Let's say you didn't get a chance to read yesterday's important post, An Open Letter to RockOm Users. You're just too busy and there's too much else to read. The only time you have is in the car. Oh, what to do!?This week's audio podcast episode diverges from our normal podcasts where we interview spiritually-conscious [...]
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Podcast #59: “The Open Letter”
An Open Letter to RockOm Users
Since June 2008 RockOm has been exploring the bond between music and spirituality through interviews, podcasts, tweets, Facebook updates, featured tracks, blog posts and much, much more. And the cool thing is we haven't done it alone. You've been right there alongside us, reading the articles, listening to the interviews and providing encouragement and feedback. With that said, most of what Roc...
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Open to Nurturing Love
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Devotional chant songstress and Nutone Music artist Donna De Lory shares with RockOm about the title track from her latest album Sanctuary, how conscious intention transforms music into a healing force, Joseph Campbell's influence on her life and work, and what being open to the Divine Mother has taught her about God.
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Featured Track of the Week
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by PassafireVisit Passafire at...Main WebsiteMySpaceiTunesPassafire is a 4-piece band hailing from Savannah, GA whose brand of progressive reggae both embraces and challenges the genre's boundaries. Their outstanding new album, Everyone on Everynight, was released this week and includes this week's Featured Track of the Week. "Here In Front of Me"Lyric Excerpt: "Sun shines down on [...]
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Musicians Encounter the Divine in Their Art
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"What part does your spirit play in your music and how does your music play on your spirit?" Writer Margaret Treadwell asked this question to seven male musicians at the WC Handy [pictured] Music Festival during a roundtable discussion between gigs. Their responses debunked the myth that "men are out of touch with their emotions" and gave her some life lessons to share about music's powerful co...
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Quincy Jones announces Bermuda Music Festival line-up
Legendary producer and composer Quincy Jones (who changed the way music and philanthropy interact through his star-studded collaboration "We Are the World", the best-selling single of all time) announces his 'Friends' - the All-Star line-up of musicians and performers who will join him for a rare weekend of collaboration and performance at the 14th Annual Bermuda Music Festival in October.
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Does music mean this or that?
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"Does it mean this? Does it mean that? That's all anybody wants to know. Fuck them, darling. I say what any decent poet would say if you dared ask him to analyze his work: If you see it, dear, then it's there."[Freddie Mercury, Queen]
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Brand New Podcast
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This week's audio podcast episode features interviews with "industrial re-percussionist" and performer Billy Jonas (about his song "God Is In") as well as Mickey Hart (of Grateful Dead fame, Planet Drum and more). Topics include seeing God in everything, connecting to the divine through participation, the healing power of music, modern Shamanism and much more. [...]
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The Music-Bird
"Let us not try to understand music with our mind. Let us not even try to feel it with our heart. Let us simply and spontaneously allow the music-bird to fly in our heart-sky. While flying, it will unconditionally reveal to us what it has and what it is. What it has, is Immortality's message. [...]
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Beatles Day: 09.09.09
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It's common knowledge that the Fab Four (to varying degrees) developed an interest in meditation and spirituality in the late 60s, which (as any true life practice should do) rubbed off into their lyrics and songwriting. So with that said and in honor of today being Beatles Day (09.09.09), here's a short list of our favorite spiritually-charged Beatles tunes.
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Ascending and descending love in rock music
By James LumsdenThere is a longing (the ascending experience) and a resting (the downward encounter) and both are of God. And when it comes to practicing this in a spirituality of rock music, it is precisely THIS truth - the embrace of holy/human love - that can be nourished.
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Sacred Song
"Nothing so arouses the soul, gives it wing, sets it free from the earth, releases it from the prison of the body, teaches it to love wisdom and to despise all the things of this life, as concordant melody and sacred song composed in rhythm."[St. John Chrysostom]
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What’s Rockin’ @ RockOm
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Music is what the good doctor has ordered this week at RockOm, healing us with rhythm and with laughter.To begin, check out our all new interview with Grateful Dead drummer, world music practitioner and music therapy expert Mickey Hart titled "If There is a Creator, It's a Rhythm". Read Mickey's thoughts on his "shamanistic" role [...]
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Featured Track of the Week
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by Billy JonasVisit Billy at...BillyJonas.comMySpaceiTunesBilly Jonas is a singer-songwriter, guitarist and an "industrial re-percussionist" whose primary instrument is the audience. A Billy Jonas performance is an explosion of energy. In singalongs, bangalongs, whisperalongs, as well as improvised songs, his primary instrument is the audience. Everyone becomes part of a performance that reache...
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A Day at the Museum
RockOm contributor Roger Hatfield has written this piece as an encouragement for artists to never give up. Though not exactly about music, musicians reading this piece will no doubt find the wisdom applicable to their craft. To go further, all of us are creative in some way in our work or daily lives, so may each of us find value in Roger's reflections on his "Day at the Museum."
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Why the bird sings
"A bird does not sing because it has an answer.It sings because it has a song."[Chinese Proverb]
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God’s a stinking meth-head on the streets playing a five string guitar
Why do we avoid those who make us uncomfortable in their obvious distress? Those who unnerve us with their dirty, smelly, uncouth, and "obnoxious" behavior? This week RockOm's Tom Crenshaw stumbled upon a street musician whom everyone else was avoiding, struck up a conversation and saw the man for who he really was. Hear the story and see Tom's reflections after the jump.
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