Music: Gettys return to their roots – with a dash of country
MARCUS CHEONG listens to Keith and Kristyn Getty’s latest album…
Essay: Will the Black church continue to sing ‘I Believe I Can Fly’?
In an article first published on Religion News Service, professor, assistant pastor and author CHERYL TOWNSEND GILKES writes that from its beginnings, Gospel music has had a strained relationship with commercial interests and secular artists…
As Afghanistan adjusts to Taliban rule, music goes silent
Reuters Even before the last US flight left Kabul at midnight on Monday, many of the bright and garish sights and sounds of city life in Afghanistan were changing as those left behind tried to fit in with the austere tone of their new Taliban rulers. The Taliban have so far been at pains to […]
Soundbite – The TCM Update: GMA Dove Awards nominations are out…
Listen to this week’s TCM Update…
Music: Songs of overcoming
DAVID ADAMS listens to an album of original songs by a diverse group of Queensland song-writers with a story to tell…
Music: Justin Bieber’s ‘Justice’ – smooth vocals with a higher goal.
MARCUS CHEONG listens to Justin Bieber’s album, ‘Justice’…
Soundbite – The TCM Update: Merise; ‘Ordinary Lives’; and, Levi McGrath
Merise’s new single. Listen to this week’s TCM Update…
Music: Midnight Oil’s new “mini-album” a challenging and prophetic cultural critique
In a review to mark NAIDOC Week, NILS VON KALM says ‘The Makarrata Project’ is like a “long-awaited sequel” to Australian band Midnight Oil’s landmark 1987 album, ‘Diesel and Dust’…
Little Richard: Six examples of how religion played a role in his life
RNS Little Richard – the musician known for singing, shouting and flamboyant showmanship – was more than a little religious at times during his life. The man born Richard Wayne Penniman in 1932 in Macon, Georgia, to a church deacon and a Baptist mother died on Saturday, 9th May, at the age of 87. He […]
MUSIC: JEREMY CAMP SINGS THE NEXT CHAPTER IN HIS STORY
MARCUS CHEONG listens to Jeremy Camp’s 11th album…