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Weekly Music Thirst: Wye Oak – Civilian

I have a soft spot in my heart for 2 person bands, Wye Oak certainly does the configuration proud. Most every 2 person band I know uses loops in some way for bass, keys and other instrumentation, but Wye Oak’s drummer, Andy Stack, thinks 1 hand is plenty to play the drums and uses the [...]

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Music Review: Luke Parker – “Home”

When I opened up the Music Review Submission form here on ORS I was hopeful, maybe not optimistic, but hopeful about the mini flood of music that came through. Boy was I relieved and excited to hear New Zealand singer/songwriter Luke Parker. His album Home is a stripped down acoustic EP with beautifully simple production [...]

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Weekly Music Thirst: Latest from Cardinals and Decembrists

Since this is a music blog I should probably have a weekly post of some kind that talks about the latest music deals/purchases I’ve made. Kinda dumb that 3 years into this blog I’m just starting that out. No point crying over spilled milk, let’s get to it… Ryan Adams & The Cardinals – “III/IV“ [...]

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Review: “Grace” Eleven Songs by Joe Day

For those not familiar with Joe Day and his music, this album is the perfect welcome. Grace is a collection of 11 of the best songs from this Seattle songwriter and Mars Hill worship leader. If you follow the worship music coming out of Mars Hill you may recognize many of these songs as they [...]

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Review: John Mark McMillan – “The Medicine”

UPDATE: Re-published today for the re-release I’ve been listening to The Medicine for a couple weeks solid. I don’t like doing first impression reviews because most of the time my favorite songs end up being those that took a while to grow on me. My ears start hearing things on the 10th listen that I [...]

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Review: “All the Bright Lights” album

I don’t often get excited for instrumental/ambient records, but then again I don’t often(ever) hear those records made by guys with this kind of creative rock sensibility. This southern ambi-rock band dubbed All The Bright Lights consists of James Duke, Jon Duke and Jacob Arnold, two brothers and a good friend. The self titled album [...]

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Review: Megafaun and Bon Iver at Mesa Arts Center

Wow. I’ve been to a lot of shows, but for many reasons this show was one of the best I’ve seen. First off we should talk about the venue. Mesa Arts Center is absolutely beautiful and the room sounds incredible…no I mean it, incredible! Not to mention the fact that we were right in front, [...]

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Can Christians honestly critique each other’s music?

I was flipping through some music reviews of some worship albums and I just had to laugh because there’s no such thing as a bad review. Well actually there is, if the review is out of 10 stars, 10 is great and 9.5 is awful, they just don’t get any lower. This same attitude exists [...]

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