Gospel Soundcheck

IndieHeaven, the leading independent Christian musician/artist resource agency, recently announced the winners of the 2009 Momentum Awards during the 6th Annual CIA Summit. The annual conference is geared towards encouraging Christian independent artists to create momentum and pursue passion and excellence in their music mission while educating them on what it takes to be successful…

Sixstepsrecords worship leader Kristian Stanfill’s debut project, Attention, is currently featured as part of iTunes’ “Next Big Thing Promotion,” which kicks off this week. Attention was hand-picked by iTunes for the campaign, which highlights a select group of key new artists across genres. Now through June 1, the album will be available at a special…

iShine’s teen pop duo Jonnie & Brookie were recently announced as Radio Disney’s “Next Big Thing” (N.B.T.). The listener poll, which tabulated nearly 9 million online and text-message votes, spotlights young recording artists and allows them to get their music heard on a national level. Jonnie Allen, 16, who along with her sister, Brookie Allen,…

Boy Moves To A New Town With Optimistic Outlook by FM StaticPop punk band FM Static, side project for Thousand Foot Krutch’s Static singer-songwriter Trevor McNevan and drummer Steve Augustine, has teamed up with Youth Specialties to create a free devotional guide for youth pastors based on the band’s latest concept album, Dear Diary. The…

In case you were living under a rock last night, Danny Gokey was sent home during the results show on American Idol. I’ve been predicting that Kris would be in the final two; I figured it would be Adam joining him, until Simon asked voters to vote for Adam on Tuesday night. Often, those judge’s…

Last night the remaining Idols – Kris Allen, Danny Gokey and Adam Lambert – sang their little hearts out, with both a personal song choice and a judge’s song choice. You can read my live blog during last night’s show as well as my predictions about who’s going home tonight on American Idol. We’ll find…

I was having coffee with my friend Chris yesterday and he asked me what I thought about the news that Donald Trump had allowed Miss California Carrie Prejean (pictured here with Larnelle Harris at the 40th Annual Dove Awards) to keep her crown. To be honest, I hadn’t heard that she was going to lose…

Last night the remaining Idols – Kris Allen, Danny Gokey and Adam Lambert – sang their little hearts out, with both a personal song choice and a judge’s song choice. All three knocked their personal choices out of the park, but were a little iffy on the judges’ choices, proving that they know their talents…

I can hardly wait for tonight’s episode of American Idol, when the final three – Adam Lambert, Danny Gokey and Kris Allen – perform live. They’ll perform two songs – a judge’s choice and then a song of their choice; which judges pick the songs? There are four judges and three contestants, so who gets…

Recording artist Jon Foreman joins the Fast For Life today, following in the footsteps of activist-actress Mia Farrow and Virgin Group Founder and Chairman Sir Richard Branson. A longtime activist and front man for multi-platinum selling rock band Switchfoot, Foreman will undertake a water-only fast in order to raise awareness of the humanitarian crisis currently…

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