From musical harmony to marital harmony, Drew & Ellie Holcomb have been making music together since 2005. From their time together in Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors (2005-2012) to their solo material, the Holcomb's have released well over fifteen albums between them. So count me surprised to learn that Memory Bank would be the first full album of material they have recorded together as a duo. It's been worth the wait.

Memory Bank is a thirteen-track release with sounds covering rootsy Americana, bluesy rock, folk, and even traces of Motown. Due to the wide array of sounds mixing in...

For over the last decade, Bethel Music has written and fostered some of the most hope-filled worship anthems sung by the greater church. Their newest live album, We Must Respond, continues this trend. The 18-track project (the most tracks of any previous Bethel Music album) features the entire Bethel Music collective, as well as Brooke Ligertwood, Abbie Gamboa, and Aodhan King. There are plenty of standouts here for churches and avid contemporary worship music listeners. Seven of the tracks - "No One Like The Lord," "Holy Song," "He Has Done Great Things," "If The Lord," "Even Though I Walk," "Center," and "Made for More" - were released before the album's official release. Ironically, these seven prove to be the standouts on the project...

The journey of Jason Martin's recording career as frontman and sole constant member of Starflyer 59, which recently celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of the self-titled debut widely known as Silver (which bowed in March of 1994), is the type of career that the phrase "quiet legend" was created for. Through 17 full-length albums, a seemingly endless revolving door of supporting musicians, and a variety of life stages -- from the pre-marriage shoegaze drone of a 21-year-old, to the mid-30s post-peak frustrations stemming from the lack of success and reality of family mid-life, and now to the advanced stages of owning a business and having raised children old enough to not only be his backing band, but have their own record contract -- Jason Martin has never stopped, really never even slowed, making music that is authentically him.

And, quite honestly, in this writer's opinion, there was quite a lengthy period after 2005's brilliant and heartbreaking Talking Voice vs Singing Voice where Starflyer's output became less consistently...