I first saw this band in Jan 05 at my university and thought they were amazing. This is their debut album and it is one of the albums of the year and is sure to recieve nominations come awards time. The album includes classic tracks such as …

Days is one of The Kinks’ most well known and well loved songs. Like most of the band’s most successful hits, it was written by Ray Davies, who later went on to have quite a prolific career as a solo artist. Days came out in 1968, and did fairly …

Thetawaves is a song by System Of A Down which appears on their record Steal This Album. The song opens up with an extremely aggressive and heavy rhythm led by Daron Malakian and John Dolmayan Tankian comes in with the vocals for the track, but surprisingly they’re really not …

One Of The Boys is an album from Katy Perry one of my new favorite singers. The following are sone songs you’ve probably heard before because they are the sigles from the album. They are as follows: I Kissed A Girl, Hot N Cold, Thinking Of You, …

The Vandoren V12 Clarinet reeds come in a silver box. They reed itself comes in a package which contains a slightly transparent case containing the reed. It costs from around 25 to 30 dollars.
Quality of Reed: I find that the quality of the reed can vary depending on how lucky …

Dying Days is a song by The Screaming Trees. This song can be found on their album “Dust” and their greatest hits album. I find it kind of ironic that the Screaming Trees have a greatest hits album because they really seem to be an underrated band. Nevertheless I …

It isn’t uncommon for actors to make the jump from screen to a musical career, most of the times with a disastrous ending after a few hits (anyone remember Lindsay Lohan?). Well, on 2007 sexy Scarlett Johansson decided it was her turn to get her very own record but …

Airbourne storm onto the scene with the thundering, rocking, beer-drinking, womanizing “Runnin’ Wild”.
Whilst Airbourne had one album out previous to this, it was very limited, did not sell well and is somewhat of a collector’s item now. Thus most magazines and listeners alike have credited this as Airbourn’es first …

Bought this guitar during a sale, at first it was just for the looks but it was just more than that after I tested it when I got back home.
Its original price was SGD$642 but I bought it at SGD$350.
Black glossy finish with a Wizard II like neck, Ibanez …

The Hypnotize Album is the last album that System of a Down released before going on indefinite hiatus. I am not sure when the band will be back, but luckily this was one hell of an album to release before leaving.
Attack is the first song on the album. Immediately …

This is a heavy metal genre, and my brother have a lot of CDs like this, or other CD albums from the popular band, Metallica.
This CD Album could be bought for about $15, and the songs inside are somewhat metal to me, and there’s not really a special track …

Crank that soulja boy by soulja boy is a song you can get up and dance to. I really like the dance moves to the song and how the song mentions superman. The music video is really funny and this guy has taste in my opinion. I also like …

I was, for a very long time, a huge Oasis fan. I loved their first albums. Especially I enjoyed the second and the third albums. But all their work after 1998 left me rather disappointed. So, I was very interested as to what was going to occur after the …

Puff Daddy ft. Mase and Notorious B.I.G.
“Been Around The World”
No Way Out
Bad Boy Records
Director: Paul Hunter
Puff Daddy and Mase reunite with Paul Hunter for their first big and epic mini-movie of a music video together. “Been Around The World” is the official fourth single and music video from Puff …

The melodic rock genre has been privvy to somewhat of a mass resurgence over the last six or seven years, and it seems that it’s almost gaining enough steam to be as popular as it was in the Eighties. Sure some countries are yet to fully embrace the style, …

Don’t take the girl by Tim McGraw is about a boy not wanting his dad taking the girl but as he gets older he falls in love with this little girl he didn’t want to go fishing with him when he was younger. He then wants the girl to …

Enter Sandman, the opening track of Metallica’s fifth record, is probably the one Metallica song which is the most well-known from either fans or just listeners and probably has one of the most recognizable riffs in metal, ironically written by Hammett and not Hetfield. I don’t want to get …

“Break” is a song by Three Days Grace on the album Life Starts Now.
The video is set in four rooms for each of the four band members. I like this video and the concept. The members of the band are separated by four rooms and each has their …

If you are at all on the underground scene in Atlanta, GA, you probably have run into this young artist. Once a member of the group, the Fresh Air Foundation, this artist has figured out a way to bring balance back to hip-hop while exhibiting his own …

In my personal opinion, this is the most socially relevant usage of the stage musical in the history of the genre. It is a powerful love letter to Generation X that does not sugar coat the hardships faced by the LGBT community in the nineties, as well as …

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”, …

It has been a while since I have been pleasantly surprised by a musician or a band, which is why I was so happy to discover Florence and the Machine. Much like so many good musicians over the years, Florence Welch hails from the UK and brings …

I like the song “tonight” by FM Static so much because I can feel it on my own life. It tells a story about longing for a lost love–for love stolen by tragedy. It is sad and made me feel how much it would hurt to lose someone so …

Ciara ft. 50 Cent
“Can’t Leave ‘Em Alone”
Ciara: The Evolution
LaFace Records
Director: The Fat Cats
Ciara follows up “Get Up”, “Promise”, and “Like A Boy” with “Can’t Leave ‘Em Alone”, all from her sophomore effort, “Ciara: The Evolution”. Ciara reunites with one of her favorite directors this time around, The Fat Cats. …

While many think of pop music like Ricky Martin and Enrique Iglesias when they think of the Latin-tinged music that has become increasingly popular in the last five years, there are a few bands out there who can rock out at Ozzfest while also pounding on the conga drum. …

