Avicii Does Avicii

Avicii Avicii by Avicii

The new album by Avicii is out 

Wake Me Up - This is the album cut and not the radio edit which sounds a lot more like a house song than a folk EDM crossover and it sounded so much better. 

I really liked Liar Lair because the lead line made me feel so happy so he was doing his job as an EDM producer to feel the listener with euphoria. 

This was a pretty good release.  Djs should buy both versions of Wake Me Up and depending the a atmosphere you should decide which one to play. 

The Lord Rested.

Crosses Crosses

This Is A Trick is what the name says. I didn't realize that this was going to have such an electronic sound. But Chino still delivers like he's in the Deftones. 

Thholyghost is the first realization that the name was an intentionally meant to be blasphemous. 

 I've been listening to this cd for about 20 minutes now and when The Epilogue came on I wondered why all these songs sound pretty lame. 

Blk Stallion is the the first time I've enjoyed a song off this. It has an old school hiphop beat meets with a gothic bass line. 

To me this is extremely boring. Just ignore this side project completely and wait for the new Deftones cd to come out soon. 

School of Brostep

Skrillex Recess

Skrillex has put out a new album and it seems a little more tame now. Not the hard edge Screamo influenced music he used to do but more melodic.  

All Is Fair In Love And Brostep shows that Skrillex has accepted the title of Brostep that was ment as an insult at first. I don't like the kick in the intro and it seemed like he was trying to hard with the repeated sample from a rocket taking off and the announcer saying "It needs this much power". 

Recess features hook master and endless shouter Big Scoob and sounds like it was targeted for kids. 

Try It Out samples the "OK" from Mercy by Kanye West. 

Dirty Vibe features Nikki Minaj and contains a lyrical interpolation of Jay Z ( I don't pop Molly's I rock microphones). 

This wasn't as good as some of his other releases. I was hoping for some real hard hitting Dubstep but this one is more melodic. If your a dj get the songs Recess and Try It Out to get your dance floor moving. 

The Cowboy Returns.

Johnny Cash Out Among The Stars

This new posthumous release from the man in black was put out by his widow and son. A great collection of unreleased songs that even comes with commentary from the son on disc number 2. 

Out Among The Stars is a story about a liquor store getting robbed with the same cowboy chords Johnny was famous for. 

If I Told You Who It Was is about a mystery woman that Johnny spent the night with from the Grand Ole Oprey Show. It also makes for a real good song along song. 

There is a lot of heartbreak songs on this album which I thought was necessary for a country cd. Drive Her Out Of My Mind is a song about buying a Cadillac and spending one last night with an ex lover. 

She Used To Love Me A lot appears on the album twice, the second time is a duet with his wife. 

This is a great album. Folk fans, country fans, punk fans, Johnny Cash fans,  music fans should buy this. 

The Bay Area

Lil wyte and frayser boy bar 

Lil Wyte and Frayser have come together for a duo on this new release and it's been a while since I've heard from Frayser but Lil wyte is always here and doing this like he never left which is also the first song.  See what I did there?

La chat makes a few appearances along with Gangsta Boo which is good to see that HCP still hangs out and works together which can only mean more reunions are around the corner. 

Jelly Roll is on the track Six O' Clock  it's nice to see they buried the hatchet on a rivalry that wasn't really necessary. 

They Don't Like That is the turnt up shit I do like. 

The new album is a must buy. It's been a long time coming but the two Bay Area (Memphis) 

Damn It's Late

The tonight show with trae the truth. 

New mix tape from trae the truth the first song pain features Philthy Rich  and J-Stalin.  

Go Away features Mitchy Slick from San Diego but this is the second song in a row that have a lullaby beat. 

By the time Like A Diamond comes on I'm assuming all songs are meant to be slow and almost at an  whispered delivery.  This one obviously samples Diamond by Rihanna. 

You don't need this mixtape unless you like to listen to music as your falling asleep.  

La vida loca

YG My Krazy Life 

The west coast is back and making a resurrection.  With artists like Kendrick Lamar and YG, Compton is back. 

 BPT is a play on words on CPT (Compton) because YG claims blood and they will never use the letter C.  

Left, Right will get any west coast party turnt up. 

Bicken Back Being Bool is another representation of how he will never use the letter C even in his song titles to the point where they won't even make sense unless you bang red. 

Meet The Flockers is about home invasions with a skit that lead into it and it sounds like he knows what he's talking about. 

