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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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Music Review Submissions – get your music heard!

I get a fair amount of music sent my way for review and realized I need to come up with a clear process for this. I’ve posted a page on how to submit your music for review, it details the process and criteria for getting a review published on the blog. The goal here is [...]

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Music Review Submissions

The focus and passion of this blog is quite clearly music and I know there is a lot more good music out there than most people get a chance to hear. I want to help promote good music in whatever form it’s created in. The music does not need to be worship/church music. So if [...]

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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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