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Rosie Thomas returns after health scare By david burger The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 2, 2012 03:30PM MDT Singer-songwriter Rosie Thomas, a collaborator with Damien Jurado, Pedro The Lion and Sufjan Stevens, had disappeared from the scene for four years as she battled a thryoid disorder that led to her experiencing extreme anxiety. But she’s back with a new album, “With Love,” a testament ...

It’s a family affair with Louisiana’s England in 1819 , comprised of brothers Andrew and Dan Callaway and their father Liam Callaway. The heavy atmosphere, the terraced melody and the slow structural climb of the songs brings to mind Pedro the Lion or Sigur Ros for the sheer emotional grandeur of it all. [ more › ]

David Bazan was, for many years, the songwriter and driving force behind the acclaimed indie band Pedro the Lion, building a dedicated following and selling a couple hundred-thousand albums based in large part on his extraordinary melodic sense and erudite, theologically-themed songs.

Pedro the Lion’s David Bazan heads show at Beauty Bar Indie singer/songwriter David Bazan has been writing and performing music by himself ever since Pedro the Lion, until calling it quits five years ago. On Thursday, Bazan will bring his more recent project to Las Vegas’ Beauty bar. In atypical rock n’ roll fashion, Bazan [...]

We enjoy a good cover song as much as the next music fan, but we really love when an artist makes a song their own thanks to a personal connection to the source material. Such is the case with Dear Hunter frontman Casey Crescenzo's solo take on Pedro the Lion 's 2002 cut 'Priests and Paramedics,' which was recorded at Atlantic Records. "I chose to cover 'Priests and Paramedics' because the first ...

Former Pedro the Lion frontman David Bazan brings tunes from his new album, "Strange Negotiations," to Iowa City at 8 p.m. Monday at the Blue Moose Tap House.

Cataldo is the perfect scramble of your iPod’s old-school, emo, guilty pleasures—New Amsterdams, Death Cab for Cutie, Pedro the Lion—and your current Pacific Northwest, indie folk faves—Laura Veirs, The Decemberists, Hey Marseilles. Fronted by Eric Anderson, Seattle-based Cataldo recently released its third full-length recording, Prision Boxing.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this ...

Aug. 5 • Madison Theater Cold War Kids' music is deeply passionate, bristling with a soulful New Wave energy, like Keane if they’d been influenced by Talking Heads and more interested in guitars. Let’s not forget that more than a few bands have offered up a fairly pointed spiritual message (Sunny Day Real Estate, Vigilantes of Love, Pedro the Lion, a cultish underground group called U2) and not ...

There may be no more eloquent ex-Christian in indie-rock than David Bazan . Once the voice and songwriting engine of the semireligious outfit Pedro the Lion, Bazan now records and tours under his own name. The newly agnostic singer-songwriter's excellent new album, Strange Negotiations

Since his days with Pedro the Lion, David Bazan has made his questions about faith, rather than faith itself, central to his music.

With the band Pedro the Lion, David Bazan wrote about sin, redemption, and faith and created a unique strand of Christian indie-rock. Mostly, he wrote from a position of confidence: "The line is metaphysical" between wickedness and arrogance, but at least he knew where the line was.