The Dogs Of War is a song by Pink Floyd which appears on their album A Momentary Lapse Of Reason. The song starts up with some synthesizers and background noise which work to gradually build up the music in hopes that something good will follow, we’ll see if this …

Rob Thomas, lead singer of the popular rock band Matchbox 20, has quickly grown to become one of the most influential songwriters of the last 20 years. As a solo artist, Thomas has written and performed with influential artists such as Carlos Santana and Joss Stone. He has also …

Devildriver is the self titled 2003 debut album from the band, released on Roadrunner Records, featuring Dez Fafara of Coal Chamber on vocals, he quit Coal Chamber dropping the nu metal act entirely and doing what I always knew he could do, he doesn’t hold back here at all, …

Scarlet Begonias is a song by Sublime which is the tenth track to appear on their debut release, 40 Oz. To Freedom. I should mention that this is a cover of a pretty well-known Grateful Dead song which I’m pretty familiar with. What I particularly like about Scarlet Begonias …

A song off the album Only By The Night by Kings Of Leon that I really enjoy is the track Crawl. the track starts off with the screech and feedback off the guitars. The band comes in with a heavy drum beat and that awesome bass line that …

I have been a huge fan of the 1970’s Canadian rock band, The Stampeders my whole life. My parents loved them before I was born, so I grew up listening to them, and for the last 5 years I have been blessed to see them each year at the …

When Two Worlds Collide is a song by Iron Maiden which appears on their album Virtual XI. The song opens up with a somewhat ominous sounding part which is driven by this interesting clean guitar part before Bayley comes in with the vocals of the track. I’ll be honest …

Calling you by Blue October is a song that is sad in some ways if you think about it because it talks about how a guy misses a girl so much that he keeps calling her. I like the song because it reminds me of how I am with …

Rivers Of Babylon is a song by Sublime and the penultimate track on their album 40 Oz. To Freedom. Opening up with an acoustic guitar pattern, I get the impression that Rivers Of Babylon is basically like a more enjoyable version of the previous track, Krs-One. Like the preceding …

One of the most successful rock band Creed, has released a new live concert dvd in support of the Album Full Circle. It features the whole concert in Chicago and it was one of the concert DVD’s that I thought was really tampered with. I Think since Scott Stapps …

I went to see Mark Knopfler, the ex Dire Straits guitar supremo, last Wednesday in the O2 Arena in Dublin. In a word it was magic ! I am quite a critical person but this gig just ticked all my boxes and it just got better as the night …

Birdman aka Baby’s latest album entitled “5 Star Stunna” was a big disappointment to me when I first heard it. The production on the album was good, but the lyrical content just wasn’t there. It’s a shame that the beats that Birdman selected went to waste. …

Blue Jay Way, one of the more psychedelic or at least calming tracks by The Beatles, is one of the tracks to appear on what I would consider to be easily their most Also, to be honest, this track really strikes me as a work which I would associate …

I have been a fan of Muse for a little over two years. Until recently, my favorite CD of theirs was Black Holes and Revelations. Now, they have proven that they can even top that!
The Resistance is a great CD for any Muse fan to have for a mumber …

One of my favorite artists is Michelle Branch (solo or with The Wreckers). When her album Hotel Paper came out seven years ago, I immediately bought it. Even though it’s seven years old, I still find myself listening to the songs today. The album has many …

Long time listeners of Godsmack beware! Godsmack has released an acoustic album.
The tranquility of the album from beginning to end is not to be surpassed. From the opening track, “Running Blind”, Godsmack delivers a powerful punch delivered in a soothing form.
“Re-Align” continues this near-perfection album with a …

I must admit, the first time i ever heard there music, I hated it. I listened to ‘ Feeling good ‘ and i thought it was absaloutley WIERD! So i never went near them. It was when my sister told me i would like this song ‘ …

Politically Uncorrect by Gretchen Wilson and Merle Haggard is a song about how what we stand for is not what majority of the country stands for now days. All anybody cares about is money and not the people who work hard and serve our country. That is true now …

There are certain recording artists whose music is criticized by many of the people who consider their own taste in music to be very well refined. Ke$ha so happens to be one of those artists. As a pop star, she has found a lot of success, but she has …

Everything’s Explodin’ is a song by The Flaming Lips and the opening track of their second release, Oh My Gawd. Opening up with a heavy guitar riff, the percussion violently enters the mix as the song begins to establish its main rhythm. To be honest, I was not personally …

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 …

Coldplay has yet again created another positively brilliant album! Although this one has a completely different sound from any of their other albums.. It will literally make you so happy you will feel as though your head is about to explode! Ha, love, love it. So to those people …

Here Comes The Indian is the fourth studio record released by Animal Collective. Overall, the impression I get from Here Comes The Indian is that it sounds almost if they’re trying to recreate the melodic and relaxing atmosphere they established on Campfire Songs, but this time do it with …

This pedal allows you to control nearly every imaginable aspect of your tremolo sound. You can choose between 3 different circuitry sounds: Opto (mid-60s American amplifiers), Bias (late 50’s British amplifiers), and Pan (pans signal back and forth between a left and right output[GOOD FEATURE TO HAVE!!!]). Each circuit …

Ego Brain is a song by System Of A Down which appears on their record Steal This Album. The track starts off with a very nice acoustic guitar riff by Malakian before the drums kick in along with the vocals. Malakian and Tankian sing together on this track and …

