Overview —“ South Of Heaven, the fourth album released by Slayer, definitely slowed things down after the extremely thrash driven Reign In Blood. I know that when people tend to think of slayer they think of extremely heavy metal, but more importantly, they think of extremely fast metal. When …

I am not personally a big fan of Avril Lavigne, I don’t enjoy the way she jumps from ‘punk rock princess’ to ‘pop queen’ every ten minutes, it gets annoying after a while. She should stick to the genre in which she is best at, that being new age …

The Show Goes On is the song from the American rapper, producer artists and CEO of 1st and 15 Entertainment, Lupe Fiasco. I hardly know him and I just happen to saw his video at You Tube when I was looking for the Last Friday Night music video of …

Make no mistake about the tracks in Decade In The Sun by Stereophonics. If you have the interest of an Indie band style type of music and you are really looking for nice type of tunes; with a slow-rock bit of an influence, kind of country indie rock, I’d …

World Of Pain is a song by Cream which appears on their record Disraeli Gears. The track opens up with the vocals taking center stage immediately, though the rest of the band can also be heard behind these vocals as well. Though I personally thought this opening first verse …

The acacia strain band is a metal band whose music is actually quite decent but they can improve on a few things. I like the acacia strain because they can really belt out some deep growls and their voices sound scary when they are belting out metal. I can’t …

Vein Of Stars is a song by The Flaming Lips which appears on their album At War With The Mystics. The song opens up in a melodic fashion and has an airy and free atmosphere created by the basic instrumentation present. A guitar chord pattern soon comes in which …

The Thorn Within is a song by Metallica which appears on their album Load, the first half of their double record made up of Load and Reload. The track starts off with a pretty slow pace with a distorted guitar riff with sort of a distorted blues lead coming …

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! …

I wasn’t looking at my computer when I put on the Billy Ray Cyrus: Southern Rain CD so I practically jumped when I heard Billy Ray thanking me listening. I didn’t realize the CD had a CD-Rom element to it that begins with him doing a video greeting …

The Black Dahlia Murder- Unhallowed
1.Unhallowed
2.Funeral Thirst
3.Elder Misanthropy
4.Contagion
5.When the Last Grave has Emptied
6.Thy Horror Cosmic
7.Thy Blackest Incarnation
8.Hymn For The Wretched
9.Closed Casket Requiem
10.Apex
This is an amazing CD! The BDM really capitalize in this CD. The screams are amazing! The lows are untouched by anyone…and the highs are great! The pace is …

“These Are My People” Is a song by popular American country music artist, Rodney Atkins. Country Music in general is a genre that I enjoy thoroughly in every aspect of it, from the memorable lyrics to the up-beat and catchy tunes, guitar riffs and the voices. There have been …

I received these headphones almost a year ago during Christmas. Once you put them on your head there is no going back. As somebody who is an avid music listener, my everyday experience with my favorite artists has been forever changed. After several pairs of cheap twenty dollar headphones …

Lil’ Kim ft. Lil’ Cease and The Notorious B.I.G.
“Crush On You”
Hardcore
Atlantic/Bad Boy
Lil’ Kim follows up her previous single and video, “No Time”, with “Crush On You”, her second single and music video from her debut album, “Hardcore”. The previous video had a little something going with the whole rapping …

Going To California is a song by Led Zeppelin which appears on their fourth record, Led Zeppelin IV. Opening up with an intricate guitar pattern, Robert Plant comes in with a gentle and melodic vocal delivery which fits perfectly with the music behind him. Thus far, the instrumentation is …

R. Kelly ft. Boo & Gotti
“To The Homies That Were Lost (I Wish - Remix)”
TP-2.COM
Jive Records
This is the remix to R. Kelly’s song, “I WIsh”, which is the first single and music video from his fourth solo effort titled “TP-2.COM”. Whereas the original version was filled with plenty of …

If you haven’t heard of Nerina Pallot, I don’t know where you have been! She has had so much media hype and 5 star reviews in all the right places. And for once, the hype can be believed!
Nerina’s album, Fires, is an incredibly strong album and you can listen …

Some of you may like surfing through the radio stations listening to a song here, a song there —“ but maybe some of you surf for the same reason I do: that I can’t seem to find anything good. On the rare occasion that I do, as the …

12 Stones Debut Album was a rock album from the beginning to the end. It starts off with a guitar riff that automatically draws you in and has great a great rock sound. The songs throughout are full of awesome guitar riffs, guitar lead parts and strong vocals. The …

—˜Sunday Morning’ is one of the song that can make me cry if I listen it. Its not because the song or the music is so sad and so melodic, the music is in middle up beat, cheer up and enjoyable to listen. So do with the lyrics, its …

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 …

P. Diddy ft. Christina Aguilera
“Tell Me”
Press Play
Bad Boy Entertainment
Director: Erik White
We begin a totally empty white living room that only has the latest stereo equipment on the market in there (i.e. Panasonic Plasma TV, an LC2 Grand Comfort Petite Model Armchair, and so forth). A sexy female assistant asks …

When Taylor Swift’s newest single, “Love Story,” hit the radio waves in 2008, I was in Georgia, driving around lost. An impromptu road trip with a friend from the battle scars of a recent heartbreak. Being an English major in college and being naturally critical of Shakespeare’s …

Off the new Slash album, Nothing to Say by Slash is a song featuring vocals by The M Shadows off Avenged Sevenfold. It starts off with a creepy laugh by Slash and goes into a dark riff that goes into another riff into the verse of the song. I …

