This album is iconic. I was truly taken in by this music, I was drawn into it, almost disappearing in it. This music was all the rage when I was a kid, and many of my fellow teenage friends were very much into this music at the time. But …

If anyone in the United States of America or the United Kingdom hasn’t heard of Kings of Leon by now then you must have been living on another planet for the last 12 months! For those of you that have no idea who Kings of Leon are, they are …

Alicia Keys is the R&B songstress that won the MTV ” Artist Of The Year” award in 1999 for bringing you hits like “A Womens Worth”, “You Don’t Know My Name”, “Fallin” and “Karma” and in 2005 MTV released the cd “Alicia Keys Unplugged” which is a live …

The Collector is a song by Nine Inch Nails which appears on their album With Teeth. The track opens up with a very simple drum pattern which is prominent throughout the song and is soon joined by an equally simple bass rhythm. Despite the simplicity that Reznor has going …

Just A Bullet Away is a song by Metallica which debuted at one of the band’s anniversary shows in San Francisco, California. With the working title of Shine, many fans may have heard snippets from Mission Metallica clips while the band was writing Death Magnetic. As many fans looked …

Sounds of Earth: Rainforest - Sounds Of The Earth Series is a wonderful audio CD to listen to. This CD offers a couple noticeable sounds in the background: the sounds of birds, the sound of a stream on track one, and the sound of thunder on track two. I …

Jack’s Mannequin has done it again. Lead singer and pianist Andrew McMahon has delivered another great album for fans everywhere. This album has many strong points and the lyrics create a beautiful picture for listeners.
Track one: Crashin’ has a great guitar/piano intro that blends into the …

Elton John is a famous musician who now is properly called, Sir Elton John, since he was given the title by the Queen of England. Well deserved! Elton John has been around since before I even thought about music, but since I grew up in a family that loved …

This album was one of the first albums by the Cure that I listened to. It was quite a long time ago. It took place, in fact, probably in the year when this album was released. And then I loved these songs a lot. They seemed magic and otherworldly. …

I will be the first to admit, the first 1,000 and more times that I had the music of Lenka shoved down my throat, I couldn’t stand it. I was darn near physically ill. I simply could not stand her cutesy, almost innocent lyrics were just too much.
And then …

My All Cover Version by Siti Nurhaliza is awesome, and I’ve listened to her singing this cover version from Mariah Carey before. I really love it, and Siti sang using her own style of voice range and the sound is very cheery and awesome sounding.
For those of …

Dyers Eve has to be one of Metallica’s most aggressive and angry songs, not just on Justice but on any of their nine records. For those of you who heard Master Of Puppets, if for some reason then you haven’t then go listen to it now, you’ll recognize that …

Hell’s Angel’s Cracker Factory is a song by The Flaming Lips which appears on their third studio album, Telepathic Surgery. I’ll note right now that this track is quite an ambitious piece of music and that it’s track listing is just over twenty-three minutes long. Because of its extreme …

This is a good new cd. It is Lenny Kravitz’s newest cd. Compared to Lenny Kravitz’s other cd’s, such as Baptism, and the Lenny Kravitz Greatest Hits, this is nothing. With his other cd’s compared to other cd’s he has to many slow songs. By slow, I mean a …

Indie rock is a genre that seems to be in a state of forgotten identity as of late, often seeming to lose touch with itself. Company of Thieves is a band that has good indie sensibilities with a folky feel, offering a good blend of both throughout their library. …

Ship Of Fools, a song by The Doors which appears on Morrison Hotel, opens up with an interesting rhythm and is then led by Morrison’s vocals on the song. I believe Ship Of Fools is a good example of one of those songs where the music and the vocals …

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 …

This musical album is really good on several levels. It offers not a single thing to the listener, but it has several good sides.
This album is inspired by stories of Edgar Allan Poe. And in this way it is rather more than a conventional rock record. It should definitely …

N-Sync a boy band from America that suddenly seemed to be huge over in the U.K. I think one of the reasons they were successful was their more street appearance and the fact their their love songs seemed far more edgy and upbeat.
This was the case with I’ll Never …

Runnin’ Blue is a song by The Doors which appears on their album The Soft Parade. The track starts off with Morrison singing by himself which is a tribute to Otis Redding, and also serves as a nice opportunity to hear Morrison’s voice by itself. After this, a guitar …

I’m not totally a fan of girl groups but something about this song caught my attention. I was originally browsing in Instagram when one of my friends posted a song that what I thought to be original. It had a caption “Secret Love Song” and I listened to it, …

Jay-Z ft. Gwen Dickey
“Wishing on a Star”
In My Lifetime, Volume 1
Roc-A-Fella Records
“Wishing on a Star” is a little known single and music video that can only be found on the United Kingdom release of his second album “In My Lifetime, Volume 1″. No wonder it’s so little known because …

Besides Smoke on the water, Another really popular tune by them is Highway Star. This song to me is a great rock n roll tune thats well known for driving you car in because that is the theme of it. This song has an upbeat tempo in it and …

You can’t blame me for being excited, really you can’t. You can’t blame me for seeing a video of New Kids On the Block on the Today Show and being immediatly transformed back in time 15 years.
You cant blame me for drooling at the screen when they came out. …