I’m like a lawyer the way I’m always trying to get you off (me and you) is a song by Fall out boy that I like listening to all the time because of how the lyrics are. The whole song is beautiful and confusing all at the same time. …

I like Version 2.0 a lot more than Version 1.0, the debut album released by Garbage, and called Garbage, even though, it should have been called Version 1.0, for the name of the second album to make a little more sense. But the title is kind of memorable nonetheless. …

High Time is a song by The Grateful Dead which appears on their album Workingman’s Dead. The song opens up with a simple acoustic guitar pattern which Garcia sings along with in a very melodic fashion. The song seems to have a little bit of country influence on the …

I’ve been too in love with this young girl ever since she released an album full of covers, but mind you, she literally treated those songs like they were her own. She polished alternative tracks so that the general public (who don’t like that genre much) would appreciate it. …

Sydney boys The Sunpilots mix Indian Carnatic music, courtesy of frontman Raj Siva-Rajah, with Australian alternative rock provided by Bob Spencer, Anthony Soole and Rob Ewan.
The Sunpilots have received phenomenal amount of hype from all quarters. Their first single, Spotlight In The Sun - a taste of the album …

Loch Raven is a song by Animal Collective and is the penultimate track on their album Feels. Opening up with a gentle feel, Loch Raven takes its time in introducing various instruments to the mix and continues to push Feels in a more melodic direction that has been established …

The CD Wynton Marsalis: Mr Jezzy Lord- Standard Time Vol. 6 is a CD of jazz music with trumpet as the dominant instrument. My favorite songs include Red Hot Pepper, The Pearls, and the New Orleans Bump. The CD has a great jazzy upbeat feel throughout. …

Mean Disposition is a song by The Rolling Stones which appears on their album Voodoo Lounge. The track starts out in a typical rock fashion with a guitar riff and a driving drum pattern as well. Jagger quickly joins in with the vocals with an average melody which doesn’t …

I’ve liked a few tunes by Annie Lennox and the Eurythmics. I’m not overly fond of mellow music, especially by female singers. When my friend loaned me her Annie Lennox Medusa CD I didn’t jump at the opportunity to listen to it right away. In fact, it …

Iowa is a great metal album. This album firmly establishes what metal music should be like. And I find it truly amazing how such a great metal album came out exactly at the right time, from the point of view of the state of the music industry. Due to …

The good stuff by Kenny Chesney is a song about how a guy has a fight with his woman and he goes to a bar and the guy won�t give him the good stuff. But the old guy says a whole lot of stuff is the good stuff especially …

Some things never go out of style and Elton John is one of them. Elton John quickly soared to number one spots on the charts in the 1970’s and kept making those hits spanning a very long career. I love Elton John’s music but not his attitude so much. …

Bruce Springsteen’s Greatest Hits CD definitely contains some great songs: ‘Born to Run’, ‘Thunder Road’, and ‘Atlantic City’ among them. It also includes the first release of the awesome ‘This Hard Land’. I am a huge Bruce fan, so it almost pains me to say that this collection should …

I have always had a love for all kinds of music, but now that I am a Christian I am more particular about what I find myself listening too. I used to be a fan of rap music when I was younger so when I first heard …

Please is a song by Nine Inch Nails which appears on their album The Fragile. The track starts off with a heavy industrial sound and the synthesizers actually have a pretty interesting sound throughout this section in my opinion. Reznor comes in with the first verse pretty quickly as …

Feels is a record by Animal Collective which was their follow up to Sung Tongs. I’ll be honest and admit that I think Sung Tongs is an incredibly hard record to follow, but I can thankfully say that I think Animal Collective lived up to the challenge with Feels. …

Love him or hate him, Steve Austin knows how to make music. And when it comes to releasing the ninth and hopefully not last record, Pain is Warning, I am reminded on how much of a creative genius Steve Austin can be. Think of Austin as an underground music …

“Bound for the Floor” is a single by the Illinois band Local H. The song appeared on their debut album “As Good as Dead” and is by far their most popular song. “Bound for the Floor” reached the number 5 spot on Billboard Modern Rock.
Often considered “post grunge”, “Bound …

Peacoat off the new Stone Temple Pilots self titled album is one of the slower songs off the album. Like most songs by the band, Peacoat is not used in the set chorus but most likely has a refrence in the lyrics. It has a very dynamic and …

Raining Babies is a song by The Flaming Lips and the third song on their record In A Priest Driven Ambulance. Opening up with a melodic sound which is surprisingly driven by the bass guitar, Raining Babies shies away from the more aggressive sound present throughout Unconsciously Screaming. Although …

Although I’m a techie, at least for the Boomer Generation, I don’t always have to the have the best and newest. I don’t buy every computer game or gizmo that comes along. I don’t have an Ipod and I don’t carry a cell phone. I can do …

Johnny Reb is a song by Johnny Horton. It talks about a soldier that fought with Robert E. Lee and how they fought hard in a battle. The soldier was shot but still fought for what he believed in. This song is basically a tribute to …

I would like to retract my perhaps harsh previous review of Madonna. I found myself glancing at the top 20 billboard chard for 2008 so far and decided to buy the full album and listen to it in its entirety; I had previously heard quite a bit of it, …

“Through The Fire”
Performer: Chaka Khan
Before I even begin writing about the song “Through The Fire” performed by the great Ms. Chaka Khan, Queen of everything funk soul, I highly recommend going out and purchasing at least one of her albums. She was and still is a powerful voice of …