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Top Ten Thursday: Conception
With the great disappointment of Mylo Xyloto (Coldplays new concept album that dropped earlier this week) still being fresh in our heads, we at LxL wanted to remind the world that there are indeed good...
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Top Ten Thursday: 2010 Albums in Retrospect
As we gear up for the conclusion of another memorable year in music and our upcoming 2011 Best-of lists, we thought it would be fun to turn back the clock to a year ago, and look at the greatest albums...
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The Roots Review: Undun
The Roots Undun A legendary live hip hop group and the best house band in late night television history, The Roots have built up quite the reputation over their illustrious over two decade career....
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Top Ten Thursday: The Sounds of Winter
We at LxL are men for all seasons, and winter is no exception. Oh, wait, Todd lives in the concrete jungles of Cali where the weather rarely dips below 60. That’s alright, he is still an...
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Top Ten Thursday: Chi-Town Anthems
Top Ten Thursday: Chi-Town Anthems In keeping with our Chicago theme (due to my move there coming this weekend), we will be transitioning from yesterday’s list of songs BY Chicago to songs ABOUT...
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LxL Fest: 3 Days, 33 Acts, 1 Stage
Come one, come all to most stacked festival in the history of music. You may think that a festival of this caliber was years in the making, and has taken many long days and nights to cultivate. However...
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Lost In The Trees Show Review
Lost in the Trees October 11, 2012 Blueberry Hill – The Duck Room St. Louis, MO Lost in the Trees experience with St. Louis didn’t start off too well. They came in town early to make a visit to the...
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LxL’s Top Ten Christmas Songs
At 12:00 AM on Black Friday and not a second later, radio stations all across the country began blasting Christmas music, oh so ready to put the Thanksgiving holiday behind them and go headstrong into...
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Sufjan Stevens Christmas Review: Silver & Gold
Sufjan Stevens Silver & Gold: Songs for Christmas Volumes 6-10 Christmas in America is a bit of an enigma when you think about it: you have a holiday originally characterized by the birth of Christ...
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Sufjan Steven’s Christmas Spectacular Show Review
Sufjan Stevens’s Christmas Spectacular 12/15/2012 The Metro Chicago, IL I wrote a couple of weeks ago about indie singer/songwriter Sufjan Steven’s conflicted fascination with Christmas and how...
View ArticleTop Ten Thursday: Best Artists of the Aughts (2000-2009)
This was a particularly tough list to put together. On average, order one of our Top Ten lists takes about 45 minutes. Over an hour and a half into our last meeting, we still only had the top six...
View ArticleLxListening: Faith & Music
This past weekend, my wife and I went to the 6th biennial Festival of Faith & Music in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and it proved to be one of the more interesting conference/festivals I’ve ever...
View ArticleTop Ten Thursday: Apocalypse NOW (Best Apocalyptic Tracks)
We all love us some Edgar Wright (and Simon Pegg and Nick Frost for that matter), so with the opening of The World’s End this weekend, we thought it appropriate to dig up the top ten apocalyptic songs....
View ArticleMutual Benefit Review: Love’s Crushing Diamond
Mutual Benefit Love’s Crushing Diamond It is often said “familiarity breeds contempt”. This phrase is most often directed towards people, but it also carries a lot of weight in regard to listening...
View ArticleLxListening: Fall’s Finest Tracks
It’s been a surprisingly busy fall in terms of new music releases, and with a three-man crew, we have been unable to cover all the notable releases this fall. So in order to make up ground, I figure...
View ArticleSon Lux Review: Lanterns
Son Lux Lanterns New York based musician Ryan Lott aka Son Lux has quietly been making some of the most forward-thinking electronic/post-rock music around since 2008. The young musician has taken on...
View ArticleThe 10 Best Sufjan Songs
I’m not sure there is a bigger enigma in music right now than Sufjan Stevens. His music output has been incredibly sporadic, but when he does release music, it pours out of him. I have nearly...
View ArticleLxL’s 10 Most Anticipated 2015 Albums
2015 is set to be a year we hear from a bunch of creative heavy-hitters. Last year was largely dominated by quiet contemplative records, this year I think will be full of big-time records. So here are...
View ArticleThe 10 Best Winter Albums
We at LxL are men for all seasons, and winter is no exception. As three people grown up and still suffering through the Midwestern cold, we get the meaning of winter. So we know you need a little...
View ArticleSufjan Stevens Review: Carrie & Lowell
Sufjan Stevens Carrie & Lowell Constantly making the left-turn, Sufjan Stevens stands in a small pool of artists that is always making unexpected but decidedly brilliant turns in his career. To...
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