If you weren’t already aware, Mark Driscoll is the pastor of one of the fastest growing, most exciting, kick-ass churches in America (Mars Hill in Seattle, not to be confused with Rob Bell’s Mars Hill outside Grand Rapids, because you should never, ever confuse the two), he’ll tell...

I like Derek Webb a lot. He’s a truly creative guy, working in and around the fringes of Christian music, a genre that doesn’t exactly prize “the artist” often. I met him briefly when he was touring during his first round with Caedmon’s Call (a band Webb announced he will...

The first few weeks of the year are generally a bit dull in the music world. The emphasis sales-wise is obviously the holiday season, and labels are content to let their big 2008 releases coast for awhile into the new year running on momentum and iTunes gift cards. Last year, it wasn’t until...

With competitors like Hulu and MTVMusic.com stealing some of its thunder, it’s a little difficult to find the time to really appreciate YouTube like we should. Sure, it’s not like the golden days when copyright laws went out the window and anything you could possibly want to watch was on...

Top 10 lists are awesome, but they’re also cliche, so we thought we’d take a different angle this year, come up with a random array, and mash it all together. Hope you enjoy: — The Top Five Albums By Portland Artists In 2008 by Jordan Green Last year, Portland’s music scene...

Of course, since it’s the end of the year, everyone has to pipe in with their favorite albums of the year. While I was a bit critical of their list at the day job, you have to give Patrol Magazine some credit for trying to break down the ridiculous wall between the music of mainstream Christian...

It’s that time of the year when nearly every website, magazine, television show or semi-regular tent meeting comes up with a list to try to capture what just happened over the last twelve months. The music press seem to be the worst culprits with hundreds of media outlets expressing their opinion...

I lack any sort of healthy perspective regarding Daniel Amos, the legendary and nearly totally unknown Christian alternative act of the 80’s to the present. I feel like I should say that upfront. I wasn’t forced to listen to Christian music as a kid, but there were some dodgy times back...

I’m not sure why, but the spectre of death seems to be haunting me lately, with my father-in-law’s death a month ago, two relatively young parents of friends, and then a series of celebrity deaths (Bernie Mac, Tim Russert, Isaac Hayes, Jerry Wexler, Bill Coday, Jerry Reed). An hour or so...