Looks like Taylor Swift is not going anywhere soon, in fact, she has not moved an inch from the top. Taylor’s Fearless dominated the charts once again. While Grammy favorite Alison Krauss and Robert Plant’s ‘Raising Sand’ fell to number 9 from last week’s 2nd place.

Here are your top 10:

1. Taylor Swift - Fearless

2. Charlie Wilson - Uncle Charlie

3. The Fray - The Fray

4. Nickelback - Darkhorse

5. Beyonce - I am Sasha Fierce

6. Jamie Foxx - Intuition

7. India.Arie - Testimony: Vol. 2, Love & Politics

8. Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak

9. Robert Plant/Allison Krauss - Raising Sand

10. Lady GaGa - The Fame

Another step closer to a full return, No Doubt is scheduled to appear in the hit TV show Gossip Girl on March 11. They will be performing “Stand and Deliver”.

The group have been in and out of the studio preparing for a follow up to their “Rock Steady” album back in 2001.

No Doubt announced plans for its comeback tour after being gone for 5 years. Its 45-city summer tour begins May 3 at the Bamboozle Festival in East Rutherford, New Jersey, and runs through August 1 in Irvine, California.

Be sure to watch out for it!

There are millions of guitars in the world and looking for the “perfect one” is tough. I see musicians stop by the Guitar Center or their local guitar shop literally a hundred times before they finally found the One. Testing out guitar after guitar, going through the different models and brands hoping to find the one that truly connects with them.

What about those people who are still on a quest? If you still haven’t found your guitar, there’s one more coming your way: The Wangcaster!!

Why get a boring old telecaster when you can get the Wangcaster! The name is already a winner. If you want to put on a good show - this is the guitar for all the people who need attention. You can’t go wrong with this.

Seriously this guitar will blow your mind - no pun intended!

Times have changed. People are always looking for ways to reduce their carbon footprint in this world. It seems like everyone is so concerned about global warming and what they can do to stop it.

You see a lot of artist going for recyclable packaging for their albums. You’ve also heard about carbon neutral tours that musicians are organizing these days. Solar power, clean energy to power their studios.

What about a sustainable guitar? Why not!

The “MADA caimes” guitar and the new “MADA sab” bass, crafted by master guitar maker Andreas Neubauer, are probably the most eco-friendly among the new green guitars popping up everywhere.

The guitar is made of 100% organic hemp cellulose guitar. This high-end guitar is highly sustainable. The strings are also made of recyclable steel.

The ‘green’ electric guitar sells for about $4800. Not exactly cheap but the price is worth it knowing you are saving mother earth.

www.madaguitars.com

Here is a demo of the newly developed Plug and Play guitar pickups from Taylor.

The video shows how easy it is to swap out the new pickups. All you need is 15 minutes and a screwdriver!

The pickup comes in either the clean sounding HD (High Definition) or the fat and crunchy HG (High Gain).

For all you American Idol fans out there, here is what you’ve been waiting for: Kelly Clarkson’s return to the music charts.

Clarkson made history by having the biggest jump in the charts ever. Her latest song “My Life” from the new album “All I Ever Wanted” climbed from the 97th spot directly to No. 1 pushing former champion Lady GaGa to No. 2

Here is the latest ranking:

1. Kelly Clarkson - My Life
2. Lady GaGa - Let’s Dance
3. Beyonce - Single ladies
4. Kanye West - Heartless
5. Taylor Swift - Love Story
6. All American Rejects - Gives You Hell
7. T.I. feat. Rihanna - Live Your Life
8. The Fray - You Found Me
9. Britney Spears - Circus
10. Jason Mraz - I’m Yours

When I first heard the word Sea Organ I thought it’s an organ played under water.

It turns out, it’s actually an experimental architectural object designed to catch the waves and create musical sounds.

The concrete is 70 meters long and has 35 organ pipes built underneath it.

This natural musical instrument can be found in Croatia.

Because of the waves’ unpredictability, the sound being produced by this concrete instrument varies all the time. The pipes’ musically tuned sounds emanate to the surroundings through apertures in the vertical planes of the uppermost stairs.

It’s nice to see that the natural elements of this earth are being harnessed to produce music. The Sea Organ is definitely a work of art. I just wished the Air Guitar lived up to its name.

Here is a clip of the Sea Organ in action:

The highly regarded cellist of modern times, Yo-Yo Ma, has admitted that his performance during Barrack Obama’s inauguration is indeed not live.

The tune that people heard on their television sets was actually a tape recording made specially for the event.

Yo-Yo Ma feared that the temperature might not have prevented the instruments to stay in tune so he had to have a back-up plan.

He did, however, play in-sync and live for only the people close to him to hear.

At least this news took the attention away from the swearing-in flub.

The Bandura is a Ukrainian stringed instrument typically played by plucking. The back of the bandura is traditionally carved from solid wood but modern banduras are now produced with fiberglass backs. The soundboard is a type of spruce and the planks and bridge is made from hard woods.

There are 4 main types of banduras that can be found today:

The Folk or Starosvitska Bandura
These instruments typically have some 20-23 strings and are hand-made, with no two instruments being exactly the same.

The Kyiv-style bandura
These are the most common banduras in use today in Ukraine. They have 55-65 metal strings tuned chromatically through five octaves.

The Kharkiv-style bandura
These instruments are primarily made by craftsmen outside of Ukraine. These popular banduras are strung either diatonically (with 34-36 strings) or chromatically (with 61-65 strings).

The Kyiv-Kharkiv Hybrid bandura
Is a hybrid between the Kyiv and the Kharkiv banduras.

The term bandura is generally thought to have entered the Ukrainian language via Polish, either from Latin or from the Greek pandora or pandura, although some scholars feel that the term was introduced into Ukraine directly from the Greek language.

A person who plays a bandura is called a bandurist.

Check out this video of a bandura to hear how it sounds:

Another David Foster song. This one’s featuring Will.i.am, Bono, Faith Hill, Seal, Mary J. Blige. The song is called “America’s song”. Just in time for the inauguration of our new president Barrack Obama.

One thing that bothers me about this is hearing Bono and Seal singing the lyrics “Our America..” when the truth is- they’re not really Americans. They could’ve put a better cast to sing this song but other than that it sounds great. It’s David Foster after all. Whatever song he touches becomes a big deal. Enjoy!