The Cure for Bedbugs: D-Mo and the Chaff Tones party like it's 1999:
"OK, Jessie Daniels - The Noise: She's got the Kelly C rockfessional down pretty well (goddamn it [sorry Jessie] SOMEONE needs to create a hot buzzword/genre for this music! I can't waste all my time blogviating about rock-confessional-confessional-rock-in-a-teen-pop-setting...it takes too long to type. Hey, look at that, troublegum...not quite right, but what a word). Problem is, this is wholesome Christian rock lyrical fare, so Jessie's using the kiss-off voice to...praise. Similar problem in the new Pink single (is 'Who Knew' the next single?), these heartbreaking lyrics pasted on top of 'Since U Been Gone'...feels wrong. Jessie, whatever you get mad at in this world...hangnails, black licorice jellybeans, liberals...whatever, doesn't matter, WRITE A SONG ABOUT THAT. Of course Jesus is underlying all of this stuff, it's as true for Ashlee and Kelly and Lindsay and Aly and AJ as it is for you, they just don't capitalize their H's and Y's. I WANT TO SEE A WRATHFUL JESSIE. Also, for someone who employs so much guitar noise in her single, you really seem to have it out for noi...oh. "
Your comments? My comment: Jessie's the better version of Bethany Dillon. Or what Bethany Should Have Sounded like. All her songs are angsty and melodic. Makes me proud.
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
"SKILLET’s “REBIRTHING” ROCKS!
……With just over a month to go before Grammy-nominated rockers Skillet release their 7th studio recording COMATOSE (Lava/Atlantic/Ardent/SRE), the band's first single at Christian Rock radio is heating up, making the highest debut this week at No. 17 on R&R's Christian rock chart and causing their fan message boards to go crazy. Since putting a clip of "Rebirthing" on their MySpace ( myspace.com/skilletmusic) page just over two weeks ago, the single as received over 100,000 plays. On top of that, the song is being played non-stop at their official website ( skillet.com) and their fan site ( panheads.org).
Here's just a taste of what their fans and radio programmers are saying:
"'Rebirthing' has not only been the number one requested song by our listeners, but by the staff here at RadioU! October 3 and the release of Comatose can not come quick enough. We LOVE SKILLET!
- Nikki Cantu / RadioU
"When the hook of 'Rebirthing' came blasting through my stereo speakers I almost fell over! It's intense, melodic and atmospheric. I can't get enough of it!! Whenever I spin this song I'm sent into spastic fits of air guitar bliss! Add this song and you will be too, if not check your pulse, you might be Comatose!"
Here's just a taste of what their fans and radio programmers are saying:
"'Rebirthing' has not only been the number one requested song by our listeners, but by the staff here at RadioU! October 3 and the release of Comatose can not come quick enough. We LOVE SKILLET!
- Nikki Cantu / RadioU
"When the hook of 'Rebirthing' came blasting through my stereo speakers I almost fell over! It's intense, melodic and atmospheric. I can't get enough of it!! Whenever I spin this song I'm sent into spastic fits of air guitar bliss! Add this song and you will be too, if not check your pulse, you might be Comatose!"
The Edge Radio Article on "FISH Magazine" --Sept 2006.
Fish Magazine Issue "Sept 2006" Entitled "Funny Bones"--contains a short article on THEEDGERADIO.
Cover is a BIG PRETTY GIRL who's cross eyed. theEDGE Article on Page 24 by Jomar Hilario. From the cover design you'll just probably see a magazine with NO NAME among the mag stacks --and the image of a huge pretty forehead instead. Pull it up, and you'll see the nice GREEN FISH Name.
Cover is a BIG PRETTY GIRL who's cross eyed. theEDGE Article on Page 24 by Jomar Hilario. From the cover design you'll just probably see a magazine with NO NAME among the mag stacks --and the image of a huge pretty forehead instead. Pull it up, and you'll see the nice GREEN FISH Name.
Get your issues of Fish at National Bookstore/Powerbooks/Sept 3 Feast at Camp Aguinaldo's Teatro Aguinaldo all day long. Please email me the branch/bookstore at jomar.hilario@gmail.com if you went to the bookstore and didn't find any copies of this Fish Issue.
Watch this space: http://fishmagazine.blogspot.com to see the cover of the issue. I'll upload it soon.
Mighty To Save review (Hillsong)
Artist: Hillsong
Album: Might to Save
Label: Integrity
Rating: 4 of 5 stars
by John Brandon, EIC (christrock.com)
Every Hillsong release rises quickly to the top of my CD stack, and this one is a prime example. Catchy, sing-able, and worship-rich, Might to Save is one of the best yet.
