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All Star United
''All Star United'' is a Christian rock band that was formed by solo artist Ian Eskelin in 1996. The band is known for clever and sometimes sarcastic lyrics, as they frequently use their songs as vehicles to lampoon perceived excesses in Western culture. Their musical style combines elements of alternative rock and Britpop, anchored by melodically powerful choruses. All Star United has released five studio albums, one EP, one compilation album that includes two previously unreleased songs, and three music videos. Their latest studio album, ''The Good Album'', was released in January 2010 and includes an additional radio single "Beautiful Way." The band has had several No. 1 charting songs in the United States, including the songs "Smash Hit" and "Superstar". They also had a No. 1 single in Singapore titled "If We Were Lovers". Band leader and founder Eskelin has also released three solo projects and currently writes and produces for a variety of bands and artists. In 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Star United (album)
''All Star United'' is the debut studio album by the All Star United, American Christian rock band of the same name. It was released on Reunion Records on April 15, 1997. A music video was made for "Bright Red Carpet" and released on July 8, 1997. The song, "Beautiful Thing", was featured on the soundtrack of the 2004 movie ''Saved!''. Track listing : song appears on Smash Hits (All Star United album), ''Smash Hits'' compilation (2000) 1. The untitled hidden track plays after three minutes of silence; length 1:10. Personnel All Star United *Ian Eskelin – vocals *Brian Whitman – guitar, backing vocals *Gary Miller – bass guitar *Christian Crowe – drums *Patrick McCallum – keyboard Additional musicians *Troy Daugherty – guitars *Andrew Horst – bass *Steve Hindalong – percussion *Matt McGuiyer – drums ("Angels," "Drive," "Torn," "Saviour of My Universe," "Tenderness") *Dave Clo – guitars ("Torn") *Matt Scolum – cello ("Saviour of My Universe") *Russ Long – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love And Radiation
''Love and Radiation'' is the fourth studio album from Christian rock band All Star United ''All Star United'' is a Christian rock band that was formed by solo artist Ian Eskelin in 1996. The band is known for clever and sometimes sarcastic lyrics, as they frequently use their songs as vehicles to lampoon perceived excesses in Wester .... It was released in 2006 after a four-year hiatus from the studio. During this break, band leader Ian Eskelin released his second solo album titled ''Save the Humans'' in 2004. (Eskelin had previously released a solo album, ''Supersonic Dream Day'' mononymously as Ian in 1995 before the founding of All Star United.) The album was released by Furious in the UK and by 7Spin Music in the US on May 29, 2007. Track listing # "Love And Radiation" (3:40) # "You You You (Yeah Yeah Yeah)" (3:20) # "Before You Break My Heart" (3:27) # "We Could Be Brilliant" (3:23) # "Let's Rock Tonight" (3:13) # "Jesus On The Radio" (3:35) # "There's Gotta Be Som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Good Album
''The Good Album'' is the fifth studio album from Christian rock band All Star United ''All Star United'' is a Christian rock band that was formed by solo artist Ian Eskelin in 1996. The band is known for clever and sometimes sarcastic lyrics, as they frequently use their songs as vehicles to lampoon perceived excesses in Wester .... The album was released on January 12, 2010. Track listing # "Surface Of The Sun" (3:25) # "Is This The Moment?" (3:51) # "The Blame" (2:45) # "Lights Out" (2:10) # "Once Again, With Feeling" (3:21) # "Crashing Cars" (2:34) # "Dude... That's Freaking Awesome!" (4:36) # "Pretty Famous" (2:51) # "Good Luck With The Girls" (2:42) # "I'm A Killer" (3:34) # "Good Times" (3:47) # "Beautiful Way" (2:38) References 2010 albums All Star United albums {{2010s-Christian-rock-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Rock
Christian rock is a form of rock music that features lyrics focusing on matters of Christian faith, often with an emphasis on Jesus in Christianity, Jesus. This music is typically performed by Christians, Christian individuals. The extent to which their lyrics are explicitly Christian varies between Band (rock and pop), bands. Many bands who perform Christian rock have ties to the contemporary Christian music labels, media outlets, and Music festival, festivals, while other bands are independent. In the 2000s and onwards, Christian rock bands Skillet (band), Skillet, Thousand Foot Krutch, and Red (band), Red were influenced by acts like Linkin Park to develop their own sounds that combined hard rock and nu metal. Skillet received Grammy Award, Grammy nominations for two albums, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guitarist
A guitarist (or a guitar player) is a person who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of guitar family instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar by singing or playing the harmonica, or both. Techniques The guitarist may employ any of several methods for sounding the guitar, including finger-picking, depending on the type of strings used (either nylon or steel), and including strumming with the fingers, or a guitar pick made of bone, horn, plastic, metal, felt, leather, or paper, and melodic flatpicking and finger-picking. The guitarist may also employ various methods for selecting notes and chords, including fingering, thumbing, the barre (a finger lying across many or all strings at a particular fret), and guitar slides, usually made of glass or metal. These left- and right-hand techniques may be intermixed in performance. Notable guitarists Rock, metal, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HM Magazine
''HM Magazine'' is a monthly, digital and print on demand publication focusing on hard music and alternative culture of interest to Christians. It is based in Houston, Texas. Originally published as ''Heaven's Metal'', it was renamed to ''HM'' in 1995, and in late 2004 ''Heaven's Metal'' was reissued as a separate publication from ''HM'', with some shared editorial overlap. History In 1985, a journalist Doug Van Pelt started ''Heaven's Metal'' as a fanzine. It changed its name in 1995 to ''HM'', standing for Hard Music, but the Heaven's Metal branding was brought back in 2004 and was released alongside ''HM''. ''Heaven's Metal'' achieved more popularity and became an official publication, with five full-time journalists working for the magazine. In 2000, ''HM'' achieved a regular subscription base of 15,000 readers. During the 1990s, ''HM'' sealed a distribution deal with a major magazine wholesaler that immediately increased its print-run from 13,000 to 22,000 copies, and it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cross Rhythms (magazine)
