Gospel Sound Tracks

GO! Calendar

GO! dish: Nothing cries "first weekend of summer!" like an ice cream social and band concert in the park -- so head to Bloomington's Franklin Park this eve for a little of each.

GO! grow with Liz: Little Elizabeth Taylor and her adult counterpart cross paths at the Normal Theater: "National Velvet," today/Friday and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," Saturday/Sunday.

GO! for a Haase party: Ernie Haase & Signature Sound are back in town for some honest gospel truth, at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts.

GO! ah choo-choo: Chuggin' is the order of the weekend at the annual Galesburg Railroad Days, a massive celebration of the city's rich train history, tonight through Sunday downtown.

GO! back on tracks: Fast-living Lightning McQueen is spinning his wheels again, this time via the Grand Prix in France, the new setting for "Cars 2," pit-stopping at a theater near you.

GO! wild about Harry: The Children's Discovery Museum in Normal celebrates the impending arrival of the new Harry Potter movie with a "Potterpalooza," from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday.

GO! get punk'd: Bloomington's Castle Theatre cranks up the volume for Punkfest X3, starting at 2 p.m. Saturday and heading into the night with no less than a dozen-odd acts on the bill.

Bloomington-Normal

Spirits of Bloomington Historic Ghost Walks; 7 p.m. June 24, Mid-City Hotel, downtown Bloomington; $10; reservations, 309-846-4306.

Tom Ashbrook: A Life in the News Business and American Journalism; 9:30 a.m. June 24, ISU Alumni Center, 1101 N. Main St., Normal; presentation by NPR host and B-N native; free, but reservations required at 309-438-2160.

Relay for Life of McLean County; noon June 24-noon June 25, Normal Community West High School; American Cancer Society fund-raising event with relay, entertainment and more; 309-688-3488.

Downtown Bloomington Farmers Market; 7:30 a.m.-noon Sat., June 25-Oct. 29, downtown Bloomington square; fresh produce, meats, cheeses, baked goods, art, live music, more; free admission; 309-829-9599.

Central Illinois

DeWitt County Museum Quilt Show; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat. and 1-5 p.m. Sun., June 23-30, C.H. Moore Homestead, 219 E. Woodlawn, Clinton; quilt displays in historic mansion; $1-$3; 217-935-6066.

Gospel Music Soundtracks | Musical Notes Make the World A Song

XM Radio provides over 150 programs that include music, sports and entertainment, traffic and weather channels.

The music area has the largest number of channels. Here are 68 music channels that you can enjoy and where you can listen to your favorite music whether is from the 60s, the 90s or it’s the new released music. There are music-by-the-decade channels that include the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s songs which are mostly pop/rock outlets, the Top 20 channel, Love Songs, Movie Soundtracks, Show Tunes, MTV, VH1, and a Global hits channel. For those you prefer new printable sheet music there is the Unsigned channel and the XMU channel. The last one can be compared to a college station. If you are a jazz fan, XM offers you live music from the Blue Note club and the B.B. King Club in New York City.

There are entertainment shows on XM radio hosted by Tom Perry, Snoop Dog or Quincy Jones. Comedy shows may be found on the High Voltage channel where shock jocks Opie and Anthony do their job now uncensored. In totally, XM has three comedy channels including a family comedy channel. Beside these, there are more radio channels like Playboy Radio and Public Radio hosted by Bob Edwards which includes a line of NPR shows that you can enjoy whenever you like.

If you are a sports fanatic you can choose from a good variety of channel dedicated to sports that are provided by XM radio. This includes college football and basketball, NASCAR and Major League Baseball. You can easily listen to the Bowl Championship Series to find out which team is going to the next level, the NCAA Division I football champion.

With a subscription from XM, you will have 38 channels of sports, news and talk channels. For example, ABC News & Talk, BBC World Service, CNBC, Court TV, C-Span, CNN, CNN Headline News, Discovery Channel, E Entertainment, two ESPN channels, Fox News, NASCAR Racing are a few talk station to which you can listen. Local weather and traffic channels are provided too and in totally, they are 22 channels.

Sound clearance depends on the subscription you have. If you have satellite radio from XM, the sound has more quality than the one from Sirius, but still you can’t say that is the same as a CD. You can say that the sound is somewhere between the sound of a CD and AM radio. Hopefully, in the years that will come, the sound quality will improve.

As this technology appeared so did a new line of hardware that can match people’s desires. And XM has new things to offer like the Delphi XM MyFi which is a small receiver, actually the smallest in the world that can include up to five yours of XM content to which you can listen anywhere you like. Another is the Delphi SkyFi2 which has a TiVo-like 30-Minute Replay feature so, you can rewind, push the pause button or just play it forward to hear Indian music , news or anything else you stored on the it. This equipments are also produced by Sony, Alpine, Pioneer and of course others.

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