Me And My Bitch is about a girl creeping around and he gets jealous even though he had a side bitch the whole time. 

Who Do You Love? Is the second single but has almost the same exact bass line, piano riff, and flow as the first single My Nigga. Drake appears on the track and they have worked together before. 

My Nigga is the first single off the record and was blown up thanks to World Star Hip Hop. It's an ode to his homies and really is my favorite song off the release. Young Jeezy makes on the feature on the radio release while Rich Homie Quan, Lil Wayne, and Nikki Minaj appear on the edited remix of the track called My Hitta. 

Buy this album and help bring Compton back to the glory days. Hey maybe even Dr. Dre might even come out with something new. 

Wuah!

Rick Ross Mastermind 

Rich Is Gangster describes how he signed new artists and discusses about when the Gangster Disciples tried to extort The Boss and even a little diss to 50 Cent. 

Drug Dealer Dream begins with a voice message of Rick Ross' bank account ($92,153,183.20). 

Shots Fired is a skit that contains the newscast about the shooting on Rick Ross by the GDs. 

The Devil Is A Lie is the second single off the album featuring Jay Z and some questionable lyrics and a title that won't prove that they didn't sell their souls. 

War Ready starts with a sample of life sentence prison hearing and features Future and Jeezy also gives a shout out to Crips, Vice Lords, even Gangster Disciples showing that he don't give a fuh about it. 

Blk & Wht is the worst song on the cd. 

Yeezy makes an appearance on the song Sanctified which sounds like a sarcastic attempt at a gospel song. 

You Know I Got It is the first single released and features Jay Z again and became one of my favorite Rozay songs. 

This album is half hip hop and half gospel R&B pretty interesting. If it's $9.99 on iTunes get it but not if it's $11.99 then I would say buy You Know I Got It if you're not a huge Ross fan. 

Blue Eyed Devil Blues

Tommy Castro and the Painkillers The Devil You Know 

Tommy Castro is modern blues rock singer and guitar player who has made a following in my hometown of San Diego. The new album he put out is a new set song about life, love, working, and sins. 

Second Mind gives us a great organ riff to open the song. 

I'm Tired reminds me of the songs from his earlier releases and I really dig it. 

The Whale Have Swallowed Me is a delta blues style song that could have been released during that period and no one would know he's a old white guy.  

When I Cross The Mississippi is a total rocking blues jam. 

For new blues fans you don't need this one but what you should stream is his older works. For old blues fans go buy his first two records. 

Einse

Dj neophyte VS Tha Playah Still No. 1 

Still No.1 invade you forgot who the top hardcore dj, producer, group, label was then here's your reminder. 

Negative doesn't bring anything new to the table so it gets a negative review.  But I do like the Beastie Boys sample. 

Great success is just a reticle to Party by the Viper because everything is the exact same. 

Don't buy just stream these songs. 

Future of hardcore

DJ Mad Dog with MC Jeff The Future

The Future has an acid riff with a modern hardcore kick and the lyrics evoke unity between the hardcore crowd. 

 Rude Motherfuckers 

Dreams is remixed by Odious has a real tense and panicky feeling to it making it seem more like a nightmare than a dream. 

Last Motherfucker is remixed by Nekasrof and had a pretty cool guitar sounding synth on it. 

The collaborations between DJs and Hip hop MCs seem to be the new trend in hardcore which is cool because it's just another musical blend. But still I think the only one worth buying is Rude MF.  

What's An Eltdown?

The Viper & Kasparov Ft. Alee & Diesel Meltdown

Meltdown the opening track off this huge collaboration has a rap section,as with the growing trend in hardcore is, and a pretty wicked lead synth. 

I am Phoenix has an interesting little clean piano riff with lyrics about self loathing. 

Controlling The ReFix I laughed to myself when I heard the choir doing the melody to silver bells. 

With all these artists in here you think that this would be more impressive. It sounds good but there aren't too many more banging songs out there any more. Buy I am Phoenix and stream the other ones.  

No Genre No Cry

Skindred Kill The Power

Here's the new album from reggae/ dancehall/ metal band Skindred. The first titular first song isn't the first time they started off with when they released their first cd it was called Nobody and so was the awesome genre bending song. This song is almost as awesome. 

The next song is called Ruling Force and it starts off with a thrash riff then the verse goes into a dancehall beat that sounds like a Major Lazer track. 

