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Switchfoot's "Appetite for Construction Tour," featuring friends Relient K and Ruth, has netted over $100000 for Habitat for Humanity. Speaking to the Charleston Daily Mail, frontman Jon Foreman said, "(Our fans have bought) a lot of tickets and CDs and T-shirts and stickers and you leave a tour with those sorts of numbers and people say that’s a successful tour. I disagree. That doesn’t mean anything. I want us to have a touring history that has impacted people in other ways than selling them a product. To plug them into an amazing organization like Habitat is an honor. For us it’s a chance to donate more than money...if people can’t donate money, they can still use their hands to help.” With the members of the band embodying that very statement on tour, joining in to help at several building stops along the way, Switchfoot seems well on their way to seeing their dream realized.
Exciter is the last in line for the Rhino Records Deluxe Versions of Depeche Mode's entire catalog. This is a highly enjoyable series, made worthwhile to longtime fans by the DVD portions. The short film documentaries rank among the best and most interesting I've ever seen. This is a band with a lot of history and a lot of story to tell. As with the other reissues, Exciter, contains the full album (both the original and in 5.1 and stereo) as well as b-sides and rarities, a short film entitled "1999-2002 (Presenting the Intimate and Delicate Side of Depeche Mode)," and live tracks, with all the extras appearing on the DVD portion.
"Thank you." That's what "arigato" means in Japanese. Arigato! is also the title of John Davis' second solo release following the demise of his successful secular-market band, Superdrag. Davis, an impressive multi-instrumentalist/songwriter/singer, has turned his artistic sites in a spiritual direction since his dramatic 2003 conversion to a very personal, transforming, relationship-oriented Christianity. Certainly, his newfound faith has not diluted Davis' prowess as a rock & roller, to which Arigato! will attest: its forty-two and a half minutes of pure rock music, played hard and fast with a punk/new wave/power trio sound, somehow still retains elements of Beatles-era pop and classic rock. Aided only by Yogi Watts, who turns in a fine job on drums (somewhat ironic, since Davis started out as a drummer in Superdrag), John Davis creates a tour-de-force of rock styles as he delivers the balance of the goods on guitar, bass and vocals. The production work is crisp and uncluttered - delightfully free of synth-anything, and clean enough to hear every stretching of the guitar strings, every arc of distortion, and every crack of stick-to-drumhead. The vocals are only occasionally double tracked or sonically distorted, but always right where they ought to be in the mix. Arigato! is presented the way basic rock & roll should be - not pretty, but powerful; mixed well, but not overdone.
The first thing I heard on Kevin Max's latest release was a distinct snap-crackle-pop noise that usually indicates one of three things: 1) A poorly-recorded demo 2) A scratched CD 3) A blown set of speakers. Thankfully, I was wrong on all three counts. The song was the beautifully simple "The Old Rugged Cross" and the sound, I discovered later, was part of an organic, church-in-the-backwoods effect that characterizes Max's entire album, simply
After watching Abra Moore's music video for her Grammy nominated song "Four Leaf Clover" from her 1997 release Strangest Places, it's hard not to have the word "quirky" come to mind. Yet one may find this former model's wide-eyed, little girl expressions appealing, or at least memorable, but in the end it's the beauty of her artistry that draws you in on her latest effort, On the Way.
Kristin Blix-fronted Guards of Metropolis are back, as promised, with Alligator, their debut album. You may remember the Guards from my review of their EP, Whatever It Is, earlier this year where I noted that, not only are they a talented new band, but they also boast Charles Normal among their ranks. Infuze readers may be interested in the fact that Charles brother is the godfather of Christian Rock, Larry Norman. It is also noteworthy that Normal and drummer Jason Carter are members of Frank Black's (The Pixies, Black Francis) solo band. Now that all the "noteworthy" things are out of the way, let's get to what matters.
Kevin Max has never been an easy person to pigeonhole. Called "rebel" by some and "visionary" by others, the artist has avoided easy definition through a stellar career with dcTalk an on into a solo career. With the release of his newest album The Blood, a collection and reimagining of influential gospel songs from years past and present, Max sat down with Infuze's Andrew Greenhalgh to discuss the media's misconceptions, the heart behind his new record, and his hopes for change within the music industry.
The Christmas season is a time for nostalgia.