I love music, and I love music videos. Lady Gaga has gotten a lot of exposure lately and she happens to be on my top list of good artists but her latest video has me wondering.
Love game is her latest video. Anyone notice the similarities between her and …

This one hurts, just like the writer of this song must have (so people would think). I only say that because I know the writer personally and he has clearly expressed that he has no direct connection for any of his songs …

If you like a guitar instrumentals and also like a style of bluegrass type playing with a side of Metal. Then check out John 5 most particularly Sugarfoot Rag off his album Vertigo. Ive always thought John 5 was a strange guy with his make up and being a …

The Bends is a song by Radiohead which appears on their second album of the same name. Opening up with a fairly heavy guitar riff, the song immediately starts out with a rhythm I enjoy and a full and healthy rock sound. Yorke can be heard singing a few …

Sing For Absolution, a track by Muse is certainly the newest Muse track which I find myself currently hooked on. What I will say right now is that the song has an excellent build up throughout the song and demonstrates a nice blend and balance of a more melodic …

Michael Jackson’s latest posthumously released album entitled “Michael”, has been out for nearly four months now. As an avid fan of MJ and his music, I’m rather pleased with the results. Obviously, the tracks lack Jackson’s signature polish and sometimes you can tell where the engineers did something that …

On Korn’s 1998 third album they hired Tod Mcfarlane to do the album artwork, the have a number of guest musicians including Fred Durst, Ice Cube, Tre Hardson of Pharcyde. The hidden track at the end of the album there is a cover of the Cheech and Chong song …

Here comes the judge! That’s right, this is the album that proved to the world Soundgarden was a legitimate threat to any rock Gods previous. Badmotorfinger, Soundgarden’s forth album, is where it really starts to get good.
Oh, man. I can hear the start of Rusty Cage playing in …

Brian Wilson’s Grammy Award winning album “SMiLE” set the bar quite high for the aging Beach Boy. Doubtless, Wilson is past his prime, is somewhat obsolete, and indeed, sometimes sounds quite tired on “SMiLE”’s follow-up album “That Lucky Old Sun”.
“That Lucky Old Sun” takes its title from the titular …

This is the Canadian band’s third album, and second album for Roadrunner Records, released in 2007 with producer Joey Jordison of Slipknot, Fire up the Blades won me over. The band stated that the album is influenced by low quality beer and bong hits and listening to black metal …

Faryl Smith Album
In 2008 Faryl Smith stunned the many thousands of watchers on the TV Talent show Britain’s Got Talent. At the age of 13 who voice was truly unbelievable, in a good way that was, she had a voice just as good as the most known professionals in …

Wisconsin Death Trip is Static-X’s first album, it was released in 1999 on Warner Bros records and produced by Ulrich Wild and Static-X. The album is really a heavy album, they call it industrial, I guess you could call it that, the singles are Push It, I’m With Stupid, …

“Gonna See My Friend” is the opening track on Pearl Jam’s album “Backspacer”. Like the album itself, the song is relatively short. The entire album was inspired by pop and new wave music. I can sort of see that influence in this song, it’s rather catchy but I would …

Everyone goes through their phases where they are obsessed with that one song and are afraid that because they are listening to it so much, that they might end up just getting sick of the song. Well, I am currently obsessed with this song and have been for a …

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 …

There has to be an awful good reason for me wanting to listen to classical type of music. And for that, I am such a great fan since hearing Siempre by IL Divo. These guys are so, so gorgeous, all good looking and definitely very talented. Even …

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 …

I was surprised that I had never heard of the apparently popular R&B singer Randy Crawford until my parents were given one of her CDs a few years ago by a friend of my family. This was because I am also sure that I have never heard any of …

Bleeding Love is definitely a song that I can’t quite figure out. I am not sure if she has lost her love and that is why her love is bleeding or if it is that she love him so much that it hurts and that is why she is …

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 …

In March of 2010, Dreamworks released How to Train Your Dragon; a film about a boy named hiccup on a viking island where killing the dragons which raid the city is almost everything. Hiccup, however, is no ordinary boy and, unlike everybody else, is not strong and does have …

“Just a Man” is a song by Faith No More. This appears as the 14th track on Faith No More’s album “King for a Day… Fool for a Lifetime”. I find this song to be truly fantastic, considering that it isn’t even a single.
“Just a Man” has a very …

Lips of an Angel is one of my least favorite songs of all time. When the song was first released, everyone I knew was playing it constantly. Every time I called one of my friends, it was their ring back tone and most of the people I knew set …

Sean Paul is a reggae/dancehall artist hsiling from Jamaica and he has been a hit since he came on the scene years ago. I love his music and his new CD came out a while back called A New Age 2008. One of the songs that is featured on …

Freak Show was released in 1999, the album has 13 songs and it’s basically rock with roots from grunge.The album shows a mixture of fast and slow songs with great arranges and a more mature sound than Silverchair’s first album “Frogstomp”.
The lyrics show the mind of a 20 year …

Artist: Destiny’s Child
Video: Girl
Album: Destiny Fulfilled
Label: Columbia Records
Director: Bryan Barber
Finally, a Destiny’s Child song with a real positive message that is not deceiving nor manipulative, plus there’s a very original and creative music video to go along with. Wow, I am impressed. “Girl” is the third single and music …