Ummm what just happend? Playing With The Devil is a pure dubstep song. These guys don't follow any genre and it's awesome. 

Saturday is going to be the new song you will hear on the radio everyday and still enjoy it. 

Proceed With Caution is the first punk song on the album in which they used to have sort of punk influence and it finally came out. 

More Fire is the only reggae song on the cd and is my favorite because it's a nice change from all the heavy stuff and also a really clever way to end the cd. 

This cd is the so catchy and is the best cd that they have put out. This is one for the iTunes collection. 

Stereo sound

311 Stereolithic 

New 311 I can't believe it.  I guess the 90s are coming back ever since Nine Inch Nails announced their tour with Soundgarden and now these cats put out a new cd. 

Five of Everything brings it back to their old days of blending reggae and ska with punk and hip hop. SoCal bands just know the right formula for great music. 

Sand Dollars is the new beach anthem and has a totally funky bass line. 

The Call has a nice little start stop riff along with a chorus that the Goo Goo Dolls themselves would be proud to rip off. 

Stream this album a few times then decide if you want to buy or keep streaming. 

Don't Exsist

Unexist Power Of Underground

Power Of Underground I love when producers use different kinds of distortion and overdrive for there kicks. It makes it more interesting than hearing the same kick sound with every song. A Spanish sample is used talking about music.

Fistortion is remixed by Bartoch  is a total old school hardcore meets jungle meets new school hardcore track that blows my mind with the amount of distortion used. I can't tell the notes being used at all. 

Stream these. Save your money for more beat port purchases. 

Thunder Struck

Dj mad dog thunder like 

Thunder like has some new sounds I haven't heard before then features an mc with a lot of crazy vocals effects to a sustained note right into a crushing kick section. 

The memory disappears is the Adaro mix and is a little less hard than thunder like and sounds more like hardstyle than hardcore.  And theead line sounds like the melody from outro to he memory remains hence he name. 

No need to but just stream and enjoy. 

The Day After Tomorrow

Iced Earth Plagues Of Babylon 

I admit that this is my first listen to Iced Earth so I am going in blind on this new cd by the power metal band. 

The first track is the title track off the cd and starts off with a militaristic march then rocks off into a totally rocking song. 

The next track Demoncide is probably has the best instrumentation on the new release and just has the singer really standing strong. 

The End? Starts off making you think this is going to be a power ballad but  goes back and forth between emotion and anger. That solo though. 

When Peacemaker started I thought I was listening to a cover of Simple Man by Lynryd Skynyrd.  From the opening riff to the vocal melody even the guitar solo. 

ince I cannot make a comparison to their other work or even know how the old fans will feel about this album but defiantly know that I have become a fan and will be checking out their entire back catalogue. If your a fan of Iced Earth then I say give it a listen and figure out for yourself. 

The Return of the Mafia

Mafia six

The mafia returns well but without Juicy J or even Project Pat for that matter. It's even released on DJ Paul's label Scale-A-Ton and not Hypnotized Mindz. The rest of the HCP comes in sporadically.  No La Chat and also the last release for the group with Lord Infamous because of his death. 

Go hard featuring Yellawolf is the first single and first track. The video was released on world star hip hop to promote the album.  I think they should have gotten Lil Wyte instead through. 

Been had hard follows the forumla that DJ Paul has been doing on his solo records. 

Betta Pray starts off with a sample of the new black sabbath song "God Is Dead" and continues throughout the song. Lil Wyte makes his first appearance on the album along with Outlawz. During the second half of the song starts with a sample of devils rejects. 

Break Da Law is a throwback to the old track. 

Space Ghost Purp, Krazy Bone, and Bizzy Bone make for the most sought after collaboration besides the reunion on  the track Murder On My Mind. 

Remember starts with a sample of I'm going I live forever and features Lil Wyte for his second spot on the CD. 

Stash Spot starts off with a sample of the song "Number Of The Beast" by Iron Maiden but just the "666" part. 

Yean High features the other Memphis legends 8 Ball & MJG and is my pick for best song on the CD. 

Body Parts is the posse song that three 6 was known for doing and this features Juicy J, Koopsta Knicca, Kingpin Skinny Pimp, Lil Wyte, Crunchy Black, Project Pat, Locodunit, La Chat, Point Blank, DJ Paul, Lord Infamous, JGrxxn, and Kokoe.  The song totals 9:01. 

BONUS TRACKS

Grab Da Gauge is a reference to their old song Grab Tha Gauge. 

