Gospel Soundcheck

Seminars4Worship has announced its fall conference schedule. The 2008 Seminars4Worship conferences will be held in Grand Rapids, Mich. (Oct. 8-10); Indianapolis, Ind. (Oct. 15-17); Charlotte, N.C. (Oct. 22-24); Tampa, Fla. (Nov. 6-8); and Houston, Tex (Nov. 19-21)

I’m tired of listening to CDs today. I’ve been finding good stuff but it’s getting old listening to the same phrases over and over and over. I want some meat in my songs, I want emotion, I want a story … good grief, do I want country music?! Understand that if I had a choice,…

When you’re an indie band playing a major music festival, you have to do something to stand out in the crowd of well-known Christian artists. The Dig Project came up with a unique way to capture the crowd’s attention when they played at Sonshine Festival in Willmar, MN in July: they gave away a guitar.…

INO Records’ artist Laura Story will appear on Crystal Cathedral’s “Hour of Power” this Saturday and Sunday, July 26 & 27. She’ll performing “Indescribable” and “Perfect Peace,” both from her debut album Great God Who Saves. While this is Story’s debut album she’s no stranger to the music industry. She’s the songwriter, for example, who…

If the Beatles and Delirious formed a band, it might sound like Above The Golden State, the pop rock group that this week released their self-titled debut album on Sparrow Records. The Portland, Oregon natives call their style of music “West Coast Rock Pop.” “We’re doing our best not to call it surf-rock,” says lead…

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…

Oh, goodie! One of my favorite artists just announced a new album, set for release in October! Jon McLaughlin’s piano-driven pop rock debut Indiana is one of my favorite albums, and he’s back this fall with OK Now.

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