The Black Crowes released the studio album,”Lions,” in 2001.The CD received mixed commercial success due in part to singles like “Lickin’” and “Soul-Singing”.I found the album to combine elements of Southern Rock, Gospel, Blues, and Folk influence.The album succeeds in using all of these elements for a solid listening …

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 …

Horseshoes And Handgrenades is a song by Green Day which appears on their most recent studio effort, 21st Century Breakdown. Before I begin, I would say that with only Christian’s Inferno being the only real competition, Horseshoes And Handgrenades is easily the most aggressive track on the record so …

Telephone is a song by Lady Gaga which appears on her album The Fame Monster. The track opens up with a fairly quiet mood which serves as a nice contrast to the majority of the track which is much more lively and energetic. I think that a nice thing …

I think that the 1999 Issues is Korn’s greatest work. It is the first album by them that I got hold of, and I was strongly impressed by the music. I was rather young when I got a hold of this record, it was before their 2002 release Untouchables, …

Like A Rolling Stone, is a track which appears on the record which is considered to be Bob Dylan’s best throughout his entire career and also one of the greatest records in the history of rock and roll, Highway 61 Revisited. I want the stress that the reputation and …

I am not sure how many of you are familiar with the the song “Satisfaction” by Benny Benassi. But the connection it has with the song I am writing about is the background music!
I first heard Move Shake Drop by Pitbull feat. DJ Laz and Flo Rida on television. …

When I first heard of this band, I didn’t really know to much about them other than they sounded a lot like Killswitch Engage. Well I got more than I bargained for. When I borrowed this CD from my friend Jacob, I was soon to find out that they …

R&B Sensation Trey Songz released his 5th album in August 2012, titled “Chapter V”. It debuted at number one on the Billboard charts. Trey Songz has been on a span of hit records since the Step Up 3D Soundtrack single “Already Taken”, to the singles for this album which …

If there’s a popstar that I believe could make a hit after hit without tiring the general audience, I will probably say it is Katy Perry. Her presence in the music industry is pretty much felt in the span of almost a decade, (gosh it makes me feel old) …

Assassin is a track by Muse which appears on their album Black Holes And Revelations. Interestingly enough, I just finished reviewing Soldier’s Poem which is another track on this record and Assassin is like the complete opposite of that track. Whereas Soldier’s Poem is a very melodic song and …

All by myself is another good song by Celine Dion. This song is about a person who never cares about love and who used to think that love is for fun but realize that it is sad to be alone.I always hear this song too many Music Bars. This …

The Reincarnation Of Benjamin Breeg is a song by Iron Maiden which appears on their record A Matter Of Life And Death. The track opens up with a melodic guitar lead over a clean guitar part as well as a mellow bass line from Harris. The vocals start in …

The Black Eyed Peas used to be one of my favorite groups but they have recently started to annoy me. All of their songs are heavily edited to the point where you wonder if you are actually hearing their true voices. They try way too hard at being “futuristic”, …

Believe it or not, but Italian music is not only Al Bano and Romina Power and Eros Ramazzotti. So far, the work of musicians from the peninsula was not a global object of desire, but that may soon change the album “Eden” Yummare group makes that we can be …

A great live DVD by a great progressive band is the Rush live in Rio DVD. This is a really good live DVD. It features the three virtuosos playing a big set in Rio and the crowd just goes crazy especially for the big Rush songs like Tom Sawyer, …

The Hard Rock band Tesla has always been one of my favorite bands and they were different then most of those glam bands in the Mid 80’s with not only their hard rock looks but with also their Blues/Hard Rock sound. One of the great albums by them …

It’s Only Rock —˜N Roll (But I Like It) is a track by The Rolling Stones and the title track to their record It’s Only Rock —˜N Roll. This track opens up in a pretty laid-back way and the rhythm is pretty relaxed and the first verse of the …

The Conjuring is a song by Megadeth which appears on their record Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying? The track opens up with a distorted guitar part which has a very eerie and ominous sound which fits nicely with the title of the track. Mustaine comes in with the vocals …

Fixin’ To Die Blues is a cover performed by Bob Dylan which appears on his self-titled debut record. I’ve read that Dylan’s version of the song is actually pretty different than the original because he changes around the vocal melody along with some lyrics so we’ll see how this …

When it comes to dark jazz, the average listener tends to think of the melancholic and sedative performances of the likes of Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, perhaps even Miles Davis in his addiction years. But what most don’t realize is that, as a genre, dark jazz had never fully …

From A Buick 6 is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on his record Highway 61 Revisited. The track starts off with a pretty energetic and the instrumentation sounds extremely full, similar to how it did on the title track for this record. Dylan’s vocal performance matches with …

2000 Light Years Away is a track by Green Day which appears on their album Kerplunk. One thing I’ll note that I like right away about this song is that the bass is extremely prominent in the mix and you can also definitely hear this sense of energy coming …

Everytime I listen this song, I feel all the emotion is blend become one. This song is really unique, the mix of hip hop, jazz, swing, and dance are come in one melody in this song. But I think mostly the genre is hip hop, but the sound of …

I rarely appreciate R & B music and thinks these songs are just plain addition to the music genre but does not have “sense” to begin with. I guess I was proved wrong when Boyz II Men have emerged from the scene and made it well in the charts, …

