Top Albums 10. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues 9. Bon Iver - Bon Iver 8. Cults - Cults 7. Araabmusik - Electronic Dream 6. Jay-Z & Kanye West - Watch the Throne 5. Elbow - Build a Rocket Boys! 4. The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar 3. Civil Wars - Barton Hollow 2. Manchester Orchestra - Simple Math 1. m83 - Hurry Up We're [...] Read more – ‘Top Music of 2011’.
Just wanted to provide a short snapshot of a project from Honor the Emperor. Currently on the creative and theologically astute Come and Live label, Honor the Emperor recently released The Prayers, an EP of four songs. Along with other Doxologie favorites King's Kaleidoscope and Joe Day, Honor the Emperor is a band out of Mars Hill [...] Read more – ‘Honor the Emperor - The Prayers’.
I've got to say, I'm a little biased here. Two of Crimson Refuge's musicians, vocalist Brian Mull and drummer Will Davis, are also musicians in the band at Harmony Church. The remaining two musicians, Trey and Justin, are also pretty awesome dudes, all musical concerns aside. But I must say, the latest release from the [...] Read more – ‘Music Review: Crimson Refuge's The Shepherd EP’.
Greenville's own darling garage-pop band, The Ethnographers, have finally released their second album, Dry Season. I've been listening to it since it's release (and have heard the songs in their live version for a while now), and just wanted to throw out some thoughts. For fans of their self-titled first album, this album is more [...] Read more – ‘Music Review: The Ethnographers' Dry Season’.
If you've been a long time reader of Doxologie, you know that I talk a lot about the Church's role as lead culture-creators in the city. In the past, I've written about planting a culture, our vision for music at Harmony, and the unwritten rule that leaders at Harmony create culture. But here's the thing: [...] Read more – ‘Creating Culture in the City’.
So it's getting close to the end of the year. I'll be releasing some "year-end" posts between now and (you guessed it) December 31st. We'll start with a bang, and I'll list my top ten albums of the year. 10) Yeasayer - Odd Blood This sophomore offering from the psychedelic pop band from Brooklyn is [...] Read more – ‘Doxologie's Top 10 Albums of 2010’.
I've got to be honest: I wasn't always a fan of John Mark's music. Well, in a congregational sense. I thought it was great music, but perhaps not suitable for congregational singing. Some of the lyrics are what I would consider fluffy, vague, and too creative for their own good ( I still have a [...] Read more – ‘Music: The Medicine (@JohnMarkMC)’.
I recently downloaded Joe Day's Grace from iTunes, and before I get to the music, I want to say that Joe Day is my brother from another mother. Web designer, music lover, father of twin girls, and seemingly all-around awesome guy, I relate with his life in general...but even more so with his music. From [...] Read more – ‘Joe Day (@JoeDay) is My Brother’.
Trinity Grace Church, led by Jon Tyson, is a church that uses a very intuitive "parish" model to be present in every major area of the entire city of New York. They meet in neighborhood churches on a weekly basis, with all of the neighborhood churches gathering together every six-weeks for joint worship. From what [...] Read more – ‘Music: Without End by Trinity Grace Church’.
As many of you may know, I'm kind of a music guy. I won't sing, I play a little, but I love listening. Most of the time, it's some kind of math-rock/garage-indie/electro-pop something or other. But every once in a while, I go on a "worship" (genre, not the act) kick. The worship I listen [...] Read more – ‘What I'm Listening To: Worship’.
I've really been enjoying Snow Patrol's Up To Now album. They are passionate about their music, and have reason to be, because their music is good. Check out this live performance of Chasing Cars, their hit made possible by Grey's Anatomy. I love how into the music & performance Gary Lightbody gets. He looks joyful [...] Read more – ‘Music Monday: Snow Patrol’.
This past Sunday, we talked about religion/rebellion vs. Jesus in terms of the affliction of the daughter of Zion. We particularly focused on the fact that any theology that does not include punishment for sin drastically overlooks the main part of God: His holiness. Luckily, the punishment for us has been accomplished (Lamentations 4:22) through [...] Read more – ‘Sunday Set and Sound Check’.
Yesterday, we continued in Lamentations, and finally hit the hopeful part. The podcast will be up soon at HarmonyGreenville.com. The worship set was great: Come for Me - Charlie Hall (on Youtube) This song really resonates with the hopeful section of Lamentations because it places us there. Just as the exiled ones were waiting for [...] Read more – ‘Sunday Recap and Music Monday’.
At Harmony, everything is pregnant. Our church is pregnant with a new baby church that will come out soon. Each Home Group is pregnant with another baby Home Group that will come out soon. Every believer at Harmony is pregnant with reproducing themselves. And we see bands as no different. Our God is in the [...] Read more – ‘Planting Bands’.
This afternoon I had the pleasure of hanging out with Matthew Lilley, and later, Eric Von Kopp and Nolan Smock (of Charming Youngsters fame). And a conversation that Nolan, Eric, and myself had has got my brain stirring about something I've thought about often: what does music/worship look like at Harmony? Right now, we have [...] Read more – ‘A Vision for Music at Harmony’.
Here's a sneak peek at Sojourn Church's upcoming new album. By the way, if you haven't bought the previous 97 albums, go do that now. Sojourn musicians work on "Refuge" Read more – ‘I Love Sojourn Music’.
Listening to Red Mountain Music's album, The Gadsby Project (2005). It's awesome, Gospel-centered music from the Alabama worship cohort. You can find it on iTunes. Here's the lyrics from one of my favorite songs right now, the first track from the album, Dearly We're Bought:Come raise your thankful voice,Ye souls redeemed with blood;Leave earth and [...] Read more – ‘Dearly We're Bought’.
Here's a few thoughts from my head. Beware.The first Harmony wedding is on the books! It went pretty smoothly yesterday....Except I made everyone stand the whole time. I never let them sit down. Whoops! Had a bit of spiritual warfare this morning. Not sure if it was me alone, or within the body, but it [...] Read more – ‘Stream of Consciousness’.
This is the video from Sunday night. We gave all the married couples a gift certificate to a restaurant and told them to go on a date. Some of the rest of us watched their kids at an event we lovingly called "Trailer Park". We grilled hot dogs, had crafts, played video games, reenacted David [...] Read more – ‘When I Think About My Jesus....’.
