MMP023 - Hard and Heavy Special Featuring Firewind, WASP, and George Lynch
Monday, June 2nd, 2008A quick multiple choice for you. Which answer below describes the best way for you to enjoy this special metal episode?
A) Listen to during your workout or run.
B) Listen while standing around the keg or having a few brews with friends.
C) Listen to supercharge the start of your day.
D) Listen to while surfing the web or gaming.
E) Listen to while commuting.
F) All of the above.
Find out why you should have answered with “F” by pressing play now.
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MMP016 - Cover Song Buffet featuring the Songs of Tom Petty, Alice Cooper and Paul McCartney
Monday, March 3rd, 2008I’ve collect a few covers over the last few months and, simply put, it is time to share them with you. As far as style goes, I have a little bit of everything in this one; pop, rock, and metal are all represented.
Press play and see how well these artists
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Here are the songs heard on this podcast and links to each artists website. Check them out.
Blake Morgan - “Maybe I’m Amazed” (Paul McCartney and Wings cover)
Clark Datchler - “Shattered Dreams” (Johnny Hates Jazz cover)
Joe Colledge - “American Girl” (Tom Petty cover)
Echo of Souls - “Games Without Frontiers (peter gabriel cover)”
Wensday - “Only Women Bleed” (Alice Cooper cover)
Website mentioned in this podcast.
Coverville
These and a ton of other great artists can be found on the Pod Safe Music Network
Airbourne Kicks Ass
Saturday, March 1st, 2008For those of you who have the slightest taste for great hard rock, you need to check out the band Airbourne ASAP. They kinda look like AC/DC, they kinda sound like AC/DC, and they effing rock like AC/DC (maybe even more as of late).
From the first song through the last they don’t let their foot of the pedal. Hard driving, king size cockrock with a capital C. I am addicted.
Download the whole thing because every song kicks ass. Trust me.
For those of you in Twin Cities area - or in the upper midwest - these guys will be at The Rock Nightclub in Maplewood, MN on the April 12th with another great new band EndeverafteR (check out podcast 015). That should be a great show and I am not going to miss it. In fact I am going to buy six tickets right now.
If anyone wants to hook up at the show or ride up with me let me know. I’d like to get nice group together. And with tickets only being $8 measly dollars there should be no excuses. Hell maybe we can get a few rooms and really party.
Lets try to hook up a caravan and ride up there together.
MMP015 - Hard Rock and Metal Block featuring EndeverafteR, Tantric and OTEP
Friday, February 15th, 2008Welcome to the show that you turn up loud. A hard rock and heavy metal music feast. Join me as I celebrate sinister growls and pulse pounding distortion.
Press play, turn it up and get your freakin’ metal on.
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Here are the songs heard on this podcast and links to each artists website. Check them out.
Tantric - “Down and Out”
Urbansnake - “Kill Your Master”
Zamarro - “Satans Arms”
OTEP - “Breed”
Groove Pipe - “Rain Cloud”
Andrew Pfaff - “Off Road Vehicle”
EndeverafteR - “I Wanna Be Your Man” (download this tune free on eMusic)
Websites and article mentioned in this podcast.
Rock my Monkey.com and the interview with the Metal God Rob Halford
Heavyashell.com
These and a ton of other great artists can be found on the Pod Safe Music Network
MMP008 - Metal Music APB
Sunday, January 6th, 2008Once in awhile I hear tunes that I just need to share immediately. Today is that once in awhile. Check it. If you like your metal punchy, crunchy and mean then you have to check out the songs on this podcast.
Press play now and hear a few tunes from the Brazilian metal band Shadowside.
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Here are songs heard on this podcast and a link to the bands website. Check them out.
Shadowside - “Rainbow in the Dark” and “Red Storm” (download Red Storm and 24 other tunes for free on eMusic)
Shadowside and a ton of other great artists can also be found on the Pod Safe Music Network
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Uncensored and Raw: Witness Life on the Road with the Band Jetboy
Monday, December 10th, 2007You and I both have our ideas about what life must be like for rock bands on the road. Whether it the penthouse suites and first class treatment of superstars like Bon Jovi or the lonely outsider depiction outlined in Bob Seger’s melancholy classic “Turn the Page.” Today you get a chance to see - and hear - for yourself what it’s like for lesser known, harder working bands to be on the road.
