I first heard the term “after-show” back in the fall of 2006 when I was looking for the members of Switchfoot and found out there was some sort of acoustic show at a coffee shop several blocks away. I arrived at the after-venue to find Jon Foreman, lead singer, sharing some of his writings with Drew Shirley backing him up on guitar.
With the myriad of press and artists floating around at GMA week each year, a pre-scheduled interview is often delayed or rescheduled. Sometimes it does not take place at all. When I arrived for an interview with Nevertheless, it turned out that another interview had been scheduled with them at the same time. Yet they graciously took a few minutes out of
Sanctus Real is not a new name to Christian Music. We caught them on the See Spot Rock tour in 2003 when they burst into the national scene with Say it Loud. We sat down with them again in 2004 to talk about their second release Fight the Tide that garnered a GMA Dove Award for Modern Rock Album of the Year one year later. Two albums and b
In Part 1 of our new artist feature this year, we hung out with Article One just before their sophomore release. In Part 2, we got to know an even newer band fresh off their national debut release. After Edmund hails from LaGrange, Georgia and the members are all musically trained. In fact, they all met while studying music in college.
Dave Barnes is fascinated by my phone. It’s tiny and red and looks very much like some type of voice recorder, and when I tell him it’s really a phone, he exclaims that it’s the coolest thing he’s ever seen.
GMA week, held each April in Nashville, is a place to meet up with old friends, and meet some new ones. This year we decided to bring out our two-part New Artist Feature again. We met Article One who sat down for a few minutes between time in the studio and playing at an evening showcase.
Plot the trajectory of Ethan Luck's career on a graph, and the image would be odd. Unconventional, to say the least, and not because it would convey an unusual number of peaks and valleys. If anything, first glance leaves the impression Luck has travelled from one peak to another, to another. From one popular rock band to another popular rock band, to a third.
KOCH Records’ Seattle-based alternative rock band and winner of the 2007 “MTV2 Dew Circuit Breakout,” The Myriad, is scheduled to release their highly anticipated sophomore project With Arrows, With Poise on May 13, 2008. In anticipation of the release, we asked the guys some questions about the album, MTV, and touring. Step inside to read more.
Here at inReview (and previously at cMusicWeb) we have been expressing our own blend of the typical annual "Best of" albums for several years. To fit our motto, "A Different Approach to Music," the best albums have transformed to most spun rather than the best new records. The choices expand to any music in any genre from any time. After all, do our staff and readers only listen only to new releases? I hope not!
Earlier this year, Delirious? frontman Martin Smith gathered 12 of his singer/songwriter friends to pen a dozen or so songs for Compassionart, a charity that seeks to use music to generate income for the world's poorest citizens. Altogether, 22 songs were written, the first just released April 8 on Wow Hits 1. Some notable artists involved on the project included Michael W. Smith, Chris Tomlin, and Steven Curtis Chapman as well as fellow Delirious?
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1. John Mayer Continuum
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1. Third Eye Blind Self-titled Debut
Submitted by The Runaway aka Jon Corbin (Current Album: A Brief Word - Prophetic Poetic Productions)
1. Relic It's All Relative
Submitted by Jonny Upson of Parker Theory (current Album: Leaving California - Rescue Records); also band photographer
1. Paramore RIOT!
Submitted by Mark Graalman of Sanctus Real (Current album: We Need Each Other - Sparrow Records)
1. Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
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1. Radiohead In Rainbows
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1. Kanye West Graduation
Submitted by Matt Thiessen of Relient K (Current album: Five Score and Seven Years Ago - Gotee Records, Capitol Records)
1. Little Ones Sing Song EP
Submitted by Gabriel Wilson of The Listening (current album: The Listening EP and Lovely is Death - acoustic solo album)
1. Midlake Trials of Van Occupanther