Adam Young

Me in junior high: We have calculators for a reason… Math teacher: Do you really think...

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:26:22 -0400

Me in junior high: We have calculators for a reason…

Math teacher: Do you really think someday you’ll carry around a calculator everywhere?

Me:

Math teacher: Exactly.

*10 years later everyone has phones with calculators*

Me: I win.

dfd

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:20:03 -0400

Metropolis Music Video

Mon, 13 May 2013 12:39:31 -0400

Check out the new video for ‘Metropolis’ on JustJared.com!

Metropolis video coming next week!

Fri, 10 May 2013 16:04:11 -0400

Metropolis video coming next week!

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Fri, 10 May 2013 02:04:05 -0400

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Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:26:25 -0400

New video for ‘Metropolis’ coming soon!

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:14:50 -0400

New video for ‘Metropolis’ coming soon!

The more I create music and chase the high I get from it, the more I realize the worst thing you can...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 04:54:00 -0400

The more I create music and chase the high I get from it, the more I realize the worst thing you can do is become a prisoner of your own style. To do so places you under a tyranny of self-dependency to ultimately sustain yourself which is impossible, and without innovation or regeneration, artistry becomes a black hole — joyless and insipid.

I’m learning to tear down and deconstruct everything I think I know about music before writing a new album and there is a real beauty in feeling no need to attempt a continuation or extention or follow-up to any body of work previous. At the onset of another new chapter, I realize it has become harder to satisfy the inner craving I have for a melody that feels good to me. Because “experience” is full of its own pros and cons, it’s harder to capture something that makes me feel like I’m floating three feet above the ground — yet the astounding thing is that when I discover a new vein of inspiration through experimentation and exploration, I realize there are indeed infinite melodies I’ve not thought of that give me the high I long for. And through reinventing one’s approach, there is suddenly more beauty and splendor and grandeur than ever before because it’s all in how you look at it — entire songs in the same chords I’ve played over and over and I’ve not looked at them this way until now.

Regardless, the thing that makes me excited is the knowledge that there is all sorts of magic just waiting for someone to fall in love with, waiting to be unearthed, and I have the immense privilege of digging it up.

Hi, I’m Adam Young and this is a heel flip.

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:21:07 -0400

Hi, I’m Adam Young and this is a heel flip.

Video

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 23:57:01 -0400

You do not lose your own personality when by faith you take your place with Christ in death. On the...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:15:22 -0400

You do not lose your own personality when by faith you take your place with Christ in death. On the contrary, a transformation takes place within your personality. You simply come under new management.

“Therefore if any person is ingrafted in Christ, he is a new creation; the old, previous moral and spiritual condition has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come.” 2 Cor 5:17

This new life which has begun is the Life of Jesus and your personality becomes His means of expression. He is “all the while effectually at work in you, energizing and creating in you the power and desire, both to will and to work for His good pleasure and satisfaction and delight.” Phil 2:13

When you are prepared for the Lord Jesus Christ to change your heart, you will not want to be anyone else. You will be far too excited discovering what He intends you to be.

W. Ian Thomas

Arty & Mat Zo || Rebound

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 21:15:00 -0400

Arty & Mat Zo || Rebound

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Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:58:14 -0400

Produced by Adam Young “Panoramic” by Atticus Ross...

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 22:53:00 -0400

Produced by Adam Young

“Panoramic” by Atticus Ross from The Book of Eli (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Wow. Tonight was the kind of night you remind yourself to soak it up — the vivid colors, raw...

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 02:19:00 -0400

Wow. Tonight was the kind of night you remind yourself to soak it up — the vivid colors, raw energy, and waves of emotion, because you’ll want to savor them when they’re gone. I’m so honored to be here, so blessed to know the people around me, and so thrilled to live by the grace I’ve been given. I feel undeserving to know I’m part of a plan that’s so much bigger than I am and it’s truly mind-boggling. As the most average, ordinary person, it’s so cool for me to be able to do the extraordinary things I get to do — and nights like tonight are poignant reminders that life is pretty darn beautiful for a dreamer in a crazy world.

Thank you for the endless support you’ve given me over the handful of years I’ve been at this. I feel such gratitude and heartfelt appreciation for those who continue to support my music and various projects that mean a great deal to me. To know there are people out there who feel inspired by the things I dream up is more valuable than any artist royalty or music award. I so treasure your support.

Life is short, beauty is fleeting, the glitz and glam comes and goes… it’s exhilarating to soak it all up, hold onto the good, toss away the bad, and continue to live according to what’s truly important.

Onward.

Video

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:21:00 -0400

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Mon, 11 Mar 2013 19:26:50 -0400

Kamloops, BC

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 00:08:11 -0500

Kamloops, BC

The itch of self-regard craves the scratch of self-approval. That is, if we are getting our pleasure...

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:23:37 -0500

The itch of self-regard craves the scratch of self-approval. That is, if we are getting our pleasure from feeling self-sufficient, we will not be satisfied without others seeing and applauding our self-sufficiency.

This is ironic. Self-sufficiency should free the proud person from the need to be made much of by others. That’s what sufficient means. But evidently there is a void in this so-called self-sufficiency.

The self was never designed to satisfy itself or rely upon itself. It never can be sufficient. We are but in the image of God, not God himself. We are shadows and echoes. So there will always be an emptiness in the soul that struggles to be satisfied with the resources of self.

This empty craving for the praise of others signals the failure of pride and the absence of faith in God’s ongoing grace. Jesus saw the terrible effect of this itch for human glory. He named it in John 5:44, “How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?” The answer is, you can’t. Itching for glory from other people makes faith impossible. Why?

Because faith is being satisfied with all that God is for you in Jesus. And if you are bent on getting the satisfaction of your itch from the scratch of others’ acclaim, you will turn away from Jesus.

But if you would turn from self as the source of satisfaction (repentance), and come to Jesus for the enjoyment of all that God is for us in him faith), then the itch would be replaced by a spring of water welling up to eternal life (John 4:14).

-John Piper

Sing it.

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:59:44 -0500

Sing it.