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 …

I love Jack Johnson because he seems to put out some very upbeat and positive songs. It’s about time that someone put out more positive songs than they do negative or depressing songs. This song is about the train breaking down. He’s ready to break down, sounds like he …

Scars by papa roach is a song I absolutely love because it describes how much a person can care for another person so much they are willing to be hurt just to help this other person but there is just so much you can do for a person. This …

I must have listened to Lauren Wood’s Fallen single a million times since the movie Pretty Woman introduced me to it, and in my opinion it is peerless. Wood is an American singer-songwriter who began her career in the late —˜70s, formed a band, and shot to fame …

Date Rape is a song by Sublime and the eighteenth song to appear on their debut release, 40 Oz. To Freedom. Opening up with some outside instrumentation such as a group of saxophones, Nowell comes in with the vocals fairly quickly and delivers the lyrics in the form of …

Hate Train is a song by Metallica which was recently debuted at one of their 30th anniversary shows in San Francisco, California. Although the song has not officially appeared on an EP or an LP thus far, the studio version has been released and is expected to appear on …

Someday I’ll Grow To Be As Tall As The Giant is a song by Animal Collective and is the penultimate track on their debut record Spirit They’ve Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished. Opening up with the fantasy-like sound which is characteristic to this record, the song oddly seems to have …

One of my favorite song by Boston is the song Foreplay/Long time. It is off their debut album anf Foreplay is sort of an instrumental that eludes into the track Long time. I have to say Tom Sholz is a genius for writing that instrumental. He even recorded the …

Neighborhood Bully, a track by Bob Dylan for his record Infidels, is actually one of the very few songs that I somewhat enjoy from that album, although this isn’t to say that this means the song is all that good as it really isn’t to be completely honest. In …

Black Label Society released their studio album,”Mafia,” in 2005.The album propelled the band to superstar status.Zakk Wylde had already received stardom while performing with legendary singer Ozzy Osbourne.However, Black label Society was Zakk’s own music, and songwriting.When Mafia was released it solidified the guitarist/singers own artistic endeavors.Black Label Society …

I am a guitar player and I am carrying my guitar constantly. To gigs, band practice, or even school. My guitar case by the brand road runner is great and very reliable. The top pocket is good for my picks and my other important accessories for maintenance and …

“The Day I Tried To Live” is just one of many singles off of Soundgarden’s absolutely amazing 1994 release “Superunknown”. Soundgarden was probably the most interesting group out of the Big 4 back in the day. Where Alice in Chains was known as being the heavier more “metal”, Pearl …

This album is fantastic. This record sold really well and it is considered one of the most important music albums of the 1990s. I like this album. I think that it contains very catchy songs, songs with quite strong melodies.
However, I do not appreciate the arrangements of this album …

I hate Justin Timberlake. He is flat out boastful, arrogant and an ass. His songs are not that good as well. I think the only reason that Justin Timberlake made it through as an artist is the fact that the bosses in the NSYNC’s management group decided that they …

While I’m not a huge Queen fan, I do like several of their songs and believe their music is perfect for when I’m in the car trying to stay awake on my drive to work.
That’s why I was glad to find their Greatest Hits album on sale at Wal-mart …

Artist: Destiny’s Child
Video: Bills, Bills, Bills
Album: The Writings On The Wall
Label: Columbia Records
Director: Darren Grant
Ah yes, this was the era of ‘male-bashing’. First, TLC came onto the scene with “No Scrubs” in early 1999 and then a whole bunch of similar sounds followed shortly after - “Where My Girls …

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 …

Gavin DeGraw is an American singer which specializes in the rock and pop rock genres of music. He is a very talented individual as far as I am concerned and his new song entitled “In Love with a Girl” seems to be very popular.
The first time I heard this …

R. Kelly
“Sex Me”
12 play
Jive/Zomba Recordings
“Sex Me” is R. Kelly’s first single and music video from his first solo effort titled “12 Play”. R. Kelly has decided to part ways from his Public Announcement group and do his own R&B thing, so this is where that started.
The video almost entirely …

It has been long awaited for Hova aka Jay-Z to get back on ball with his flow. This album is a must have for any Jay-Z fan. This album is a definite must add to the Hova collection. Compared to his previous album “Kingdom Come” this album reigns supreme. …

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 …

It’s Only Rock —˜N Roll (But I Like It) is a track by The Rolling Stones and the title track to their record It’s Only Rock —˜N Roll. This track opens up in a pretty laid-back way and the rhythm is pretty relaxed and the first verse of the …

Overview —“ 21st Century Breakdown, the latest music video released for the album of the same name is a music video that goes with an approach that Green Day never went with previously, they approach it by animating the video through graffiti. The music video still follows the traditional …

R. Kelly
“Trapped In The Closet, Part 10″
TP-3 Reloaded
Jive Records
R. Kelly’s tenth episode of the “Trapped In The Closet” series takes a turn for the worst as it becomes downright silly and stupid. PIcking up after Part 9 where Officer James discovers that his wife Bridget is cheating on him …

P. Diddy ft. Black Rob and Mark Curry
“Bad Boy For Life”
The Saga Continues…
Bad Boy Entertainment
It was made apparent from the previous “Let’s Get It” and the current “Bad Boy For Life” music videos that P. Diddy had come back strong, stronger than ever. “Bad Boy For LIfe” is the …

Overview —“ Poprocks And Coke is a music video from the album International Superhits, a record released by Green Day that primarily contained the singles that they had released through their career and also two previously unreleased songs, this being one of the two. I’m unfamiliar with this song …