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Over on Beliefnet’s The New Christians blog, which is a really interesting blog that talks about the emergent church and culture, blogger Tony Jones pointed his readers to a free download of an album from an “Anglimergent” church called Church of the Beloved. The album is called Hope For A Tree Cut Down. OK, I’m…

I normally don’t pay attention to those “check this video out” chain emails, but for whatever reason I opened one from a friend with a video of some girls singing the National Anthem. (See video above.)Wow, I was blown away by the amazing harmonies and vocals! So I did a little digging and found a…

Christian rock band Skillet was named R&R’s (Radio & Records) Top CHR Artist of the Year for 2008. Since R&R began publishing Christian Radio charts, Skillet has garnered more #1 songs from one recording – their album Comatose – than any other artist in the industry, with their 6 consecutive hits, “Rebirthing,” “The Last Night,”…

As we wind down 2008, I started to make a list of my favorite albums of the year. The only problem is that, try as I might, I just haven’t listened to every album. And there are genres that, even if I had all the time in the world, I’d never pop in the CD…

The Argus Leader in Sioux Falls, SD reports that the annual LifeLight festival, the free Christian music festival held at Wild Water West Waterpark on Labor Day weekend, may have to scale back the event next year due to waning donations. That may mean fewer headliners and shorter hours. My guess is that this isn’t…

Switchfoot frontman Jon Foreman and Nickle Creek guitarist Sean Watkins have gotten together for a side project called Fiction Family. The two met a few years ago at a show featuring Wilco, R.E.M., Nickel Creek and Switchfoot. Over time, they began writing songs together, which quickly turned into a full-length album consisting of 12 original…

Paul Colman, formerly of the Grammy nominated, Dove Award-winning group Paul Colman Trio and now guitarist for Newsboys, is getting ready to release his second solo album, History, in January. The album showcases the best of Colman’s career, including Paul Colman Trio radio hits “Turn,” “Run” and “Fill My Cup,” as well as remakes of…

Congrats to downhere drummer Jeremy Thiessen and his wife Erin on their new baby, born 12/4. Jeremy’s Twitter says: “His name is Liam Jeremiah, born Dec. 4th at 12:18pm. He weighed 7lb 8oz and was 20.5″ long. Mom and baby are healthy.” That’s two new babies for downhere this year. Glenn Lavender and his wife…

The nominations are in for the 2009 Grammys, and lots of your favorite Christian music artists are nominated. Well, in the Gospel category, anyway. That’s the weird thing about the Grammys. All Christian artists fall into the Gospel categories. For a lot of artists, that makes perfect sense. Traditional Gospel or Southern, Country or Bluegrass…

Who would have thought that an unknown singer who took home first place in the Southern Gospel category at the 2004 GMA Academy in Washington would end up topping the mainstream charts today after scoring a huge win on “American Idol”? I’m talking about Jordin Sparks, of course, and like every other hot act she…
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