CatholicJukebox Blog

A little FYI for our radio listeners, we may be on and off for the next couple days while they install FIOS at our headquarters. (it’s fun using corporate speak) It’s just one measure to decrease our bills. They claim we’ll get better bandwidth for less money, so we’ll see. I’ll let you know when it’s all hooked up.

Catholic Rockers Lenten Mix

Some of my favorite tunes to help me to focus during the time of Lent, or any time of the year. Here is a wide variety of Catholic contemporary artists. Rock, Hip Hop or Meditational Praise, there is something for everyone

Song Name		Artist
We Cry Out		Cheer Up Charlie
I Will Serve the Lord		Bob Rice and Backyard Galaxy
You Are Not Forsaken		Curtis Stephan
Humility		Critical Mass
Save Me		Last Day
Inside		Chris Padgett
Lord, Let Your Mercy Be Upon Us		Josh Blakesley
Take Some Time		Ben Walther
Ocean of Mercy		The Thirsting
Wherever Your Treasure Is / The Hurricane Song		Ryan Meyers Band
We Need the Cross		Bryan Murdaugh with Total Strangers
Sorrowful		Point 5 Covenant
Calvary		Sean Clive
John (Good Friday Song)		Martin Doman
Were You There?		Crispin

Check out our iTunes iMix at
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewIMix?id=307194803

Fr. Roderick created a great blog post about Cool Catholics On Twitter. I shared my list of Catholic Rockers I follow on Twitter. If you’re missing, add them to the comment section.

Catholic bands and musicians I follow

• Seven Sorrows http://www.twitter.com/sevensorrows
• Josh Blakesley http://twitter.com/joshblakesley
• Kelly Pease http://twitter.com/kellypease
• Joia Farmer http://twitter.com/joiafarmer
• Sarah Hart http://twitter.com/SarahHart
• David Hust http://twitter.com/davidhust
• Dan Harms of Popple http://twitter.com/popplemusic
• Bob Metivier http://twitter.com/bgmetivier
• Bob Rice http://twitter.com/monsterants
• Sarah Bauer http://twitter.com/sarah_bauer
• Gene Monterastelli from Apex http://twitter.com/genedavid
• Kitty Cleveland http://twitter.com/kittycleveland
• Lynn Geyer http://twitter.com/lynngeyer
• Chris Padgett http://twitter.com/chrismpadgett
• Susan Bailey http://twitter.com/susanbailey
• Ryan Meyers http://twitter.com/ryanmeyersmusic
• Lucas Hennessey http://twitter.com/Lucashennessey
• Bryan Murdaugh http://twitter.com/murdaugh

…additions (02/20/09)

• Phatmass http://twitter.com/phatmass
• Fr. Pontifex http://twitter.com/FrPontifex
• Flip Caderao http://twitter.com/flipcaderao

I’m adding a bunch of new music to CatholicJukebox.com Radio. I’m always trying to grow the playlist. And don’t forget, everything that is in our playlist is on the request pages, and you can put a song directly into the play queue.

I’ve added some new CD’s from Catholic artists:

• River of Grace - Matthew Baute
• Doxology - Ken Canedo
• Before The Cross - Servant’s Heart

We’ve also been able to add a number of Contemporary Christian singles including

Lifting My Hands - Deluge
Million Voices - BarlowGirl
So Deep In Love - Joel Auge
Desire Of My Heart - Rendezvous
Daylight - Remedy Drive
Fearless Heart - Point Of Grace
Hope Now - Addison Road
How Great You Are - Paul Baloche
Today Is the Day - Lincoln Brewster
Real (Live) - Gateway Worship
Counting On God (Live) - New Life Worship
Act Of Surrender (I Will Bow) - Scott Riggan
All I Want - Jared Anderson
Free To Be Me - Francesca Battistelli
These Are Tears Of Joy - Hope With Dad, & We The People
Yes We Can Anthem - Hope With Dad, & We The People
Lead Me - Jim Black
Everything - Darrell Evans
Voice Of God - Michelle Swift & Creflo Dollar
More Beautiful You - Jonny Diaz
Bless His Name - Jeremy Riddle
You Are My God - Jonathan Phillips
Gifted Response - Ashmont Hill
Ancient Skies - Michael Gungor Band
All Along - Remedy Drive
No One Who Compares - Travis Taylor
Be Lifted Up - Don Moen
All to Show - Hillsong London
I’m Singing - Kari Jobe
God of this City - Bluetree
You Found Me - Big Daddy Weave
Can’t Take Away - Mikeschair
You Danced - Brian Bates
God You Reign - Lincoln Brewster
My Tribute - Israel Houghton

A word about adding Christian artists to CatholicJukebox.com Radio: From the beginning we have added a small percentage of non Catholic artists to CJR. The website and radio were started because CCM radio had a written policy of no Catholic artists. We wanted a place where Catholics could be heard, but we didn’t want to set the same restrictions. Many local youth bands play P&W covers, and there is so much that we can learn from the Christian music market about solid production, and fan interaction. I try to always make sure the songs don’t go against the Catholic beliefs, but are rather basic Christianity. If something slipped past me, just send me an email at george at catholicjukebox.com

This is a new wedding song from Critical Mass ( http://www.CatholicRock.com ). The song is called “Devotion” and tracks/sheet music can be made available by emailing dwang@uwaterloo.ca . It can be used as a duet where the first verse is sung by a woman and the second verse by a man. For more music, go to www.myspace.com/CatholicRock.

Matt gives a video preview of his debut album with Essential Records, “Empty and Beautiful”

• We have over 3000 songs from over 280 artists in our catalog.
• We play the Saint of the Day and the daily reading via Verbum Domini.
• We serve up the files in MP3Pro format for better sound from our own broadcast system running SAM4.
• We have our catalog on-line so that you can request any song, and it automatically is added to the current play queue.

BUT what else can we do for you? I’m always looking for ways to make the station better. I’m looking for your suggestions on things CatholicJukebox.com Radio could do to make the station even better. What could we do to double the number of listeners? I sure could use your input, and help.

I’m sure after a lot of hard work, Live365.com was able to fix their server issue, and CatholicJukebox.com radio is back on the air. Thank you Lord.