#PlatVnyl6 The Nominations Begin: Electronic-Industrial Video of The Year

No Joke. We are underway with the nominations for #PlatVnyl6. We are in the middle of The Video of The Year Nominees. Electronic-Industrial is up next, the harder sibling of Dance-Sythpop. We are loaded for bear as they say. The nominees are: Can't Live Like This by +Hardie Avenue ; Mr. Roboto by +Rapture Ruckus ; Return by +NYVES ; Stressed Out by +twenty one pilots and Volcano ft Jonathan Thulin by +Rapture Ruckus 

The nominated videos in one convenient playlist.

Hip Hop and Rap Video are next. Until then, I am Awaiting Your Reply.

Spring Tunes Up: The 2015 3rd Quarter - Alternative

The second of our three Perfect 10 Lists goes to Alternative. It was a very good quarter for the genre. And we have a mix of new and old. On to the list

Alternative Rock

• Abandon Kansas - Alligator
• Anberlin - Never Take Friendship Personal: Live In New York City
• Jon Foreman - The Wonderlands: Sunlight
• Foreverlin - Still After
• Ghost Ship - Costly
• Jonathan David and Melissa Helger - On The Shores
• Kings Kaleidoscope - Becoming Who We Are (Instrumental)
• Kings Kaleidoscope - Live In Focus EP
• Lifehouse - Out of The Wasteland
• 21 Pilots - Blurryface

Last time I discussed a name change for Children 18:3 as opposed to a breakup. They could also go the Anberlin Route. Re releasing all their albums in a live concert format could hold of the fans until they choose to reunite. Of course they were a bit more prolific. Until next time, I am Awaiting Your Reply.

Music Video Monday: Hurricane

Welcome back to our regularly scheduled edition of Music Video Monday. The Music may be heating up, but the weather around here is more reminiscent of March than June. Let's get on to the Videos.

We begin with Lifehouse. They recently released an album entitled Out of The Wasteland. This is the Music Video from the Single Hurricane

Next up we go to the airport to listen to Twenty One Pilots. From the album Blurryface, this is Stressed Out.
And finally, we go to Rap, and SPEC. This is Don't You Know.
That's it for this week. Until next week, I am Awaiting Your Reply.

Night Beat Rewind: May 2015

We seem to be back on Schedule. April is up and linked and now May has been finished with a few days to go. If the release schedule has its Summer Slowdown I may even have the breathing room needed to make a proper #PlatVnyl5 awards ceremony. We did have some individual songs released during May

The Singles Scene

• Salt of The Sound - Dwell Among Us 4.75 Emeralds

Although like the 45 there are two sides to these singles they only usually pick one to announce. So, this month it really is a single single scene. We move on to the albums that did not get included in the pool.

Missing The Mark

• Audio Adrenaline - Sound of The Saints 3.75 Emeralds
• Faith Child - Airborne 3.75 Emeralds
• Jerry Fee - We Are The Voices 3.75 Emeralds
• Gemstones - Blind Elephant 3.75 Emeralds
• Hillsong United - Empires 3.75 Emeralds
• Unspoken - Unplugged 3.75 Emeralds
• Various - Tyscot Loud Platinum Mixtape 3.50 Emeralds

What can I say? I know I don't like Audio Adrenaline 3.0. They have made great strides in becoming a band that people will swear they've heard before, and that is the problem. They used to have a fairly unique sound. And with the exception of EDM outreach Hillsong Young and Free everything out of Sydney these days sounds pretty much mailed in. As opposed to our next grouping.

Pure Platinum Perfection

• Anberlin - Never Take Friendship Personal Live In New York City 5 Emeralds
• Foreverlin - Still After 5 Emeralds
• Plumb - Exhale 5 Emeralds

Really not much to say here. Anberin (should I say the late Anberlin?) and Plumb are consistently excellent. Foreverlin is a new discovery, yet I like them. Now for those in between the extremes.

Semi-Precious Metals

• 21 Pilots - Blurryface 4.75 Emeralds
• Abandon Kansas - Alligator 4.75 Emeralds
• Blanca - Blanca 4.75 Emeralds
• Cornell Burton, Jr - The Singles EP 4.50 Emeralds
• Elim Sound - Elim 100 4.50 Emeralds
• Emery - You Were Never Alone 4.75 Emeralds
• CJ Emulous - Light It Up 4.50 Emeralds
• Chad Evans - Before and After 4.75 Emeralds
• Fedel - Flaw 4.50 Emeralds
• Mia Feldes - Ashes 4.50 Emeralds
• Fireflight - INNOVA 4.75 Emeralds
• Jon Foreman - The Wonderland: Sunlight EP 4.75 Emeralds
• J Han - Tower Ivory 4.75 Emeralds
• Haste The Day - Coward 4.50 Emeralds
• Lonnie Hunter and Structure - #GETITDONE 4.50 Emeralds
• Illuminate - Charismata 4.25 Emeralds
• Kingdom - Acoustic Sessions 4.75 Emeralds
• Morgan Harper Nichols - Morgan Harper Nichols 4.50 Emeralds
• Jimmy Needham - Vice and Virtue 4.50 Emeralds
• Northwest Collective - Rejoice: Live From Seattle 4.50 Emeralds
• Pioneer - Passive Agression, Volume 1 4.50 Emeralds
• Planetshakers - Outback Worship Sessions 4.75 Emeralds
• Freddy Rodrigues - Amazed 4.75 Emeralds
• SPEC - Vacancy 4.50 Emeralds
• Gracie Schram - I Am Me 4.50 Emeralds
• Jonathan Singh - City Love Music 4.75 Emeralds
• Wolves at The Gate - Reprise EP 4.75 Emeralds

I am going to do the same thing this month. I will get this posted now and link it up Monday. Until then, I am Awaiting Your Reply.

