As an avid supporter of Google Products, here’s one of the popular Anime Music Videos entitled “The End of Angelic Layer” from the Anime series “Angelic Layer”.

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As the first chords broke out from the second band of the evening, the crowd in the half-filled bar hushed as if the music demanded it. The song was a familiar Erykah Badu number that made every guy feel like he was the coolest, mellowest person in the room. I have not, ever, heard somebody cover it with such, well, soul.
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And speaking of music, whores and very bad decisions, it’s a sad day when even MADONNA needs to crucify herself to get some attention. I had no clue she intended to do it on tour, but when I saw her website, I was like, wo-oh, she’s run out of ideas now!

Oh, and my sister tells me JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE’s been off admitting using drugs and things that should make him tough and shit so people would buy his album and actually forget he’s a white boy from a boyband just because he uses drugs and hangs out way too much with SNOOP.

I swear to god, there will come a day when they’d have to show us their intestines wrapped around a cat they’re trying to strangulate for a pagan ritual that may spell the end of our world as we know it to get our attention. Or ride a real-life unicorn-dragon. With faeries. And an asteroid. With BRUCE WILLIS on it.

I don’t want to miss a thee-haaang!

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High
by The Cure

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The guitar: axe, six-string, strat, whatever you want to call it. It’s everywhere, from side streets to clubs to dorm rooms. Most people in this country know how to play it, and everybody loves it. This is my take on the world’s most influential electric guitars, and the musicians that made them famous.

Guitars that rule the world @ The Guitar Blog

Multi-talented singer and movie & TV actress, Karylle, sits down with PinoyMacLovers.Com for a short Q&A session, where she talks about her PowerBook G4, her favorite iLife applications and much more…

Pinch Me
by Barenaked Ladies

More on apathy. Well, just a little.
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This month’s issue of Reader’s Digest (Asian Edition) features an article on First Class Professionals, a hiring agency for Filipino musicians who are “exported” to other countries. Condescendingly titled Filipino Fame, the article patronizes showbandship indicating that the Filipino’s musical forte is in copycat as opposed to creativity. To add insult to battery, bands recruited by the agency all have names to start with the word “perfect”: Perfect Jam, Perfect Blend, Perfect Fire, Perfect Storm.

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Beloved Wife
by Natalie Merchant

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YES! For you Black Eyed Peas fans or should I say Apl.de.Ap, the music video for bebot is about to be released late July 2006. If you can’t wait to get a glimpse of the bebot music video, watch this video clip in my blog.

Also, by the way the director of the music video is Filipino, Patricio Ginelsa, I have some nice facts about him in my blog as well!

I’ve recently been asked to session – WOOT! – for my old buddies at FMD. My skills being as rusty as they are, I decided to dedicate this episode of Single Song Breakdown to one of the songs they cover: Santeria by Sublime. It’s reggae, which isn’t my strongest suit *cough*, so I thought I’d put some practice in for a change. What little I know of reggae is that the guitar is mostly an accent tool, providing flavor while the vocals, percs and bass carry the underlying structure of the song. While trying to figure out how to play the darn thing, I realized that some of my old notions about reggae aren’t necessarily true…

SSB – Santeria by Sublime at The Guitar Blog

Blogmusik is a new site that allows you to listen to on-demand songs online for FREE!

Blogmusik uses a Flash-based virtual player that looks exactly like an iPod and works exactly like one. It includes a Play/Pause button, Skip button (Previous track and Next track), Volume control, a Playlist button to access your saved playlists and an option to share it to a friend. You can also change the player skin to black or white. Regular users can only listen to songs one at a time. While registered users can create/save playlists and save songs into each playlist.

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Heber Bartolome is the voice and soul behind legendary protest folk-rock band Banyuhay, who gained immortality with the unforgettable phrase: “Tayo’y mga Pinoy, tayo’y hindi kano, wag kang mahihiya, kung ang ilong mo ay pango.” He sang songs of protest, but never angrily. He is punk without the whine of self-pity. Hardcore without the idiocy of aimless angst. An advocate for change and reform, Ka Heber saw – and sang about – the truth, but his songs were always hopeful. Even in the dark days of Marcos.

Mang-aawit ng Kanyang Panahon – Heber Bartolome at The Guitar Blog

I know the song is quite old, but it remains to be among the most popular songs in the OPM-Rock scene today. It’s music, lyrics, and the video are just brilliant!

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The track collective below features 5 newer versions of old songs that are so popular, even your senile gramps would recognize them by their distinctive beat from the amps. For you to draw a comparison from, the songs as sung by their original artists are also provided for you reference.

We start off with the instrumental rendition of Like A Prayer (previously mentioned in my String quartet tribute to your favorite bands article) performed by the Da Capo Chamber Players. The album String Quartet Tribute to Madonna where this track is from was released in 2002. Enchantingly transfixing, the melodiously crisp sound of the strings build towards a crescendo of character and power as the quartet takes the listener through this rare and excitingly paced arrangement. Rich and precise, if this doesn’t change your view classical music, nothing probably will.

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Went to see my good buddy Mark play with his new band, Fishtale, over at Daungan Bar somewhere near ABS-CBN. Had a rocking good time watching them play while downing a few bottles of Red Horse – man, it’s been a while! Anyway, here are a few pics and vids…

Fishtale & Icebox at Daungan at the Guitar Blog

I have to admit I was a little apprehensive about this one: Goo Goo Dolls uses such exotic tunings that I wasn’t sure where to begin. I first tried the tuning I used for their other song, Name: D-A-D-A-D-E. Didn’t sound right at all. Then I remembered there was a Guitar One article I read from way back that said Johnny Rzeznik used a B-D-D-D-D-D tuning for this one. That’s some very loose strings there. The lowest I’ve ever tuned down as to a Drop-C tuning for when I play Disturbed.

Single Song Breakdown – Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls at the Guitar Blog

After the Lettermen, Fra Lippo Lippi, Four Aces, and Cascades, the next foreign act to hit Davao is New Yorker David Pomeranz.

He who wrote such Barry Manilow hits as “Tryin’ to get the feeling again” and “The old songs.”

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Watching a concert in a dungeon/fortress…another first for me!

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I have a confession to make: I like Bamboo. I still like Rivermaya after he left (I was more affected by the departure of Perf de Castro), but I’d pick Bamboo over Rivermaya music-wise any day of the week, twice on Sundays. They’re one of the few bands who’ve actually made their own sound; a huge contrast to new bands recently who’ve piggybacked on the success of Coldplay, Linkin Park, The Care and Silverchair.

Single Song Breakdown: Hallelujah by Bamboo at The Guitar Blog