How We Gone Play will be the song they going to play before dirt is about to be done. 

DJ Paul knows people downloads his music but I bought it because I am a huge triple six fan. All mainstream fans or new Juicy J fans won't like it. This was made strictly for people that have been down the whole time. 

Szatan

Behemoth the satanist

 The cd doesn't start out with an intro but rather a slow chugging song titled Blow your trumpets Gabriel. 

Messe Noir is where Nergal professes his worship of satan as were all aware of that with his ripping of the Bible onstage in Poland or the title of the new cd. An amazing solo at the end shows how far along a guitarist Nergal has come. 

Amen contends to be their next hit behind Conquer All. The bridge section even had tribal war drums. 

The Satanist starts off with almost an alt rock guitar riff but then they go back their black metal roots with this one. 

All I the metal kingdom should buy the physical copy of this cd just because. 

Wake mind sleep body

Cosmic Gate wake your mind

Sometimes they come back for more - cosmic gate sure has gotten a lot more mainstream with there music since they first arrived. Since they come back for more is a typical trance track with an needlessly long intro and a subtle synth line that also takes too long to roll into the speakers. The lead line they try to pass off isn't impressive neither is the lame drop. 

Be your sound - I didn't mind the introduction becuase of the triangle sound they used in the beat but the driving kick they used was almost a revert to there old days even with a female vocal to make it more reminiscent of he glory days.  A soft piano bridge is something they should of saved for another song and in its place should of just used a soft synth with the singer.  But it all goes down from there as the lead falls very flat. 

Nothing Ever Lasts is a chill out Trance song and now I normally dig the harder stuff but this one actually put me in a better mood as I was on my way to work. 

Calm Down. That's what I had to tell myself because the saw synth, vocals, and melodies were so euphoric that I almost lost my mind. This is my absolute favorite song of these extended mixes. 

Flying Blind is not a Cosmic Gate song but a Jes song. Peaks and valleys? More like outer space and below sea level. 

All around you features 3 guests - Myon  & Shane  54 and Aruna. The guest producers add a little  extra flair the duo of cosmic gate making this a quintet of 4 producers and one singer. This would be the perfect mix to listen to once everyone makes It home. Don't listen to directly after the rave or you all will fall asleep in the car. 

Who is Chrome?

Chrome Pro Status

Wait your turn features former label mate project pat but it sounds more like a low quality sample than a feature. 

Take money samples the song take the money and run. 

Mary Jane has a sample of an old Chrome song called I Smoke Weed. 

Automatic has Project Pat do another hook but Pats vocals again don't sound mastered so it makes me think they stole some unreleased Project vocals.  

If your a dirty south fan you might like this, if you're a Chrome fan you'll like this, if your an HCP fan you might not like this. 

THC

Texas hippy coalition.  Pride of Texas 

I just recently heard of these guys from another blog doing a list of great bands from Texas. So when I was aware that a new album came out I had to write a review on it. 

If you aren't familiar with these guys their sound is like a mid tempo pantera with a southern rock twang for obvious reasons. The singer is a giant man who sounds like Phil Anselmo during a "clean" section but a bit more baritone. 

Pissed Off And Mad About It is the song I enjoyed a lot and is also the song I heard on the blog I first heard them on. Check out the sweet video on their YouTube channel. 

Drug Dealer is a story about well a drug dealer and is not meant to put it  in a glorious light but a damning one. The guitars are delayed during the verse the verses. 

River bottom is about living in Texas and acting like a whiskey drinking Texan.  The instrumentation is reminds me of the 80s metal bands. 

These guys have a lot of classic metal influence and they pull it off. If you want to try some new heavy metal that's on the rise and doing some opening spots on upcoming festivals then give these guys a listen.  

Long Live The King

Lord infamous voodoo 

The last solo release from the king of horrorcore lord infamous before he died is one that he can proud of. The work is horror core mixed with turnt up songs to make a combination of old school mafia songs with the potential of  the  modern juicy j songs but we know that the mainstream would ever touch this. 

Skitzo personality is a great track because that could get picked up by the radio of the regular people even knew the ties lord infamous has to the mainstream. 

Gangster is the second track off the cd and has a hook that's actually funny to hear. 

My favorite song on this is No Love. It's the second to last track and has a real hard chorus. 

The production on this album is very reminiscent of old school 3 6 and the lyrics are of course about murder. I loved this one and you should buy it to help support his family now that he has passed on. 

