White Cross – You’re Mine

I had a Whitecross autographed photo that I took a picture of and put on Flickr. I noticed that my picture made this guy’s video. It’s at about the 20 second point. The music is set to my favorite Whitecross song “You’re Mine”. It was from the original self-titled album. I got the autographed photo in 1987 or 1988 when the band was just starting out. Oh, the memories.

True Tunes Blog: One Year Anniversary

It’s hard to believe it’s already been a year on this blog. I admit I haven’t been updating it much as of late. I’ve been trolling around at my favorite Christian rock message boards: ChristianBootlegs.com, Decapolis, the Vagrant Cafe, SF59 fans and the Joy Electric board.

I was contemplating this the other day and I came to the conclusion that the majority of my favorite music is already recorded. I know the music people are obsessed with pushing the new albums, but I still love the old albums.

With each passing year more bands call it quits. Bands like Cool Hand Luke and Delirious? are hanging it up. David Bazan and Starflyer 59 are basically solo acts these days and a lot of other bands I covered years ago broke up a while back. It’s not that there aren’t currently touring bands I’m interested in seeing, but I’ve already seen most of my favorites. In the last year it was a blast to get live video and audio recordings from a ton of different shows.

So I’m not sure if I’ll continue blogging in the next year. I enjoy writing, but I also enjoy being part of a discussion and I don’t know if that happens much here. It takes a lot of effort to update a blog and I’m not sure if I have what it takes to keep going. But I encourage all of you to check out what’s on this blog because it isn’t tied to a specific period of time other than the past.

Poor Old Lu – Sit and Stare

A long time ago I had a Poor Old Lu VHS tape called “Sit and Stare”. It came out around the time of the band’s album “Sin”. I was looking for it for a long time online and then it popped up on YouTube and on Vimeo. Gotta love the Poor Old Lu.

Starflyer 59 on Chuck

Starflyer 59’s “The Brightest of the Head” from Dial M was featured on NBC’s Chuck. Last season The Brothers Martin was featured on the pilot of Chuck. The creator of the OC is also behind Chuck and has used music in his shows extensively. I’m just waiting for them to use “Fell in Love at 22″.

Merry Christmas from The Violet Burning

The Violet Burning is giving away some Christmas music here.

The Huntingtons and YouTube

If MySpace took away the need for band websites, then YouTube has taken it one step further and made live footage of bands accessible to anybody with a broadband connection. The Huntingtons were one of my favorite bands since the mid 90s and I booked a show with them when I lived up in Minneapolis. My friend Tommy was in the band briefly and did all the artwork on “Fun and Games”. So I was pleasantly surprised when I saw  a bunch of Huntingtons videos even though the band is broken up.

Sleeping At Last Free Christmas Song

Wheaton’s finest is releasing its annual free Christmas song. Go here to download it for free.