I don’t know what I expected from newcomer Francesca Battistelli, but for sure, it wasn’t what I got when I popped her debut CD My Paper Heart into my stereo. I thought maybe I’d get an earful of dance drivel or cookie cutter pop. Instead, I got bluesy piano-driven rock and smoky vocals from an…

No, The Wrecking isn’t a construction crew, but you might not know that today. Drummer Darren Elder, of modern rock band The Wrecking, broke his hand in two places while working on some home repairs. I don’t know officially what he was doing, but someone mentioned drywall … The Wrecking (formerly known as The Kingpin…

And here’s another hot mainstream artist who got her start in Christian music: Natasha Bedingfield. As a teenager, Bedingfield and her siblings, Daniel and Nikola, formed the short-lived Christian dance/electronic pop group, The DNA Algorithm, which performed at several Christian music festivals before disbanding.

“Give Me Your Eyes,” the latest single from Christian music’s New Artist of the Year Brandon Heath’s latest album What If We, debuted at the top of the Christian music digital charts, reaching No. 1 on iTunes and Amazon.com. With nearly 6,000 downloads of the song, Heath has achieved the highest first-week sales for a…

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