by Jason Farley | May 7, 2018 | Arts, Blog, Feast, Jason Farley
Joel, thanks for joining us at The Westminster Confession of Funk, hosted by CrossPolitic. So you have a new Kickstarter out. Your last one was a big success. What have you learned about yourself as a musician since your last kickstarter, “The Nature of Us”? Great...
by Gabriel Rench | Apr 4, 2018 | Events, Featured, News, World
Price, 57, has played music nearly her whole life, starting with piano when she was five years old. But in the fall of 2009, the guitar was still something of mystery to her. She had been playing for only a couple of months and was struggling a bit with the new...
by Rhett Burns | Mar 27, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Rhett Burns, Uncategorized
A few weeks ago, I reviewed Andrew Peterson’s beautiful new EP, Resurrection Letters: Prologue. His new full-length album will release on Good Friday, and in advance of that, The Gospel Coalition premiered the video for Peterson’s Revelation 5-inspired song, “Is He...
by Gabriel Rench | Mar 24, 2018 | Electronic music, Music, News, World
As festival season rapidly rolls in, we’re constantly being reminded of the continuing lack of diversity on our lineups. With a recent study indicating 86 per cent of the lineups of 12 major music festivals last year including Glastonbury, Reading and Leeds and...
by Gabriel Rench | Mar 19, 2018 | DJ, Featured, Music, News, World
The National have confirmed that they will start recording their next album “soon”. The US band released their sixth album ‘Trouble Will Find Me’ in 2013, more recently showcasing new song ‘Roman Candle’ live. With frontman Morgan...
by Gabriel Rench | Mar 10, 2018 | Highlights
Like any music, jazz has its revolutions; its sudden incidents in infrastructure; its disruptive presences of unprecedented sound. Mostly it’s slower than that, though, with years and generations of accretions before it seems to call for new vocabulary....
by Gabriel Rench | Mar 5, 2018 | Events, Music, News, World
The line-up for the industrial, EBM and synthpop festival E-tropolis in Turbinenhalle in Oberhausen, Ruhr, on March 28 is complete. For the most part, though, people just happening to pass by the two-block campus during Public Practice sessions are at the best...
by Rhett Burns | Feb 14, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Rhett Burns, Uncategorized
The best music is imaginative in the Chestertonian sense. It does not attempt to create a new world. Rather, it seeks to uncover and reveal the truth, goodness, and beauty God has already placed in this world, but remains hidden because we do not have eyes to see....
by Jason Farley | Oct 30, 2017 | Arts, Culture, Feast, Jason Farley
In my first church job the Pastor gave me a bit of advice that stuck. Children learn most of their theology from the songs that their church sings. They may not remember your sermons, but they will carry the songs they sing in church the rest of their lives. This is...
by Jason Farley | Oct 3, 2017 | Arts, Culture, Feast, Jason Farley
The Blues are sad songs. No one wants that. And yet The Blues persist. There is little reason to believe that The Blues is going away. Even when the current pop music is thumping and protesteth its cheerfulness too much, The Blues continue to hold a steady fanbase. I...
by Jason Farley | May 11, 2017 | Blog, Culture, Jason Farley, Theology
A common mistake new poets make is to only write from their own perspective. To be powerful, a poem must be confessional self-revelation. But this poetry will inevitably run into two major problems (besides probably being boring and temporary, because when we are...
by Jason Farley | Apr 27, 2017 | Culture, Fight Featured Post, Jason Farley
Music is always selling more than music. It is selling a tribe. Whether it is Soul, Jazz, Punk, Classical, EDM, or Hip Hop, the music industry is packaging and selling membership in a tribe. The musicians might not think this way, but the record labels do. And, to be...
