What does it sound like when a bluegrass band covers Van Halen? Or when Ozzy Osbourne covers the Bee Gees? OR when a jazz band goes thrash? OR, and this is could be the craziest of them all, a Crash Test Dummy puts a spin on Britney Spears?

There is only one way to find out and that is by listening to the latest addition of the Social Blend Craniummelody episode.

And, for all of you who like a little talk mixed with your music, we talk in depth about the merits of cover music, share some interesting music trivia that you probably never knew and much, much more.

Go listen to Social Blend now because it is guaranteed to brighten your day (Not kidding either!).

What do you get when you grab a Geek of Doom (Greg Davies), an electronic musician who loves gaming (Terr Ciavarra) and a music blogging folk rock musician dad (me) and record their conversation?

You get a podcast filled with…

• Songs by underrated musicians that pretty pretty damn good
• Music facts that I bet you may not know but wished you had (or not, fun either way)
• Insight on being a dad and musician (Greg asked what my kids thought about their daddy being a musician)
• An exploration of Micheal Bolton the rocker versus Micheal Bolton the crooner (this will surprise you)
• A little Google+ for bands chat (We just couldn’t resist)
• The merits of being an “analog” artist versus a “digital” artist and something about vinyl.
• And some other stuff I missed

Quick, can you think of any movies that have some under-rated music? Yeah? So did we and we decided to pick a few of those tunes and play them for you on the latest installment of the Cranium Melody episode on the Social Blend Podcast.

Go listen to Cranium Melody V now and listen as Greg, Joe and myself talk music and movies.

It is time once again for another installment of Cranium Melody. This is a podcast where I get together with Greg and Joe over at the Social Blend Podcast and do nothing but talk about and play music from pretty much any genre.

In this installment we each went deep into our personal archives to dig out some tunes that are either not well know (and good) or are very old and have special meaning.

Go listen to Cranium Melody IV now and check out all the links and videos in the show notes (great job Greg and Joe).

After years of reviewing and sharing other peoples music with you, I finally decided it was time to throw my hat in the ring by writing and recording some music of my own. Better yet, I am giving you the chance to listen to it and review it.

The name of my debut CD is “Never Too Late”. You can check out every song by stopping by the music page on my site PlanetCorey.com.

Better yet, can get 3 of my downloads, each with a personal introduction, for free by visiting my fanlist signup page now.

If you want to review it, all I ask is that you are completely honest. You can either put your thoughts in the comments below, on my artist site, your blog OR if you have a site or social media profile (Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc), you could share and post it there.

Anyway, go grab your tunes now. I’m excited to hear what you think.

Well I finally did it, I recorded my very own song and I want to share it with you. Also, since I am the one normally doing all of the reviewing, I thought it would be fun to turn the tables around and give you all a chance to review me – either in the comments below, via my contact form or your blog.

I call the song “Change the World” and you can check it out now by visiting my personal site PlanetCorey.com.

It is just me, my acoustic guitar and my message.

This is something I’ve been meaning to do for quite awhile now and I have to tell you, I’ve been missing out. It is extremely fun to record music and it is hard to describe the feeling of hearing something I started from scratch playing back at you.

I’m addicted and I am a songwriting junky right now. I can’t wait to get back in the studio to record the next one.

Anyway, remember that you can share your review in the comments below, via the contact form, on your own site OR any social networking profile blog you might have (Facebook, MySpace, iMeem, etc). I don’t care what you say – since I am a big boy and can take it – all I ask is that you are honest and constructive.

Hope you like it and I can’t wait to hear what you guys think.