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This new Christmas album released on October 23, 2015. It features classic Christmas songs with a mix of original Christmas songs. There are special guest performances from Lauren Daigle, All Sons & Daughters, Crowder, and more on this album.
Songs:
1. He Shall Reign Forevermore
2. Adore
3. Midnight Clear (Love Song)
4. Noel featuring Lauren Daigle
5. Hymn Of Joy
6. Silent Night featuring Kristyn Getty
7. What Child Is This? featuring Sons & Daughters
8. It's Christmas
9. A King Like This
10. Bethlehem
11. A Christmas Alleluia featuring Lauren Daigle & Leslie Jordan of All Sons & Daughters
Listening to Christmas music always puts me in the holiday spirit. Whenever I hear a Christmas song, my mood instantly improves. I was sitting my car the other day feeling kind of blue and I decided to pop in Chris Tomlin's new CD Adore. Less than a minute in, I was smiling and feeling the Christmas spirit.Chris has a gorgeous voice and you can actually feel his music deep in your soul. I love this CD and highly recommend it!
Chris Tomlin is an American contemporary Christian music artist, worship leader, and songwriter who has sold nearly 30 million records. Some of his most well-known songs are "How Great Is Our God", "Jesus Messiah", "Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)", "Our God", and "Whom Shall I Fear". His 2013 album Burning Lights debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, only the fourth Christian album ever to open at No.1. Throughout his career, Chris has been nominated for 32 Dove Awards (6 of them collaborative efforts) and he has won 19 of them.
I work in an office and for the longest time I kept trying to think of a way to make my day better. I don't know why it took so long for me to realize that all I needed to do was add music into my work day. This finally dawned on me about a month ago. I found a pair of headphones that we had and went on my merry way. The day was much more enjoyable when it had a soundtrack.
When I heard about the SOL REPUBLIC Amps HD In-Ear Headphones, I was pretty excited. Think about how much better TV and movies look in HD. Wouldn't that be great for music too? I received my pair a week ago and I have to say that it almost feels like I'm at a concert when I have them in. The sound comes across so much crisper.
When I first removed the headphones from the box, I thought wow, those are kind of big. I usually use ear buds, so I was a little concerned that these might be a bit uncomfortable for me. They were at first and then I realized that I had them in backwards. No wonder they hurt my ears!
It's amazing how a product can come into your life and make you see that you can make you start to appreciate things even more. I thought music was about as good as it was going to get. I was wrong, and I'm happy about that.
One of my favorite things about these headphones is that you can change the volume and pause the music without having to get on your phone or iPod. So, if you are out running or something and want to adjust the volume, you just push the +. To pause or play, you just push the symbol in the middle. Voila!
The SOL REPUBLIC Amps HD In-Ear Headphones would make the perfect gift for the music lover in your life.
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The artist named by Rolling Stone as one of America’s best singer-songwriters and the 2005 Producer of the Year shares the inside story of his music career
From his days with one-hit-wonder band the Marvelous 3 to his current work producing some of today’s hottest talent—from Weezer and Katy Perry to Pink, Avril Lavigne, and Panic! at the Disco—Butch Walker has proven himself a major influence in contemporary pop music. But the road to success wasn’t easy. Drinking with Strangers takes you into the studio and onto the stage, offering a rare glimpse into a life defined by raw talent, determination, a drive for perfection, and some ridiculous haircuts.
At age seventeen, Walker left small-town Georgia with his hair metal band and headed for the mean streets of Los Angeles. Full of piss, vinegar, and Jack Daniel’s (mostly the latter), these young Southern musicians were determined to become the biggest band on the Sunset Strip and land a major-label record deal. After many false starts—including an ill-fated concert tour of China—Walker’s rock-and-roll fantasies hadn’t quite come true, so he embraced the do-it-yourself approach. Taking control of his destiny, he learned to make success on his own terms, but not without some memorable, occasionally drunken stumbles along the way. Walker’s adventures taught him a number of life lessons he shares here with insight and candor, revealing the blessings of failure—and what it’s really like to spend your life going from gig to gig, drinking with strangers.
