Music

Anyone who has read my music reviews knows that I adore when well-known artists and songs are included on soundtracks. With that in mind, of course I loved this album! I was taken back to my youth and, yes, I was singing along to each and every song. Read More

Ozzy is back in action as this week's featured artist for Rock Band downloads. Eight of his songs are available today for purchase across all platforms, either as a full songpack or individually. Read More

When I heard that Fandomania had received a copy of SOCOM 4 for review, I jumped on it because of all the great things I've read about Bear McCreary's work. I had pretty high expectations for this soundtrack from the beginning, therefore, and I was not Read More

A couple of weeks ago, I featured covers of geeky songs. This time I’m featuring non-geeky songs covered by geeky artists. There are some repeat artists on this list, but there are several new ones as well. The list is arranged somewhat loosely by genre Read More

Lady Gaga celebrates her new album release with some new downloadable tracks for Rock Band while Foreigner returns to the game with two more songs this week. Read More

The soundtrack to The Tree of Life has a sense of ambiguity that is its biggest asset, inviting its listeners on a journey to discover an undiscoverable truth. And what a beautiful-sounding journey that is. Read More

For the casual listener, Age of Heroes is not a bad soundtrack, and the cuts that contain the main theme are especially enjoyable. It does not stand up to the scrutiny of a close listening, however, and while it does the job as intended, it is just not Read More

Pantera brings a four pack of songs to Rock Band this week, while a live track from Peter Frampton rounds out the new downloadable releases. Read More

For this soundtrack to a documentary about the films, home movies, and newsreels that make up the Library of Congress's National Film Registry, Peter Golub has done a good (albeit sometimes a bit clichéd) job of capturing a "Classic American Movie" kind Read More

I’ve been a fan of the podcast Coverville (as well as a Coverville citizen) for a long time and have been compiling lists of geek music related covers. First up is a list of covers of songs that were originally performed by geeky artists. I’ve also Read More

This is not your run-of-the-mill movie music compilation album. If, however, you want a different take on movie music and would like to hear some of your favorite composers in a whole new light or if you are a fan of easy-listening piano, then it is an Read More

The Foo Fighters are back in the new releases on Rock Band this week with a four-pack of songs, while Lordi and Run-DMC each has one new track. Additionally, two previous releases from Foo Fighters, offer new pro guitar upgrades this week. Read More