Get me plane ticket to Sydney: I want to see Hillsong Church someday. This latest offering, recorded live at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in March in front of 10,000, is like a greatest hits of the most recent Hillsong releases, including some from United (the church youth group) and Hillsong London (the church plant).
Okay, so what makes these songs so worshipful and God-focused? Well, that's something I can't easily explain. Hillsong and Vineyard both tend to capture the essence of a live performance without seemingly any effort. The song "From the Inside Out," which appears on the last United release, is a great example where – man, the song itself is perhaps not structured in a recognizable way so that it seems like a "hit" song and there's not as much energy as a Newboys outing. But it has a spiritual center that makes you want to listen, understand what they are singing about, and even join along. It has a way of building in the same way that a Starsailor or U2 song have this orchestrated exhuberance.
The lead track (Take It All) is maybe more of a "hit" in that the line "take, take, take it all" sticks in your head. Still, while there's tons of energy, United is probably a little more over the top. Hillsong's main releases tend to be more adult-contemporary, and there's quite a few tracks here that are slower and more methodical. Yet, by the closing title track song, you know that you are in good hands with Darlene Zschech, Reuben Morgan, Joel Houston, and Marty Sampson leading you to the cross, one step at a time. This song in particular just gets me every time: that what Christ did for us was not just an accident, but He had the full intention of saving us, and the strength and power to back it up.
My only slight grumbling (and it's slight) is that I'm still looking for a song that grabs you as much as Everyday did so long ago and makes you want to learn it, play it, and sing it in church. Mighty to Save has songs that certainly come close to that kind of drop-everything catchiness, though.
Artist: Hillsong
Album: Might to Save
Label: Integrity
Rating: 4 of 5 stars
by John Brandon, EIC
Every Hillsong release rises quickly to the top of my CD stack, and this one is a prime example. Catchy, sing-able, and worship-rich, Might to Save is one of the best yet.
Get me plane ticket to Sydney: I want to see Hillsong Church someday. This latest offering, recorded live at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in March in front of 10,000, is like a greatest hits of the most recent Hillsong releases, including some from United (the church youth group) and Hillsong London (the church plant).
Okay, so what makes these songs so worshipful and God-focused? Well, that's something I can't easily explain. Hillsong and Vineyard both tend to capture the essence of a live performance without seemingly any effort. The song "From the Inside Out," which appears on the last United release, is a great example where – man, the song itself is perhaps not structured in a recognizable way so that it seems like a "hit" song and there's not as much energy as a Newboys outing. But it has a spiritual center that makes you want to listen, understand what they are singing about, and even join along. It has a way of building in the same way that a Starsailor or U2 song have this orchestrated exhuberance.
The lead track (Take It All) is maybe more of a "hit" in that the line "take, take, take it all" sticks in your head. Still, while there's tons of energy, United is probably a little more over the top. Hillsong's main releases tend to be more adult-contemporary, and there's quite a few tracks here that are slower and more methodical. Yet, by the closing title track song, you know that you are in good hands with Darlene Zschech, Reuben Morgan, Joel Houston, and Marty Sampson leading you to the cross, one step at a time. This song in particular just gets me every time: that what Christ did for us was not just an accident, but He had the full intention of saving us, and the strength and power to back it up.
My only slight grumbling (and it's slight) is that I'm still looking for a song that grabs you as much as Everyday did so long ago and makes you want to learn it, play it, and sing it in church. Mighty to Save has songs that certainly come close to that kind of drop-everything catchiness, though.
Thursday, August 24, 2006
PODcasting with POD!
Go to their POD warriors website (google it) and download podcasts w/c feature a lot of new songs and interview from P.O.D, Pillar, and the Chariot -- done during their tour.
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Now you subscribe to Contemporary Christian Music Magazine via the internet and get the issues digitally! (510 pesos only for the whole year!) Click here : CCM Digital Subscription
It isn't via PDF --you can print and read it while you're online. Zooming away to your hearts content. At last people in the Philippines can do this!
Thank you Jay! (Jay's the Editor in Chief and is a member of the Sixpence collectors Ygroup)
It isn't via PDF --you can print and read it while you're online. Zooming away to your hearts content. At last people in the Philippines can do this!
Thank you Jay! (Jay's the Editor in Chief and is a member of the Sixpence collectors Ygroup)
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