In a voice as wry as his lyrics, Walker pays tribute to his influences, from his parents to MÖtley CrÜe, from KISS to both Elvises (Presley and Costello). He offers a clear-eyed yet humorous look at the music business—the greed, the booze, the drugs, the infighting, the swindles, the unfulfilled promises—and explores its bad side, too. In documenting his rise to the middle, Walker frankly describes the delicate balance between success, selling out, and just knocking back another shot of whiskey to numb the pain.
Whether or not you are familiar with Walker’s music, Drinking with Strangers is a must-read for anyone who wants to make it in the music world, covering such essential topics as the digital revolution and its impact on both performers and producers, the art of creative collaboration, and what it’s really like to work with cutthroat competitors who might steal your soul (and your song). Unflinchingly told, Walker’s twenty-year journey of failing upwards becomes an unforgettable rite of passage.
SIMONE DINNERSTEIN'S SECOND ALBUM ON SONY CLASSICAL
TRACES THE SHARED VOCAL ASPECTS IN THE MUSIC OF BACH AND SCHUBERT
Something Almost Being Said
Available January 31, 2011
Sony Classical will internationally release pianist Simone Dinnerstein's second album Something Almost Being Said: The Music of Bach and Schubert on Tuesday, January 31, 2012. The new album combines J. S. Bach's Partitas Nos. 1 and 2, with Schubert's Four Impromptus, Op. 90, and was recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters in New York by Grammy-winning producer Adam Abeshouse. The album's title is taken from English poet Philip Larkin's poem, The Trees.
Something Almost Being Said follows the 2011 release of Ms. Dinnerstein's Bach: A Strange Beauty, which immediately earned the No. 1 spot on the US Billboard Classical Chart, and is one of the few classical albums to make the Billboard Top 200, compiling the entire music industry's top selling albums in all genres. The San Francisco Chronicle called Bach: A Strange Beauty unadorned but profound bliss, and The Washington Post raved, Dinnerstein's readings may be said to plumb these works genuine depths . . . poised, elegant, wonderfully played.
Ms. Dinnerstein says of her new album, and its title, Bach and Schubert, to my ears, share a distinctive quality. Their non-vocal music has a powerful narrative, a vocal element. The effect is that of wordless voices singing textless melodies. Bach and Schubert's melodic lines are so fluent, so expressive, and so minutely inflected that they sound as though they might at any moment burst suddenly into speech. They sound like something almost being said.
Simone Dinnerstein has been called a throwback to such high priestesses of music as Wanda Landowska and Myra Hess, by Slate magazine, and praised by TIME for her arresting freshness and subtlety. The New York-based pianist gained an international following because of the remarkable success of her recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations, which she raised the funds to record. Released in 2007 on Telarc, it ranked No. 1 on the US Billboard Classical Chart in its first week of sales and was named to many Best of 2007 lists including those of The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The New Yorker. Her follow-up album, The Berlin Concert, also gained the No. 1 spot on the Chart.
Ms. Dinnerstein's performance schedule has since taken her around the world. Recent and upcoming highlight include performances at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Vienna Konzerthaus, Berlin Philharmonie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and London's Wigmore Hall; at festivals including the Lincoln Center Mostly Mozart Festival, the Aspen, Verbier, and Ravinia festivals, and the Stuttgart Bach Festival; and concerto performances with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Dresden Philharmonic, Staatskapelle Berlin, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Orchestra of St. Luke's, Kristjan Järvi's Absolute Ensemble, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, and the Tokyo Symphony.
Ms. Dinnerstein has played concerts throughout the United States for the Piatigorsky Foundation, an organization dedicated to bringing classical music to non-traditional venues. Amongst the places she has played are nursing homes, schools and community centers. Most notably, she gave the first classical music performance in the Louisiana state prison system when she played at the Avoyelles Correctional Center. She also performed at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women, in a concert organized by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra to coincide with her BSO debut.
