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RockOm.net 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 th...e music industry and the role of the artist...
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RockOm.net Diáne 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. In the link below, she answers a simple Q&A... about "sound energy healing" - including how sound and vibration impact your physical, spiritual and emotional states.
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RockOm.net 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. After all, part of spirituality is dealing with and coming to grips with death, so we wanted to help provide you with some musical in...spiration for your Halloween weekend. Then below that we've also included our normal RockOm Roundup links, all that's going on around the world in the areas of song and spirit...
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RockOm.net 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 tho...ughts on Sting's new collection, what winter means to him and more.
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RockOm.net 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 spi...ritual barriers through music. Follow the link for our new interview with Christine...
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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, H...igh Fidelity]
What do you think? Does continued exposure to "songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss" affect the listener negatively? Or is all of this simply scapegoating, pointing to music as a straw man in order to take the blame off the individual?
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RockOm.net "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. Follow the link for RockOm's review...
RockOm.net 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 batche...s of music-based video games such as Guitar Hero and The Beatles: Rock Band help us to do just that...
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RockOm.net 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 Bu...ble on God and more...
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RockOm.net 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.
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