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Actual My Bloody Valentine albums to be released soon…
For those of us that are huge fans of My Bloody Valentine, the teasing that new material will eventually arrive is our catnip. We know better, but the mere waft of the scent sends us into crazy, delusional fits. Our brains no better: we’ve been promised new material for 20 years. That’s why any actual…
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You Will Click This Link
I’m sorry. You don’t really have a choice. You may try to avoid clicking on the link below, but your resistence is futile. You’ve already lost. Seriously. Do it already. They Might Be Giants cover Tubthumping I do have only one question: why even resist? Seriously the best thing you saw today. You are welcome.
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Happy Birthday, Loveless!
Twenty years ago today, my all-time favorite album was released to the world, obliterating the sonic mold that gave birth to it. It spawned hundreds of copycats, but none that could handle the sonic onslaught, the shimmering vocals, and epic scale. “Only Shallow” by My Bloody Valentine Personally, I love that it feels otherworldly and…
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Halloween, All Saints’, & too much candy
A web-friend was recently asked about Halloween and what he thinks about it as a Christian. His response, as expected, was thorough, honest, and appropriate. Mine, is well…perhaps a little less so. I don’t really dig on Halloween & Church. Not because I think it is demonic or sinful or whatever. And it is not…
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Renegades of Funk (Monday Mixtape)
Now renegades are the people with their own philosophies They change the course of history Everyday people like you and me We’re the renegades we’re the people With our own philosophies We change the course of history Everyday people like you and me As I said in my homily yesterday, the stuff that got Jesus…
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Mixtape Monday: the slow build
One of my favorite parts about music is the slow build. What I mean by this is the song that starts simple, soft, and slow. And it gets you listening to it’s quiet and before you know it you are raptly focused on the words, listening for something. You don’t know what. And then it…
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Monday Mixtape: the love song
Who among us hasn’t made a mixtape for someone they loved? Or at least were in love with at one point. It should come to nobody’s surprise that I’ve made a bunch of such mixtapes in my time and given them to…well, several…people. But, and this may sound cheesy, there is something about the mixtape for…
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Mixtape Monday: meaningful song
Personally, I like my music to mean something. And If I’m putting together a soundtrack, it has to include at least something seriously cool and pertinent to our lives at the time. So here it goes: Billy Bragg & Wilco covering Woody Guthrie’s “Christ for President”