Fully Alive
It’s easy to take life for granted. Not until some fatal event shocks our complacent day-to-day routines, reviving our awareness of life’s beginning and end, do we take advantage of the precious opportunities life offers. For Lacey Mosley, lead singer and principal lyricist for Flyleaf, this distinction between life and death is [...]
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Flyleaf
Posted in CCM Magazine on October 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Avalon
Posted in CCM Magazine, tagged andrew greer, Avalon, Christian Music, Christian Music Planet on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Born Again
Avalon has been through the wringer over the past couple of years. After watching album sales and concert crowds shrink, releasing a handful of specialty records to mixed reviews and suffering the resignation of longtime member Jody McBrayer, the vocal outfit’s future looked a bit grim.
But taking into account millions of records sold, [...]
Pillar
Posted in CCM Magazine, tagged andrew greer, CCM Magazine, Christian Music, Pillar on September 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Road Confessional
Tearing up Christian music with enterprising rock records and an explosive stage show, Pillar has entranced fans for years with full-force, red-blooded rock. But the aggressive collective has more than rabid guitars and zealous screams up their sleeves. Intensifying its Grammy-nominated discography with super melodic hooks and symphonic backdrops, the rock-hard quartet probed the [...]
David Crowder*Band “Church Music”
Posted in CCM Magazine, tagged andrew greer, CCM Magazine, Christian Music, David Crowder Band on September 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Expanding The Church’s Musical Horizon
The title of David Crowder*Band’s fifth studio recording is not some tongue-in-cheek assertion by one of Christian music’s least traditional artists about the Church’s oft-traditional musical output. Rather, it’s an honoring of the body of Christ’s infinite musical possibilities by an incredibly diverse musical collective. Considered a “worship band” because [...]
Derek Webb
Posted in CCM Magazine, tagged andrew greer, CCM Magazine, Christian Music, Derek Webb on September 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Part One: To Kill A Mockingbird
Derek Webb is arguably the most controversial and complex artist influencing Christian music today. And due to a recent single song squabble, the opinionated singer/songwriter will be releasing his fifth studio recording both independently (of sorts) and through his longtime label, INO. In part one of a two-part CCM exclusive, [...]
Derek Webb
Posted in CCM Magazine, tagged andrew greer, CCM Magazine, Christian Music, Derek Webb on September 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Part Two: Experiments In Truth-Telling
Sending fans on a national scavenger hunt to find, and then assemble online, hundreds of strategically hidden USB drives containing small clips of his new record’s forbidden track, “What Matters More,” Derek Webb drummed up a ton of unsolicited hype, making Stockholm Syndrome his most anticipated release to date.
In part two [...]
KJ-52 “Five-Two Television”
Posted in CCM Magazine, tagged andrew greer, CCM Magazine, Christian Music, KJ-52 on September 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hip-Hop Favorite Probes Culture Media Craze
In today’s trying economy, KJ-52 is offering his own stimulus package, to the tune of 20 tracks and more than an hour of jams on Five-Two Television. Packed with blazing beats, hooky rhymes and contagious choruses, he compiles his first concept record with a compelling comment on culture’s media [...]
Bethany Dillon “Stop & Listen”
Posted in CCM Magazine, tagged andrew greer, Bethany Dillon, CCM Magazine, Christian Music on September 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Confessional Singer/Songwriter Comes of Age
In a conscious effort to explore the divine call to “be still and know,” Bethany Dillon keeps it stripped down for her fourth record—and first full-fledged release in more than two years. Tackling the age-old battle of humanity versus the divine, the young songstress both honors God’s sacrificial love and [...]
Jaymes Reunion “Jaymes Reunion” EP
Posted in CCM Magazine, tagged andrew greer, CCM Magazine, Christian Music, Jaymes Reunion on September 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Re-Used Songs, Fresh Sounds
Reusing grocery bags may help save mother earth in the long term, but reusing tracks from one record to the next could doom a freshman band like Jaymes Reunion. Doubling last year’s three-song The Fine EP with a new 2009 six-song, self-titled set, the new BEC pop/rock/soul quintet simply reissues their [...]
Skillet
Posted in CCM Magazine, tagged andrew greer, CCM Magazine, Christian Music, Skillet on September 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Part One: The Wheels On The Bus Go Round And Round
From 15-passenger vans to busses with beds and bathrooms, Skillet has been burning up the road over the last 13 years as one of the busiest touring bands in Christian music. But the miles have paid off, evidenced by the hundreds of thousands of teens [...]
