“Paying Guest” lacks freshness, has boring lyrics (Music Review): BollySite

“Paying Guest” lacks freshness, has boring lyrics (Music Review): Film: “Paying Guest” Music Director: Sajid-Wajid Lyricist: Jalees Sherwani, Wajid Ali and A.K. Upadhyay Singers: Shaan, Earl D’Souza, Wajid Ali, Sonu Nigam, Amrita Kak and Sunidhi Chauhan Rating: ** Composer duo Sajid-Wajid’s music is usually fast-pa

Music Review: Mandy Moore more grown-up on ‘Amanda Leigh,’ but needs to grow more (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Sure, Mandy Moore has grown up. She’s 25, married to singer-songwriter Ryan Adams and pushing past the teen-pop territory of her younger days, as she did on 2007’s decidedly adult “Wild Hope.”

Music Review: Mandy Moore more grown-up on ‘Amanda Leigh,’ but needs to grow more (The Morning Call)
Mandy Moore, “Amanda Leigh” (Storefront)

Music Review: Still Flyin’ - Never Gonna Touch The Ground (Blogcritics.org)
Still Flyin’ isn’t your conventional band, and oddly enough reggae, ska, or indie seemingly doesn’t appear appropriate for them.

Solomon Burke – Nashville (CD)
I see a lot of parallels in Solomon Burke and Johnny Cash. I started thinking about the comparisons when I read that “Nashville” was Burke’s cover album, where ey takes on country classics by individuals as widespread as Tom T. Hall, Dolly Parton, and Don Williams. This is similar to the American series of CDs that were released by Johnny Cash. Looking at a history of Burke, the sheer amount of recordings that ey has done since coming onto the scene in 1962 (as a fresh-faced 22 year old) paralle

TMR Music Review: Chickenfoot
What the hell is Chickenfoot you may ask? This is Heavy Metal’s new super group with Sammy Hagar (Montrose, Van Halen) on vocals, Joe Satriani on guitar, Michael Anthony (Van Halen) on bass and Chad Smith (The Red Hot Chili Peppers) on drums. Sounds like really good Van Halen but with great drumming and a guitarist that didn’t stop innovating 20 years ago. Joe Satriani sounds so much better with a full band. I have only heard a sampling but this is the best stuff I have heard in a long time,

Music Review: Playing for Change: Songs Around the World
Hi all… To be moved by music is a wondrous feeling. Whether you are moved to feel, dance, sing, or play, there is something about music that reverberates through each of us. And even in a world feeling lost and afraid in the face of global changes, music is one thing that can bring us together. Add to that the need to keep music alive and you find a group of people doing some remarkable things around the world. Even in the midst of poverty, war, or famine, the Playing for Change Foundatio

A Night With Leonard Cohen
Image by Michael Foley Photography via Flickr Laura and I went to see Leonard Cohen last night at Radio City Music Hall. It was one of the best live performances I’ve ever seen. Impressively, at age 74, Cohen carried on for over three hours, both entertaining and humble, with several rounds of standing ovations. Don’t mean to get freaky, but his writing and music helped me through my teens and twenties. I’m glad I saw this performance — perhaps among his last, given his age. He’s on

Brookside – Tonight, Long Island (CD)
I still remember the first time I saw Brookside live. It was in a coffee shop in Greencastle, Indiana wwhen only about twenty individuals were in attendance. Despite the poor acoustics of the venue, the energy of Brookside was able to shine. This energy is the same on “Tonight, Long Island”. I know that both the Purevolume and Myspace pages of Brookside have tracks by the band, but having the better bitrate and the context of these songs placed alongside another makes this immediately one of the