Back in 1996, In Flames released ‘The Jester Race’, their most influential album to date, through Nuclear Blast. One year earlier, the two other highlights of the Swedish metal scene, namely At the Gates and Dark Tranquility, came up with their respective ‘Slaughter of the Soul’ and ‘The Gallery’ …

I am a huge Britney Spears fan. I watch all of her music videos and memorize the words to all of her songs. I own every album and have so many posters all over my walls. Her concerts are amazing and the fact that she’s produced so many hit …

Been So Long is a song by The Doors which appears on their album L.A. Woman. The track opens up with Morrison’s vocals accompanied at first by the bass guitar and a drum rhythm which all work together to create a simple but certainly definitive and powerful rhythm. The …

My son and I are great country music fans and we enjoy going to see live concerts. I enjoy all types of music so does my son. Last year we were lucky enough to cathc a performance by Alan Jackson. He is this tall blonde blue …

Overview - Endgame, Megadeth’s latest release as of 2009, is an album which introduces new guitarist Chris Broderick to the band and tries to recapture the essence and sound of Rust In Peace. Now although Megadeth doesn’t succeed at making Rust In Peace part II, obviously, they still …

This marks the saddest time in my life as a music fan. The last album of new songs that Soundgarden will ever put out. It was a good ride, but all ended here with Down On The Upside. But, if you gotta go out, go out with an album …

Lenka is a new artist from Australia whose music has been featured on television shows and is quickly becoming more popular. I first got hooked on her hit song called “The Show” and have since downloaded her entire album. I love every track on it. It is very rare …

I Wanna Be Your Man is a cover of a Beatles song performed by The Rolling Stones. Generally when I review covers I’m not all that familiar with the original version of the song but in this case I know the cover and I know the original as well …

I watched Don’t Cha by The Pussycat Dolls on Ellen Show before and I must say that I was totally bemused and impressed. I think the lead singer, Nicole sang like a karaoke version of something. She can really stretch her vocal chords and it was so fun …

I am constantly amazed at how long certain sub-genres of rock music can last these days with a bit of slight tweaking. On the surface I Am Empire are just another in a long line of second rung modern alternative radio rock bands that are seemingly pouring out from …

Stick with you is one of the Pussycat Dolls’s song that has a low melodic tempo if usually Pussycat dolls is known as the energic of every song, so do with their move in dance, in ’stick with you’ Pussycat Dolls explore the soft side of the girl.
The lyrics …

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 …

Saliva is one cool music group with a whole lot of talent. First off these guys look like true blue rockers and the lead singer has such an awesome rocker look to himself but his. He is often sporting a cool looking goatee and in fashionable rocker clothes. His …

The Corrs is an Irish band and they have sold millions of copies of their albums worldwide. I can even recall that was in third year high school in the late 90’s and I heard their song “I Never Loved You Anyway”. This song made me love this band. …

This is the collaboration of the producers/mc’s Madlib and MF Doom. They call themselves Madvillain and claim to be the illest villains. And I couldn’t agree more. The record contains 22 tracks, ordered as followed:
1. The Illest Villains
2. Accordion
3. Meat Grinder
4. Bistro
5. Raid
6. America’s Most Blunted
7. Sickfit
8. Rainbows
9. Curls
10. …

I’m the type of person who loves music & listens to all kinds of music; I know some songs, people, & groups most people my age never heard of for example the group Mint Condition. I love this group their songs are so amazing; their voices are the perfect blind …

Enrique Iglesias is my favorite singer, and I love all of his songs. I have all of his sings, and I was waiting for a long time for this album called “Insomniac” to release. And when it got released in the mid June of 2007, I was pretty much …

Drake Bell is a great composer!He`s not just a composer but a great singer!Do what you want is a great song of his.The music has a attractive and lively melody.Anyone …

Overview - The LTD EC-1000 Deluxe guitar is overall an amazing guitar and one of the best guitars that I’ve ever played. Some models of this guitar come with Seymour Duncan pickups while others come with EMG pickups, for my review I will focus on a model with EMG …

This is not the only song I love with Otown; it is just that this is memorable because someone sang it for me. What I am not sure is, if he deliberately means the words. This song uses metaphor to describe what this song is trying to convey.
Let me …

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 …

The song ABC was recorded in 1970 which seems like a hundred years ago. Time really flies and though Michael Jackson and his brothers changed a lot in the years to follow, this song always remains true to what image we had of the Jackson family back in the …

Opiate is Tool’s first official releases, released on Zoo Entertainment, produced by Tool, Sylvia Massey, and Steve Hansgen. This EP is around 23 minutes in length, with 6 tracks and an additional hidden track titled the gaping lotus experience 6 minutes and 6 seconds into the 6th track. 2 …

I’ve been playing the drum set for over 4 years now! This drum kit is the only one I’ve own. It is a great set for a beginner and also as your progress to the intermediate skill!
The Price is between $300-$600, which is quite inexpensive for a drum set! …

Adele comes back with a very strong effort to follow her 30 million selling album 21. Following her age as basis for her album titles (19, 21), her highly-anticipated 3rd studio record is a continuation to that, 25. While 21 focuses on heartbreak tunes, 25 is definitely about making …

