Welcome to (mid-late) February 2012, a new month, and a fresh start to life & music. I hope that this month everyone will become even more broadened to literally hundreds of bands, songs, styles, and messages, and maybe find some new favorites. Here listed in this edition of “AAG January ’12 Overview/February Challenge” there begins new views on music, starting now.
AAG Genres (or, AAG):
Acoustic
Alternative
Alternative Pop-Rock (such as Anberlin)
Alternative Metal
CCM (general)
Rock (+ Rap/Rock)
Heavy-Post-Hardcore-Metalcore (if I can call it that)/Metal
Country/Bluegrass
Disco/Dance
Worship
Pop (popular, upbeat-ish)
Punk-Pop (i.e. Relient K)
Rap/Hip Hop
If you have any other bands/minor-er genres (that are either well-known or ones you’ve actually heard of and listened to before now), post in the comments, including them in this list as BOLD. Those will also be included as an AAG band.
February Challenge: Listen to at least 1 song from at least 10 of the 100s (well, over 100 for sure) AAG bands listed here, writing down the song(s) name(s), and optionally a thought or 2 from its style, message, etc. - *star* the AAG bands that you did listen to, trying to listen to new bands as much as possible. Remember that we try to stay within the Christian or similar genres, but do slightly be open to non-christian/secular tracks as well, with of course a different view compared to Christian bands/songs.
(Alpha, A-Z – roughly 125+)
12 Stones
33Miles
Aaron Gillespie
Aaron Shust
Abandon
Above The Golden State
Act Of Congress
Addison Road
Alien Ant Farm
All Together Separate
Amy Grant
Anberlin
Anthem Lights
As Cities Burn
Audio Adrenaline
Audrey Assad
August Burns Red
Autopilot Off
Avalon
Ayiesha Woods
B. Reith
BarlowGirl
Bebo Norman
Bethany Dillon
Big Daddy Weave
Big Tent Revival
Blindside
Bob Carlisle
Brand New
Brandon Heath
Breathe Carolina
Brian Littrel
Britt Nicole
Brooke Fraser
Building 429
Burlap to Cashmere
Caedmon’s Call
Capital Lights
Carman
Casting Crowns
Charlie Peacock
Chris August
Chris Rice
Chris Tomlin
Circa Survive
Cloverton
Coldplay
Corey Crowder
Creed
Danger
Dara Maclean
Daughtry
David Crowder*Band
Day Of Fire
DC Talk
Dead Poetic
Deadmau5
Decyfer Down
Deftones
DeGarmo & Key
Demon Hunter
Disciple
Dizmas
DJ Maj
Downhere
Emery
Fair
Falling Up
Family Force 5
Fee
FFH
Fireflight
Five Finger Death Punch
Flame
Flyleaf
Fm Static
For King and Country
Francesca Battistelli
Future Of Forestry
Ghoti Hook
Grey Holiday
Grits
Group 1 Crew
Hawk Nelson
House of Heroes
Hyper Static Union (the only band I’ve seen not in Spotify so far)
Israel Houghton
Jaci Velasquez
Jaymes Reunion
Jeremy Camp
Jars Of Clay
Jason Aldean
Jennifer Knapp
Jet
Jimmy Needham
John Reuben
John Waller
Jon Foreman
Josh Bates
Josh Wilson
Jump5
Kari Jobe
Keith Urban
Kids In The Way
Kirk Franklin
KJ-52
Krystal Meyers
Kutless
Laura Story
Lecrae
Leeland
Lemonade Mouth
Less Than Jake
Lincoln Brewster
Lynda Randle
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Mae
Manafest
Mandisa
Manic Drive
Markus Reuter
Mark Harris
Mark Schultz
Mat Kearney
Matt Maher
Matthew West
Matt Redman
MercyMe
Michael W. Smith
MIKESCHAIR
MxPx
Natalie Grant
NEEDTOBREATHE
Nevertheless
Newsboys
Newsong
Newworldson
Nichole Nordeman
Nickelback
Nicole C. Mullen
Nine Lashes
Our Lady Peace
Outasight
Owl City
Paper Tongues
Pax217
Peter Furler
Petra
Philmont
Phil Stacey
Pillar
Plumb
Plus One
Pocket Full Of Rocks
Point Of Grace
Press Play
Pro
Project 86
PureNRG
Rachael Lampa
Remedy Drive
Rebecca St. James
RED
Regina Spektor
Relient K
Revive
Rich Mullens
Rise Against
Robbie Seay Band
Run Kid Run
Rush of Fool
Salvador
Sanctus Real
Saosin
Sent By Ravens
Seven Places
Shane & Shane
Shawn McDonald
Shinedown
Sidewalk Prophets
Silverstein
Since October
Sixpence None The Richer
Seventh Day Slumber
Skillet
Sleeping At Last
Sonicflood
Spoken
Starfield
Stellar Kart
Stephanie Smith
Steven Curtis Chapman
Superchick
Switchfoot
Tait
Tenth Avenue North
The Afters
The Almost
The Annie Moses Band
The Classic Crime
The Fray
The Letter Black
Third Day
Thousand Foot Krutch
Tim Hawkins
tobyMac
Train
Trip Lee
Underoath
Warren Barfield
We As Human
Weird Al Yankovic
ZOEgirl
Hey everyone. Been a crazy month with SAT prep but i got a few new songs in and here are my findings. Instead of going by artist I'm going to just talk about a song/album from each.
ReplyDeleteContact by As Cities Burn. This is the first track on the album which as a whole questions the existence of God from an outside view. It opens your eyes to how people outside see us and God. It's a great album to just really think.
World We View by Nine Lashes. A nice solid piece of work that isn't preachy but it is full of positive messages. Nice for the gym :P
That's all for now be back with more soon
Thx, hrsofconspiracy (Daniel) and interesting track, Contact. I've lately been checking out As Cities Burn, and pretty nice stuff. For those who don't know, they kinda have the style of Underoath/Emery/The Almost type of sound, but always strong in presentation. Pretty cool band. and Nine Lashes is more rock and reminds me of RED personally. So check these and all those others mentioned in the posts out on spotify/youtube, however you listen to stuff.
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