Back that track up.

Juvenile The Fundamentals

Pay The Rent featuring Jeezy the first song off the album gets you turnt up right away. Jeezy sings the hook and has a fantastic verse. 

All Over goes along with the current trend of comparing a rappers skills / money to basketball players or really just Michael Jordan and uses some pretty sweet trap style beats. 

Live Wire is an song that slightly takes the melody to the chorus of AC/DC's song with the same title. 

The final song  This Is Your Song is a slow song and I laughed a little bit becuase he referenced Back That Ass Up. 

This is a great solo release by the former Hot Boy  and it also has modern quality so you should buy it whether your a old head or a new comer.  

 

Strange things happening at the 76

Brotha Lynch Hung The Gas Station Mixtape

Well it's the second part of the mixtape and every song on the first part of the 

mixtape has a 2 minute outro of just beats! When I'm driving in my car I don't want to hear just hi hats and bass if it's not accompanied by a voice unless of course the outro is only for a maximum of 30 seconds. 

What they want is my favorite song of the mixtape and it also doesn't have a 2 minute outro.  If features an artist named papoose. 

Umm so lynch does a love song  "Horizontal" and it's not a song about killing a female but missing her.  What happened to you Brotha? 

Study Me is the only track that throws it back to the 90s flow he had.

Even though this is a strange music release the productions sound like regular brotha material which is what he said his contract would be. Just buy the first half of the mixtape and the final two songs skip the middle ones. 

Majah Lazah

Major laser 

Aerosol can features pharell Williams  and has him rapping pretty fast about drugs. With an island beat that brings out the dancehall influence that major has. No synth just vocals, bass, and percussion. 

Come on to me features Sean Paul and I sure has missed the dirty rocket. Another dance hall infused beat on a house track that will have the ravers learning how to wine like the Jamaicans do. 

Sound bang has a reggae intro a a drum and bass song featuring reggae vocals and reggae interlude. 

Master This!

Neophyte master this 

Master this uses the classic rave sample pump up the volume then chops it up to match the kick. Also uses chops up the air horn sample and pans it. The lead 

Only way out - has a drum and bass feel but with a  distorted hardcore bass drum. They often uses a mc that raps which rap goes so well with hardcore in my opinion, but still the DNB vibe it gives off makes me feel like they should have just marketed as a drum and bass track. 

These two tracks were produced by The Viper, The Playah, and Dj Neophyte. Nothing special but I like it. 

Sur3l

Dj S3rl back track dj edit. 

It's been a while since I've heard S3rl  partly because I don't often listen to happy hardcore. Anyways the vocalist in this track is reversed I guess hence the title. The lead is very cartoony as I sure you plus kids were loving it to be but the rewind noises give the track a really weird feel. Do not like. 

Forever is totally a track with more cheese than a deep dish,stuffed crust, New York pizza. 

If love songs at 190 BPMs is your idea of great music then this is right up your candy coated alley. 

Art of dog

 Dj mad dog and Art of fighters badass

Badass starts us off with some sound effects and a kick drum sounds like some Swedish house mafia would produce and then after a little riff that once again sounds like   A SHM but then the distorted kick kicks in with the lead and the vocals and Erases the preconceived notion about what I had about the song. Soon goes back but it feels so right to have the contrasting sounds mix together. 

Apocalypse starts off sounding like a happy hardcore tune but quickly shifts into a hardcore track with peaks and valleys to dance and catch your breath. Oh my goodness the lead synth is spectacular. 

The collaboration between these producers is a great showcase of music. This is one for the collection. 

Don't play this song this achy breaky song

Achy break 2

So Billy Ray Cyrus is trying to make a come back and It's awful. Just awful. The best thing you can do is completely ignore that this exists. 

Also the "rapper" Buck 22 tries to make it his song and have it feature Billy Ray but I have listened to this song a second time. 

Unexist

Unexist burn it all down

I liked the lyrics to the song very nihilistic anthem. The repeated chorus made the song enjoyable.  Otherwise nothing stands out to me in the track. 

Dream of death

The intro is a bit weak and then starts and stops up. Confusing to get a feel for the rhythm. Even the guest mc doesn't impress. Also kick drum is too lo-fi. The song uses a lot of the lo-fi effect throughout. The interlude is pretty cool with sample. Lead and drop fall flat with the over use of lo-fi. 

Djs this will clear the dance floor so I say a stream will suffice for this release.