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Tim Casteel

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Good Clean Fun 2018

August 14, 2018 By Tim Casteel 2 Comments

What’s the first thing students encounter when they come to your event? The music that you’re playing. The problem - finding good music that's not explicit. So here’s a Good Clean Fun Spotify playlist. Full of upbeat, fun songs that are clean and that appeal to an ethnically diverse college student audience. It’s a mix of Christian rap, dance, popular … [Read more...] about Good Clean Fun 2018

Top Songs of 2017

January 14, 2018 By Tim Casteel Leave a Comment

An annual tradition on my blog - My Top 100 Songs of the Year. To further explore amazing music, here are my Top Songs from the 2010's (click “Follow” at the top of Spotify if you want to add any of the playlists to your sidebar of playlists)   If you follow indie music at all, you'll find that most "Top Songs of The Year" are trying really hard to be cool and … [Read more...] about Top Songs of 2017

Winter Conference Music Playlist

January 4, 2017 By Tim Casteel Leave a Comment

Bookmark this and save it for your next conference (or weekly meeting). It's not easy to find good, upbeat, CLEAN music. Look at the top songs of 2016 - 1 out of the top 10 could be played at a weekly meeting. The rest are explicit. I put together the playlists we play before and after meeting at our 2017 Cru Winter Conference. And I thought it might save you all a lot of … [Read more...] about Winter Conference Music Playlist

Top Songs of 2016

January 1, 2017 By Tim Casteel Leave a Comment

An annual tradition on my blog - My Top 100 Songs of the Year. To further explore amazing music, here are my Top Songs from 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 and 2009 (click “Follow” at the top of Spotify if you want to add any of the playlists to your sidebar of playlists) There weren't any clear "song of the year" candidates in 2016. I like every song in the top 8 … [Read more...] about Top Songs of 2016

Top 100 Songs of 2013

December 23, 2013 By Tim Casteel 3 Comments

This is Indie Music for the Masses – Indie Music that's actually enjoyable to listen to (not grating avant-garde or sleep-inducing singer-songwriter). To further explore amazing music, here are a few bonus lists: My Top 10 Albums of 2013 Here is (on Spotify) my Top Songs from 2012, 2011, 2010 and 2009 Click “Follow” at the top of Spotify if you want to add any of … [Read more...] about Top 100 Songs of 2013

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About Tim Casteel

The goal of this blog is to share resources, best practices and strategy. Inspired by others who have taken the time to share their thoughts/learnings/resources, I decided to stop merely consuming and start contributing to the conversation.

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