First time I hear ‘Walking On a Dream’ from Empire of The Sun, I really want to listen to this song more and more. First, I don’t know who sing this good song, until i search on Google with some part of lyrics as a keyword and finally I …

Overview - Abbey Road, The Beatles’ penultimate effort, is a very nice collection and mix of tracks which compliment each other very nicely - particularly on the second half of the record where transitions from song to song just flow very well. Abbey Road has some of The Beatles’ …

Hope is a song by Sublime and the nineteenth song on their debut album, 40 Oz. To Freedom. No pun intended, I will admit that after listening to the preceding track on the record, Date Rape, I was left feeling pretty hopeful for the remainder of the tracks to …

The Ibanez RG2570Z is one of the latest in the RG Series from Ibanez, it features a five piece wizard prestige neck, basswood body, jumbo frets, edge pro bridge, dimarzio/Ibanez pickups 1 single coil 2 humbuckers, rosewood fretboard, sharktooth inlays, Gotoh tuners, 24 frets, a really nice hardshell case.
I …

The Gaslight Anthem is a punk rock band from New Jersey. “The 59 Sound” is there second album less than two years, but it seems like they have been working on this forever. They are quoted as saying that Bruce Springsteen is one of their main influences …

I don’t know how I can exactly describe it but when I listen to Sarah Brightman’s song, it seems you are immersed in very cold water. As if the water has ice all over. Her voice is …

Overview —“ Sweet Children, Green Day’s third EP, is surprisingly what I would consider their worst release yet. I figured that since it was released later than either of their first EPs, 1,000 Hours or Slappy, the songwriting would’ve improved and everything like that but this wasn’t the case …

The Fulltone OCD is an overdrive pedal in the same mold as a Boss Bluesdriver or an Ibanez Tubescreamer. Every fulltone pedal is made by hand, and therefore expensive, but the quality is always worth it.
The Fulltome OCD pedal is the best overdrive I’ve ever gotten out of a …

The Best So Far CD of Anne Murray is a selection of twenty songs. I have this album for years now. The songs here are really great. Anne Murray is one of the finest voices I’ve ever heard actually. What I particularly like about Anne Murray’s tone is …

Lisa Loeb, a New York based singer-songwriter is definitely one of those artists who I’ve loved from day one. I’ve always admired the lyrical ability and distinctive voice of the quirky singer who is known for the hit “Stay”. While Lisa Loeb has really only had one song that …

A Song For All Seasons is a song by Jefferson Airplane which appears on their 1969 release, Volunteers. The track opens up with a piano bit and right away you certainly get sort of a sense of country rock rather than the traditional psychedelic rock of Jefferson Airplane. At …

Something Happened To Me Yesterday is a song by The Rolling Stones which appears on their record Between The Buttons. The track starts off with a humorous sounding brass section in the right channel of the track which gives the song almost a circus like feel. Jagger comes in …

Come Thirsty CD of The Perrys was accidentally discovered by me when I was looking for the lyrics to the song “Mary For a While”. I got so in love with this beautiful song that really touched my heart and soul. Further I was really so fascinated with the …

Alice Cooper is one of the surviving founding fathers of the Heavy Metal genre, and the inventor and CREATOR of on-stage heavy metal Horror! I have been a huge fan of Alice Cooper for countless years and have more or less every album he has released. He is a …

Tomorrow Night is a cover performed by Bob Dylan which appears on his record Good As I Been To You. The song starts off with a harmonica bit before an acoustic guitar comes in for the background of the song and starts up with a simple strumming pattern as …

Triad is a cover performed by Jefferson Airplane which appears on their album Crown Of Creation. Triad opens up with a simple acoustic guitar part, primarily in the right channel, before the rest of the music comes in and establishes a sort of dark yet melodic sound thanks …

Baleen Sample is a song by Animal Collective and the third track on their 2005 EP, Prospect Hummer. I should mention from the start that this is the only song on the EP on the record to not feature the vocals of Vashti Bunyan, so the band have to …

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 …

Overview —“ Apocalyptica a Finnish rock band released their debut album which was filled with nothing Metallica covers, but the twist is, all of these covers are played on cellos. I mean the idea of a group releasing an album of Metallica covers doesn’t sound special or unique at …

Hung Overture is a song by Sledding With Tigers and appears as the fifth track on the band’s second album, The Hill Sheep. In the previous track on the record, Ten Fourty-Five, I noted that there were several sections where the instruments were actually completely empty from the track …

Tears for Fears is one of the biggest 1980’s acts of all time. This duo had so many hits. But many of them are very obscure. (How’s that for an oxymoron?) The biggest hit of theirs to date has to be “Head Over Heels.” …

On some levels it is probably difficult to admit it, but, looking back at this album, and comparing it to the albums that Radiohead afterwards, this album indeed comes off rather badly. I personally think that this album is quite weak. And it is my mature opinion, which is …

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 …

I just love this cd, this man is sooo talented and i would recommend eveyone to go and get this for your collection!!
His smooth, soulful voice is so powerful and unique.
A mixture of smooth soul and funk with maybe a little jazz in there too.
My favourite track on this …

Power Quest have always been a band that i am constantly frustrated with. They always hinted at greatness, but for some reason were never really able to put it all together when needed the most. I’m happy to report though that with this new album Blood Alliance, all the …

Soothing Sanctuary by David & Steve Gordon is really a superb collection of calming and soothing instrumental tracks that effectively separate me from all my headaches, all my worries, and carry me off to a state of serenity and peace. This audio CD is perfect for listening whenever I …

Boulevard Of Broken Dreams, pretty much the second half of Holiday, serves as an excellent contrast to Holiday which I will explain. It’s been said that the two songs are meant to be looked as basically one piece of music where Holiday is the party and Boulevard Of Broken …