''Cross Rhythms'' was the eponymously titled music magazine, founded by Tony Cummings produced by the Christian media organisation of the same name. ''Cross Rhythms'' centered almost exclusively on contemporary Christian music, with only the occasional review of more mainstream music. Each issue included interviews with musicians and bands, reviews of various albums and compilations, and features on music festivals or productions. Each issue also included a CD, narrated by Mike Rimmer, containing a selection of the songs featured in the magazine. Later issues featured ''Edges'', a series of commentaries on major issues by communicator Mal Fletcher, and ''That Mysterious Cross'', a series on the Christian cross by Chip Kendall of thebandwithnoname. Background Before Tony Cummings founded ''Cross Rhythms'', he began as a journalist in 1963 in a black music fanzine originally called ''Soul'', then ''Soul Music Monthly'', and finally ''Shout''. By 1971, he was writing occasional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revolution (All Star United Album)
''Revolution'' is the third studio album from Christian rock band All Star United. It was released in 2002 after the band signed up with Furious Records. The album features an almost entirely new band, with Ian Eskelin still heading them. The number 27018036090 is featured on the cover and throughout the album's packaging. No explanation is given for the reason for this number. One possibility is that it is geographic coordinates. The coordinates 27.0180 36.090 maps to a spot along Highway 5 in Saudi Arabia east of the Red Sea and 100 miles south east of the Sinai Peninsula The Sinai Peninsula, or simply Sinai ( ; ; ; ), is a peninsula in Egypt, and the only part of the country located in Asia. It is between the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Red Sea to the south, and is a land bridge between Asia and Afri ... but the significance of this location as it relates to the band or the album is unknown. Track listing # "We Are the Future" (3:28) # "Let It Rain" (I'm Gonn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delirious?
Delirious? (formerly known as The Cutting Edge Band) were an English contemporary Christian band. For the majority of their career, the lineup featured Martin Smith on vocals and guitar, Stu G (full name Stuart Garrard) on guitar and backing vocals, Jon Thatcher on bass guitar, Tim Jupp on keys and piano, and Stew Smith on drums and percussion. Paul Evans took over as drummer for the band's final two years. Delirious?' 1994 song " I Could Sing of Your Love Forever" has been called a "modern worship classic". Other well-known songs by the band include "Did You Feel the Mountains Tremble?", " Rain Down", and "Majesty". The Cutting Edge Band had various members from 1992 to 1996, before becoming a full-time band with an established lineup and renaming themselves to Delirious?. From 1997 to 2001, the band focused on a mainstream audience, with several singles reaching the top-twenty in the UK. The band shifted towards CCM from 2003 to 2009, although occasional singles were st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smash Hits (All Star United Album)
''Smash Hits'' is a compilation album of Christian rock band All Star United ''All Star United'' is a Christian rock band that was formed by solo artist Ian Eskelin in 1996. The band is known for clever and sometimes sarcastic lyrics, as they frequently use their songs as vehicles to lampoon perceived excesses in Wester .... The album was released in 2000 and featured songs from the band's two previous releases. Track listing # "Smash Hit" # "Bright Red Carpet" # "Saviour of My Universe" # "Beautiful Thing" # "Tenderness" # "Welcome to Our Big Rock Show" # "Superstar" # "Theme from Summer" # "Thank You, Goodnight" # "Popular Americans" # "If We Were Lovers" # "Hurricane Baby" # "Hang On" # "Baby Come Back" # "Saviour of My Universe" (acoustic mix) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Smash Hits (All Star United Album) All Star United albums 2000 greatest hits albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Anthems For The Human Race
''International Anthems for the Human Race'' is the second studio album of Christian rock band All Star United ''All Star United'' is a Christian rock band that was formed by solo artist Ian Eskelin in 1996. The band is known for clever and sometimes sarcastic lyrics, as they frequently use their songs as vehicles to lampoon perceived excesses in Wester .... The album was released in 1998. Track listing # "Welcome to Our Big Rock Show" # "Popular Americans" # "International Anthems" # "Thank You, Goodnight" # "If We were Lovers" # "Worldwide Socialites Unite" # "I Need You Now" # "Theme from Summer" # "Everything Will Be Alright" # "Superstar" # "Put Your Arms Around Me" References {{DEFAULTSORT:International Anthems For The Human Race 1998 albums All Star United albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bassist
A bassist (also known as a bass player or bass guitarist) is a musician who plays a bass instrument such as a double bass (upright bass, contrabass, wood bass), bass guitar (electric bass, acoustic bass), keyboard bass (synth bass) or a low brass instrument such as a tuba or trombone. Many musical genres tend to be associated with at least one or more of these instruments. Overview Since the 1960s, the electric bass has been the standard bass instrument for funk, R&B, soul, rock, reggae, jazz fusion, heavy metal, country and pop. The double bass is the standard bass instrument for classical music, bluegrass, rockabilly, and most genres of jazz. Low brass instruments such as the tuba or sousaphone are the standard bass instrument in Dixieland and New Orleans-style jazz bands. Tuba players are sometimes conflated with bassists, due to the instrument being used to double a part for the double bass in early music recordings. Tubists who tend to fill the role of a bassist incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
