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The Rocket Summer – Of Men and Angels When I first discovered The Rocket Summer (AKA Bryce Avery) on eMusic quite a few years ago, I found poppy and irresistible piano based music built on a not-quite-in-your-face-faith-based platform. His last album, Do You Feel, changed up his M.O. a little bit (I reviewed it here), [...]
Fireflight – For Those Who Wait I almost broke the cardinal rule I have for an album, which is to not tell someone what I think about it until I listen to it headphoned. And it was almost on this album that I did it, and that would have been a big shame, because this [...]
Owl City – Ocean Eyes I have usually heard of an artist before they blow up super-huge. I can only think of two artists that were mega huge that I’d never heard of in “medium exposure” mode (at least here in the US market): Evanescence and most recently Owl City. I had a friend [...]
Skillet – Awake – 2009 There are a few bands that I love and will perennially buy their albums. Bands like Relient K, Plumb, Third Day, etc. Skillet most definitely falls into the “I’m going to get it because it’s band-x’s new album” category. I picked up their new album “Awake” a few [...]
Phil Wickham – SingAlong – Click to get to his website One thing I love about the collaborative blogger community is finding out cool stuff that you’d have to wade through promo emails to find out. One such example was the release of Phil Wickham’s singalong Live CD. I love Phil Wickham’s music, but [...]
ABBA – Super Trouper In my year 0, 1 and 2 I didn’t remember most of what I listened to, so I’m harkening back to what music my mom listened to on my memory and what I sold at a garage sale after she “converted” to CD’s.
Jethro Tull – Aqualung I know for sure that my [...] Music is so incredibly important. Even when people deny what implications music has for us and culture, it is still there affecting and has been effecting nevertheless. I am reaching a milestone birthday coming up here, 30 years old, and as such I thought it would be fitting to release the music which affected [...] So, the other day I noticed on the tweet list for radioU that Awaken North Wind was giving away a free CD, so I downloaded it. I’ve randomly heard them a time or two, though I don’t know if I’ve heard them on RadioU before or not. I’m always in for free music. I have to say [...] So, like a couple of you I’m on practically every single PWG record labels email list. So I first heard of Children 18:3 from Tooth and Nail (I think) from an ecard saying their freshman album had arrived. Can we be honest? Ok – come closely so I only have to whisper this [...]
Falling Up – Fangs So, this album piqued my curiosity quite a bit. When I was able to pick it up it was clearly the direction that the band has been heading in since they released Exit Lights. Ambient and techno mixes with a guitar driven beat. But the whole themed album thing [...] So, I am totally curious how Falling Up’s newest album that came out today entatled “FANGS” will do. I was listening to the radio today at work and they had a quote from Jessey Ribordy (the leader / frontman of the group) saying it was a theme album about insects and people fighting a common [...] So, Connor mentioned that the new U2 album was available for 4 bucks on Amazon the day it came out. Seeing the opportunity to download it I immediately took it. And I have to say that it’s a tremendously great album. So here is the background about me and U2. I have always been [...] So, as I’m now at the end of the took-way-too-long Alpha-bet, I’m wondering what I should do next with my music collection. Anyone have any ideas? EK threw out the suggestion to not sort by Artist Name, but to sort by Song Name. Now that I think about it – this may actually [...] So, last weeks Alpha-Bet was the letters WX. But, really, they were the letter W with the band X-Treme (a cheezyish coverband worship group from a friend’s church. Random minutia – Xtreme (without the dash) is a skanky Italian rapper. Anyhow, last week’s Alpha-Bet basically consisted of this: Willie Nelson, Will Smith, Watermark. iTunes seemed kinda to [...] UVW last week was good and annoying. I should have left U along and just had a “various artists” playlists in all actuality. I actually decided to modify THIS week’s alphabet playlist to be WX, since I think I heard MAYBE 10 W artist songs last week. Various artists were very very various. From [...] OK so I appologize that this is so jokin’ late. Life is nuts around here… Ignore the last week and yesterday! So, everyone was all twitterpated last week about getting their hands on the new Fray album. But, I said “Eh, No.”. Partially because I’m being cheap these days (what recession???) and also because [...] With the recent holiday season, I have had to suspend the Alpha-Bet. It’s going to resume on monday of next week. I do, however, have a musically related note: Most annoying song of the Christmas Season: “Happy Birthday, Jesus“. Apparently this song is kind of old (4-5 years) and it’s just now gaining traction. Kids are [...] I first heard of Anberlin several years ago with the CD “blueprints for the blackmarket takeover”. And I honestly only slightly liked it because their lyics are SO strange. I always remember the lyrics from a song : “Girls speak in rythms and boys tell lies”. This song didn’t really challenge me perse as much as [...]
Chasen Shine Through the Stars I have the pleasure of FINALLY reviewing the CD Shine through the Stars by Chasen. I have been trying to figure out WHO they were for months. I thought (as is understandable) that their name was Jason. So I looked for reviews of them – anything for a tip onto who [...] OK – So, even though the title may sound like gibberish, it’s very legit. This is about the Letter N in the Alpha-Bet. It’s old and busted because of the New hottness (at the time) of the Galveston trip and it’s preparations. So it was sidelined along with the Olivia Newton John-ness of [...] |
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