Eels were formed in 1995 by Mark Oliver Everett, the man generally known as E. Their first album, Beautiful Freak met to critical and popular acclaim due to its charming blend of tongue in cheek angst and eccentric musicality. His follow up to this happy go lucky, Beck like …

R. Kelly
“Bad Man”
“Shaft”: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Director: Hype Williams.
It looks R. Kelly has fallen from his “I Believe I Can Fly” level of success. I mean how do you go from that to “Gotham City” and then to this? I mean hey, it’s not even like “I Believe I …

Jay-Z ft. Mecca
“Feelin’ It”
Reasonable Doubt
Roc-A-Fella Records
“Feelin’ It” is the final single and music video from Jay-Z’s debut album “Reasonable Doubt”, it follows “Dead Presidents”, “Ain’t No Playa”, and “Can’t Knock The Hustle”. This time, Jay-Z decides to sample “Pastures” by a jazz music artist named Ahmad Jamal. Jay-Z is …

“The Ten Coolest Things About New Jersey” is a song by the Bloodhound Gang. This song appears off their album “Hooray for Boobies”. “The Ten Coolest Things About New Jersey” is one of the later tracks on the album, at being number 17.
The song you might notice is 10 …

Willie Nelson does this song called If I can Find A Clean Shirt. My first thoughts were that it was an odd name for a song. I thought it was a song about someone who feels sorry for Willie Nelson because he couldn’t find a clean shirt. …

The Kaiser Chiefs is a band hailing from the United Kingdom. I first was introduced to their music by a friend of mine from England back in 2005. Their first album; Employment, was a hit with me. I liked all their songs on that release and then came Yours …

Superman is a song by Eminem which appears on his album The Eminem Show. The track opens up with a recording of a conversation going back and forth between Eminem and a female which establishes the lyrical topic of the song and also sets of the general atmosphere of …

Rosemary is a song by The Grateful Dead which appears on their album Aoxomoxoa. Rosemary is an extremely melodic track and only features the vocals of Jerry Garcia along with an acoustic guitar which he sings along with. I should also mention that Garcia has sort of an echo …

This guitar pedal by digitech has to be one of the best investments I have made in my musical life. I love how you can play a nice simple scale on a regular clean setting and then immediately stomp on the pedal, yielding a more sustain and distorted sound. …

I remember this seemed odd for a while, that Neil Diamond would do a holiday album since he’s Jewish. There was talk that since Barbra Streisand was doing another one, it somehow was okay for him to do one. I don’t recall the specifics much now, but …

Travelling Riverside Blues, and no that is not a typo of “traveling”, is a cover performed by Led Zeppelin which appears on their record Coda. Just as a note, this track is not included on the original version of this album but was placed on the CD version …

I like all Fergie’s song in her solo album, it’s sounds energic and waken up my spirit to do all the things.
Like this songs, mary jane shoes, I feel when I hear this song I feel like Fergie, wanna dance and escape from the blues. This song is unique, …

80 is a song by Green Day which appears on their album Kerplunk. The track opens up with a sustaining guitar power-chord, but the real interest during the intro of the track is the bass line played by Mike Dirnt which serves as the main rhythm, along with a …

Garth Brooks sings this song called More Than A Memory. This song is about a man trying to forget a girl friend that has broken up with him. He dose not want to admit that she was more than just a girl friend to him, that he was really …

Of all the bands to come out of the garage-rock revival of the early 2000s, The Strokes were probably the best — at least in their initial effort. Regarded as the then-newest saviors of rock and roll, The Strokes fashioned distinctly post-modern rock and roll. The dueling guitars, a …

Backwater is the number one single that appears on the Meat Puppets album “Too High to Die”. This song single handedly propelled the Meat Puppets into the mainstream audience. “Backwater” ended up reaching #2 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart.
The song starts off with a bang. The lead …

The roaring sound of thousands (or even millions) of fans of the most popular folk band of the decade might be deafening, #BringBackTheBanjo even trended in Twitter when they released the first taste of their electrified change.
“Believe” did sound like Coldplay, but only in its first half it borrowed …

This Good Friday was my second time seeing all three of these bands, so I know what I’m talking about when I say that this concert was not just “business as usual” for these artists.
The concert began with a bang when Sevendust came onto the stage. Their high-energy …

Born Of Fire is a song by Slayer which appears on their record Seasons In The Abyss. The track opens up in an extremely fast and aggressive fashion, a lot of this thanks to Dave Lombardo’s drumming during the intro. Araya soon comes in with the traditional Slayer lyrics, …

The first song I heard by Daniel Kirkley was My New Dawn. I heard this awesome song on the radio. This was definitely a cut above the other songs they play on the radio. It was a gorgeous, powerful song. When I heard that song, …

Jay-Z
“Dead Presidents”
Reasonable Doubt
Roc-A-Fella Records
Director: Abdul Malik Abbott
Jay-Z returned after his debut single and music video “In My Lifetime” about a year later with his very first album titled “Reasonable Doubt”. This is the first single and music video from that album, “Dead Presidents”. The song concerns the underworld of …

“Confinement” is a track off of the Silent Hill 4 Original Soundtrack. The soundtrack was released alongside the game in 2004, and was made by Akira Yamaoka. Yamaoka has always been hailed a musical genius when it comes to making ambient and creepy music/sound effects. As Yamaoka started to …

It was probably back in 2000 or 2001 that I first saw the Black Eyed Peas on VH1. It was a video where they were all getting blown onto this glass or plastic and the camera was behind it. So it lucked like they were in some kind of …