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" The Philosophy Behind Little Einsteins Start the countdown... The mission of Little Einsteins is to take preschoolers on exciting musical adventures set in the real world (and inside a few great pieces or art!). On each adventure, your children will help the Little Einsteins team solve an...

I spent 6 hours in the car today for a business trip, and brought along a bunch of old CDs to listen to and realized how much I liked Sepultura's older tribal sounding stuff, like on the Chaos A.D. album. I've had it since day one, but I've changed a lot since '93 and have been listening to a...

I'm not a comic book fan, but I watched and liked SinCity. I really like the soundtrack too. It was composed by John Debney, Robert Rodriguez, and Graeme Revell. I don't really know any of these guys, but they did a nice job. It's groovy, and dark (I like dark). Check it out, and check out the...

I don't even like Linkin Park. Well, let me re-phrase that... I don't even know Linkin Park. I've always just assumed I wouldn't like them because they're so popular, and I'm not always fond of popular music, or the fact the it's popular. Anyway, a co-worker has this CD in his iTunes library...

A buddy of mine practically begged me to check out this band he really digs, Maroon 5. So I checked his iTunes playlist, had the patience to site through an entire live album, and actually enjoyed it quite a bit. I don't even know what this genre is, but the guys sings in a very nasally voice...

I've been researching crossover music because I want to understand it better, and see how crossover is basically responsible for many of the various genres today. I found an interesting list (http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/List-of-popular-songs-based-on-classical-music) of popular...

Excluding classical music composers, who would you feel is a musical "genius"? How I mean to define genius is hard to explain. It's not necessarily some artist you listen to a lot (though it can be), but it's just somebody that continuously seems to amaze you with their ability to create...

For those of you not in the US that don't know (or maybe you do), it takes a lot of nerve here in the states to admit that you're a big GNR fan. In fact, you'll be laughed at for doing so. They were so big, and fell so hard, they took all of their fans with them. Well, I'm coming out. I'm a...

This made for an interesting read. I hope someone else here benefits from it as I did... (Source: http://www.metalcrypt.com/genresframe.php )

I'm a nerd for the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, and I'm lucky enough to be within minutes of his home here in Wisconsin. The following is a copy and paste from Wikipedia: The following is a small collection of images of Taliesin from around the net: There is a...

What are you listening to right now? For me, I just discovered that the Gladiator soundtrack is in our extensive iTunes collection here at the office, so I'm listening to that.

My mother first told me about Il Divo a few months ago after she had learned of them watching an Oprah (ick) episode. She raved and raved, so I finally took the time to check them out. The short of it, is that they are a quartet who sings popular songs (old and new) with an entirely new...

I was listening to Guns n' Roses: Use Your Illusion in the car this afternoon (I know, I'm lame) and realized just how much I love the piano in some of those songs. Would anyone happen to know, and be able to recommend some piano music that compares? I guess it would be "hard rock" piano.

I just discovered this group this morning. Has anyone else heard of them? They've made their name by making Metallica covers played by 4 cellos. Some of their original music is decent, but I'm especially in love with the all cello tunes.

"heavy metal uses apocalyptic themes and images of power and darkness, the ability to translate verbal ideas into musical ideas that successfully convey the ideas of the words is critical to heavy metal authenticity and credibility." I read this today in of all places, Wikipedia. I think it...