I just heard The Chainsmokers’ new song and my initial impression was, “WHAT? This is basically a ripoff of their previous song Closer? How could they be so blatant in self-plagiarism?” I immediately hated it because the first thing that came to my mind in why they became such …

Little did I know that so long as 50 years ago, a guy known as Captain Beefheart was out there satirizing the music industry and composing ridiculously respectable tuneage that can only be described as eclectic. Nana insert words here. Other possible terminology includes avant-garde, jazz, blues, and some …

American Idol is one of my favorite TV shows. I’ve watched every show diligently and I must say that I have my favorites and one of them is Elliott Yamin from Season 5. Among the three finalists from that season, the other two being Katherine McPhee and eventual winner …

Are You Listening - A Love Song for Haiti is a beautiful song of compassion and love by gospel artist, Kirk Franklin. He wrote it about eight years ago, and after the devastating earthquake of January 2010 which has nearly destroyed the small country of Haiti, he …

How you remind me by Nickelback is a song I like a lot because the words stand out to me when ever I listen to it. It’s like I can relate to what the singer is trying to say in his song. My friend on the other hand told …

Are We The Waiting is a track which follows in a similar mood as Boulevard Of Broken Dreams as it’s a significantly slower track which has slightly a darker tone to it, although to no real extreme. Ironically this is also the first track on American Idiot which didn’t …

Yahoo! Music, through the Yahoo! search engine, offers free music listening. There are paid options, too. But the free version offers music through online radio stations according to your taste of music: anything from christian, pop, 1970’s, country, rock, pop,etc..
What makes this wonderful is that while you’re online, …

Chocolate Girl is a song by Animal Collective which appears on their debut record Spirit They’ve Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished. Similar to April And The Phantom, Chocolate Girl opens up with a fairly lighthearted tone before the vocals join in. Similar to my complaints on some of the other …

Skate Park is a song by Andrew Jackson Jihad which appears on their 2011 record, Knife Man. Opening up with a brooding atmosphere created by the drums, the song quickly transitions into an actual riff which I actually think sound’s pretty interesting. Thus far, the guitar riff is interesting, …

I have seen a poem entitled “Footprints in the sand”. And I was able to hear an old version of it. If I am not mistaken, this is a Christian song which speaks about a man having a dream that he was walking with Christ. Then, he faced a …

Little Maggie is a traditional song which is arranged and performed for his album Good As I Been To You. The track opens up with an acoustic guitar pattern which seems to have a nice move to it. Dylan comes in with the vocals in a somewhat deep tone …

Overview —“ Side I of Rubber Soul, The Beatles’ sixth studio album, definitely showcases quite a bit of development as songwriters, from both Lennon and McCartney, and well even Harrison I suppose. McCartney’s contributions to this side of the record seemed as if they’d be lighthearted at first, just …

Artist: Beyonce, Jennifer Hudson, Anika Noni Rose, and Sharon Leal
Video: “One Night Only”
Album: “Dreamgirls” - Music from the Motion Picture
Label: Music World/Columbia
“One Night Only” is a single and music video from the official soundtrack of the 2006 film “Dreamgirls” starring Beyonce Knowles (how fitting is that?). The song combines …

God Walks Among Us Now: Jesus Song No. 6 is a song by the Flaming Lips and the seventh song to appear on their fourth release, In A Priest Driven Ambulance. In contrast to the two preceding songs on this record, this song returns the band to a …

Lynch By Inch is the latest album released by the bay area rap legend Brotha Lynch Hung. This album is different than his previous albums. I think this album is a bit more depressing and emotional than theother albums he put out in the past Season of da Siccness was …

I was listening to this album massively in my early teenage years. I was fourteen or fifteen at the time. And at the time my listening to this album was more an exception than the rule. At the time I was not into this kind of music at all. …

The song Forty Acres by Red Sovine makes me think of something I would sing. I can definitely relate to this song when I was learning how to drive a five ton truck and deuce n half for the National Guard. When I first learned how to drive a …

Into The Lungs Of Hell is a song by Megadeth which appears on their record So Far, So Good… So What. Something to note about this track before we begin is that it’s an instrumental so if you aren’t typically a person who enjoys those, this wouldn’t be a …

I am such a huge fan of country music. I like the fact that it is so natural and free-flowing. Both the lyrics and the music are playful and I can easily relate to them.
A friend of mine first introduced Lady Antebellum to me with their hit single …

Evisceration Plague is the band’s 11th full length album, released on February 3 of 2009, the album features producer Erik Rutan and was released on Metal Blade Records. The overall feel of the album if extremely heavy, if you know the band very well you will know they usually …

Overview —“ No Remorse, one of the later tracks on Kill —˜Em All, is yet another one of Metallica’s excellent examples of a track which was influential to the development of thrash metal. In fact, you could argue that pretty much of all the tracks which are on Kill …

Overview —“ Question, the second music video and single released by System Of A Down for the first half of Mezmerize/Hypnotize is an extremely melodic song which has an intensity similar to Bring Your Own Bombs, but the sense of melody that this song has is just excellent, Tankian …

Seal is a British musical artist and his album “seal” released in 1994 is produced by Trevor Horn. The tracks on the album include:
1.Bring it on(3.37)this track has some good vocal and the lyrics are great.Great opening track to this album. I would rate 4 out of 5/
2.Prayer for …

One rock band who I’ve loved throughout the years is the American hard rock and alternative band “Three Days Grace”. I think that is quite significant too being that I have been listening to their music from I was about fourteen or maybe younger, and I am now twenty …

