I’ve decided to start a blog featuring interviews from LDS musicians about their art. There are a few reasons for this. First of all, in the interest of full disclosure I am an LDS musician myself. I have a solo project called A Tremendous Machine and I’ve always been interested in the ways that Latter-day Saints interact with the world. Many things have been said online about the LDS music community, but many of these seem geared towards what has vaguely been called “LDS music,” which is the heavily LDS-themed music featured on EFY CDs and similar ventures. While I have great respect for the musicians who participate in these projects, my focus here is on what you could see as “secular” music, music that speaks of pain and struggle and hope in the world from an emotional viewpoint.

Hopefully people will understand why my focus is on this type of music, and why I’m not as concerned by the more established “Deseret”-type LDS music industry. I have a few musicians lined up for interviews and hopefully you will see these soon.