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Nettwerk's co-founder Terry McBride will arrange Lilith Fair 2010. A chance to list Nettwerk label's or management's female fronted artists, the highlighted artists are currently streamed on KGRL:


Will we see some of them on the Lilith Fair stage in 2010?


The artists of the previous Lilith Fairs were:

As a music fan, and as a reluctant but nonetheless devout christian, one thing that annoys me intensely is the sheer crappiness of the christian music scene. For a religion that, among other things, holds values like Integrity, Honesty, and possesses a sort of loony be-not-of-this-world outlook, (or it's meant to, anyway) it's hard to find a band within this particular niche of music that isn't churning out the most bland, pointless, designed-to-sell-records-to-soccer-mums music there is.

Whether it's the terrible pop rock of Newsboys, the awful shopping mall music of Sixpence None the Richer, or the almost blasphemous attempt at 'RAWK' that's Third Day or Audio Adrenaline, Christian music is completely devoid of anything resembling integrity, excitement, and is possibly blander then Matchbox 20, which is quite an impressive feat in itself. And don't get me started on those indie bands who have some sort of christian outlook. Chances are Sufjan Stevens and Pedro the Lion would sound exactly the same as those other mentioned bands if they had better production. Hell, even Jars of Clay, the one good christian band, finally gave in to the blandness with their last two albums.

Anyway, I'm not entirely sure what the point of this journal is. But current Christian music sucks, and I'm not entirely sure why. There are of course dudes who will go "PERHAPS ITS BECAUSE THE RELIGION SUCKS LOL" but then that wouldn't account for all of the amazing christian music of old made by Bach, Palestrina and even Johnny Cash. Perhaps it's just the more modern variety of it? I'm not entirely sure, but for some reason modern Christian Music seems to be more about idolising Matchbox 20 and/or Coldplay then anything else. It's sad, but to me bands like Neurosis, Nadja, Jesu and The Angelic Process do a far, far better job of representing the divine nature of god then anything current christian bands do. It's also a shame that the current 'Anti Christian Music Scene' (by that I basically mean black metal, I'm not familiar with anything else with this kind of ideology) is far, far more creative, far more interesting and just much better then anything the current christian scene is putting out.

So, to conclude, there are a few things I'd like to say.

To current Christians: Stop being so bland. Generally, those crazy dudes handing out pamphlets on the street are a lot closer to, I guess, the 'real christianity' then you. This religion was never meant to be user friendly.

To those folks in Black Metal bands: Any chance some of you guys could convert sometime? We need some interesting music over here as well, and some of you guys seem pretty talented.

To current christian bands: Stop making music until you actually find some goood motivation to make music. No, money is NOT a good motivation. Start living in the woods and release heaps of Psych Folk records or something, I dunno, just stop with the crappy soccer mum music already.

To Jars of Clay: What the hell, guys? What on earth possessed you to write Good Monsters and make a Christmas Album? Start writing really slow country tunes again already.

To dudes who may know more about christian music then me: Feel free to recommend me christian music that isn't completely devoid of integrity, and is actually somewhat interesting. THAT WOULD BE SWEET.


LINKS YAY
Mercy Me U2 Ulver Mayhem Burzum Atheist Horde Mortification Living Sacrifice Kutless Hillsong
Relient K Bethany Dillon Jennifer Knapp
Deathspell Omega Darkthrone Emperor

since my mp3-player died right before i got on the train to go to kyrgyzstan, i been so desperate without being able to listen to music. those of you who listen to it like 24/7 (if possible), understand exactly what i'm talking about.

thankfully i took some of my mp3 cds and was able to borrow an mp3-cd-player. and that kind of soothed my "pain." i also am able to listen to some tunes on the comp while writing letters and whatnot. what did i listen? hmm, i did play Living Sacrifice, Nodes of Ranvier, U2, PAX217 (am listening to their Check Your Pulse EP right now), Delirious?, Jennifer Knapp, Dead Poetic, Strongarm... and i really got hung on Mae's Destination: Beautiful. God seems to have found a special way to relate to me thru music.

but i'm planning to survive nonetheless.. if nothing else, i'm just listening to the sounds of nature and the sounds of the people that surround me. you should try it, too. we miss a whole lot by not giving it a listen.

