I don’t care what you sing, how old you are, or even if your a bunch of old people trying to sing modern music. Choirs are never cool!

We usually don’t focus on music to much here, but I wanted to share a band that I recently have begun to listen to. The band is a symphonic metal band called Within Temptation. Check them out.

The band Atomic Tom perform their song “Take Me Out” with their iPhones.

Jorge Garcia helped sing “Perfect Situation” with Weezer.

There’s just something about summer that makes me go back to those great (and not so great) power ballads of the 1980s. It may be that I spent most of my summers in the 1980s watching Mtv and riding around the neighborhood on my bike with a boom box blasting Motley Crue and Poison songs. Whatever it is, I do love a good power ballad on a hot summer day. Several summers ago, just as YouTube started up, I revisited many power ballad videos that I hadn’t seen in nearly 15 years and came to love the goofy world contained within them. In fact, after watching several of the videos on this list, I remember walking out to my car and wishing that I could stop in the middle of the road and shred a really awesome solo while wearing a leather duster without a shirt on underneath (the uniform required for a power ballad to assert one’s masculinity).

So, I thought it might be fun to compile my Essential Seven Power Ballads. Please note, I prefer to use the term “power ballad,” as opposed to “hair ballads,” as I would not call all of the bands on this list hair bands. Oh, and don’t tell me that I forgot Damn Yankees’ “High Enough.” It was released in 1990.

…continue reading Essential Seven ’80s Power Ballads

I’m a bit behind on posting this, but I just discovered it. The band Axis of Awesome (great name) points out to all of us how untalented bands really are!

This is pretty sweet

Next week the album Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross, an orchestral/metal album features narration and vocals by Christopher Lee.

…continue reading Christopher Lee, Heavy Metal Singer!

I guarantee this will be stuck in your head all day.

This weekend I was fortunate to catch one of the best concerts of the year. Star Wars in Concert it an amazing spectacle that is sure to please any fan of George Lucas’ epic.  I did have some reservations about orchestra music played in a stadium. It’s not really the best setting for a symphony concert. Turns out, I had nothing to worry about.

…continue reading Star Wars in Concert