{"id":388,"date":"2009-07-09T08:03:17","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T08:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/tonyjones\/2009\/07\/looking-back-on-cornerstone-mu.html"},"modified":"2009-07-09T08:03:17","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T08:03:17","slug":"looking-back-on-cornerstone-mu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/tonyjones\/2009\/07\/looking-back-on-cornerstone-mu.html","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back on Cornerstone: Music"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I didn’t see much music while at Cornerstone last week. Occasionally I could hear, or feel, the thumping of a bass while I was giving a talk. Someone told me that there were about 500 bands there, which is an amazing number, to be sure.  So it’s probably a shame that I didn’t see more than I did.  But, the fact is, I have a strong aversion to Christian music in general, so I didn’t have a great interest to begin with.<\/p>\n

But I did see one group, whom I loved.
Before going to Cornerstone, I had asked via this blog, Twitter<\/a>, and Facebook<\/a>, what band(s) I should make sure and see. One name came back over and over: mewithoutYou<\/a>. Though I’d never heard of them, I figured that this must be a sign, so I made a point of staying for the main stage on Friday night to hear them.<\/p>\n

And I loved them. They’re a post-punk, high energy, spoken word group with a bit of a 70s <\/p>\n\"MeWithoutYou.jpg\"<\/a><\/form>\n

psychedelic sound. Being able to watch their drummer, Richard Mazzotta, is alone worth the price of admission. That dude is off the hook.<\/p>\n

I read up on them a little bit after I got home, and it turns out that they were discovered at Cornerstone a few years ago and signed by Tooth and Nail, a Christian label. But they aren’t a Christian band, exactly. The lead singer, Aaron Weiss, and his guitarist brother were reared by parents who had converted from Judaism and Episcopalianism to follow M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen<\/a> in Philadelphia in the 1970s. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen was a Sufi mystic who developed a significant follwoing during that time, and his writings and parables have influenced mewithoutYou<\/a>, as have other Sufi poets and the Bible.<\/p>\n

So, I’m digging me some mewithoutYou<\/a> right now.  Thanks to all of you who recommended them.<\/p>\n

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