Jason Crabb’s new CD “The Song Lives On” is making noise as it hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Southern Gospel sales chart. It is also No. 10 on the Contemporary Christian chart and No. 118 on Billboard’s top 200.
And the DVD is No. 2 behind Taylor Swift on the overall Billboard Music DVD chart.
Love his voice and he’s just a genuine nice guy.
Tenth Avenue North is ready to get you in the holiday spirit with this new video “Deck the Halls.”
Check out the band’s tour schedule.
If you’re a Queen fan then check out this video by Marc Martel, the lead singer of Downhere. And fans recognize it also as he was voted the winner of Best Fan Cover at the MTV 02 Awards this week.
Here’s a link to Downhere’s website
Funny, I’ve written in the past that he reminds me of Freddie Mercury and sure enuff here’s proof. Amazing. Here he is on Ellen.
Red starts the show with flames a flying.
This is my Twitter version of the concert. It rocked.
Newsboys closed the show with “Jesus Freak” and Duncan twirling, spinning on/in his elevated drum kit platform. Michael Tait is truly an entertainer. Had the crowd laughing while stating the message “God’s Not Dead.” Also the band filmed a video of “God’s Not Dead,” and it sounded dead-on. The CD releases this month.
Matthew West performed his current hit song off his CD – Strong Enough, and More. Kutless with one of my favorites, Strong Tower. Disappointed Fireflight didn’t play a longer set. They are a fun rocking band.
And RED set the place on fire, literally with flames shooting 30 feet in the air. Those are some hard rockers.
That’s it for now, gotta get the computer in the shop.
Peace
Newsboys performs at Winter Jam at Magness Arena Denver
If you’ve been to a few Colorado Rockies’ games this year, you might be familiar with The City Harmonic’s song “Manifesto” — it was the Seth Smith’s walkup song.
And Smith’s choice in music is right on as the band received the New Artist of the Year Award by the Gospel Music Association Canada last week. The song “Manifesto” won for Recorded Song of the Year and Modern Worship Song of the Year.
The band is currently on tour and will be joining the Newsboys on their God’s Not Dead tour next year. Here’s a link.
We have a “pool” at work on headlines for big stories, and we talk about them, picking the best for the paper. Well, this one popped up. It made me laugh, then today I was thinking you know it’s a metaphor for Christians living in a mainstream world. Christians are thrown to the lions everyday and are bombarded by the media – Internet, TV, music, newspapers – by things that don’t agree with their principles.
Your thoughts and how do you handle it? Halloween is a perfect example.
“God’s not dead,” blares a headline on the black-and-white cover of the Newsboys’ latest album, which depicts a late 19th century newsboy hawking papers on a city street.
And many would say that the proclamation is just not news in the 21st century, but not Michael Tait, the band’s newest member and frontman.
“In today’s age we see more and more young people and adults who say they are in the atheist category that there is no God,” Tait said. “And we are here to say that God is alive and well. He is the foundation of our faith, and it’s a reaffirmation of that belief. And we are roaring like a lion.”
Tait and the Newsboys, which are known for their high energy live shows that feature drummer Duncan Phillips and his elevated rotating drumkit, are part of the Winter Jam tour that kicks off its 2011 fall dates at the University of Denver’s Magness Arena on Thursday Nov. 3 It marks the first time in Winter Jam’s 16-year history that the multi-band concert will be heading West.
“God’s Not Dead” is also the name of the band’s album that releases Nov. 15 and is the first true worship CD by the 18-year-old group. But don’t forget this is the hard-rocking Newsboys and the band puts its mark on such standards as “Mighty to Save,” ”Forever Reign” and “Your Love Never Fails.”
Five-time Grammy Award winner Steven Curtis Chapman is experiencing a "new season of music," and he will be bringing his tour at Mission Hills Church on Saturday, Oct. 22. | Courtesy photo
It’s been more than three years since the death of his little girl, Marie, 5, in a tragic accident at their home, but Steve Curtis Chapman and his family are finally climbing out of the abyss of depression with “new music in a new season.”
“That’s what this tour is about,” Chapman said, “to let our fans know that we’re OK. I have to use my wife’s words: It’s like we are taking the first steps out of a deep, dense forest since the accident at home. (Maria was run over in the family’s driveway by a SUV driven by one of their sons.) We are in a new season with new songs, new life. We have a new grandbaby on the way. We are making some major changes at the house that have been a long time coming. In a sense we have pep in our steps. There’s more laughter at the house and that reflects in this tour.”
Chapman will bring his Song & Stories Tour to Mission Hills Church in Littleton on Saturday, Oct. 22. The tour features Chapman playing smaller venues while taking his music back to his Kentucky roots.
“There’s not an electric guitar on stage. It’s stripped down,” Chapman said. “I’m far more comfortable in this setting. In my biggest moment — the big arena days, the four busses and three or four semis — I was still just this kid from Puducah, Kentucky, sitting in my bedroom writing songs. I’m a singer-songwriter.
“In the arena days I had to make myself comfortable by sitting on a stool telling my stories. Now we are taking it in that direction with this tour. I’m taking these songs back to their original state — They were all written on an acoustic guitar.”
Here’s a video of Dan Wheldon at the Indy 500. It shows why he was so loved by his colleagues. He is a “Charmer.”
David Crowder Band, which will disband after its 7 tour, performs Friday. Oct. 13 at the Ogden Theater. | Courtesy photo
Dig deep in you wallet if you want to catch the David Crowder*Band’s last show at the Ogden Theatre on Friday, Oct. 14. The show quickly sold out, and after checking the venue’s website, tickets are being offered at $118 to $275 – and that’s for a general admission venue. The six-piece band is calling it quits after making Christian contemporary music for 11 years to “find the space” to explore other interests.
And the band is not going out with a whimper. As their last project the guys decided to tackle a Mass – a Requiem to be exact.
Eliza Marie Somers: David, how is the Mass project coming along?
David Crowder: It’s in the mixing process. Off to the engineer to make us sound good. (Chuckles) It releases Jan. 10. The Requiem Mass is the oldest existing form of church music. It’s a container to write into. There’s a very strict format, and we stuck to that stringently. We used some of the language that was there, but we didn’t want it seem like church music — it’s an eclectic mix. I think it’s the best thing that we have done. No doubt. It’s 34 tracks we worked really, really hard on this vehicle. It’s such a significant container to write to and it was a very freeing thing to do at the same time.
EMS: Did you listen to the old masters for the Mass?
DC: We dug into all of that to get a good sense to the tone; Mozart has the best requiem. But we didn’t want our record to sound so bleak … dum dum da-dum. That would be a tough sell. We wanted it to feel more like a celebration as such. The title is — pardon us, but this is just what we do — “Give Us Rest (A Requiem Mass in C [The Happiest of All Keys]).” Death is sad, but for us in the church it’s also a glorious time. We need to mourn, but there’s a lot to be excited about.
EMS: Why the breakup and what’s next for you and the guys?
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