Festival Time!

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Some news from the tollbooth that caught my attention: Both Cornerstone festival and the Creation East festival will be featuring "live" coverage online this year. For those of us nerds who actually enjoy listening to music festivals (yes, even CCM-fests) online, this is great news. CMRadio.net will be broadcasting "Creation Radio", which is a mix of prerecorded music, speakers/preachers, interviews, news and concerts. Last year they cut a few of the more well known bands (Not airing shows from Jars of Clay or Switchfoot was not a good idea), but I'm hoping they'll air more this year. Some bands playing this year that my readers might be interested in include Switchfoot, Taylor Sorenson, Caedmon's Call, Relient K, David Crowder, and Phil Keaggy. For a full schedule and more details on the festival (which begins next week) click here.

Cornerstone festival's approach is based on podcasting. I'm assuming they'll run pictures and short video clips afterwards like they've done in the past as well. They have more bands than they know what to do with showing up, but who knows what'll actually make the podcasts? The page for the "live" podcast coverage is at http://www.cornerstonefestival.com/podcast/ .

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On a lighter note, here's a list of the albums I rated for the "Second Guess the Critic" game along with what I rated them (ordered by which album was rated each week we played):

Jars of Clay - Redemption Songs ***
W0rmSiGn - Big In Japan ***
Arcade Fire - Funeral *****
Low -The Great Destroyer ****
Lifehouse - Lifehouse **
Pedro the Lion - It's Hard to Find a Friend ***
Zilch - Platinum **
Michael Miller - When We Come To ****
Portishead - Dummy ****
Bill Mallonee - Perfumed Letter ****
Tess Wiley - Not Quite Me ****
tobyMac - Momentum **

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...and on a personal note, I picked up the Sundays' debut album and Whatever and Ever Amen by Ben Folds Five this morning.

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