In the realm of music, I think Garth Brooks is one of the most underrated artists in history. The biggest strike against him is that he’s a country singer. How many people listen to country? Not many. But what you should know is that Garth Brooks is the first solo …

With Let It Die, Feist provides a breath of fresh air reminiscent to Nouvelle Vague’s self-titled debut. Nouvelle Vague’s debut was filled with covers, but NV gave each song a French new wave sound. Feist follows suit with a few songs of her own (the most Nouvelle Vague resembling “Gatekeeper,” …

With so much bad criticism hitting Tom Cruise these days, I thought it’d be best to remember the reasons why Tom Cruise is so famous. He’s acted in successful movies – maybe because of his acting or maybe not; but, his films are enjoyable, and his films have earned buttloads …

Charlie Mars might be the closest that music has to Howie Day. The difference is Charlie Mars’ inflecting abilities – he doesn’t come across as whiny. Whine is all too common in the male pop rock category. What isn’t common is the ability to know when to whine and when …

The band Orgy releases their first documentary of the band’s life on DVD. It includes many behind-the-scenes home video footage of their antics inter-cut with concert footage. There are shots of fan and crowd reactions to the band and the concerts. It’s fun to see how enthusiastic the band members …

Director John Singleton’s (Boyz N The Hood, Shaft) new film Four Brothers (2005) tells the tale of four brothers seeking to find their mother’s killers. These four led by the oldest brother, Bobby Mercer (Mark Wahlberg), take justice into their own hands when there is nowhere to turn to for …

Staffan Lincoln – or the group of Swedish Kebab (I couldn’t figure out) – creates “Know You,” which is a good mix of blues, electronic, jazz and soul music. Staffan’s vocals dominate in creating the mood for the song. The instruments, including a piano, a guitar and a synthesizer, blend …

El Crimen Ferpecto is an uproarious black comedy about a department store Don Juan, “Raphael” (Guillermo Toledo), who spends his days selling ladies things they didn’t know they wanted and his evenings bedding them. For this over-confident man who reaches out and takes what he wants — the life of …

Beginning Friday, August 12th, MTV Hits will morph into Hilary’s Hits for a five-day celebration of all things Hilary Duff. MTV Hits is MTV’s only all “Hits” driven digital music video channel on-air 24 hours / 7 days a week. The video channel features the hottest artists in popular music …

Monday, Yahoo! announced that it has over 20 billion indexed web pages and web files in its search engine. In a huge expansion effort, Yahoo! almost doubles its capacity over that of Google’s roughly 11 billion web elements. “Of the 20 billion elements in Yahoo’s database, 19 billion are documents, …