Christianity Today is running a short, entertaining essay on the history of Christian rock and roll, and it’s well worth reading. The author, Joel Heng Hartse, argues that Christian rock often wasn’t ...
Noah Graves went viral as a Christian rock singer—but it's an AI-generated persona, sparking debate over authenticity.
The birth of contemporary Christian rock and pop music in America can in part be traced to a vision received by a 17-year-old runaway from Costa Mesa named Lonnie Frisbee. After stripping naked and ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No one takes Christian rock music seriously, not even most Christians. It’s not a lack of ability among the musicians performing ...
The upstart station Iron-FM sets out to reach male listeners with classic songs, a gospel message, and lots of distortion. After 30 years working at rock radio stations, Matt Talluto lost his job ...
Randall Stephens’s history pays attention to political and cultural flash points—without losing focus on the music itself. What Sanneh’s piece got right, thankfully, was its attention to just how ...
When rock first became popular, one of the most common ways to denounce it was to call it “the devil’s music.” Many parents and conservatives feared that the swiveling hips and sex appeal of artists ...
In 1957, less than a year after the end of the Montgomery bus boycott, the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., took a part-time job as an advice columnist. His employer was Ebony, and his ambit was ...
NEW YORK — He was dubbed the “Father of Christian Rock,” but his influence and even his fan base was often more among secular musicians and music-lovers than his own tribe. But, for Larry Norman, ...
The multi-platinum rock band Skillet has earned a new milestone in their extensive career as one of the 2000s’ biggest names. Released in 2009, their signature track “Monster” has become the first to ...