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Michael Jackson is dead. In the BEST tribute ever, once again and without further ado, the Phillipino prisoners performing the Thriller Video....

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Before elaborating on the topic at hand, introductions are in order. First of all, there is Sinergy, an absolutely mind-blowing Finnish power metal band. Perhaps you have heard some of their songs – Midnight Madness, The Warrior Princess, Last Escape are good examples. As you can already tell, their music has a tinge of epic adventure quality mixed with fantastic guitar riffs. Then there is At Vance, another impressive power metal band with German origins. Sinergy tends to experiment with black metal while At Vance seems to prefer a more ballad-style music. Noteworthy songs? Answer Me, Cold as Ice and Lost in Your Love. There is also Rough Silk, yet another power metal group from Germany. The themes of their melodic tunes flick between darker topics, with an occasional reference to the paranormal world. Nosferatu, Walls of Never and The Fiddler on the Skeletal Horse are just some interesting mentions. Read more

All actors have two things in common when they start out on their road to stardom:  they are broke, and they love to be in front of the camera.  It's a dangerous combination that often leads to embarrassing clips that tend to rear up later in their career.  Since music videos don't (normally) require any kind of speaking (or talent, for that matter) they are an ideal way for unknown and inexperienced actors to earn some cash and add a credit to their portfolio of work.

Most actors, even those who are hugely successful now, have had to start somewhere.  Normally that somewhere is a job that they later quickly scratch off their resumés, but fortunately for us, TV, magazines and the internet aren't so quick to forget, and there are plenty of clips available to watch fledgling stars in the clumsy developing stages of their career before Hollywood came a-calling. Read more

And now for some hardcore Industrial Metal – Rammstein. Of course, they are not sombre and somewhat disconcerting like Laibach. Rather, this famous German band offers interesting lyrics, creative if at times macabre videos and of course, beautiful music. Read more

A word of advice to bands; when the brilliant notion of doing a cover enters your mind, do heed how the end product will sound. Will it carry the song into a whole new level, giving it new layers of depth and meaning? Or will it be the yardstick measurement of what not to do?

Well, this is one instance where a song cover did exceptionally well.

The song in question? Eleanor Rigby and the band of the hour is Godhead.

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If you have ever heard the hit single by James Blunt, “Your Beautiful,” where he sings in a very high voice with a romantic guitar riff in the background, than you already know of the song that I am talking about. Now to the point: Weird Al Yankovic made a song to parody this hit single called “Your Pitiful.” But the song never really and never truly will, see the light of the day for Al, or James. You see both artists were in agreement here that they did indeed want to have a funny parody of the tune floating around for people to enjoy, but other forces that were greater than they prevented their endeavors from ever truly becoming a reality. Read more

If you have never heard of Tom Lehrer before, it is more than likely because you are too young to know about him, myself included. However, my parents, and their parents grew up listening to this musical genius, who was also a tenured profession at a well known Ivy League school, and who happened to be a leading scientist during the late 1940s, and the early 1950s, before he started touring the world to offer up his brand of comedy.

A comedic, and in your face performance, especially considering the day and age where nobody talked about anything that was socially unacceptable—but Mr. Lehrer begged to differ, and did it quite well too! Rather, the comedic musical fathoming of Tom Lehrer broke many social taboos of the day, equally offending the masses. But in turn, also made even more people laugh out loud. So like Elvis Presley was to Rock and Roll, Tom Lehrer was equally to comedic music. Read more

Calling all Weird Al fanatics, and those who may have never fancied this odd cat in the past: his newest video—‘White and Nerdy’—is amongst his best to-date, and is complimented by a larger production budget, great editing and some really funny and catchy lyrics that will most certainly make you laugh out loud more than once. Spawned by his newer album, “Straight Outta Lynwood,” which hit store shelves about a year and a half ago, where Al takes on a new satire: making fun of rap songs and rapping. Yes, I know, he already did something similar to this in his funny music video hit, parodying the Coolio Song, entitled “Amish Paradise”; (A satire from Coolio’s ‘Gansta Paradise.)

But this time it’s a fast rapping, hard hitting, total dork that is Al, trying to be a cool gangster rapper, but entirely failing in all of his sordid attempts. And if you had thought that you had seen everything that Al could ever make that was funny, think again! Read more