Coldplay released their newest single for free download on their website today. It’s not as instantly memorable as Clocks or Shiver, but it succeeds at making me excited for the new album (which drops in the US this summer).
Get it here: http://www.coldplay.com/song.html
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I just received a copy of Rain City Hymnal yesterday.
RCH is the newest project from the Mars Hill Recording Squadron in Seattle (Mark Driscoll Mars Hill, not Rob Bell Mars Hill). It’s a compilation from a few of their worship bands (Ex Nihilo, The Northern Conspiracy, Team Strike Force, E-Pop and The BCG), but rather than creating another Tomlin look alike, they re-worked a dozen well-known hymns in an indie-pop style.
As a general rule, I really dislike hymn remakes. But this is different. Each band adds their own personality to the record. It plays less like a worship album or set of hymns, and more like a compilation of indie bands.
I’d give it 7 out of 10… if I were a giving type of person.
Jesus Culture is the worship ministry from Bethel Church in Redding, CA.
I’ve never heard of them before this week, but I absolutely love their sound.
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What do The Verve, Chris Tomlin and rocket ships have in common? Watch the intro (all 12 minutes — it’s worth it!) to the Hillsong Conference to find out…
Grace… Amazing.
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I paid £1.45 (about $3.00) for the album.
In case you hadn’t heard, Radiohead has released their new album on a ‘pay whatever you want’ basis. And (at least for now) is available for download only.
So, I paid next to nothing… partly because I wanted to see if I could actually get away with paying next to nothing for a legal download (it turns out I can), and partly because I’m just plain cheap.
Either way, right now it stands as one of the best $3 purchases in recent memory.
From Paste Magazine this morning…
“1.2 million digital copies of In Rainbows sold. Average sale price: £4, making for about £4.8 million in sales that the gentlemen of Radiohead get to keep mostly for themselves. Yeah. And that’s apparently not taking discbox sales (£40 a pop) or future CD sales into account…”
Get it here: www.radiohead.com
