Lots of talk about Bishop Allen, Cursive, The Number Twelve Looks Like You and the new Punk Goes Pop collection. Hate to say it, but I’m not really looking forward to any of them much. A few that might get overlooked: Mirah’s new release is awesome. Portland’s repping pretty strong...

This is a detail from the Byzantine Christ in Majesty mosaic (probably 1261) from the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, taken by my daughter during her travels.  The whole mosaic depicts the Virgin Mary on his right hand and St. John the Baptist on the left,  interceding for Christ's merciful judgment on...

A picture from my daughter's travel album, this detail of St. John the Baptist is from the Deesis mosaic (probably 1261) at the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. The whole mosaic shows Christ in Glory with the Virgin Mary and St. John the Baptist pleading for humanity on the Day of Judgment....

Just prior to the news of the election of Metropolitan Kirill, I thought it would be of interest to share some of the liturgical scenes going on in Russia surrounding this event, and attach to them some explanations from one of our Eastern Catholic readers, as a means of further exploring the treasu...

Theophany is the Feast which reveals the Most Holy Trinity to the world through the Baptism of the Lord (Mt.3:13-17; Mark 1:9-11; Luke 3:21-22). God the Father spoke from Heaven about the Son, the Son was baptized by the St John the Forerunner, and the Holy Spirit descended upon the Son in the form ...

Even though we saw some great shows and amazing albums in 2008, we’ve also seen our share of craziness. I’ve compiled a list of some crazy things that have happened this year that I can think of off the top of my head. Byzantine breaks up…3 days after they release Oblivion Beckons....

A Greek icon painting worth £1 million that had been cut into six pieces and smuggled out of the country to Britain has been returned to Athens....

Here are my reflections, reactions, and comments on the two Byzantine Catholic Divine Liturgies I attended this past week (on Friday morning and Saturday evening). As "Roman" as I am (meaning, I love to kneel and genuflect in reverence during the liturgy), there is something I find attractive about ...

Back in early January, Prosthetic Records sent me a review copy of Byzantine’s Oblivion Beckons. I loved it! It was an amazing record but shortly after it’s release Byzantine announced that they would no longer be continuing as a band. This disappointed a lot of people and the reason for...

There is so many great bands releasing new albums this year it’s amazing. Just to name a few, you have young talented thrashers, Black Tide to release their Debut album Light From Above that I think will surprise a lot of people and blow them away. You have All That Remains that will be releas...