For a few weeks now, I have been following a guy named Micheal Butler around the Midwest. Micheal Butler is the host of one of my favorite podcasts called the Rock and Roll Geek Show. Since he is also the hired gun on bass for the band Jetboy - who is on tour with Ratt frontman Stephen Pearcy - he is documenting snippets of the tour on video and audio for all to see.
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Music Review: The Prog Metal Sounds of the Daughters of Fission
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
I am a big fan of all kinds of music but, back in the day, it was metal that caught my attention first. After weeks of listening to a ton of great music from other genre’s, I have to admit, I was a little excited when I received a review request from a metal band.
The Daughters of Fission bill their sound as a mix of rock, alternative and progressive but I will go ahead and throw them into the metal bin as well.
You can hear elements of Tool and Dream Theater (Stereomud even came to mind on a couple occasions). I would not put the Daughters of Fission in the same category instrumentally or compare them talent wise just yet, but they have a good start on developing a sound that uniquely their own.
Here are a few songs I was really into. Don’t let the opening piano on “behind the primates” fool you this song this song rocks hard. Probably my favorite in the album. The song “torso of…” has sort of an 80’s new wave thing going on and is probably the best tune vocally. The final cut “ape’ is just over a minute long but it packs a serious punch. Pure old school thrash and I love love it.
Every songs is solid and worth a listen if you appreciate rock or metal. The sound quality of the music is excellent (props to the production team). Only suggestion would be to involve some more lead guitar by adding some solos and fills. There were many songs where some solid lead guitar could have brought the songs to a higher level but it was nonexistent.
But don’t take my word for it, go see for yourself. You can check them out on MySpace or if you’d like you can download the DRM free high quality version of “Abandonatomy” free of charge on eMusic now (click on buy above).
Serve with headphones while surfing the web or playing video games. Also would be good mixed in a play list and turned up when having a few beers with your metal buddies.
How About a Little Rush! (Video)
Saturday, July 28th, 2007Do you wanna see a cool music video? Check out this animated video set to the band Rush’s classic instrumental.
Props to Rush on a great song and also to a creative individual named Bobby Standridge. Bobby Standridge explains the inspiration for this video on Neil Peart’s website.
Music Review: VH1 Classic Presents: Metal Mania - Stripped, Vol. 2: The Anthems
Monday, June 11th, 2007If you like to read reviews and hear about new bands and artists then you are in luck. I am going to start doing at least one album review per week. I have been doing some advertising on a few other sites and I am pretty sure it will produce some content for me to review. Many bands and artists out there are looking for exposure and I want to give it to them if they are good.
To get the ball rolling, I am going to review a compilation. Besides being out for a few years now (and having the longest title in the title in my collection), this album and its tracks incorporate a lot of what Musicgoat music is all about. It almost doesn’t matter what your taste in music is with this cd. Metalheads, Indie, Acoustic and Blues fans alike will appreciate many of these cuts.
Let me start with the highlights. Cinderella really surprised me on “Shake Me.” I almost didn’t recognize it at first. They took a relatively straight forward rock song, slowed it down and painted on some cozy blues texture. The harmony’s, the riffs… yummy.
I was literally addicted to LA Guns acoustic version of “Sex Action.” The song is almost sleazier in acoustic. I like.
“Here I Go Again” is a great strummer and really highlights David Coverdale’s vintage 70’s howling-hard blues vocals.
With a guilty pleasure factor of 15 on a scale from 1 to 10 there is just something about Jani Lanes version of “Cherry Pie.” A tip for the guys; careful how loud you have this one up when the windows are down in your car. Trust me!
Not sure how I feel about “Rock You Like A Hurricane” by the Scorpions. The song has been brutally overplayed for years now but I guess it was nice to hear another version. It is alright but I’m not sure if the arrangement goes well with the theme. It doesn’t really rock like a hurricane, more like a very mild thunderstorm.
Everything else is pretty decent, except the following. Listen at your own risk.
I have always been a fan of Ratt but don’t even waste your time with this unrecognizable, disappointing and almost confusing version of “Round and Round.” What the hell?
Poisons Talk Dirty to me doesn’t do anything except beg for distortion. Nelson “Love and Affection”… no comment.
All labels aside, this CD has a little something for everyone. This was quite a surprise and an adventure for an old metalhead like myself. Check it out - VH1 Classic Presents: Metal Mania - Stripped, Vol. 2: The Anthems
P.S. Have something you want me to review? No problem! Just fill out the info using my Contact page and let me know what it is. I will see what I can do.