RockOm Round-up is a quick glance at what's going on this week around the world in the areas of music and spirituality. Today's batch of articles includes: the potential end of Christian music?; Dhani Harrison dedicates album to yogis; Blasting the US with punk Islam; An Israeli metal band; and Yusuf Islam previews his new musical...
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In 1993, the #1 pop single in the world spoke of coming up against limitations in the loving of others. Find out what the song was and what it can teach us about dealing with our personal "buts", leaning into our edge and practicing unconditional love after the jump...
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In this week's podcast episode (#66, "Through the Frame of Faith"), musicians Derek Webb and Josh Garrels share how their spiritual convictions inform how they write music. Other topics you will enjoy include how to understand the new face of the music industry, how music is impacted by the setting in which it is written, [...]
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You probably remember Venn diagrams from high school (or perhaps you're still using them in your classes or business). While each circle signifies a unique set, overlapping sections represent any similarities. In the postmodern age many faith traditions and belief systems are starting to overlap in much the same way, often through the common ground of music. What does this mean for your own lif...
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Most every Westerner has some relationship with the Christian church. He/She is usually either a part of it or alternately has some sort of aversion to it. We all understand that Christianity - maybe even moreso than other faith practices - carries with it a lot of cultural baggage here in the States. For this [...]
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Derek Webb's controversial album Stockholm Syndrome has made enormous waves in the Christian music scene for its honest - and often biting - foray into sexuality, the church, government and culture as well as for its use of "explicit language." Derek shares with RockOm about the provocative new album, next steps for the music industry and the role of the artist.
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Dine Mandle has been practicing Himalayan/ Tibetan Bowl Sound Healing for nearly a decade and has since established a private practice integrating Polarity, Sound Healing and Coaching and in 2004 became California's first State Certified Tibetan Bowl Practitioner/Instructor. She answers a simple Q&A about "sound energy healing" - including how sound and vibration impact your physical, spiritual .
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For this week's Round-up, considering that it's Halloween and all, we've decided to share with you articles about the darker side of music, death, and all that is frightening and spooky...
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On Tuesday of this week we posted our review of Sting's new winter-themed concept album, If on a Winter's Night... It just so happens that one of the musicians who plays on this recording - four-time Grammy nominated violin virtuoso Daniel Hope - shares a home city with RockOm. We reached out to Daniel to get his thoughts on Sting's new collection, what winter means to him and more.
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Early today we posted an insightful interview with Christine Stevens of UpBeat Drum Circles. Now's your chance to hear the interview first-hand. Check out the newest episode of the RockOm Podcast to hear our conversation about how music bridges cultural and spiritual "differences."
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Three melodic strings, a drumbeat and a passionate desire to connect with another can create a force that is larger than life. This immense, graceful force can be found in Christine Stevens and UpBeat Drum Circles as they travel the world, often venturing into hostile and war-torn territories to bridge cultural and spiritual barriers through music. Read our latest interview with Christine after...
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"People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobodies worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss." [Nick Hornby, High Fidelity]What do you think? Does continued exposure to "songs about broke...
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"There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast." [Charles Dickens]Dickens' words remind us of what we enjoy bringing you each week at RockOm: musically-deep artists who reveal all the rich variety of the light/dark spectrum...
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"For we are gathered here to celebrate and explore the music of Winter, the season of frosts and long dark nights." So writes Sting in the liner notes to his latest recording, If on a Winter's Night..., a concept album centered on the darkest and most contemplative of the seasons.
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by LightsVisit Lights at...Main WebsiteMySpaceiTunesLIGHTS is the name of the "sparkling, otherworldly electro-pop" singer-songwriter who has been making a splash on the Warped Tour as well as with her debut full-length album, The Listening (Warner Brothers). She has been highlighted as buzz-worthy by Rolling Stone magazine, calling her a "retro new wave... keytar-rocking pixie."Light's song [...]
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Is there more to music than its use as a tool to become centered or for expressing and experiencing one's highest states? Of course there is. In fact there's more to music than we can possibly imagine, but fundamentally music has one basic purpose: it should makes us feel good and in the moment. And these recent batches of music-based video games such as Guitar Hero and The Beatles: Rock Band h...
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RockOm Round-up is a quick glance at what's going on this week around the world in the areas of music and spirituality. Today's batch of articles includes: finding spiritual freedom through music; what "made" Beethoven; Meshell Ndegeocello's sacred profanity; a play entitled "God Is a Black Man Named Ricky"; Michael Buble on God and more...
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The audio from our informal roundtable discussion with Shantala comprises this week's audio podcast episode. Topics include the difference between Eastern and Western musical training, how musicians communicate, playing music to accompany yoga, connecting with the Divine through song and much more.CLICK HERE to visit our Podcast page to download this and other episodes of [...]
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RockOm alum Mickey Hart discusses sounds from space with "The Universe: Pulsars & Quasars" scheduled to air on The History Channel, Tuesday, October 27th at 9:00 PM. Please check your local listings for details and set your TiVo/DVR now! Check out more details on this intriguing television special after the jump...
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COLUMN: Commentary on Theories of Spirituality through MusicBy John StaedlerTo reiterate from my last article, the word chakra is literally translated to mean "wheel of light." Often they are explained and depicted as colored wheels of light spinning from seven major points in the body however there are infinite chakras in everything. For now I want to start with the first chakra and common ass...
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