“Last Kiss” is a cover song originally written by Wayne Cochran. It appears on the 2003 double disc album “Lost Dogs”. “Last Kiss” happens to be on the second cd and is track number 10. “Last Kiss” was met with praise and success upon its release and reached #2 …

This Wheel’s On Fire is a song by Bob Dylan And The Band which appears on an album of unreleased songs, The Basement Tapes. The song opens up with a pretty simple guitar part before a piano and drums come in to join the track which makes the song …

I have only recently been introduced to the music of the Benjy Davis Project and have been really enjoying their honest pop-rock feel which is a bit like a cross between Counting Crows, Matchbox Twenty and another one of my favorites Will Hoge.
This new album of theirs is …

R. Kelly
“Trapped In The Closet, Part 6″
TP-3 Reloaded
Jive Records
 
Here we have Part 6 of the “Trapped In The Closet” music video/Hip Hop Opera series. This episode follows after Sylvester discovers that his wife Gwendolyn was cheating on him with the police officer (James) who gave him the speeding ticket …

The Shadows fall band is all hype and I do not know what the big deal with them is. Shadows Falls really has no good songs out there and quit frankly at first they were all metal and than they thought they had talent so they tried to sound …

I have known about this song for a while now, since it came out a few years ago. But I had no idea that it was by Miranda Lambert. The only time I had ever heard of her is when she won the award for best female video at …

Bliss is a track which appears on Muse’s second record, Origin Of Symmetry. Bliss is a track which has been described to have sort of a disco feel, and after you hear about the first thirty seconds of this track, you’d probably agree. The reason for this is because …

Television’s Greatest Hits - Volume 4: The 50’s and 60’s is the black and white classic theme songs on CD. This volume, as do all in the series, celebrate the sounds and music we grew up hearing on TV, from all genres of TV programming, including cartoons. …

My aunt sent me this CD because she was given it for christmas, and absolutly hated it. i have to say, Im with my aunt on this one. i really like differnt music, i thought i really liked Fiona aple. i was very wrong. this CD is just…weird. I …

Artist: Beyonce
Video: “Naughty Girl”
Album: Dangerously in Love
Label: Columbia
Director: Jake Nava
Beyonce Knowles reunites with director Jake Nava (who previously directed her first two music videos for “Crazy in Love” and “Baby Boy”) for her fourth and final single and music video titled “Naughty Girl” from her solo debut called “Dangerously …

An album that really doesnt stand out in the David Lee Roth era of Van Halen is the album Van Halen 2. I really like this album because it still had the classic Van Halen tone with more of a punchy sound to it. Although no Van Halen album …

After the difficulties which arose with To The Faithful Departed, The Cranberries decided to call it quits for a while, they returned to their long-neglected families, had those breaks they really really needed, since the beginnining of their career. This is pretty much the background story to Bury The …

Why are many musicians who move to the country music genre? After Bon Jovi, Joan Osborne, Darius Rucker and Jessica Simpson, Jewel also switched to country music. But perhaps among the names above, only the most fit Jewel singing country. Or maybe because the background of childhood from Jewel …

I’ve always loved Ibanez’s line of guitars. I unfortunantly broke the neck on mine over 10 years ago. Recently an RG370DX came up for sale used, in solid black and in mint condition. I had to get it.
it has a maple neck with a rosewood 24 fret board. …

The Best Damn Thing? Does this album really live up to that ambitious title? Well, in a word, no. Not in my opinion. But that’s a bit unfair of me because of several things. I’m not an Avril fan to be honest, I can’t seem to get along with …

I purchased a Yamaha Stage Custom drum set several years ago when I began touring nationally in my band. I Purchased the 5 piece set. I have taken this drum kit all over the country and it has stood up to all of the traveling. It stays in tune …

Know Your Enemy is a song by Green Day which appears on their record 21st Century Breakdown. As a note, this was the first single to be released in promotion of this record so you can expect a pretty catchy, and straightforward, track. The song starts off with a …

Overview —“ Side I of The Who Sell Out introduces the first half of this concept record with a group of seven songs which seem to work nicely together and actually pass by quite quickly. After listening to the first two tracks, I was thinking this record was going …

Ramble On is a song by Led Zeppelin which appears on their second record, Led Zeppelin II. Ramble On begins with an acoustic guitar pattern primarily in the right channel and also an interesting percussive rhythm and bass line as well. Plant comes in with the vocals of the …

Talking World War III Blues is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on his album The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. The track starts off with an acoustic guitar riff which has a nice rhythm that lends itself well to a harmonica bit which soon comes over it before Dylan …

You have to wonder how some people manage to get a song in the charts, especially high in the charts and for me this is one of them.
Barbra Streisand by Duck Sauce I just feel is a little pointless. Why Barbra was chosen as the focal point for …

Billy’s Christmas Wish by Red Sovine is one of the few Christmas songs that makes me want to cry every time I hear it because of how it talks about a poor boy that has run away. This song is about a boy who’s dad is in jail and …

Money Maker by Ludacris with Pharrell is a nice song that I like listening to and dancing to. It has a good beat to the song and I just love dancing to the song. To most this song is a dirty song and it is but it also can …

If there’s a popstar that I believe could make a hit after hit without tiring the general audience, I will probably say it is Katy Perry. Her presence in the music industry is pretty much felt in the span of almost a decade, (gosh it makes me feel old) …

The song, Can We Talk by Code Red is a fantastic song. This song is a cover version and it is extremely nice and upbeat. Code Red is a British boy band but I think they are non-existent already.
If I’m not mistaken, they only manage to …

There is no doubt that Ed Sheeran is among the most talented singers in the world right now. His ability to write from his personal experiences or from his viewpoint of heavy themes drips heavily in the lines of his songs. What sets him apart from other great singer-songwriters …