Thanks to macychick for this idea. First, make a list of your top-20 artists overall. Then, for each of these artists, add the 8 most similar artists to your list. Delete any duplicates, count up the number of entries on your list and this will give you some idea of how eclectic your listening habits are. A score of 9 represents an extremely unvaried musical taste while a 160 represents an extremely varied one.

1. The Stone Roses
2. Lloyd Cole
3. Sting
4. Morrissey
5. Caedmon's Call
6. Vigilantes of Love
7. The Alarm
8. The Samples
9. Phish
10. Rusted Root
11. Blues Traveler
12. Grateful Dead
13. The String Cheese Incident
14. The Whitlams
15. You Am I
16. Split Enz
17. The Bodines
18. The Soup Dragons
19. Shop Assistants
20. McCarthy
21. The Darling Buds
22. The Pastels
23. The Flatmates
24. INXS
25. Crowded House
26. Men at Work
27. Dire Straits
28. Matthew Sweet
29. XTC
30. The Replacements
31. Marshall Crenshaw
32. Joe Jackson
33. The Cruel Sea
34. Big Country
35. Thompson Twins
36. Simple Minds
37. ABC
38. Big Audio Dynamite
39. Nickel Creek
40. Matt Nathanson
41. Blue Merle
42. Ari Hest
43. Pete Yorn
44. Duncan Sheik
45. Over the Rhine
46. Bruce Cockburn
47. The Innocence Mission
48. Aaron Sprinkle
49. T-Bone Burnett
50. Denison Witmer
51. Patty Griffin
52. Jars of Clay
53. Bebo Norman
54. Third Day
55. Jennifer Knapp
56. David Crowder Band
57. Chris Tomlin
58. Steven Curtis Chapman
59. Mighty Mighty
60. The Primitives
61. Nirvana
62. Green Day
63. Goo Goo Dolls
64. Matchbox Twenty
65. Third Eye Blind
66. Jack Johnson
67. Gin Blossoms
68. Better Than Ezra
69. Collective Soul
70. Barenaked Ladies
71. The Wallflowers
72. The Sundays
73. Lush
74. Catherine Wheel
75. The Church
76. Primal Scream
77. Happy Mondays
78. The Cure
79. The Charlatans
80. Ian Brown
81. Blur
82. Belle and Sebastian
83. New Order
84. Interpol
85. Prefab Sprout
86. The House of Love
87. The Go-Betweens
88. The The
89. The Housemartins
90. The Police
91. Phil Collins
92. Eric Clapton
93. Peter Gabriel
94. Madonna
95. The Killers
96. Death Cab for Cutie
97. Snow Patrol
98. Franz Ferdinand

So I scored 98. I'm sure that I might not have it all exactly correct, but that seems a fairly diverse score nonetheless.

What is your score?

Just joined last.fm today, mainly just so I could test out this script. 71% eclectic for less than two hour of listening, just letting my iTunes randomly choose songs. Not too shabby for such a short time I'd say.


Take your top 20 artists. For each of these artists, collect the top 5 similar artists. The resulting number of unique artists is your eclectic score. If the score is small (extreme = 5) your musical preferences are very limited, and if it is large (larger than 80, extreme = 100), then you have an eclectic musical preference. You can compute your own score at http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/eclectic.php

