Half of this band before they broke up was actually consisted of System of a Down member Daron Malakian who was the lead guitar player, and John Dolmayan who was the drummer. Daron this time around reprises his former role as a guitar player, but also acts the lead …

Rising from the ashes of Boston rock group The Umpteens, former front man Don Lennon has crafted a collection of songs marking his debut cult-classic album “Maniac”. Sharing the same surname as a former Beatle, although it may be a pseudonym, it is certain he would have made John …

Annie’s Song is one of John Denver’s famous love ballad’s but it is unique in that he does it in English and Spanish. It sounds so sweet that it can put you in a trans where you can forget your everyday worries or problems. It can mesmerize you with …

The Wicker Man is a song by Iron Maiden which appears on their album Brave New World. The track starts off with a pretty aggressive guitar riff which is extremely driving and is reinforced by a pounding background rhythm from another guitar, bass, and drums. Dickinson soon comes in …

This is trash, pure and simple. If raccoons knock over your garbage can at 3 AM, there will be no way to differentiate between the debris strewn across the street and this filth. From “This Love” on, Maroon 5 have been insufferable, and the easiest solution was to just …

The new album by kiss Sonic Boom is an excellent album that shows that kiss is still rocking today and even still making good music with fairly recent drummer Eric Singer and Guitarist Tommy Thayer. The song Modern Day Delilah is the first track off the album and it …

I received a “Lost Highway” cd by Bon Jovi for an early birthday present. I am a Bon Jovi fan from way back around when they first came out, I was in my teens.
I am aware this CD has been out since 2007, yet I have not got …

Cher has been around for as long as I can remember. I used to watch her on the Sonny and Cher show faithfully every week in the 1970’s. She has certainly come a long way since those days as is witnessed by her song Believe. This is one of …

A Great instrumental song by the german hard rock band The Scorpions is the track Coast To Coast off of the album Lovedrive. I really like this instrumental, I even got to see it live and it is the one track where a third guitar is played by the …

This female-fronted rock band has been around on the indie circuit for almost 10 years. The singer Chibi really reminds me of Fairuza Balk (the actress) in looks and expressions, and she has a great little-girl voice that can also get dark and growly. The band sort of travels …

Babylon is a song written by Scars On Broadway which appears on the track listing of their debut self-titled record. I will be very simple right now and say that I think this is the most developed track on the entire album and certainly has the best songwriting on …

Released August 25, 1975 Born to Run was Springsteen’s third album and was what could be argued his “make or break” album. His two previous albums, “Greetings from Asbury Park N.J” and “The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle” had brought him critical acclaim and his local …

I’m aware that I’ve been stating that many of the songs on The Black Album seem to be driven much more by Hetfield’s voice rather than the music itself, but I believe My Friend Of Misery is an exception to this. Whereas many of the previous tracks on this …

I was on the way home from work this evening when a gentle, lilting little love song came through the speakers. I was listening to Sirius radio which came with the car we just bought and decided to settle onto The Coffeehouse Channel. “Soul On The Line” …

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. …

Guitar Tricks is a website where you can take paid guitar lessons. The site covers all different styles of music and has a decent selection of lessons for guitar players. For those who want to check the site out you’ll find twenty or so free guitar lessons to …

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 …

One of my new favorite songs off of the new Slash album is By the Sword. The track features Wolfmother singer and guitarist Andrew Stockdale. I think Slash did a good job on having him sing for this song. It really fits his style as a rock vocalist …

American punk-rock band Green Day released their latest album in 2009. 21st Century Breakdown takes the group further along their progression towards conventional, radio-friendly pop-rock, but with a more grand, “classic rock” style which gives the work a little more credibility. It has three, five-track long “acts”, …

Mistress Dread is a song by Metallica and Lou Reed which is the fourth track on their collaboration album Lulu. Similar to the previous track, Pumping Blood, Mistress Dread starts out with an incredibly melodic sound which I personally think should’ve been the type of sound Reed should have …

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 …

Jay-Z
“Roc Boys (And the Winner Is…)”
American Gangster
Roc-A-Fella Records/Island Def Jam
Director: Chris Robinson
This is probably one of Jay-Z’s most celebrity-packed recent music videos as of yet. Following “Blue Magic”, “Roc Boys (And The Winner Is…)” is the second single and music video off of Jay-Z’s tenth album called “American Gangster” …

I hear so much hype over Soulja boy. So many little kids run around singing, that “hop up out the bed song”, including my little cousins. At first I liked Soulja Boy, ever since he came out with his first song, “Crank that Soulja Boy”. I liked the beat …

I have never really been a huge fan of Beyonce’s. But I am at least glad that she is breaking from some of that choppy singing that she does. In this song, she muses over the possibility of what it would be like if she were the …

I have chosen my review to be done over Usher’s latest song “Trading Places”… the video clip of this particular song has done an earth shaking over millions of people within these two days… the reporters as well as the people in general have given their point of views …

“Black Sails In The Sunset” is one of the premier punk albums of the 90s. Put simply, it is a solid record with no filler, and provides an hour of some of the best and fullest punk of the 1990s. It is certainly AFI’s best record in my opinion. …

If “4 Minutes” is any indication of how the new Madonna CD is going to sound, I think I’ll pass. While this song, produced and sung by Timbaland, Madonna and Justin Timberlake, has a few catchy beats, it can’t be compared to any of the artists earlier hits. The …