Alanis Morrisette’s ‘Jagged Little Pill’ album is by far one of the most popular and enduring albums to have debuted in the mid to late 90s.
The album is one of the most recognizable pop girl angst albums ever written. ‘Jagged Little Pill’ features the strong “in your face” song, …

“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 …

I Just Had To Die is a song by The Knife which appears on their self-titled record. The song opens up with a rhythm which is sort of interesting at first, but draws slightly annoying after a few repetitions in my opinion. In my opinion, the vocals could’ve been …

Nothing Else Matters, the second ballad on Metallica’s self-titled record, is another one of the stronger songs in this record in my opinion. If you notice, the stronger songs on this record actually went more in the melodic direction which emphasizes the change that Metallica went through from And …

Light My Fire is a song by The Doors which appears on their self-titled debut record. Light My Fire is one of the better known songs by The Doors and there isn’t any reason as to why it shouldn’t be. There’s always those songs which are pretty well known …

This is another of Chris Cornell’s solo albums but very different from anything he has ever done before. He worked with Timbaland on this, so already you’ll know it doesn’t sound like Soundgarden, Audioslave or even his other previous solo work.
I’m a huge Chris Cornell fan, so I …

What’s Left Of The Flag is a song by Flogging Molly which appears on their record Drunken Lullabies. The vocals waste no time coming into this track as they start right away simultaneously with a violin part as well as an acoustic guitar strumming a simple pattern in the …

Nirvana was one of the most famous rock bands in the nineteen nineties. I believe that the band could be considered as the Michael Jacksons of grunge rock music as at the time, their weighty lyrics and heavy sludge sound begun to cause a revolution with popular rock music. …

Uh Huh Her is an indie electronic pop band made up of Leisha Hailey (of The L Word fame) and Camilla Grey. Common Reaction is their first album release so far, although their second album is apparently completed and is due soon for release, possibly sometime next year in …

If your looking for some amazing jazz fusion guitar then check out the CD My Metal Heart. it has a taste of alot of different guitar playing styles. The whole album was created in the studio of my guitar teacher Jose Angel Navarro. Jose Angel Navarro is an amazing …

Overview —“ Skin O’ My Teeth, another one of the four music videos and singles Megadeth released for their fifth record, Countdown To Extinction, is actually a song which has a darker meaning to it then I originally thought. I never used to think very much of this song, …

Do Me A Favour is a song by the Arctic Monkeys which appears on their album Favourite Worst Nightmare. The track opens up by a solo drum pattern before the guitar also comes in to create a pretty flowing rhythm. In addition, a rhythm guitar also comes in with …

I have heard this song a million times and have never once gotten sick of hearing it. It’s one of my favorite songs right now. It’s great to dance to or to sing to. I think one of the main reasons I like it so much is because it …

Taylor Guitars have been a highly respected and trusted guitar maker for the last four decades. Since 1974, Bob Taylor and company have been making quality, high-end guitars. That is still true today with the Taylor GS guitar line. As a long time acoustic guitar …

How good has it been over the last few years to be a fan of thrash metal!! I like loads of different kinds of music, more than most people i know, but old-school thrash metal will always hold a special little place in my heart as it’s the music …

I think that the Blade Soundtrack rocks! I bought this a couple years ago when the movie Blade came out. This CD has everything. It has some good rap songs as well as some great club songs and dance songs. I really like the cool dance songs that were played …

Eyes Open is a song by Wolfmother which appears on their second album, Cosmic Egg. The track wastes no time in opening up with an interesting guitar pattern and the vocals also join in the mix pretty quickly as well. Throughout the verse, the vocals sound fairly tamed in …

Most people know him for the famous hit ‘Lady in Red’ but I must say I have discovered the real Chris de Burgh in some of his other, less familiar songs. What I liked more than anything else - and it was a kind of revelation to me - …

I’ve honestly never listened to any of Jessica Simpson’s songs. But, I have seen her in movies. And, after some time, she has actually started winning me over a bit.
Some will criticize her as being a stereotypical dumb blonde. If that were the case, then how is it she’s …

Off of the second Led Zeppelin album, Led Zeppelin 2. The song Moby Dick is a four and a half minute jam by the band but mostly a solo spot for drummer John Bonham. The song has a pretty short musical intro, but that riff that John Paul Jones …

It is no secret that I like melody in music, and even more so with guitars specifically. There is something about a melodious guitar line that really pulls me in, and keeps me listening. Unfortunately, it seems like melody itself is a notion that does not have a prominent …

Taking Chances seemed very appropriate as the album title was taken by Celine Dion. By presenting some old songs and some new songs, which differ with the type of songs that had been sung. Dion to make a change. Since her last album, A New
Day Has Come in 2002, …

One of my favorite cds right now is Gene Simmons ***HOLE. A lot of people may be turned off by the title, but I think if you listened to it, the title soon would be forgotten.
The CD contains thirteen songs, one of which bears the ***hole title. …

Sara is a song by Bob Dylan which is the final track on his album Desire. I’ll be honest and admit right now that this is one of my favorite Dylan songs throughout his entire catalogue. The track starts off with a somewhat ominous tone before leading into a …

Overview - Are You Experienced, the first record put out by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, is a mixture of songs which range from a more rock driven attitude, to a psychedelic sound, to an extremely melodic tone. While the album does include several hits and fan favorites which just …