Fans Go "Berzerk"

Shady’s back! And I mean that in more ways than one.

Eminem’s new album The Marshall Mathers LP II drops November 5^th of this year, and it claims to consist of a more old-school style.

“Let’s take it back to straight hip-hop and start it from scratch” says Eminem himself in his new single “Berzerk” featured on the new album.

Shady even went blonde again to legitify his return, creating a sequel to one of his most popular early albums.

So, as expected, fans went berserk.

But one thing is missing, right? Eminem’s last album, Recovery, featured motivational songs about moving on and getting over addictions. He had a (somewhat) new sound, and the album did really well.

So isn’t going back to his roots after such a drop sort of… counterproductive?

Well, if Eminem can go back and write like did during the first Marshall Mathers LP while sober, more power to him. After all, we can’t do anything but hope that the sequel will be good.

And if it’s half as good as the fans say it is going to be, he won’t disappoint.

Reggae Buddz Again!

It’s common knowledge that reggae was most popular in the late sixties and seventies. After all, nearly everyone recognizes the names Bob Marley and Peter Tosh. And hell, even the Beatles started to have some strong reggae vibes in their music. UB40, amongst a few similar bands, carried the genre through the eighties. But in the nineties, fans were taken back to reggae’s roots, as the decade seems now to be the rebirth of ska, a forerunner to the genre. Hugely popular bands formed like Sublime, Reel Big Fish, and Catch 22 that jerked ska back to the mainstream media.

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RIP Zach Sobiech

The world lost a little luster today as Zach Sobiech died of his osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer. The video about Zach and his life speaks for itself. Definitely worth a watch. 

And here's his song Clouds.

Matisyahu's Rise to the Top

2009 dropped “One Day,” a song that took most people by surprise. A new reggae artist had emerged that broke the stereotype. Instead of rocking natty dreadlocks, a beanie, and a baggie shirt, he wore an orthodox beard, peyos, a yamaka, and a traditional Jewish suit. And the kicker? He’s actually… good.

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Canadian Music’s Black Widow?

Avril Lavigne and Chad Kroeger from Nickelback are engaged, and I couldn’t be happier. Why? Well, it’s not out of some good-natured hope for their wellbeing—I think these two people are two of the worst music artists in the world. There is a lot of great Canadian music out there, but it is by no means represented by these horrid artists. No, my happiness stems from the fact that this marriage may just mean the end of Nickelback.

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Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball Review

Wrecking Ball is the first Springsteen album of original material without the E Street band in over seven years. Debuting at number one on both sides of the Atlantic and most likely on this side of the Pacific there is little doubt that the Springsteen brand and message still resonates as loud as ever.

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R.E.M. Disband, A Chapter in the History of Alternative Rock Comes to An End

The 1980s were dominated by progressive rock, disco and bands that still had a hangover of the 60s and 70s sound.R.E.M, when they started as a band in the early 1980s started a sound that was markedly different from the existing sound of that time, and influenced a number of bands to form a sound that became a genre in itself.

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When The Beatles Fought for Civil Rights Movement in the United States of America

The Civil Rights Movement, led by Martin Luther King Juniorand resulted in the eventual banning of racial segregation practiced in the U.S. In the year 1965, Rosa Parks, a black civil rights activist refused to get up from her seat in the bus, and thus started a boycott of public transportation by the black community for almost a year. While the heated activism continued in the hinterlands of America, Britain had already made it illegal to display racial discrimination in a public place.

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Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton Play the Blues – A review

Eric Clapton’s musical journey continues, this time with jazz giant and musicologist, Wynton Marsalis by his side.

Born out of mutual admiration, Play the Blues, as Marsalis says was merely the orchestration of the feeling generated by their friendship. If the concert is testament to their friendship then there is little doubt as to depth and mutual affection between the two men.

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Jeff Bridges, Jeff Bridges - A Review

The self-titled debut album for the academy award winning actor realizes the promise of his musicality as witnessed in his Oscar awarded performance in Crazy Heart.

Produced by renowned songwriter/producer T-Bone Burnett, the album is carefully crafted to play to Bridges’ strengths as a mature performer yet a first time bona fide recording artist. Bridges’ voice and Burnett’s production are a comfortable fit, a trait of Burnett’s producing where the voice is always out front in the mix, see Raising Sand, the Grammy award Robert Plant & Alison Krauss album as an example.

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