This past Sunday at Forest Park Community Church we used my arrangement of 'O For a Thousand Tongues'. It was a great gift to come up with the arrangement. I remember praying that God would give me a special anointing to find some great music for a song. I had been reading through some hymns from a book my pastor let me read....after I came up with the music, I found the book opened to Charles Wesley's monumental hymn. I put the words to the music just to get a great melody....hoping to change the words later.....but the words fit [...]

I realize that most of what people want out of SXSW has been covered by now, but that's only if you were interested in the Cold War Kids and whatever other huge bands that everyone already knows about. Which isn't to say that you've never heard of any of these bands, but that is largely besides the point! So, here's some of the songs I enjoyed using SXSW's music player. Ane Brun - To Let Myself Go - (MP3, 3 MB) I've meant to talk about Ane Brun on here for [...]

I hadn't heard of a band called Hymns before today. They reached out to us to see if we were hosting a party at SXSW 2007, where they offered to perform. While we're more than happy to have them rock out in our hotel room or follow us around Austin performing our walking soundtrack, they really deserve much better. Bryan Harding, Jeremy Roberts, Tony Kent, and Jeremy Kay have a west coast folk-rock that sounds like a cross between Pavement and The Thrills. They also just wrapped up a couple of tours with bands you [...]

My friend Tom emailed me a little report from the Lemonheads show he was at last night (not good, he says), and although we differed on the glory (or lack thereof) of Evan Dando, one thing we both agreed on was opening band Hymns . Tom writes: " Let me say if you're thinking about going to see this tour make sure you get there in time for the opening bands, because last night at least, they were the best part of the night. Hymns [...]
Asthmatic Kitty is releasing Curtains' Calamity album next Tuesday. Curtains : "Go Lucky" [mp3] from Calamity Curtains : "Calamity" [mp3] from Calamity Curtains' Myspace page Del McCoury Band : 2006-10-14, Albany [mp3,ogg,flac] "What Made Milwaukee Famous" [mp3] Fur Cups for Teeth : several tracks [mp3] "Boxed Lunch" [...]