David Bazan, Curse Your Branches David Bazan, Curse Your Branches (Barsuk, 2009) Even counting Sufjan Stevens, there is no artist currently making music whose faith (or the potential lackthereof) is given as much attention as the faith of David Bazan. Once one of the poster children for hip Christians...

Recalling the early days of his frustrations with Christian rock, David Bazan said, “It’s embarrassing to be associated with stupidity and hypocrisy, on that cultural level.” Yet years after Pedro the Lion signed with Tooth and Nail Records, Bazan is once again finding himself in the...

“You must be Michael.” He notices me standing just beyond the crowd of people asking for autographs and just for the chance to shake his hand and say good show. David Bazan grabs the one guitar that he came with and checks his pockets for his keys in his corduroy jacket as we walk from...

On a misty northwest Saturday night, I stood in line outside the Crocodile Cafe in downtown Seattle with a hundred other hipsters waiting to be let in. We waited for the warmth provided by drinking beer, nestled shoulder to shoulder with other twenty-somethings, listening to timeless rock and roll by...