sensual and melodramatic sometimes when it comes to his songs but they’re really wholesome, and when I heard Katy Perry was going to sing her too I was very ecstatic as I love her, and although they might have come off as …

Feeling Good is a track which appears on Muse’s record Origin of Symmetry. I’m aware that this song is a cover so I can’t really comment about the structure or the songwriting of the track, but I can certainly commend on how Muse apply their own style to it. …

I purchased the Iida 5-String Banjo in 1974. This particular model is not for beginners but at the same time its not a high end instrument. I’ve used it for 35 years playing it for family, friends, and on stage professionally. The banjo features a heavy mahogany resonator, steel …