My eclectic score is currently




The 71 related artists for my profile are Alison Krauss Alison Krauss & Union Station Audio Adrenaline (4) Augustana BarlowGirl Bebo Norman Bloc Party Brenton Brown Brian Doerksen Caedmon's Call Casting Crowns (3) Ceybil Jeffries Charlie Hall (2) Charlie Hall, Chris Tomlin, David Crowder* Band & Matt Redman Chelsea Somma Chris Thile Chris Tomlin (4) Christy Nockels David Crowder Band (2) David Crowder* Band & Howard Roberts Chorale dc Talk (3) Delirious? Derek Webb Eric Clapton Falling Up Goo Goo Dolls Hillsong Hillsongs Howie Day Interpol Iron & Wine James Taylor Jars of Clay (2) Jennifer Knapp Jeremy Camp (4) Jimi Polo John Mayer (2) Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band KJ-52 Kristian Stanfill Kutless (3) Lifehouse Maranatha! Worship Team Matt Redman (2) Matt Wertz Newsboys (5) Pamela Fernandez Paul Wright Pillar Relient K Robin Mark Sanctus Real Skillet Skipworth & Turner Sonicflood Steve Fee Steven Curtis Chapman Stevie Ray Vaughan Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble Sugarbear Superchic[k] The All-American Rejects The Arcade Fire The Benjamin Gate vs. John Reuben The Fray The Strokes The White Stripes Third Day (5) Tim Hughes tobyMac (2) Yellowcard

...there's just something about 'em.

Jennifer Knapp
Tam Stout
Michelle Branch
Jewel
Bethany Dillon

ARTISTS
1. Third Day
1. U2
3. Soulframe
4. Sister Hazel
5. The Beatles
6. Jars of Clay
7. R.E.M.
8. P.O.D.
9. Jennifer Knapp
10. The Cranberries

ALBUMS
1. The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 1967
2. U2 - The Joshua Tree 1987
3. Third Day - Time 1999
4. Jars of Clay - Jars of Clay 1995
5. dc Talk - Jesus Freak 1995
6. Soulframe - Escaping Entropy 2004
7. Moody Blues - Seventh Sojourn 1976
8. The Eagles - Hotel California 1976
9. Sister Hazel - Somewhere More Familiar 1997
10. Tonjip - [album]All That Glitters...[/album] 1998

Some of the earlier ones I'm not sure of dates, venues, etc.

New Orleans, LA - 2000?
Oleander
Fuel
3 Doors Down

Harvest - 2001? - Slidell, LA
Twiceborn - Baton Rouge hXc
Ripped up Heart - Slidell hXc
Dead to Life - nearby hxc
A.S.A.P. - Slidell pop-punk/worship/rock

New Orleans, LA
Third Day

Loyola University, New Orleans, LA
Loyola Faculty Jazz band, including:
rex richardson
Johnny Vidacovich
John Mahoney
part of Astral Project
several others

Art Official Tour - 2002? - Covington, LA
Earthsuit
Beanbag
.rod laver

11th Hour tour - May? 2002 - Meridian, MS
Jennifer Knapp
Jars of Clay

festival con dios - 2003 - Houston, TX
KJ-52
Matthew West
FM Static
Sky Harbor
Plus One
Seven Places
Sanctus Real
Thousand Foot Krutch
Kutless
Newsboys

April 22, 2005 - jazz fest 2005 - New Orleans, LA
Cowboy Mouth
Sonny Landreth
Wilco
several others

August 19, 2005 - Common Grounds - Gainesville, FL
Morningbell - Gainesville indie poprock
Team Mascot - Gainesville indie rock
Oh No! And The Tiger Pit - Gainesville indie rock

Aug 20, 2005 - The Atlantic - Gainesville, FL
Girls On Film - Tallahasse new wave
Man and Machines - nearby industrial
Yip-Yip - winter park IDM (getting to be reasonably famous I think)

Aug 23 - Common Grounds - Gainesville, FL
Dear And Glorious Physician - gainesville indie rock

Sep 8, 2005 - Orange and Brew - Gainesville, FL
Dear And Glorious Physician

Sep 9, 2005 - Hyde and Zeke's Records - Gainesville, FL
Inuit Jargon - gainesville - oh jeeze i don't know where to start

Sep 22 - Orange and Brew - Gainesville, FL
Adam's Out - gainesville hard rock
Select Start - gainesville nintendo music

Sep 26 - Common Grounds - Gainesville, FL
Prefuse 73
DJ Nobody
Textual - side project of Dave Lebleu of The Mercury Program

