Carlos Whittaker’s release, Ragamuffin Soul, ought to be fascinating. This is a tattooed worship leader that was once featured on the TLC reality show, L.A. Ink, for goodness sake! The same can’t be said about Chris Tomlin or Michael W. Smith. (Well, I haven’t seen either man with their shirts off, nor would I ever [...]

Do you think it possible that many make the trek to Nashville, hoping to compose a contemporary Handel’s “Messiah”? Can you imagine how it would feel to create something so big, so all-encompassing? God is bigger than our imaginations can even fathom Him to be, so it follows that the music we make to worship [...]

On “Light This World”, Unhindered sings – and set to a punk rock beat, no less – “We’re gonna light the world/With the love of God/We’re gonna shout it, be loud about it.” Indeed, this recording is a mostly loud announcement of praise, even though there are also a few quieter moments. You can’t truly [...]

     Usually, the phrase ‘preaching to the choir’ is a pejorative term. Yet, in the case of The Choir and its latest release called Burning Like The Midnight Sun, this veteran alternative rock band is, indeed, preaching to the choir — in a manner of speaking. This is simply because there are many self-referential moments [...]

     With the way Deluge rocks out so naturally on this CD’s title track, yet reaches for — and hits the mark perfectly — with intimate, quiet worship, as on “Jesus Lamb of God”, suggests this band may well be the heir apparent to replace Delirious?. After all, many may be wondering who will fill [...]

Duet albums, such as this one, are oftentimes ‘buyer beware’ moments for wary consumers. Many times, they’re created merely as shots in the arm to aging artists with declining CD sales. However, this release, which combines The Blind Boys Of Alabama with a wide stylistic variety of singers, is mainly comprised of previously released songs. [...]

Tim Hughes’ Happy Day concert CD/DVD is like a Christian pep rally, as many of its songs are like battle cries for the faithful. I never fully understood the benefit of high school pep rallies. Were they meant to get our voices warmed up so we could cheer better and louder for the home team? [...]

Rating a Wow Hits collection is equivalent to giving a state of radio play list address, as most all of these songs are familiar to anyone who listens to Christian radio currently. And after listening to these 30 songs back to back, it’s hard not to be satisfied with what’s going on in radioland.
For instance, [...]

Can you imagine Robert Smith in Christian music? Okay, all the makeup and puffy hair may need to go. But wouldn’t it be cool to have someone that sounds manic depressive, yet still loves God? Well, that may never happen; instead, this is one of those dreams where when you wake up you yawn and [...]

Roots music always sounds a little funny when it comes from bands outside the U.S. This must be how celebrities feel whenever an impressionist imitates them to their face. ‘Is that really how I sound?’ ‘Do I always do that when I talk?’ With their self-titled CD, Londoners Kitty, Daisy, and Lewis – three teenage [...]