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A slow week, no? Or maybe it’s just my near total immersion in footnotes that’s blinding me to everything else in the world. Anyway, let’s see what we missed.

The more or less complete NQC schedule is  out (h/t, Burke). I just scanned it very quickly so I’m sure I’ve missed plenty of interesting tea leaves […]

I’ve gotten a couple of emails about this clip and see that it’s showed up on at least one other blog: David Phelps doing “No More Night” partly in Romanian:

What’s so striking here is how effortless  all this is for him at this point. I don’t mean the Romanian stuff but the superhuman vocalizing. Go […]

A reader weighs in on DBM’s attempt to measure artists of the decades:
I think it is hard to give anyone an entire decade. The Oaks seemed to dominate from around 1967-74. The Kingsmen seemed to dominate from around Chattanooga Live (late 70s) throughout the mid 80s and were still doing some good live stuff into […]

So this little writing analyzer thingee has been making the rounds on the interwebs this week. It lets you plug in a sample of your writing. Then it spits back out the name of a writer that the analyzer-monkeys behind the screen say you write like. I plugged in the most recent post before this […]

So part of my holiday weekend involved sailing on the Chesepeake Bay, which was both the first time I’d been out on that particular body of water as well as my first time sailing. It was one of those large vessels that you rent with thirty or so of your closest friends whom you meet […]

Patty Griffin has recorded an album of gospel songs and hymns (h/t, JL). The album, Downtown Church, gets its name from the Presbyterian church in Nashville where the recording took place. There’s a five-minute-ish clip of her talking about the project’s genesis and her own fraught relationship with religion and gospel music here. The full […]

Via my pal M, a few xtranormal animated send-ups of the record industry in these latter days, including one specifically about Christian music.

Any takers on the CCM producer being sent up here? Ed Cash and Ian Eskelin came to mind, but then CCM isn’t really my bag. More likely, though, it’s just an amalgam of […]

I’ll be traveling for a long holiday weekend so you’re on your own, though ya’ll don’t take that well to supervision anyway so I ’spose this is all for the best. Here we go:

David Bruce Murray has reprised his best of the decade polls, this time focusing on artists of the decade. Like all sequels, […]