I'm Ready - Muddy Waters Biff! Bang! Pow! - The Creation Highway Star - Deep Purple Knives Out - The Flaming Lips Way To Blue - Nick Drake You're Much To Soon - Hall & Oates Cry Like A Baby [...]
View the whole list HERE, and download the top 3 below. One that strikes me as strange is The Beatles' I Feel Fine. It is a great guitar part, but does it qualify as one of the greatest "riffs" ever? I'm afraid I don't feel fine about that. Their justification: All said, I'd take "She Said, [...]
If you've got a free hour and a half, check out the documentary My Kid Could Paint That about 4-year old painting sensation Marla Olmstead . For nothing else, it makes good old Charlie Rose look like one of the biggest dicks of all time as he goes after Marla as possibly a fraud in a segment for 60 Minutes . I couldn't find the particular 60 Minutes segment on YouTube but the trailer has some segment of the piece: [...]
Dead Child Genre: Metal / Thrash / Rock From: Louisville, Kentucky United States Metal is one of those genres that has never appealed to me. Rightly or wrongly I associate the genre with overly macho posturing, sexist portrayal of women and an unbearable over reliance on bludgening guitar histrionics over lyrical intelligence just leave me cold. [...]
another close almost 'weak tuneage wednesday'. also, there's gonna be less until i gets my laptop fixed. the pogues - squid out of water devastations - i don't want to lose you tonight the cyrkle - red rubber ball the smashing pumpkins - jennifer ever [...]

Karmadoza Genre: Rock / Metal From: Montreal, Quebec, Canada Some ideas are so brilliant you wonder why no-one had ever thought of it before and some ideas are just so mad that you wonder why anyone ever thought of them in the first place. Montreal's Kardamoza's idea to record a heavy rock tribute to the B52's falls into the latter. That must [...]
I'm learning a bit about myself while in Italy. Yesterday for instance, while driving in the hills of Chianti in Tuscany, I learned that some wineries put small, unassuming electrical fences around their vineyards. Those fences are probably installed to keep the deer away. After trying to reach through to grab some grapes, however, I realized that they serve another purpose - to keep out Americans. My left arm was numb for about an hour. Since the Tuscans tried to kill me, my wife and I traveled south and arrived in Rome today. We wanted to feast [...]
Zu diesem Thema ist in letzter Zeit wahrlich genug Wasser auf die Mühlen gekippt worden. Eigentlich ist schon alles gesagt, was gesagt werden kann - die einen finden's gut, die andern nicht. Und diejenigen, die nichts sagen, die haben nichts zu sagen oder denen ist es schlicht und ergreifend wurscht, weil sie z.B. keine Kneipengänger sind. Standesgemäss verspritz ich jetzt dazu doch noch etwas

Is it me or is it getting extremely hard to believe anything anyone says anymore? I don't mean just the people you'd expect to be full of it, like attorneys, politicians and the media. It seems people put more of an effort into covering their ass at the expense of the truth these days, and one needs to be really astute at picking up the negativity, or the ramifications can be annoying as hell. This isn't any kind of rant (you can find whiney rant blogs elsewhere on the internet I'm sure), just an observation. Actually, things are kind of [...]

The final gate stood before them, its adamantite bars shining in the flickering torchlight. Beyond lay the inner sanctum of the Gheshezimar the Witch King. The muscular half orc snorted dismissively. The stink of foul magic was heavy in the air. The end of his journey was near at hand, a quest for vengeance that had bought him across half of Xyrolia. Gheshezimar's thrice-damned soul would join those of his spider-limbed minions in the Abyss. The barbarian gripped the bars in his massive hands and attempted to lift the gate. The sinews in his shoulder blades knotted and [...]
To be honest (as so I often am) I have been putting this episode off as it really isn't my speciality. Despite it not being a favourite genre, I was always going to do it due to the importance of many of these bands. Though some may hate me for doing it, others would hate me more for not. While it may be defined as metal, it bears little resemblance to some of the heavy metal infecting our modern ears today, which I would happily put under the category of noise rather than music. No these are the 'classic metal' [...]
"Sounds like a culture clash!" -- Tom on the quality gulf between Japanese and American recorder construction ?I want him to get caught, but I just want to see him just beat the odds for 40 minutes." -- Tom, wishing for an airborne predator "You want me to go after someone from Destiny's Child? You?re first, buddy." -- God, sorting out his pecking order and targeting Spike for damnation "Can?t let some numbskull drive the bus. I?m driving the bus! It?s my show!? -- Tom, revoking [...]
cybercoder: If there was one album, and especially one song that had a major impact on me, it had to be the Hemispheres album by Rush , and the key piece of music was "La Villa Strangiato." I was already a fan, Rush 2112 was my very first concert and I went to see them a total of 6 times over the years. I just had to convince my older brother, the drummer to check them out.... [...]
Today, April 14th is Ritchie Blackmore's birthday. Ritchie Blackmore and his band, Blackmore´s Night, have released their new album "Village Lanterne." He and his partner, vocalist Candice Night, delve deeper into their love of medieval music, without sacrificing Blackmore's original style. Blackmore doesn't deny his rock roots, but weaves them into unique form of creative expression, combining melodic vocals and virtuoso guitar patterns. You can hear some very interesting instrumentation as well, which just goes to show that Blackmore and company continue to develop their own [...]