Gospel Soundcheck

President Barack Obama may not have made it to the Centennial celebration of the 2010 National Scout Jamboree, but rockers Switchfoot were there. The band peformed in front of 100,000 cheering scouts at Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia on July 31. It wasn’t all just fun and games for attendees. The media site for the…

Hold onto your hats, Christian music fans. The 42nd Annual Dove Awards will be broadcast next April from … Atlanta, GA. For viewers at home, the news isn’t any big deal. If you’re sitting on your couch, who cares where the stage is. For those of us in the industry, it puts yet another question…

Anberlin – Impossible from Publicity on Vimeo. The first single from Anberlin’s upcoming release Dark Is The Way, Light Is A Place, premiered on MTV last week. It was #1 most added at Modern Rock radio last week at KROQ in Los Angeles.Dark Is The Way, Light Is A Place releases September 21.

Back in June 2008, when I first started blogging about Christian music here at Beliefnet, I did a post about Katy Perry and how she’d once released a Christian album under the name Katy Hudson. It was one of those stories that I thought was interesting and hoped would spur some discussion about Christian music,…

Christian music made headlines of a sort this morning when Glenn Beck talked about Jim Wallis, founder and editor of Sojourners magazine and of the Washington, D.C.-based Christian community of the same name and the Wisconsin Christian music festival, Lifest. Seems that the local Wisconsin Christian radio station, Q90 FM, has pulled its sponsorship of…

I rarely listen to country music but I was in the car with darling husband today when Bucky Covington’s new song, “A Father’s Love” came on the radio.”Wait, I know this song,” I said. “But it doesn’t sound like this. Is this a remake or something?”Darling husband assured me that he’d only ever heard this…

The blogosphere is heating up today with one question: was Chris Brown’s emotional breakdown during last night’s BET Awards was real or staged to elicit sympathy from fans?Brown performed a medley of Michael Jackson songs during a tribute, and when he got to “Man In The Mirror” apparently started sobbing and wasn’t able to continue,…

form mt:asset-id=”15804″ class=”mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image” style=”display: inline;”> Sean Hannity’s Freedom Concerts are scheduled for this August, and Michael W. Smith is on the bill again, with Charlie Daniels and Lynyrd Skynyrd. That seems like an … interesting … line up, doesn’t it? All net proceeds from ticket sales (after musical talent, production, promotion and venue expenses)…

Still looking for that special summer vacation idea? Why not join Mark Schultz, Bone Hampton, Joy Williams, Mark DeVries and Bebo Norman on a week long Alaskan cruise? The week-long cruise leaves from Seattle, Washington, making stops in Juneau, Sitka and Ketchikan, Alaska as well as Victoria, Canada. The ship sails July 31 but there…

You can get a free Christian music download of the title track from 9th Hour’s sophomore album, Cover Me. This Smithville, MO-based Adult Contemporary Rock group has been performing throughout the Midwest since 2004 and has been recognized as a front runner in the Kansas City Christian music scene At the Kansas City Christian Music…

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