MVM Special Edition: #PlatVnyl4 - Electronic/Industrial Video of The Year

We begin the second half of the genre based videos in #PlatVnyl4. First up is the hard sibling of Dance/Synthpop, which we at Night Beat HQ have dubbed Electronic/Industrial Video of The Year. You can check out Adult Contemporary, Alternative, Pop, and Dance by clicking on the highlighted genres.

The five nominated videos and their artists are: Believe by +The Digital Age ; Faith Facing The Dark by Josh White; Guns for Hands by +twenty one pilots ; Somewhere To Hide and Waiting Alone by +SHINY TOY GUNS (A two-fer). You can check out the videos at the nomination post.

Maybe it was the double nominee that made things inevitable. Maybe it was the pure creep out factor. I don't know. What is sure is that when the votes were counted and certified, the winner of the #PlatVnyl4 Electronic/Industrial Video of The Year is Waiting Alone
Hip Hop is next. Until then, I am Awaiting Your Reply.

MVM Special Edition: Electronic Industrial Video Nominees

We continue announcing the nominees for the Platinum Vinyl Awards Video Categories. Up now is Electronic-Industrial Video of the Year. A darker feel pervades this category as opposed to the more bouncy Dance-Synthpop, which was done previously.

The nominees for Electronic-Industrial Video of The Year are

Believe, +The Digital Age 
Faith Facing The Dark, Josh White  
Guns for Hands, +twenty one pilots 
Somewhere to Hide, +SHINY TOY GUNS 
Waiting Alone, +SHINY TOY GUNS 
Yeah, I know, Shiny Toy guns doubled up. Life isn't fair, boo hoo. The judging goes on video quality. Both of these videos were excellent. Only one can win, however.

We are halfway through, remember to use the comments to vote for your favorite. Until next time, I am Awaiting Your Reply.

Music Video Monday: Whatever

Welcome back to the regular weekly edition of Music Video Monday, where we play the best Christian Music Videos on the Web. In short, we do what MTV used to when they were cool.

Today we finish up with electronica, and then we have a few more housecleaning posts before moving on to the next genre, which will be rap and hip hop.

We begin with another video from Twenty-One Pilots. This one is called Holding On To You.

V. Rose is next. Between solo albums she is the favorite female vocalist for the rapper Flame. This is Battery.
Allistair is next. The electronic band composed of Zander. Yes, it doesn't get any easier. I guess it's just best to throw your hands in the air and scream WHTVR.

Finally, closing out the genre, we Take You to Har Megiddo (yes, that is the name of Armageddon). This is the Solar System Remix.
Friday and Monday are a few housecleaning posts of various genres. Our next full genre post will be on November 29 after Thanksgiving when Rap Videos begin with Still Trill Christians, among others. Until next time, I am Awaiting Your Reply

MVM Weekend Edition: Guns for Hands

Welcome Back to the new Weekend Edition of Music Video Monday. This weekend we move into the Electronic Arena. Personally, it is one of my very favorites. It was one of God's greatest blessings to man when Mr. Robert Moog created the synthesizer.

We Begin with Pas Neos, and The Joy Set Before Me from their recent album Who Do You Say that I am. This is a live performance at One Thing2012


The Capital Kings are next, with You'll Never Be Alone.



Britt Nicole is pretty good as pop artists go, but on the dance floor, this girl is Gold.



And we wrap things up with Twenty-One Pilots, which makes it pretty difficult to fly a plane, but it is even more difficult when you have Guns For Hands.



That's it for the weekend edition. We continue in the Electronic Arena on Monday, when we shall have Videos from V.Rose and Har Megiddo among others. Until then, I am Awaiting Your Reply.    

Music Video Monday: The Abandoning

Welcome back to an all new edition of Music Video Monday. We've got some new videos finally, and just in time. Since I am just about finished picking the final nominees for this years Platinum Vinyl Awards, I need something to keep busy with. We start with a "new" band of sorts. Love and Death is the latest band by former KORN member Brian "Head" Welch. This is The Abandoning.



We continue with another band new to The Night Beat. This is Twenty One Pilots, and they appear to be a two piece synthpop act, with one on synth and the other on drums. This is Holding on to you from their recent release Vessel.


And we conclude with a long awaited sophomore release. It was way back at the beginnings of The WENC Night beat, about the same time I discovered Lara Landon (yeah, right). A group with the odd name of Vota, formerly Casting Pearls (who ticked off the lawyers for Casting Crowns), released a pretty decent "debut" album. Then they kind of slunk off into the background. They're back, though not as poppy this time around. This is the video for God of the Universe from their album Love Found Me.



That concludes this all new edition of Music Video Monday. I hope all of you are dug out (if the Blizzard of 2013 happened). Until next time, I am Awaiting Your Reply.