I’ll never forget listening to Plumb‘s lullaby album Blink for the first time. For me, it’d be almost three years before I even knew what parenthood looked like from that perspective, but I remember letting the beautiful harmonies and Tiffany’s soft vocals wash over me as I sat in an easy chair listening […]
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We Recommend: Leeland, “The Great Awakening”
Ever since I was in my mid-teens, I’ve experienced the unique phenomenon where a band — or in this case, an album — doesn’t really strike a chord with me until I have experienced it live. Bands like Code of Ethics, Bride, Sixpence None the Richer, John Reuben, and more […]
We Recommend: Playdough & Heath McNease, “Wed, White and Wu”
Independent rapper Heath McNease recently released a magnificent new album called Thrift Store Jesus. But just a few months prior to that, he dropped a full-length mixtape with hip hop buddy Playdough. Wed, White & Wu was seventeen tracks of Heath, Playdough and some guests rapping over some classic Wu Tang Clan beats. The […]
We Recommend: Kari Jobe, “Where I Find You”
For the few who do not know, I’m more picky about worship music than I’d like to be. It makes it difficult for me to find music to worship the Lord to. So even if I only find a few songs on a record I really like, it’s a big […]
We Recommend: David Crowder Band, “Church Music”
I had liked David Crowder*Band for some time before I actually owned any of their albums. I had heard DC*B’s music, and fallen in love with A Collision, but I don’t think I actually owned an album of theirs until Church Music came out. John hyped it up to me, and since we usually agree […]
We Recommend: The Ws, “Fourth From The Last”
With the popularity of the third-wave ska movement came a similar and more short-lived movement: Swing Revival. While many Christian bands jumped on the third-wave ska bandwagon, really only one band joined the swing crowd from the market. The W’s joined the likes of Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and other secular artists for […]
We Recommend: All Sons and Daughters, “Brokenness Aside EP”
Anyone who knows me knows I’m pretty picky about worship music. This isn’t anything I’m proud of at all, of course, especially since it makes it very, very difficult to find worship music I can turn off critical ears toward and worship my Savior with. Part of it may be […]
10 Years Later: Five Iron Frenzy, “Electric Boogaloo”
We never thought we’d see it happen. We all thought that the Denver, Colorado ska octet Five Iron Frenzy had gone to the grave, never to resurrect. But November 22, 2011 proved to be a glorious day for those fans who had a part of themselves die as well, for Five Iron […]
We Recommend: brave Saint Saturn, “so far from home”
Part one of the trilogy about the USS Gloria, So Far From Home was the first album from astro-rock, Five Iron Frenzy side project, brave Saint Saturn. More emotional than most Five Iron Frenzy songs, So Far From Home explored love (“Moon Burns Bright”), losing a loved one (“Two-Twenty-Nine”), as well as the personality and […]
We Recommend: Listener, “Wooden Heart”
Dan Smith, formerly known as Listener as a part of the Deepspace 5 collective, got together with guitarist Chris Nelson, and then applied the name “Listener” to the duo’s band name. Listener’s latest offering Wooden Heart is a treasure amongst indie rock albums. The music doesn’t really follow any rules of music, unless it […]