My Favorite Songs from Spring 2024
I can’t believe we’re over halfway done with April! This year is flying by fast. For those of you that haven’t read My Favorite Songs from Fall 2023, how this works is I’ll talk about my favorite songs from a particular season and in this case, I’ll be sharing my picks from Spring 2024. Most…
March 2024 Purchases – Some CDs, One Book, and One Vinyl Record
I don’t do music purchases blog posts often because as mentioned in my November 2023 Purchases blog post, all of my CDs are usually from Amazon. Thankfully, March was a special month because Judas Priest released Invincible Shield (2024) on March 8 and The Black Crowes put out Happiness Bastards (2024) on March 15, a…
The Black Crowes’ ‘Happiness Bastards’ Marks a New Beginning for the Band | Album Review
Think back to 2015, when The Black Crowes called it quits for supposedly the final time. Who knew we would get another studio album from these guys? I’m not even sure if the Robinson brothers knew they’d release a new record in 2024. But you know what, props to them for putting their issues behind…
55 Years of Free – Celebrating ‘Tons of Sobs’ and the Band That Deserved Better
Not going to lie, my first exposure to Free was through American Idol, when David Cook performed “All Right Now” during the semi-finals of season seven; I was 9 years old back then. To this day, it’s still one of my favorite performances from the show. “All Right Now” is a classic, for a reason,…
Prepare to Meet Your Doom with Judas Priest’s ‘Invincible Shield’ | Album Review
Legendary British heavy metal band Judas Priest released their nineteenth studio album, Invincible Shield, on March 8, 2024. The album was announced on October 7, 2023 during their performance at the Power Trip Festival in Indio, California. The lineup, which remains the same, consists of Rob Halford on lead vocals, Glenn Tipton and Richie Faulkner…
The Black Crowes Are Happy Bastards and They’re Proud of It! | Concert Review (Super Bowl Weekend 2024)
After my Disney College Program ended, I was unemployed, so I had a lot of free time on my hands. While everyone was working, I had to stay home and look after my dog, Roxy. Of course, I ended up watching YouTube all day and I’d be lying if I said that my watch history…
My Top 10 Black Crowes Songs
This post was inspired by two things. One, The Black Crowes recently announced their ninth studio album of original material titled, Happiness Bastards, which will be released on March 15, 2024. Two, Sea of Tranquility posted a video last week titled, “The UK Connection-Turn That S*#t Off!,” where Pete talked about how he tried numerous…
Reflections on the Year 2023
I’m still in shock that 2023 is almost over; where did the time go? At the beginning of the year, I was still working at Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida for my Disney College Program. After that ended in early January, I moved back home to Hawaii and was practically jobless…
Queen + Adam Lambert Were Spectacular! | Concert Review (The Rhapsody Tour 2023)
Ever since I saw Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) in theaters with my parents, I’ve wanted to see Queen + Adam Lambert live so badly. Five years later, that dream finally came true! It was even better that Lambert was their current frontman, since he was one of my favorite contestants from American Idol. He should’ve won,…
Breaking Down My Spotify Wrapped 2023
It’s that time of year again, where Spotify releases their yearly wrap-up of our music listening habits, which is called Spotify Wrapped. It’s obviously inaccurate because they release them in late November / early December, which is technically not the end of the year, and they don’t include music listening habits through CD and/or vinyl.…
November 2023 Purchases – Just Some CDs and a Whole Lot of Goodness
First of all, I’m nowhere near as good as my friend, John from 2loud2oldmusic, when it comes to these music purchases blog posts. However, November was a special month because three of these albums were from a record store in San Francisco and two of them were from eBay. I didn’t just buy stuff from…
10 Fictional Bands I Wish Were Real
After watching Lemonade Mouth a couple weeks ago, I realized not only did the film get better with age, but the songs still hold up to this day! I have “Breakthrough” stuck in my head as I’m typing this out now. In my opinion, Lemonade Mouth are one of the best fake bands that ever…
My Favorite Songs from Fall 2023
I haven’t done one of these posts in three years, but suddenly, I had the urge to do this after finding a song I’ve been searching for over a year, which we’ll get to later on! It’s pretty self-explanatory; I’ll talk about my favorite songs from Fall 2023. These aren’t just rock songs, though. They’re…
‘The Exorcist’ is Absolutely Terrifying! | Movie Review
Last year, I did a Halloween-themed post titled, 10 Songs to Get You Into the Spooky Season 2022. Unfortunately, I didn’t buy enough albums this year to put together a new list of Halloween-themed songs for 2023. I still wanted to do some sort of spooky-related post, though, so I figured, why not review The…
‘Light on Me’ is a BL Drama That Took Me By Surprise in the Best Way Possible | Korean Drama Review
I’m not sure if I mentioned this in previous blog posts, but I’m a sucker for Korean dramas. However, at the moment, I’m trying to be selective with the dramas I watch for two reasons: they take up a lot of time and they’re so predictable. Well, the dramas I’ve seen so far are predictable.…
My Top 10 Album Closers
The album closer is just as important as the album opener because if the last song sucks, listeners may feel disappointed, like they wasted time on that one record that ended on a sour note. This a follow-up to a previous post I did titled, My Top 10 Album Openers. Now, I’ll focus on my…
Black Stone Cherry Unleash Their Inner Demons on ‘Screamin’ at the Sky’ | Album Review
American rock band Black Stone Cherry was formed in 2001 in Edmonton, Kentucky. The founding lineup consisted of Chris Robertson on lead vocals, Ben Wells on guitars, John Fred Young on drums, and Jon Lawhon on bass guitar. Lawhon left the band in 2021, so Steve Jewell Jr. took his place. Black Stone Cherry’s sound…
Aerosmith Postpone Their ‘Peace Out’ Farewell Tour to 2024
Aerosmith just announced that they are postponing all of their currently scheduled dates for their Peace Out farewell tour to sometime in 2024, due to frontman Steven Tyler’s vocal injury. On September 11, 2023, the band previously announced that Tyler sustained vocal cord damage during their September 9 show in New York at the UBS…
‘Warpaint’ Bridges a Gap Between the Past and Present for The Black Crowes | Album Review
Warpaint is the seventh studio album by American rock band The Black Crowes and was released on March 3, 2008. It was their first album of new material in almost seven years. Following the departures of guitarist Marc Ford and keyboardist Eddie Harsch in fall 2006, the band welcomed a couple of new faces to…
My Top 10 TV Show Theme Songs
I finished watching the first season of That ‘90s Show on Netflix a couple of weeks ago and couldn’t get over the fact that the composer butchered the theme song for That ‘70s Show. Both shows use the same song, “In the Street” by Big Star, but with different singers. The classic version performed by…
Lana Teramae | Me, Myself and Time 