“Hollow” is the last track on “Vulgar Display of Power”. The song happens to be one of the plethora of singles that appear on the album. Needless to say, this is a classic metal album that everyone should own. Although it is technically Pantera’s 6th studio album, most people …

Oh, man, the good old days. Remember when Elvis Presley was an actor wearing those Hawaii clothes and little flowers around his neck? Well, I do. Growing up in my house, my dad constantly had an Elvis movie on. The Album, Blue Hawaii was released by RCA LSP/LPM in …

I love this album by Avenged Sevenfold, it is one of my favorites next to “Live in LBC and Diamonds in the Rough” because it has some amazing solos and the songs are really fun to play on guitar. Shadows’ vocals are pretty good in this album, but they …

Contra is the sophomore album by New York indie rock band Vampire Weekend. The opening track “Horchata” contains a rather calm verse that is occasionally punctuated by energetic drumming that reveals similar African roots as on their previous self-titled album. “White Sky” is a bouncy and whimsical track that …

No Cars Go is a song by Arcade Fire which appears on their second record, Neon Bible. Before getting into the bulk of this review, I should mention that this is a re-recorded version of a song that appeared on the band’s self-titled debut EP record. The song opens …

I saw a performance from Titanic: A New Musical on TV and was hooked. It might have been on Rosie O’Donnell’s old talk show, but whatever it was, I thought the performance was solid. Plus, as a student of the Titantic, I had to get this CD …

The song walk over you is one of AC/DC’s songs that have a lot of aggression in. This song off the album Highway to Hell would have to be one of my favorites on the album. The intro is made up of slow distortion power chords played by …

I Walk the Line is a song performed by Johnny Cash. In 1956 is when he recorded this song for Sun Records. It was a top seller of course because it was a song about the heart and people could relate to it in their own lives. It is …

Artist: Destiny’s Child
Video: Emotion
Album: Survivor
Label: Columbia Records
Director: Francis Lawrence
“Emotion” is the third single and music video from Destiny’s Child’s third album titled “Survivor”, following the previous singles and music videos - “Survivor” and “Bootylicious”. “Emotion” is the laid-back, sentimental third single which one should expect from most R&B and …

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 …

Aaliyah ft. Missy Elliot and Timbaland
“Hot Like Fire”
One In A Million
Blackground/Atlantic
Director: Lance “Un” Rivera
Aaliyah follows up “4 Page Letter” with “Hot Like Fire” and, man, I will tell you right now, I have never ever seen so much red and…well… fire ever before in a video than this one …

Led Zeppelin exploded onto the scene with a unique blend of bluesy guitar and a powerhouse rhythm.Their self titled debut album is legendary in helping to create the genre known as Heavy Metal.Beyond influence it remains an important piece of music in popular culture.I have always loved this band …

Artist: Mariah Carey
Video: There’s Got To Be A Way
Album: Mariah Carey
Label: Columbia Records
Director: Larry Jordan
“There’s Got To Be A Way” is the fifth and final single and music video from Mariah Carey’s first self-titled album, following the previous singles and music videos which are “Vision of Love”, “Love Takes …

To be honest I have mixed feelings about this album. There are certain aspects of this music that I really enjoy, that I truly appreciate. I think that the Killers moved onto a brand-new level that is worth praise. But at the same time there are those aspects of …

In 1982 and 1983, Fang released their first two LPs, “Landshark” and “Where The Wild Things Are”, a pair of albums that are about as good and solid as it gets in second wave punk. In 1997, they were paired together and re-released in one package, providing over 40 …

With Teeth is the title track of an album by Nine Inch Nails. With Teeth opens up with some brief noise before leading to a drum rhythm which sound somewhat awkward and then a synthesizer being played over this and finally a distorted guitar playing a bit of a …

I love listening to Adam Corolla on 107.5. I listen to his show every morning on my way to work and once I get to work I turn it on in my office so I can hear the rest of the show. I love how honest Adam Corolla is. …

Champagne From A Paper Cup is a song by Death Cab For Cutie which appears on their debut record Something About Airplanes. The song opens up with a simple guitar riff before a drum rhythm along with the vocals also come in. Something that I notice right away, which …

“In a world without heroes, there’s nothing to be. Its no place for me” is one of my favorite lyrics from “Music From the Elder” by KISS. I feel it is a very powerful line. It comes from the song “A World Without Heroes”, which …

Dancing With Mr. D is a song by The Rolling Stones which appears on their record Goats Head Soup. The track starts off with a fairly laid-back guitar riff from Richards which seems to have a blues feel to it but the drum rhythm sort of gives the song …

I really had a difficult time to understand what the first stanza means because I was really baffled on what the singer is trying to tell his audience. But when I played the song again and again, that is what I have understood because I can’t clearly get how …

I was so singing this song the other day celebrating my cousin’s birthday. We had a mini celebration in a country club and were having our own private Karaoke session. There were around 6 of us, and we had to choose around 3 songs. Amongst the 3 …

Overview —“ South Of Heaven, the fourth album released by Slayer, definitely slowed things down after the extremely thrash driven Reign In Blood. I know that when people tend to think of slayer they think of extremely heavy metal, but more importantly, they think of extremely fast metal. When …