Don Xml's Grok This

The folks over at IMHOTEP have gathered together THE BEST OF 2006 ACCORDING TO 155 MUSICIANS.  The musicians are mostly metal and hard rock, but there are some real oddballs thrown in there too.  One thing you can gather from that list is that there isn't one or two clear winners this year.  Iron Maiden's A Matter Of Life And Death ...

The Pink Spiders seemed to be one of the highlighted groups on 2006's Warped Tour, and with a new CD coming out on a major label; I was really worried about these guys getting over hyped.  I have a copy of their previous CD, Hot Pink, and thought that with the right influence that they had some serious potential as more pop than punk Pop ...

Peter Provost and Steve Pavlina both have mentioned the Pandora Music Service which will allow you to create a customized streaming radio channel based on artists and songs that you enter into the system.  I have to admit that the Pandora user interface is pretty slick, but having to enter in your ...

I’ve had a MySpace account for a while, and have a link from there to here, but I never did the inverse.  So here it is.  And I’ll add a link to it on my site.  MySpace has a “friends” list, and if you are a friend, a band I like, or a band that I give a good review, I’ll add you as a ...

ParamoreAll We Know Is FallingMy Score: 7 out of 10Category: Pop Punk/Grrl Rock While going thru a recent AltPress magazine I came across a review for a Christian Punk band with a 16 year old female lead singer, and with having a 15 year old daughter, it definitely caught my eye as a band that she may be ...

Houston CallsA Collection of Short StoriesMy Score: 7 out of 10Category: Pop Punk It’s been a long time since I’ve updated the music section of my blog, but that is about to end.  I’ve got a ton of new music to let you all know about.  And the best place to start is a very local band (they are from the ...

I’ve been in a musical funk for the last couple months, and haven’t been able to really get into any of the new CDs I bought over that time.  Here’s a few of what I bought, and really couldn’t get into (even though some of these are really good CDs): Lit – Lit –  Probably one of the best real ...

If you haven’t seen the video for Bowling For Soup’s new song, 1985, you have to stop what you are doing and check it out.  These guys are, by far, one of my favorite “current music” bands.  If you are around my age (in high school during the “hair metal” days of the late 80’s/very early 90’s) you ...

A number of folks have asked me to post what I’ve been listening to, so in addition to the reviews, I’m going to keep an on going playlist.  This way I can get the word out a bit faster, and not as forma as a review.  I’ll create a blog entry for each update, but I’m also going to create an article and update that ...

I’m not as talented (or as bold) as Rory, and record myself and then release it on the web, so I’ll just have to settle for promoting my friends.  And if you should also  check out a pretty cool new tune by my friends in 40 Ft. Ringo called Rockin’ Christmas Time.  I haven’t got around to publishing my review of 40 Ft. Ringo’s first CD, Funny ...