The Story So Far is a song by Flogging Molly which appears on their record Float. The track starts off with the vocals before any other instruments join in which is an interesting start. The instruments come in pretty quickly after though with a tempo that actually isn’t very …

Donny Osmond: This is the Moment CD has some jazzy elements to it. I’ve always loved Donny and I’ve seen him perform many times. It’s always a pleasure.
The title song from the CD is also a favorite song of mine. His version is much softer than …

Phoenix is a newly popular band that had a song recently featured on a car commercial. This song, “1901″, became wildly popular and led to the band gaining a much larger fan base and gaining a lot of popularity. After hearing this song, I purchased every single one of …

Eat Me Drink Me is Marilyn Manson’s seventh full length studio album and was released in June of 2007 on Interscope Records, and produced by Tim Skold. This is the first album in years not to feature John 5. Marilyn Manson was not sure he wanted to make another …

There are few songs which actually touch my heart each and every time that I hear them. “Inner City Blues [Make Me Wanna Holla]” is one of those. This song is actually older than I am, but has found its way into my subconscious as …

Exile is a song by Slayer which starts out in an extremely heavy fashion, as most Slayer songs do, before Araya comes in with the vocals of the track. Now typically I like Slayer a bit and think they’re a good metal band but the sound on Exile is …

And just what were U2 thinking when they were recording, and subsequently, releasing this album? It is one of the mysteries I have always been puzzled by. I am a huge U2 fan. Probably, currently not as big of a fan as I was in the past, in my …

Magnificent is one word to sum up Keeps Gettin Better: A Decade of Hits by Christina Aguilera.
All awesome hits are inside and let me start with Genie In A Bottle and other nice oh so cool tunes like the duet with Ricky Martin, the collaboration with the other …

The Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo) is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on his album Self Portrait. The first thing to take note of on this track is that it is a live track so the production isn’t quite as good as the rest of the album …

I love A Fire Inside’s Music video for Prelude and Miss Murder. Davey Havok and Jade Pudget are so hot.Davey Havok is a great poet. I love they way he writes he lyrics. The Prelude song is like a lullaby. The girl putting the paper in her mouth, and …

The Appetite Les Paul guitar is an instrument recently made by the gibson factory to honor the guitar that Slash used on almost all his albums with Guns N’ Roses. It wasn’t actually a gibson when Slash recieved his les paul, but a really cool replica of one. …

Miley Cyrus is a Disney channel teen star and has broken into the music industry as well. I first heard her song “See You Again” on a local radio station here and immediately recognized it was her from the Hannah Montana series!
I actually really like her song and her …

D.J.s is a song by Sublime and is the twelfth song on their debut release, 40 Oz. To Freedom. Opening up with the vocals right from the beginning, Nowell takes the lead with a multi-layered vocal delivery which creates a nice harmony and opens the sound in a pretty …

Watered-Down Love is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on his record Shot Of Love. The track starts out with a very upbeat sound, as do many of Dylan’s songs from his religious period, and Dylan sings in a melody which sounds unnaturally poppy in my opinion. To …

To be honest, I don’t really care for Britney Spears in any way shape or form. Her live performances sound terrible and she truly did not and does not set an example for her younger fans, primarily girls in their ‘tween years. However, one song of hers has …

Overview —“ Symphony Of Destruction, one of a couple singles and music videos released by Megadeth for their fifth album, Countdown To Extinction, features Mustaine attacking and criticizing The United States government, particularly the president. Mustaine argues that society places too much power in the hands of a president, …

This is the third CD by Taylor Swift. I have been listening to it on repeat for the last three weeks. I have fallen in love with it, and there are plenty of reasons why.
First and foremost, Taylor has proved that she is not just someone who will …

In the country that I live in, not many people listen to rock music and heavy metal music. There is a small rock and heavy metal scene here, but most radio stations will rarely play rock music and hard rock music, and none of them have played heavy metal …

Jack Tragic & The Unfortunates were punk band from Connecticut, USA, who released full-blown, phenomenal hardcore during the time punk was on its way down. These guys were just about as obscure as they got and seemed to surface a couple years late. Their 1983 single, “I Kill Hippies”/”Mind …

The first time I heard this song I thought it was a new song from Blu Cantrell, then I realized she sounds like Pink. And then I realized that she is a different person when the DJ in the radio called her Jessie J. I do not know Jessie …

No Prayer For The Dying is the title track of a record put out by Iron Maiden. The song starts off right away with a melodic guitar lead which I swear I’ve heard before in another Maiden song but I can’t remember exactly where it came from, it reminds …

“Amada”
Performer: Boston
Since listening to Boston’s “More Than A Feeling”, I have been on the prowl to find more of their music and I came across (what appears to be a power ballad) “Amanda”. The song “Amanda” is the first song off of their third album, “Third Stage”.
Again, I’ll confess …

Are You Sure Hank Done It This way is by Waylon Jennings. It seems like he is asking a question about how Hank made it big because he is trying to copy him. I personally don’t think anyone needs to copy how someone else made it to be successful …

I am sure that some people might not understand the beauty of the music on this album but I personally do find beauty in this music and below I will try to explain why the nine songs that were released by Sonic Youth in 1983 are attractive to me …

Death Of An Interior Designer is a song by Death Cab For Cutie which appears on their record Transatlanticism. The song opens up with an odd drum rhythm before a calming guitar pattern comes in over the top and a subtle bass rhythm can also be heard in the …