Tag: Rock
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If your eternity was based on your iTunes, where would you go?
The music genre labeled “Christian” has traditionally been plagued with fluffy, cliche lyrics and repetitive, acoustic guitar chords. A lot of it is bad. But some of it is good. There are talented “Christian” bands that don’t sing about Jesus in every song (or any). There are talented “Christian” artists that nearly always sing […]
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The Ruin of the Beast
In my previous post, I wrote a bit about Burlap to Cashmere’s only album. I just found this music video by Steven Delopoulos, Burlap’s frontman and primary creative. He has done a few solo projects in the last few years and here is “The Ruin of the Beast.” The artwork in this video is amazing. […]
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Anybody Out There?
If you want to listen to good folk/world rock-influenced music, may I suggest to you the little known album Anybody Out There? by Burlap to Cashmere (1998). If there’s one album, out of a handful, that I regularly turn to, it’s this one. For all I know, the band is not together anymore and Anybody […]
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Sigur Rós Comes to Omaha
I was in Omaha at the Orpheum Theatre last night. The Icelandic band Sigur Rós was scheduled for an 8 o’clock show. The weather wasn’t cooperating though. For two hours, we were in the Orpheum’s basement, taking shelter from a series of tornado warnings. After the last warning ended at 9:15 Central Time, we were allowed […]