It is summer, it is hot, and new music release Tuesday has been very very lame lately.

Here are 10 albums to listen to this summer.
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I love this video and song. Enjoy

(ht kevin deshazo)

*kyle

I don’t want to say this is a must do song for your Easter service, well wait a minute, yes I do.

You absolutely must do this song on Easter.

Amazing and powerful. Give it a listen.

Good Song for Easter?

*kyle

In case you haven’t heard Gungor (formely know as the Michael Gungor Band) have taken over the christian blogosphere and the ears of all listeners that enjoy good music. Their new CD entitled Beautiful Things was released on February 16, 2010 and has quickly spread to everyone.

There are several great post out there about Gungor’s new CD and would love for you to read them.
Check out Tyler Brauns post and Grant Jenkins post for some great reviews and info about the CD.

There is one thing that stands out to me the most about this CD and that is the rate at which it has gained momentum. The Michael Gungor band has been around for a little while. They have recorded 3 CD’s before their most recent work, and have made the circuit around the United States playing shows and conferences. Yet most people had never really heard of this band before. That was until they released their most recent work, and twitter and blogs got a hold of it all.

It is amazing how fast things spread. Ideas, videos, music, and books seem to have enough fire power to last for months. Their gasoline, well that is provided by bloggers and twitters such as myself and maybe even you. See we all like stuff that is good. Stuff that not only has a lot of hype but also delivers in content. I have learned a couple of things about momentum, and one thing that I continue to understand is that hype is not the only thing that is needed. I use to think that if we just hyped up church services enough people would come. Or if the event was big enough and it got the word out then people would want to come. What I have seen is that hype is overrated. It is hard to deliver and often leaves people very disappointed. But, when an idea, song, book, movie, thought, or picture has hype and is good, it is destined to take off.

I call this the power of good. Something that is good will stand on its own, put some hype and attention behind it and it can spread. Inside the power of good there needs to be hype but also something to be able to talk about. The lack of one of these important elements brings failure.

What is something that was really hyped and yet very good?

*kyle

Question: within the past month, who is your favorite band?
Mine: Its a tie, NeedtoBreathe and Zach Williams.
These two bands have been on continues play for me. Cannot get enough of each of them. If you have not heard either of these two bands/guy you have to check them out.

http://zachwilliams.com
http://needtobreathe.com

What say you? Currently, Who is Your Favorite Band(s)?

*kyle

Just enjoy this genius kid. Don’t like all of his song choices (on other videos) but man is he creative.

They have done it again.

What is your favorite music video you have ever seen?

Here is mine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XVWR-5fiG0

I love Derek Webb. Loved his first album all the way to his latest album Stockholm Syndrome. He sometimes feels like a spokesperson for the way I am thinking, he articulates my feelings very well. When I heard that he would be doing an follow up album called Democracy Vol. 1 I was thrilled, even more thrilled to hear that they would be cover songs of the fans choice.
One song that I was really excited about hearing him cover was Fix You by Coldplay. Friday, he released the demo version of the song. I hate to say it, but it leaves a LOT to be desired.
It didn’t help that he tweeted this either:

It was a bummer to read that and a bummer to hear his version. It is very difficult to tackle such a big song, and in all reality you just cannot convey that emotion with an acoustic guitar and a track. As I was listening to Derek’s version I was reminded of the beauty of this song and just the power of this song. I looked it up on youtube and found this awesome video:

That emotion cannot be tackled. I remember seeing them live and just sitting there with 40,000 people at the MGM grand in Las Vegas singing as loud as we could, it was amazing.

Here is my question…what are some timeless songs of our generation that can never be reproduced?

Here are some off the top of my head
Fix You by Coldplay
Waiting on the world to change by John Mayer
O Praise Him the David Crowder Band
Switchfoot Meant to Live

You?

*kyle