Google Music iCloud

For several years now I’ve been accumulating music on hard drives and have constantly struggled with having certain songs when and where I need them.  It seems that struggle may be coming to an end!

Enter Google Music and iCloud.

I will freely admit that I love all things Apple.  Their products work well for what I do and I use them for everything from communication (phone, etc) to word processing (Pages) to music production (reason, garage band) etc…

But, I also love Google.  It seems that most everything they do works well.

So I am excited to try Google Music and iCloud.  Since iCloud is not yet available for music, I’m starting with the Beta of GoogleMusic.

So far – I LOVE IT!!!  Finally, I have all my music accessible wherever I am.  My music library is rather large, I’m upwards of 20,000 songs, which happens to be the limit of GoogleMusic right now, so we’ll see what happens when I hit that limit…

Just in case you were like me and not sure how to access GoogleMusic from the iPhone or iPad because they are not releasing an app for it on the iOS yet, the solution is pretty simple, although a bit clunky.  You can simply point Safari to google.com/music, log into your account, select your music and enjoy!

The Importance of Music

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.
-Plato

Hallelujah!

And HE shall reign FOREVER and EVER!!!

Merry Christmas!!!

Hallelujah – Flash Mob Style

I love music.
I love flash mobs.
This is both.

Shine!

“Shine Your light so all can see it

Lift it up ’cause the whole world needs it

Love has come what Joy to hear it!

He has overcome! He has overcome!

EDIT:

Here’s Crowder’s POST about this video

Focus

The Pearl Jam concert last night was incredible!!! I am honestly not the biggest fan, or at least I have not been since the album ‘Ten’ came out more than ten years ago. Even so, the band was solid. The guitar tones and solos were epic. The drummer’s fills were awesome and the vocals ranged from grungy to soaring.

However, in the midst of all of this, two things were again confirmed for me:

–People love to raise their hands and sing together in one voice.

–Most people seem to miss the point of raising their hands and singing together in one voice – to worship. And not just worship anything, but worship God.

All this brings me back to a question I’ve had for a while: Why will tens of thousands of people show up, and raise their hands, and sing at the top of their lungs for a group like Pearl Jam, but when we gather for church it’s a struggle to get a few hundred, or if we are fortunate to be part of a ‘mega’ church, maybe a thousand or two? And even then, often the church gathering feels so wooden and stiff and un-engaged.

It just seems sometimes like we church leaders have led the people down a path that gave them the idea that church worship is, or should be, only from the head, but it seems so clear that humanity was made to worship from the heart.

This too shall pass

Two Words:

Brilliant!

Free Album from Matt Wertz

Just came across this artist – Matt Wertz - and so far I dig his rocking acoustic stylings!

AND he’s giving his album away!  You can download it HERE.

or here

or Here

 

Peace!

-matt

Free Christmas Tunes!

Aaron Hale is giving away a FREE Christmas EP entitled, brilliantly,

Hark! the Christmas EP

So far I really like it.

It’s a gentle, mellow, folky Christmas caroling experience.

 

Go download it.

It’s free!

 

HT: @CurtisHoneycutt

Four Hands – One Guitar

This is one of the coolest duets I’ve ever seen.  Especially since its only one guitar!