Texas’ Green River Ordinance is a band with compelling music and an equally compelling story. Signed by Virgin Records and releasing an album of well received and tuneful pop-rock a few years ago, the band walked away from the deal to go out on their own and call the shots, including embracing […]
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We Recommend: Paper Route, “The Peace of Wild Things”
One album that was very much worth getting excited about in 2012 was Paper Route‘s sophomore effort, The Peace of Wild Things. Its electronic soundscape bore a distinct 80s flavor that didn’t sound dated, but instead utilized a retro feel that helped take the music in the appropriate emotional directions. Born out of […]
We Recommend: House of Heroes, “Cold Hard Want”
Time to get retrospective with 2012. With our recent year-end staff picks, House of Heroes‘ latest album Cold Hard Want averaged in at third place amongst the entirety of the staff’s individual votes. A couple listens to this alt rock record should reveal just why it connected with so many listeners. The HOH boys […]
We Recommend: Glassbyrd, “Open Wide This Window”
“God Of Wonders” is sung every Sunday morning somewhere in the Western world (and beyond). But not many folks singing it would know the great artistic histories of its two songwriters, Steve Hindalong of longtime Christian Music vets The Choir and Marc Byrd, formerly of Common Children and half of […]
We Recommend: Big Tent Revival, “Open All Nite”
My dad is about as blue collar a guy as you’re likely to meet. As a fisherman in Maine, he has owned almost twenty different pickup trucks in my life time (and surely many more before I was born) and a wardrobe made up of ten pairs of jeans and […]
We Recommend: Bebo Norman, “Myself When I Am Real”
Ten years ago, then-Essential Records folk pop artist Bebo Norman released one of his best projects, Myself When I Am Real. When Bebo first debuted, his music was considerably more stripped-down and folk-based than people have probably come to know him for in recent years. By 2002, Myself When I Am Real was probably the […]
10 Years Later: Pillar, “Fireproof”
I became a Christian in the year 2000. Before that, I didn’t know that Christians had their own music. My favorite band at the time was (don’t judge me) Limp Bizkit. Yes, rapcore was cool once (honestly, I’d be down for some right now). As I became introduced to this […]
We Recommend: Zilch, “Platinum”
Zilch started off as dcTalk’s touring band and featured now widely-known producer Mark Lee Townsend (Relient K, Supertones, and The Wedding) on guitar and lead vocals. When the guys decided to record their own material, Toby McKeehan was there to help, and released the album on his then three-year-old label, Gotee. The band’s […]
10 Years Later: Project 86, “Truthless Heroes”
With the release of Wait For the Siren on the horizon, let’s take a look in the rearview at one of Project 86’s best records to date, Truthless Heroes. The band’s third album found them in a dark place lyrically and offered no sort of hope or encouragement to their listeners. What it did offer, […]
We Recommend: Sixpence None The Richer, “Divine Discontent”
As the August 7th release date for Sixpence None The Richer‘s long-delayed brand new album Lost In Transition is upon us, it’s got me thinking over the band’s history of music making. A decade ago, in 2002, Sixpence released their last non-seasonal full-length studio album, entitled Divine Discontent. Don’t let the bleak title fool […]