Dedicated to her community, in 2009 Ms. Dinnerstein founded Neighborhood Classics, a series of concerts open to the public hosted by New York City public schools. The series features musicians she has met throughout her career, and raises funds for the schools. Neighborhood Classics began at P.S. 321, the Brooklyn elementary school that Ms. Dinnerstein’s son attends and where her husband teaches. Artists who have performed on the series include Richard Stoltzman, Maya Beiser, Pablo Ziegler, and many more.
Over the past few years, Ms. Dinnerstein has been featured in Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine, Classic FM Magazine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, "O" The Oprah Magazine, TIME, Slate, Stern, Cicero, The Sunday (London) Times Magazine, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, The Guardian, and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, among others, and has appeared on radio programs including BBC Radio 3's In Tune, BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, NPR's Morning Edition, Public Radio International's Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen, American Public Media's Performance Today, Minnesota Public Radio, XM Radio's Classical Confidential, as part of the news on SIRIUS Satellite Radio's The Howard Stern Show, and on national television in Germany.
Ms. Dinnerstein is a graduate of The Juilliard School where she was a student of Peter Serkin. She was a winner of the Astral Artist National Auditions, and has twice received the Classical Recording Foundation Award. She also studied with Solomon Mikowsky at the Manhattan School of Music and in London with Maria Curcio. Simone Dinnerstein lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and son. For more information, please visit www.simonedinnerstein.com.
Something Almost Being Said:
The Music of Bach and Schubert (Sony Classical)
Track Listing
[1-6] J. S. Bach: Partita No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 826
1. I. Sinfonia 5:05
2. II. Allemande 6:07
3. III. Courante 2:12
4. IV. Sarabande 4:28
5. V. Rondeau 1:26
6. VI. Capriccio 3:00
[7-10] Franz Schubert: Four Impromptus, Op. 90, D. 899
7. Impromptus No. 1 in C Minor 11:37
8. Impromptus No. 2 in E-Flat Major 4:50
9. Impromptus No. 3 in G-Flat Major 6:46
10. Impromptus No. 4 in A-Flat Major 8:36
[11-16] J. S. Bach: Partita No. 1 in B-Flat Major, BWV 825
With the release of YELLOWCARD's hugely-anticipated release of When
You're Through Thinking, Say Yes today March 22, 2011, a collective
sigh of relief has swept across the band. "After months of waiting we
are finally here," said the band in a joint statement. "When You're
Through Thinking, Say Yes is out. We want everyone to know how amazed
we have been by your support leading up to this release. We are so
proud of this record and hope more than anything that you, our fans,
love the songs. The exciting part starts now. We come to play a show
in your town, and you know the words to all the new songs. So pick up
a copy of the new record and we will be seeing you soon."
Not short on overwhelming praise and stellar reviews, the album has
been generating lots of excited chatter. Alternative Press said that
When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes "sounds less of a comeback and
more of a homecoming" in their glowing four star review. AbsolutePunk
proclaimed, "Yellowcard is back, and they're back for good" in their
five star review. "After months and months of anticipation, Yellowcard
is back and When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes brings the same
punch in a better packaged form than Ocean Avenue, the band's 2003
breakthrough record," hailed Property of Zack. Perfectly summing up
the musical landscape and Yellowcard's place in it, Under the Gun
Reviews begged "forget Gaga and Bieber... THIS is the music and THIS
is what people need to hear" in a perfect ten out of ten review.
With their tour with All Time Low just kicking off last night in
Philadelphia, PA and going straight through to early May, Yellowcard
are officially back. With over three million of their previous records
sold, Ryan Key (vocals/guitar) and original members Sean Mackin
(violin) and Longineu ("LP") Parsons (drums) continuing with Ryan
Mendez (guitar) will be joined by longtime friend of the band Sean
O'Donnell (bass), whose addition has been described as a "natural fit"
for the current mindset and progression of the group. When You're
Through Thinking, Say Yes was produced by Neal Avron, the "sixth
member of the band" who has produced three of their previous albums
including their breakthrough Ocean Avenue.
