Don't let the name of this of this Las Vegas quartet fool you; they are not an ultra-aggressive death metal group. Actually they land…
Chevelle, This Type of Thinking Could Do Us In (2004)
On their third full-length EP Peter, Samuel and Joseph (the three brothers who form Chevelle) deliver an aggressive powerhouse of an album. Chevelle’s third…
Bruce Cockburn: The Truth About Poets
Bruce Cockburn (pronounced Ko-burn) recently released his twenty-fifth CD, Breakfast in New Orleans Dinner in Timbuktu. An inspired lyricist whose style is a soothing…
Silversun Pickups, Carnavas (2007)
Looking for what is the latest band on the radar of CMJ and Billboard’s Alternative charts I came across the Silversun Pickups. After catching…
Bernstein, The Chichester Psalms (1965)
In 1965, Chichester Cathedral, with her sister cathedral in Salisbury, commissioned American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein to compose a setting from the book…
Tavener, Fall and Resurrection (2005)
I am often asked, “We know there were faithful Christian composers in the past, but what about Christian composers today?” One of the most…
Gorecki, Symphony 3 (1992)
In the last seventy years we have seen popular music gradually take the place of “classical” music in the lives of most Americans. Rock…
U2, All That You Can’t Leave Behind (2000)
U2. For their fans (like me), the name says it all. But for those of you who aren’t as familiar with them, let me…
Rock Kills Kid, Are You Nervous? (2006)
In the 1970's, there was a young depressed and isolated man, a film critic, who wrote a screenplay which resonated personally with an up…
Hard-Fi, Stars of CCTV (2005)
"I wanna be successful…what's the point of being parochial and small time? You've got to think big.” These could be the ambitious utterances of…