Newsboys

在90年代，更多的媒體接觸基督教的搖滾樂(lè)隊(duì)，Newsboys成立于八十年代末期的圍繞一個(gè)核心，約翰詹姆斯，彼得Furler ，和菲利普Urry 。在某個(gè)程度上，Newsboys的曲風(fēng)很多變，Newsboys在他們的音樂(lè)之路上，創(chuàng)作了許多好聽(tīng)的歌曲。2年前，他們曲風(fēng)的轉(zhuǎn)移主要是由于樂(lè)隊(duì)對(duì)音樂(lè)的獨(dú)特的理解。煥然一新的Newsboys發(fā)現(xiàn)被崇拜不僅僅表現(xiàn)為銷售記錄的多少，而是變化。大部分那種激情反映在他們的專輯上，熱愛(ài)，源于精神上的激勵(lì)，激勵(lì)他們重新對(duì)音樂(lè)加以認(rèn)識(shí)，并讓他們意識(shí)到，搖滾雖然只是暫時(shí)性的，但是他們音樂(lè)王國(guó)的建立是他們會(huì)一直持續(xù)下去的唯一的事。


by John Bush
One of the more media-exposed Christian rock bands of the '90s, Newsboys formed in the late '80s around a core of John James, Peter Furler, and Philip Urry. Though early in their career the band was panned for a perceived over-reliance on religious clichés in their lyrics, Newsboys later grasped secular music's alternative revolution in the early '90s for an image makeover, with good results. The group gained six number one singles on the Christian charts, and have been featured in more secular media outlets than the average Christian band. Step Up to the Microphone, their first album for major label Virgin, followed in 1998; Love Liberty Disco appeared a year later. In celebration of the new millennium, the Newsboys also observed their own career with the greatest-hits package Shine...The Hits, issued in fall 2000. Their most elaborate work to date, Thrive, was issued in spring 2002 and led to one of their biggest CCM hits ever, "It Is You." Over ten years into their own career, that fall Newsboys Remixed was released, offering new takes on several of their biggest hits. The band issued Adoration: The Worship Album in April 2003. The record included both originals and Newsboy versions of well-known worship songs. Guitarist Jody Davis left the Newsboys in late 2003 in order to care for his daughter, Bethany, and Byan Olesen took his place for a little over a year. He left in 2004 to work on his own band, Casting Pearls, just after the Newsboys released their second worship album, Devotion. Paul Coleman, an Aussie singer/songwriter, came aboard as the band's new guitarist, and the next two years found the band touring the globe and working on the songs that would become their first pop album in four years, Go. That album, released in October 2006, was the first to be released on the band's own Inpop Records.