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- Book Review: Philip Metres’s Sand Opera
- 121 Psaltery & Lyre: Rachael Matthews, “Horsehead Nebula”
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- 120 Psaltery & Lyre: Rachael Matthews, “Return, pt. III” and “Gaia”
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music Archive
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26 Psaltery & Lyre: Kris Bluth, “What’s Playing on God’s iPod?”
“Falling snow without wind . . .” -
Staff Stacks, Pt 1
What the writers of D&S are into now. -
The Green Room Piano
Growing up in the Olson household, playing the piano was just something you did-kinda like breathing or eating. There... -
A Chronology of Pop Culture Heroines
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Window to Utopia
What would heaven be like, for a teenager? -
Ride to Music and the Spoken Word
Today’s Ride to Music and the Spoken Word comes to us from Katrina Barker Anderson, who took pictures of her... -
But With Joy Wend Your Way
Few hymns seem to capture the Mormon spirit so completely or at ts best. The steady beginning building to the... -
Rasputin Records
My husband and I both enjoy a really broad range of musical genres. As such, I’ve often wondered — how... -
Battles – ‘Gloss Drop’ Tour, London
From the packed-in floor of a dark club (under Victorian railway tracks), and through the dancing columns of sound and... -
It’s Not You, It’s Me
I loved this recent segment from NPR’s All Songs Considered about the bands that contributors have broken up with over... -
Angels with Power Tools
When you hear the words “Compassionate Service” what comes to mind? This is like one of those word association... -
In the Gut
“It’s not about masculine or feminine. It’s about power, and passion, and weirdness” -
Helping an Orphanage in Ethiopia
One of my dearest and oldest friends (one of two friends without whom I would not have survived high school)... -
Bicycle Playlist
“Bicycles move with the flow of the earth …” -
To The Greatest Boy in the World — A Tribute
My boy, my oldest, is turning nine tomorrow. He is still young, but in the last six months, there have... -
Family Home Evening at “God’s Favorite Musical”
Guest Post: by Ian – An Early Review of The Book of Mormon Musical. This past Monday I had quite... -
Georgia Lee
Perhaps my favourite Tom Waits album is Mule Variations (1999). This simple song really stuck with me: for the honesty... -
Elaine Bradley: ‘Marching to the Sound of Her Own Drum’
For the most recent addition to the ‘Mormon Women Project’, Krisanne Hastings has interviewed Elaine Bradley, the drummer and backing... -
Hosanna in the Highest
This week on ‘The Sanctuary’: a guest post from Andy. One way of characterising my spiritual journey over the last... -
Foolish Love
My husband likes to attribute a lot of our personality quirks to generational influences. In his eyes, we are deeply... -
Seminal Works – Exile in Guyville
But, there is so much more to Exile than sexual frankness. Exile is about finding your way in the third... -
15 Best Albums of 2010 (so far)
Despite the fun of tidying up a year’s worth of music listening into a concise list and orderly rankings, end... -
Seminal Works — Kind of Blue
Sometimes hype is justified, Kind of Blue earns its reputation with every listen. -
I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon
Or under the sea. Or the jungle… at least, not permanently. -
File Sharing
My iTunes library is an autobiography of all my relationships. There is the musical theater from my parents, the... -
Being Awesome
You cannot try to be awesome, you must be awesome….that is the law of awesome -
15 Favorite …
Personally, I’m a sucker for these lists. I seem to be constitutionally incapable of resisting them, even though they’re hardly... -
Keeping My Hand In
Four years on, I’m in a slump and I’m really just keeping my hand in. -
Follow the Prophet
When we enter the world of art, we are at war and our choices can either be an act of... -
Stacks
There are stacks of books and CDs on almost every flat surface of my house. Next to my bed is...