New This Week

You Are- Sherwood
Time Machine- Starflyer 59
Song About You- After Edmund
Set Free Feat. G-Styles- Joe Justiz
Middle of the Night- Sherwood
Meaningless! Meaningless! Everything is Meaningless!- Sleep for Sleepers
Jamboree- John Reuben
I Know I’ll Make It- Izzi Ray
Good to Me- Jai
Feather Light Feathers- Sleep for Sleepers
Diviners Mouth- Milktooth
Enchanting Ghost- Sufjan Stevens
Heirloom- Sufjan Stevens
Halloween in Santa Ana- Milktooth
The Artist in the Ambulance- Thice
Lose You- Monarch
Need It- Monarch
I Walked- Sufjan Stevens

Not too long ago I posted a blog about how Future of Forestry was coming out with their final installment from their Travel series. The time has come (and even passed) for the long anticipated EP.

On July 29th Future of Forestry’s Travel III EP was released for the delight of your ears and my own. I was dare to go as far as to say that it was released and will delight your heart and my own. It’s been a couple weeks, but I have finally made time to listen to the album in it’s entirety. I so love the sound of this album. The melodies and lyrics merge to compose a mood that is all together haunting and soothing in the same. I feel the only way I can explain the ambience is to relate it to a blank canvas that is continually being painted on with emotion. There are no acrylics; there are no watercolors; emotions are the medium and passion is the brush. All I know is that when I listen to their music I feel as if I lose myself in a world of beauty and intrigue.

Right now we are playing “Protection” and “Your Day’s Not Over” on the radio and I love them both so much. Expect to hear these songs more often.

You can listen to all of the songs and read their lyrics by heading over to their website.
From there you can also find links to other resources like their facebook, twitter, myspace, etc.

We had a special guest at Skull Church last night. If you miss it, well, you missed out.

We had The Almost out for service and they totally rocked the house. It was, for lack of better words, incredibly fantastic. For me, what I loved most is the heart that Aaron has for the lost. It was so awesome to sit in on the interview and hear about the transformation his heart has gone through over the past couple years, and more recently the past few months.

They did some of the songs off of their albums, but they ended with their version of “Amazing Grace”, with Hillsongs, “With Everything” tagged on to the end. Talk about revival in hearts! It was so good. People loved hearing them play, but it was more awesome to see how they got the crowd to really participate and join in on worship. Like I said before, “so good.”

Check out the interview!
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Check out their myspace.

I’ll post a video as soon as I can.

New This Week

Protection- Future of Forestry
Your Day’s Not Over- Future of Forestry
Clockwork- Sleeping at Last
Everyday New- Lovelite
Monster- The Almost
God Save The Foolish Kings- House of Heroes
Swan Song- The Frozen Ocean

This week you get lots of myspace links… so check them out!

New This Week

Victims and Prisons- Cannon Hill
Hold Me Down- PRO
Treasure- Esterlyn
Vessels- Ivoryline

Some of links are to full songs, but a couple of them go straight to the artists myspace. Either way, take a little listen.

New This Week

Peter James and John (Backward Math)- Alexander
Cholesterol- Alexander
Mystery of You- Red
Ordinary World- Red
Because of Your Love- Phil Wickham
Heaven Song- Phil Wickham
Find Her Floods- Brooke Waggoner
Femmes- Brooke Waggoner
Retrace- Anberlin
Ice- Lights
February Air- Lights
Belly of the Lion- John Mark McMillan
Death in His Grave- John Mark McMillan

To whom it may concern,
Wavorly was recently at Skull Church (as in last night) and they did an amazing job. I spent all day listening to their music and was so pleased with their style. FYI (for your information) I really enjoy listening to their stuff.

I’m not here to talk about how much I enjoy Wavorly’s music. Instead I am here to share an interview that Josh did with them before service. It’s pretty cool, so check it out.

Listen to the interview here.
Check out their website here.

This blog has been brought to you by Elisha Guido.

If you’re looking to spice up your summer then go no further than Pomegranates. They’ll give your plans a tasteful kick just in time to make you the coolest cat in town. Right now I think this guy is in the lead.

Pomegranates are refreshing and wonderful in ways that I have a hard time explaining. I suppose I can only explain how I feel when I listen to their music.

When I listen to music I like to pretend it is the music playing in the background of the movie of my life. Sometimes my life is quite thrilling and other times it’s not terribly exciting. Some days I might chase down criminal bad guys with my ever witty sidekick, Lenny. Other times I may just be driving down a dirt road with a truck that is too big and has no air conditioning. It depends on the music really.

I’ve never been surfing, but I imagine if I were to be in a movie, Pomegranates music would be playing in the background as I took on a 50ft wave. (I just assume that’s a good size wave.) I’d be sporting my fake Ray Bans and I’d absolutely have a ton of totally noticeable white sunscreen on my nose. I’d probably spend the morning long boarding or riding my red bike cruiser. I’d grab something cheap and delicious for lunch like a fish taco then hit the waves with my buddies. We’d spend the day grabbing great waves and laughing about how awesome everything is. We’d roast s’mores on the beach after a long day and tell stories about how tight life is and how super legit the waves were. I imagine we’d all be driving really old-school vehicles like Rabbits and VW buses. As we drove home we’d have the windows rolled down, the warm night’s breeze in our faces, our hands out the windows flowing with the wind, and the stars would be out in full force. Pomegranates would be playing the whole time making every minute ten billion times more radical feeling.

That’s what I imagine life would be like if I were in a movie and Pomegranates made up the soundtrack. Here’s the thing though, they are from Cincinnati, Ohio. That is the beach and that is not 50ft waves. That doesn’t matter though. I think the music just meets you where you are. (Or where you’re not, but imagine you would be?)

The band started in late 2006 when Jacob Merritt (drums) and Isaac Karns (keyboard, guitar and vocals) got together to make music. Eventually Joey Cook and Dan Lyon came along and joined the band. They’ve put out two albums, Everything is alive (2008) and Everybody, Come Outside (2009). Also, look forward to their new album coming out later this year called One of Us. I think it’s going to be the bee’s knees.

Check out their myspace or facebook or website to enjoy the sweetness of Pomegranates. Also, feel free to be awesome and listen to their music.

STAFF PICKS FOR JULY TWENTY TEN!

Coy Trammel

(I love that this song was put together as a part of an organization (Hands on Nashville that would rebuild Nashville after all the flooding earlier this year. The song is free to download and any “tips” given will go to rebuild Nashville.)

Paper Route “Tennessee”
Paper Route Website

William Fitzsimmons “If You Would Come Back Home (Mikroboy Remix)”
William Fitzsimmons Myspace

Devan Flaherty

Flagship “Faces”
Flagship’s Myspace

Set To Sea “Run”
Set To Sea Myspace

Elisha Guido

Shad “Rose Garden”
Shad’s Myspace

Son Lux “Betray”
Son Lux’s Myspace

Eric Melzer

Capital Lights “Mile Away”
Capital Lights Myspace

Josh Bowers

Joy Williams “We Mapped the World”
Joy Williams’ Myspace

MuteMath “Pins and Needles”
MuteMath’s Myspace

Tyler Thorney

Switchfoot “Your Love is a Song”
Switchfoot’s Myspace

The Temper Trap “Sweet Disposition”
Denison Witmer’s Myspace

Some of links are to full songs, but a couple of them are just samples.

New This Week

Faces- Flagship
Inside A Boy- My Brightest Diamond
Betray- Son Lux
Forest- Number One Gun
Disappear- My Brightest Diamond
Common Cold- Heath McNease

I hope you enjoy these songs because they are out of control awesome, just like you!