Besides the two musical epics on American Idiot, Jesus Of Suburbia and Homecoming, I think that I would have to say that Letterbomb is my favorite, for lack of a better word, —˜normal’ song. I believe there’s just something about Armstrong’s vocals on this track which is brilliant and …

Wot’s… Uh The Deal is a song by Pink Floyd which appears on their record Obscured By Clouds. The track starts off with a very melodic acoustic guitar part which has an excellent feel and a great sound in my opinion, it also builds up very nicely for the …

This is 3 doors down’s first major label album released in 2000 on Universal Records. You could call this album post grunge I guess, there are heavy parts but it’s not really a heavy album. Singles include Kryptonite Loser, and Be Like That. The album is a really interesting …

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 …

Ciara ft. 50 Cent
“Can’t Leave ‘Em Alone”
Ciara: The Evolution
LaFace Records
Director: The Fat Cats
Ciara follows up “Get Up”, “Promise”, and “Like A Boy” with “Can’t Leave ‘Em Alone”, all from her sophomore effort, “Ciara: The Evolution”. Ciara reunites with one of her favorite directors this time around, The Fat Cats. …

Released on October 16, 2009, Design Your Universe is the fifth studio album from the Dutch Symphonic Metal band Epica. It managed to continue the “A New Age Dawn” saga, introduced in the 2005 album “Consign To Oblivion”.
On the overall, it’s the band’s best album so far. It features …

Overview - Reload, the second half of Metallica’s double album, continues with the style change Metallica introduced on Load but doesn’t really expand or develop it. Generally the album feels basically the same as Load felt for me: some of the songs were brilliant, some were solid, and some …

Two years ago last boxing day I purchased my Fender ‘Diamond Anniversary’ American Stratocaster guitar. I believe I have owned the guitar long enough now to say I know how it plays, and to be able to fairly review it.
The Stratocaster is a very versatile guitar, as it is …

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 …

The Clock is a song by Thom Yorke which appears on his debut solo album, The Eraser. The track opens up with a simple rhythm as more instrumentation gradually begins to join in to make the song have a fuller overall sound. This simple rhythm continues on for a …

The Dixi Chicks sing the song “Travelin Soldier”. It is a song about a young man who joins the army at 18 and a girl who thinks she is in love with him. Her friends keep telling her that she is to young for the soldier, but she refuses …

Few people outside of the professional musical theatre world have yet to experience “Bright Lights, Big City.” Although some productions of this new show (a rock-musical with music and lyrics by Paul Scott Goodman) have begun to spring up in such cities as Philadelphia, the off-Broadway run of this …

Brie Larson’s song life after you is a song I like to listen to and I like to tell my friends to listen to it after their boy friends break up with them just because it says there can be life after you break up and you should not …

Lupe Fiasco is one of the opponents of hip hops status quo, and I respect him for it. It seems he just likes to oppose the way of doing things. In my opinion he is one of the more intellectual rappers in this generation. He refuses to sing about …

Usually I’m good with words, but I’m finding it hard to describe just how amazing this band is. It’s a shame not many have heard of them, this is a band every rock-lover should hear! I guess you could say I’ve heard “Nothing Like This” before!
Heh, little reference to …

XM hitlist is a channel on directv that is a music channel. They always have music on. I really like this channel because they have really good music on about ninety percent of the time. Whenever I want to listen to music I always turn to this channel first, …

Overview —“ Surfing With The Alien, the second album released by Joe Satriani, is another of Satriani’s albums to be completely instrumental and driven primarily by his guitar work. One thing that I always liked about Satriani is that he wasn’t really one of the shredders who just played …

Dean Martin (1917-95), —˜the Master of Cool’, one of the top all-round United states performers and participant of the —˜Rat Pack’, which also composed Honest Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr, was best known as a musician, though he was also a comic and acting professional, celebrity of the …

A friend of mine who decided that they were going to get me hooked to indie pop music as well, decided that they were going to introduce me to an Australian indie pop band called “The Lucksmiths”. I think that they started their band in the nineteen nineties or …

Snoop Dogg is a west rap artist. He is one of the best rappers of all time from the west coast. Snoop Dogg has made many rap albums in hsi lifetime and done many things to help the youth in the world. Snoop is a good role model for …

The Continuing Adventures Of Feeling Down And Out is a song by Sledding With Tigers and is the second song to appear on their second release, The Hill Sheep. Just as the first song on this album did, The Continuing Adventures Of Feeling Down And Out actually also opens …

When I first heard the songs in the album Destination Anywhere, I feel less like the kind of music played by Jon Bon Jovi and accompanying musicians. At first, I was quickly bored with the composition of the tone that I find seem monotonous. This is very different from …

I have known Moby as a well respected electronica musician who has been in the music business since the early nineties. His music climax, in my opinion, was this very album, “Play” (1999). (In fact, this album saved his career!) I have listened to this album since about 2005 …

I watched Making the Band on MTV once or twice, simply because I like entertainment and like to see what the new singing groups are going to come up with next. When I saw Day 26 on the program I was so disappointed. I have …

Since the start of the I got your back song of Keri Hilson and T.I. I started to be a fan of Keri. Actually while watching the video of I got your back, I came to see this another video of her, another single coming from her album No …