Despite the annoying hipster-love-turned-to-hipster-disdain that hovers around Vampire Weekend like flies on a summer-picnic potato salad, this is a multi-talented, highly literate and fascinating band that recently released one of the year’s most interesting records: Modern Vampires of the City. Don’t let the Pitchfork love turn you off. These lads… [more]
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Tim Lambesis and the limits of labels
A tragedy has occurred and people are reeling. Others are basking – even gloating – about another public Christian who has seemingly fallen from grace. Tim Lambesis, the affable, charismatic and thoughtful front-man for the metal band As I Lay Dying, has been arrested for allegedly attempting to pay a… [more]
Macklemore preaches 1 Corinthians 13:4 on Colbert Report
Sometimes the Bible shows up when you least expect it. On last night’s The Colbert Report, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis performed “Same Love,” a song off their 2012 album, The Heist, calling for equal rights for gay couples. It’s a deft piece of musicianship, with confessional lyrics and a nice… [more]
Brad Paisley, Paramore and finding faith at the top of the charts
Last week’s charts revealed a few surprises for seekers of truth in the music world. Brad Paisley was beaten out for the top spot by the new, self-titled Paramore record. On one hand you have a veteran pop punk band that broke cultural code as teenagers by singing about their… [more]
David Bowie’s unexpected Next Day
David Bowie - maybe more than any other artist of the last 40 years - has always had a knack for sensing the prevailing spirit in the air and riding it with musical precision. From his early acoustic days as a folk tinkerer to his gender-bending rock theater in the… [more]
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Vincent Bacote Chances are a lot of the people who are turned off by the term "Christian" or who have legitimately hurtful experiences in church are also people who hope that people are willing to give them multiple second chances for their flaws and errors as they head down the road of life. I wonder if the church ... will be given the same second chances as well.
Marcus Mumford: ‘I wouldn’t call myself a Christian’ Now what?
Micah J. Murray I've struggled with this myself because, like Mumford, I've felt that the word has so much baggage. I think I've come to the conclusion though that I can't really get away from the word, because it describes my faith.
Marcus Mumford: ‘I wouldn’t call myself a Christian’ Now what?
Brett Ramey The biblical points touched on deal with great characters in Bible history who suffered when enticed by their own lusts. This is still the downfall of many today, both great and small.
The generic genius of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah
tonypicc Michael (McDermott)'s music offers comfort, the hope of redemption, the example of endurance through suffering to live again.
TC Top Ten: Albums
steve fridsma Bruce Springsteen, "The Rising" - many grace-filled songs of healing and recovery.
Ten mainstream albums every Christian should hear
Moherring After hearing Oh, Sleeper's take, I have a hard time imagining something as epic as The Revelation presented with traditional CCM-type instrumentation and pop-band vocals. The story is too big.
Why metal isn’t just for Satan anymore