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Category: music

The Year Christmas Came Early

Sitting in the southbound-backseat, en route to the most anticipated event of the month (if not the year), my mind briefly went back to how I’d ended up there. The saga began over a month before the fateful night that ushered in a fourteen-day-early Christmas celebration. My friend (and personal convert to Andrew Peterson), Mason [...]

Required Advent Listening: Andrew Peterson

It is fairly safe to say that as each Advent season rolls around, so too will another odfm post about Andrew Peterson and his magnificent album, Behold the Lamb of God. This is that post. The fact that I’m a huge fan of Christmas music is no secret. As each Halloween passes, I’m tempted to [...]

The Low Anthem + Blind Pilot :: Granada Theater

This week a show came through town that my friend Scott convinced me to attend based on his rave review of one of the band’s (The Low Anthem‘s) live shows. The Low Anthem was indeed able to come through on Scott’s boasts with a strong showing at the Granada this past Wednesday night. Blind Pilot [...]

Andrew Bird: brilliant.

Earlier this year I saw Andrew Bird in concert and I was reeling for the two weeks that followed, in awe of the amount of talent crammed in to that man’s body. Last week I came upon this video, which was almost equally inspiring. Go ahead and click “play” and take the 9-minute journey… maybe [...]

Happy Wednesday

My good friend Matt (known in certain households as “Att-Graham”) has been writing songs celebrating Wednesdays for the past several weeks. It came to my attention last night that while I’ve been aware of these gems for some time, not everybody on Earth has. My friends, this should not be. So that, paired with the [...]