•F**k You (I'm Famous) [Explicit]- Hierophant
•Stuck in the Metal [Explicit]- Eagles of Death Metal
•So Alive- Better Than Ezra
•Would?- Queens of Dogtown
•Sex on Wheelz- My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult
•Last Caress- Queens of Dogtown
•Mirror People- Adrian Young
•Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out With Me- Cracker
•I Remember You- Queens of Dogtown
•Second Life Replay- The Soundtrack Of Our Lives
•Wanted Dead or Alive- Warren Zevon
•If I Go, I'm Going- Gregory Alan Isakov
•Home Sweet Home- Tommy Lee
It's My Life: #giveaway: Season 4 Music From The Showtime Series Californication [Explicit] @bridget3420 http://t.co/6Tuaf2N #contest #win
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O Holy Night, a special seasonal CD/DVD and first major label release from soprano prodigy Jackie Evancho, has been certified Platinum by the RIAA in recognition of sales of more than 1,000,000.
Released in the US on November 16, O Holy Night entered the Billboard 200 at #2, its chart and sales success securing Jackie’s position as 2010′s top-selling debut artist as well as the youngest female solo
artist to debut during the Soundscan era. In addition to her pop chart success, Jackie has reached #1 on the Billboard Classical Chart and #2 on the Billboard Holiday chart.
On O Holy Night, her debut recording for SYCO/Columbia, Jackie matched a couple of her favorite Christmas carols–”O Holy Night” and “Silent Night”–with “Pie Jesu” and “Panis Angelicus”–two of the arias she performed on “America’s Got Talent”–on the set’s extended play CD.
The two-disc O Holy Night includes a bonus DVD featuring Jackie’s “America’s Got Talent” performances, the audition tape that got her on the show, and an exclusive interview with Jackie filmed the week following the show’s finale.
One thing I would like to know is how such a little person can have such an enormous voice! The Jackie Evancho: O Holy Night (DVD/CD) is absolutely beautiful.Jackie has a gorgeous voice that sends chills down my spine every time I hear it. She captures the true meaning of Christmas with her hit CD and angelic voice.
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I absolutely love my iPod and I think that is a great thing to have. The RockBoom Speaker iPod Case works as a case and as a speaker, all at the same time.
* Powered by two AAA batteries (not included)
* Connects to the mp3 player through a 3.5mm jack
* Fits a slim line nano iPod or other small mp3 device inside
I'm a bit of a klutz and the iPod is protected better. I wish it was a little louder but other than that it's a great product.
Available Styles:
Camouflage
Black
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So I loved American Idol the first season but after that I wasn't really feeling it. This year Krista is making me watch it and I must admit that it's a really great show. Giving ordinary everyday people the chance to make their dreams come true is really touching.
If I had known what a hottie would have been on in season 8, I would have been totally addicted.
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In celebration of Elvis's 75th Anniversary, Sony Legacy has released an Elvis 75 - Good Rockin' Tonight box set. The set includes 4 CD's that hold a total of 100 songs. I grew up listening to Elvis with my parents and I can still remember how I felt when I would see him on TV. Mom would be playing a movie and once I caught a glimpse of Elvis's face, I would drop whatever I was doing just to stare at the screen. Music is more than just sounds, it invokes emotion and I don't know if there has been anyone more capable of speaking to my soul than Elvis. This is a must have for all fans.
Disc 1 includes hits from 1953-1957
Disc 2 includes hits from 1958-1962
Disc 3 includes hits from 1963-1969
Disc 4 includes hits from 1970-1977
This set includes hits like:
All Shook Up
Jailhouse Rock (one of my personal favorites)
Hound Dog
Love Me Tender
