Sad day for me. The co-founder of The Alan Parsons Project, Eric Woolfson, died at the age of 64 after fighting with Cancer for quite a long time. Eric Woolfson was very famous for playing keyboards for The Alan Parsons Project and also writing the lyrics.

Famed band Aerosmith has still not found a replacement for lead singer steven tyler. They have an extremely short list, and the only man really that fits is Lenny Kravitz, and even then it wouldn't be Aerosmith.

This week, the grammy nominees were released and the music of Rock is doing pretty well: Metallica, Alice in Chains, Judas Priest, Lamb Of God, Linkin Park, Megadeth, AC/DC, Nickelback and Slayer. more.
-Mr. Nick

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New Releases, new releases this week, and this one is big. Well not entirely, seeing as the artist is pretty obscure, but still, it was a big release.

During the most competitive week of the Billboard top 200, fourty-eight year-old british woman Susan Boyle sold the show. Boyle's I Dreamed a Dream sold over 700,000 copies, being the highest selliing album in one week in 2009.

The charts placed Andrea Bocelli's My Christmas at number two graciously, and Rihanna's Rated R was put at number four.

Also, Taylor Swift's You Belong with me has stayed on the top 100 for the 31st consecutive week.

-Mr.Nick

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Now this is an era I will never forget. It's not like I was alive during that era, no way, but still, the British Invasion is the best thing since pumpkin pie. Yeah that's right, I said it. I put the British Invasion at the same level of pumpkin pie.

In the beginning, the greatest band on the earth started it: The Beatles. . .

The year is 1964, and it is January, and also the beginning of a new era. The Beatles had recently been going strong in the UK, but had never hit anything in America until they let out a new single "I want to hold your hand". It was the band's first number one hit on the Billboard 100, and it certainly wouldn't be the last.

They were invited onto the Ed Sullivan show on February 4, and after that, the rest is history.

They weren't the only band to have huge commercial success. After they paved the way, several new bands for the UK began making new hits that would get onto the Billboard 100 easy. Included in these bands are The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, and Manfred Mann.

The British Invasion was exactly that: an Invasion. Every single musician began to aspire to be a british rocker, even if they weren't british. This also spelled the end of Surf rock, and even made Elvis lose his way and step, temporary derailing him from the top.

-Mr. Nick

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If you didn't get that title I just created (Up arrow!), It's lyrics for the song Why Georgia by John Mayer in the album "Room For Squares" . I also noticed recently that John Mayer has released a new album called "Battle Studios". It is quite good, even though he does cover a few great songs. My favorite on that album is the song CrossRoads, which is a cover of the original by Eric Clapton.

Anyway, I'm not here to talk about John Mayer. (Or am I? [cue spooky music!]).
I'm not though. Seriously. I was just thinking yesterday, when I was drumming, why do I like music? Why do I drum?

Well I looked for the answer, and trust me, I still don't have full details, but still I think I might have something.

I drum because, well, because it's just plain fun, and i don't have to really try that hard. It somewhat comes naturally to me, and I love playing. Anyway, not many other people play the drums and it's like a single thing that no one can touch. Not only does a small amount of people play, but no one can play exactly like another person, which makes me like a snowflake, a complete original.

That's probably why I drum, because it isolates me from the rest of the world and there is no one but me and my drums, always playing a beat to my own life, my own little soundtrack.

There real question is, why do I like music?

It's fun. That's quite obvious. Listening to music is fun for me especially when i can weed out the drums and listen to them as a single part of the song. And some songs are just easy to put into other parts of my life, like I have a playlist for my ipod when I run, and those are the songs I listen to when I run.

So to me, music is like a second part of me. It's the only part I really like about myself. Just kidding, I'm not emo or anything, but still, I love music, and someday, when I am an incredibly famous drummer, it will love me back.

-Mr. Nick

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