Discoveries

Most times I blog on the discoveries I make as I trip down the road of life, thoughts and concepts that have clicked into place revealing an ever increasing wonder at what is going on around me and for the plan that my Master has. It's amazing.

This time around it's discoveries of a musical nature. I've found three bands recently that I really wanted to let people know about and couldn't think of a better place to get the word out except through my blog. I want to let my friends know about discoveries that I've made simply because I believe that there's a whole lot of good solid christian music going un-listened to in Australia because no-one knows who the bands are, or how to find the music. And we're not talking obscure backblock garage bands here, I'm talking good quality, well produced, grammy nominated, award winning music.

My "discoveries" as such are the following bands

Decemberadio
website - www.decemberadio.com
myspace - www.myspace.com/decemberadio

This Beautiful Republic
website - www.thisbeautifulrepublic.com
myspace - www.myspace.com/thisbeautifulrepublic

The Robbie Seay Band
website - www.robbieseayband.com
myspace - www.myspace.com/robbieseayband

Before I sign off on this one some of the ways that I go about finding new music to listen to is simply listening to the radio. 96.5 is an awesome radio station who do keep up with the new music thats coming out , although sometimes you do need to listen at odd hours, like after 10:30pm on wednesday nights for late night praise and worship. They also have a tool on their website which lets you put in an approximate time you thought you heard the song and pull up a list of songs that played around that time. Very neat for finding out exactly who that band is.

Get out to music festivals to hear stuff that's outside of your cd collection too. You never know when you're going to stumble across a band that you get into during their concert. Most of the time if they're good live then they'll be pretty good in the studio. Unfortunately it doesn't always translate back the other way. Coming up in less than four months time is Easterfest (formerly AGMF) where there will be an absolute shedload of awesome bands and musos getting out there for your musical enjoyment, not to mention the gospel brought to you in a fresh way. Their standards are high so the music will be good,

To hear more of the artist that you've just found google them. Find their myspace page, because every self respecting band has one, and have a listen to the other tracks on there. You'll get four or five of the best which will give you a pretty good idea of whether or not a band is actually going to be playing stuff that you'll like.

Getting hold of the music to listen to is pretty simple too. the iTunes store is pretty up to date with christian music as the christian artists are almost at the mainstream level in the states. In some cases they are mainstream, for example Switchfoot. Koorong is another great place to get hold of cds and if you're thinking of doing some of the songs in church the sheet music. If there isn't a storefront near you then you can order online or via fax and have it mailed to you. Very prompt service too.

If I come across more music that I think people should go check out, I'll post links here to the bands website and myspace page.

Enjoy
Mick