Do you miss Nathan Fillion on the small screen? Do you wish that he was still fighting the Alliance and leading the crew of Serenity?
If I had to come up with one buzzword to describe the music scene during the last two years or so, it would have to be "reunions." From The Police to Led Zeppelin to Creed, it seems that an endless number of once popular bands are getting back together to recapture that old magic.
Saul Hudson, or Slash as he is more commonly known, has compiled one of the longest r
Fusion music has always intrigued me, mostly because it's never boilerplate or predictable. Each band or singer is able to blend genres in a unique and creative way to make something that listeners have never heard before.
Stay with me if you've been through this: You find a new show at the beginning of the season that you absolutely love - and then it unceremoniously is canceled at the end of the season.
During the last year or so on the TV airwaves, we've seen the debuts of some great shows, such as Royal Pains on the USA Network and Castle on ABC.
Sometimes, bands get noticed because of what their members do afterward rather than anything they did while the band was together.
For an album that was delayed at least a year because of the band members' "perfectionism," the Trans-Siberian Orchestra's new album Night Castle leaves a lot to be desired. The band received a lot of radio airplay for its past reinterpretations of old Christmas favorites on three of its previous albums, blending a hard rocking sensibility with a classical elegance and dignity while always leaning toward the rock angle. TSO's 2000 release Beethoven's Last Night showed audiences what the band can do when it departs from the Christmas motif.
This past March, a terrible, life-altering event happened while I was on my way to a game at John Paul Jones Arena - an event so gruesome and tragic that I can barely muster the strength to write about it now. My iPod broke. Sad, isn't it?
A few weeks ago, I penned an article about the reunion of a band that many in the music world love to hate: Creed.
