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Punk Rock Life Vol. 1

On of the things I love about writing TFCMB is the cool people I get to meet (even if it’s just through the internet).  One such cool person is Tyler H.  He runs his own site, Christian Music Zine, writes for Indie Vision Music, and is a big punk rock fan.  So, when I heard that he was putting together a free compilation of independent Christian punk rock bands, I wasn’t all that surprised. 

Christian Music Zine officially released Punk Rock Life Vol. 1 on July 27 of this year, featuring 14 tracks (counting a b-side that came in late) of some talented underground punk rock.  I recognized a couple of names from Indie Vision Music’s samplers, but there were quite a few band on here I wasn’t familiar with.  I’ve been pleasantly surprised with the songs I’ve heard so far – the sound quality is great, the lyrics and musicianship has been good, and it’s a fairly diverse collection too.  I like it, and if you like MxPx, Olivia the Band, FM Static, Static Shoes, Side Walk Slam, Children 18:3, or just good Christian punk rock in general, I’d definitely recommend checking this out.

The track listing:

1. Blood & Water – Ahead of Myself
2. News From Verona – Here We Are
3. uniSEF – This Means War
4. Goodnight Wednesday – The Ballad
5. Static Crown – Reality
6. Far From Famous – What We’ve Become
7. May Weather – Don’t Cry
8. Nineball – All About the Money
9. Blank Pages – Come What May
10. Auburn – Hallelujah
11. A.A.2.R. – Big Man
12. Pleading The Fifth – Flare
13. Negative Zero – Not Quite Over You
14. Atombender – Silent (b-side)

Alright, who want’s to come with me to the punk rock show? 

-Punk Rock Life Vol. 1 on Christian Music Zine-

Tags: A.A.2.R., Atombender, Auburn, Blank Pages, Blood & Water, Far From Famous, Goodnight Wednesday, May Weather, Negative Zero, News from Verona, Nineball, Pleading the Fifth, Static Crown, uniSEF

New Sampler from Indie Vision Music

Indie Vision Music has put out many, many samplers recently, and though many of them are no longer posted online, they have taken the best songs from the seven samplers (sans the heavy stuff, which might be getting its own “best of” sampler) and put them into one. What you get is free songs from Chasing Victory, Project 86, Stavesacre, Ever Stays Red, Esterlyn, and 35 other awesome bands.

I haven’t been able to listen to everything yet, as I have not only been busy but also overwhelmed with this and another even bigger sampler that all of you will probably see in the near future. You might get spoiled this week, thats all I’m saying.

-The Best of IVM Vol. 1-

-James

Edit:  Apparently the wonderful people at IVM are working on another compilation that they hope to put out in time for Christmas.  If you’re in a band and have a quality recording they are interested in possibly using your song in the compilation.

Tags: Amaradio, Amen. The Animal, Arkeo, Avery Pkwy, Blood & Water, Burning Tree Project, Cathy Crescendo, Chasing Victory, Darkroom, Dennis Zender, Dogwood, Erika Soto, Esterlyn, Ever Stays Red, Failure to Excel, Fairgreen, Finchley, Forever Changed, Hands, Kessler, Kings to You, Makeshift3, Man Alive, My Jeremiah, Ocean is Theory, One Hot Minute, Orion Walsh, Paul Wright, Project 86, Quick and the Dead, Say You Will, Send Out Scuds, Sleep for Sleepers, Stavesacre, The Apprentice, The Echoing Green, The Trade, Thrush, Tumbledown, We Shot the Moon

Hearts Bleed Passion Vol. 4 – Free Massive Sampler from IVM

YES! I’m finally going to write up Hearts Bleed Passion Vol. 4. I’ve gotten more emails about this then any other sampler in the history of this site. After waiting a couple of weeks before I could download it, and then another week for me to actually listen to enough of it to post (I still haven’t finished it… that’s how big it is!)

Well, like I said, this is one huge sampler. I counted 59 different songs. The full file is around 300 megabytes. Make sure your internet connection can handle it before you try to download it.

I wish I could go through and recommend all of the songs on the sampler, but I don’t have the time to type up a list. I’ll just say that the sampler has some awesome songs, some good songs, and some that just aren’t my cup o’ tea. There’s hardcore, punk, acoustic, rock, pop, and rap, pretty much something for everyone.

-Hearts Bleed Passion Vol. 4 on Indie Vision Music-

PS: I’d love to hear what your favorite song(s) are from the sampler are! Leave a comment and let me know! I’ll even go first.

Tags: Aevory Nash, Agnes the Mother, Ajax Starglider, Amen. The Animal, Aneirin, Avery Pwky, Blood & Water, Braveheart, Broken Scarlet, Cathy Crescendo, Cookbook & Uno Mas, Crimson Thorn, Dennis Zender, Dominic Balli, DrawCard, Escape from Emptiness, Esterlyn, Fairgreen, Falling Tsar, Fellow, Finchley, Freddie Bruno, Goodnight Darling, Hands, Kiven, Lewis Vs. Clark, Mammuth, Mendelson, Michael Sandoval, Morse, My Jeremiah, News from Verona, Nihilo, NoiZ, Now the Nursery, Ocean is Theory, One Hot Minute, Orion Walsh, Our Proclaimation, Paul Wright, Pedestrian X, Photoside Cafe, Poorly Build Parachute, Ready the Way, Rene Velarde, Resting in Fragments, Rootdown, Ryan Brown, Say You Will, Second Thief, Sintax the Terrible, Sleep for Sleepers, Source of My Faith, The Advantage, The All Star Class, The Apprentice, The Dingees, The Mone Raths, The Tug Fork River Bend, This Is Luke, When Only Darkness Remains