Sep 30 - Common Grounds - Gainesville, FL
Old Crow Medicine Show

Oct 2 - Common Grounds - Gainesville, FL
Minus the Bear
HEADPHONES

Oct 22 - Atlantic - Gainesville, FL
Swayze - gainesville folkrock
Morningbell

Oct 29 - Tim and Terry's - Gainesville, FL
Dopamean - gainesville (i think), prog speed metal
Nim Sum - gainesville "angular groove oriented math rock"

Nov 3 - Orange and Brew - Gainesville, FL
The Most - gainesville indie pop

Nov 10 - The Shamrock - Gainesville, FL
Morningbell
Inuit Jargon

Nov 14 - Common Grounds - Gainesville, FL
Deerhoof
Death of a Party
Fun Killer

Nov 30 - The Side Bar - Gainesville, FL
Building the State - gainesville post-rockish indie
Bracelet - gainesville rock
The Silent Press - i don't remember
Nim Sum

Dec 3 - The Shamrock - Gainesville, FL
Nim Sum

Dec 5 - Common Grounds - Gainesville, FL
Wheatus
midstates
Big City Dreams

Dec 8 - Common Grounds - Gainesville, FL
The Mercury Program
Textual
Brazil

Dec 15 - The Shamrock - Gainesville, FL
Robots In Antarctica - gainesville experimental
Nim Sum

Jan 13 - The Side Bar - Gainesville, FL
Morningbell
The Most
Inuit Jargon

Jan 18 - Common Grounds - Gainesville, FL
Loko Phylum

Jan 19 - Common Grounds - Gainesville, FL
Kind of Like Spitting
Swayze
Warren Hixson - gainesville... folk sadcore experimental post-rock stoner shoegaze?

Jan 21 - Atlantic - Gainesville, FL
March to May - gainesville indie dance pop
Alphabet City - gainesville indie dance pop
...And This Is My Odyssey - gainesville indie pop

Feb 15 - UF - Rion Ballroom - Gainesville, FL
of Montreal

Feb 17 - Common Grounds - Gainesville, FL
Papercranes - gainesville rock
Stock Market Crash
Edan Archer

Mar 21 - Civic Media Center - Gainesville, FL
Monolith - gainesville free jazz/experimental
Warren Hixon

Mar 24 - Tim and Terry's - Gainesville, FL
Nim Sum
Liquid Limbs - gainesville rock

Mar 26 - UF - BandShell - Gainesville, FL
Hot Hot Heat
velveteen pink - gainesville funk
The Most

Apr 11 - 1982 - Gainesville, FL
Umoja Orchestra - gainesville world
The Why Nots - don't remember
Barnacles - don't remember
Instant classic - don't remember

Apr 14 - Atlantic - Gainesville, FL
DJ Cadaver Junky - gainesville electronic
On*tic - visual idm
Textual

DCLA 2006 - Washington, DC
Kendall Payne
Bethany Dillon
Jeremy Camp
tobyMac
David Crowder Band

Alot of them are local to Gainesville, I tried to explain so you can get the gist at least. Anything without an explanation is someone famous you should know (haha). I think I got everything save a few Jazz shows I went to for History of Jazz class that I can't remember.

Update:
Common Grounds:
Die Hoffhung, Young Livers, An Albatross

The Atlantic:
Oh No! And The Tiger Pit, Morningbell, velveteen pink

Common Grounds:
Criteria, Smoking Popes

Common Grounds:
Papercranes

CMC:
Applied Communication, Emperor X

Weirdstock! @ Tim and Terry's:
The Umoja Orchestra, Adam's Out, Jared Whitham, A Woman's Weapon

Common Grounds:
Pet Monument, M. Coast, Elf Power

Club Red:
Disembodied Voices, uh oh! spades, Yip Yip,

Common Grounds:
Swearing At Motorists, Holopaw

Reitz Union Ampetheatre - Nov 03, 2006:
Pony Up, Tilly and the Wall

Reitz Union Ballroom:
The Cops, Jeremy Enigk, Cursive

(I moved home, so these are mostly New Orleans)
The Republic - March 09, 2007:
Eluvium, Explosions in the Sky