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Wednesday July 28, 2010

Categories: Breaking news, Christian music awards, Christian music events, Christian music industry, Dove Awards, Gospel Music Week

Dove Awards move to Atlanta, and where does that leave the Christian music industry?

 

Hold onto your hats, Christian music fans. The 42nd Annual Dove Awards will be broadcast next April from ... Atlanta, GA.

For viewers at home, the news isn't any big deal. If you're sitting on your couch, who cares where the stage is.

For those of us in the industry, it puts yet another question mark on an industry that has seen some changes the last year or so.

Remember last fall, when the rumor circulated about the GMA closing its doors? And the "Save the GMA" fundraiser that was supposed to pull the organization out of its financial hole?

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Filed Under: Christian music, Dove Awards, entertainment, GMA, Gospel Music Channel, tv
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Monday July 19, 2010

Categories: Christian music in mainstream, mainstream music news

Video: Anberlin's new single, "Impossible"

 

Anberlin - Impossible from Publicity on Vimeo.

The first single from Anberlin's upcoming release Dark Is The Way, Light Is A Place, premiered on MTV last week. It was #1 most added at Modern Rock radio last week at KROQ in Los Angeles.

Dark Is The Way, Light Is A Place releases September 21.

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Friday July 16, 2010

Categories: Christian music in mainstream

Christian music and Katy Perry - why do fans care so much?

 

katyhudson.jpgBack in June 2008, when I first started blogging about Christian music here at Beliefnet, I did a post about Katy Perry and how she'd once released a Christian album under the name Katy Hudson.

It was one of those stories that I thought was interesting and hoped would spur some discussion about Christian music, since the blog was new and we were trying to develop a readership.

Oh, it spurred discussion, all right. Readers speculated about her life, her upbringing, her sexuality, and the comments were all over the board.

I did a few follow up posts and eventually was able to sit in on a phone conference with Katy Perry, where her answers to the writers who were able to ask questions shed some light on my readers' comments and speculation.

And with that, I hoped that we had put the Katy Perry story to rest.

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Filed Under: Danny Gokey, Heidi Montag, Katy Perry, Kris Allen, Kristen Chenowith, Natasha Bedingfield
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Wednesday July 7, 2010

Categories: Christian music festivals, Christian radio, Current events

Jim Wallis, Glenn Beck and Lifest Christian music festival

 

jimwallis.jpgChristian music made headlines of a sort this morning when Glenn Beck talked about Jim Wallis, founder and editor of Sojourners magazine and of the Washington, D.C.-based Christian community of the same name and the Wisconsin Christian music festival, Lifest.

Seems that the local Wisconsin Christian radio station, Q90 FM, has pulled its sponsorship of the Lifest Christian music festival over the fact that Jim Wallis is on the speaker's line up, citing disagreements with him over a humanistic message of social justice.

The station has a statement on its website that say, in part:

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Filed Under: Christian music, Christian radio, current events, entertainment, festivals, Glenn Beck, Jim Wallis, Lifest, politics, Soujorners, tv
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Sunday July 4, 2010

Categories: Christian music in mainstream, Christian music videos, mainstream music news

Bucky Covington's A Father's Love and Christian country act High Valley

 

I rarely listen to country music but I was in the car with darling husband today when Bucky Covington's new song, "A Father's Love" came on the radio.

"Wait, I know this song," I said. "But it doesn't sound like this. Is this a remake or something?"

Darling husband assured me that he'd only ever heard this version, but I knew this wasn't the song I'd heard.

And then it hit me: I heard Christian country act High Valley sing the song at GMA in 2009. And I loved it.

I also loved this trio of brothers, but admit that I'm behind on news about them.

They've been featured on CMT's 4 Tracks, played at the Vancouver Winter Olympics, and were featured in Billboard Magazine.

So just for kicks, I thought I'd share the video of them again.

Covington's taken the song to #25 on the country charts so far. Here's his version:

You can learn more about High Valley on their website.

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Filed Under: A Father's Love, Bucky Covington, Centricity, Christian music, country, entertainment, High Valley, The Only Way He Knew How, video
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Monday June 28, 2010

Categories: mainstream music news

Chris Brown on the 2010 BET Awards - were the tears real?

 
The blogosphere is heating up today with one question: was Chris Brown's emotional breakdown during last night's BET Awards was real or staged to elicit sympathy from fans? Brown performed a medley of Michael Jackson songs during a tribute,...
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Saturday June 26, 2010

Categories: Christian music in mainstream, mainstream music news

Michael W. Smith, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Charlie Daniels at Sean Hannity Freedom Concert

 
form mt:asset-id="15804" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;">Sean Hannity's Freedom Concerts are scheduled for this August, and Michael W. Smith is on the bill again, with Charlie Daniels and Lynyrd Skynyrd. That seems like an ... interesting ... line up, doesn't it?...
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Filed Under: Charlie Daniels, Christian music, concerts, entertainment, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Michael W Smith, Sean Hannity
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Wednesday June 23, 2010

Categories: Christian music events

Join Mark Schultz on an Alaskan cruise

 
Still looking for that special summer vacation idea? Why not join Mark Schultz, Bone Hampton, Joy Williams, Mark DeVries and Bebo Norman on a week long Alaskan cruise? The week-long cruise leaves from Seattle, Washington, making stops in Juneau, Sitka...
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Filed Under: Alaskan cruise, Christian music, entertainment, events, Mark Schultz, vacations
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Tuesday June 22, 2010

Categories: Christian indie music, Christian music new releases

Free Christian music download from 9th Hour

 
You can get a free Christian music download of the title track from 9th Hour's sophomore album, Cover Me. This Smithville, MO-based Adult Contemporary Rock group has been performing throughout the Midwest since 2004 and has been recognized as a...
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Filed Under: 9th Hour, Christian music, entertainment, free music download, indie music, IndieHeaven, worship
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Tuesday June 22, 2010

Categories: Christian music new releases, Free christian music downloads

Free Christian music download from Joel Auge

 
You can get a free Christian music download this week from worship artist Joel Auge. The song is "Be Lifted" from his sophomore project, Invisible Things, which releases July 6. The album is produced by Joel Auge and fellow Canadian...
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Award-winning freelance writer and columnist Joanne Brokaw covers entertainment for The Christian Examiner newspapers, The Minnesota Christian Chronicle, and The Ozarks Christian News. Her other writing credits include Breakaway and Brio Magazines, OnCourse Magazine, ChristianMusicPlanet.com, BuddyHollywood.com and AGreaterFreedom.com. Her humor column, A Big Slice of Life, appears monthly in the Christian Voice Magazine and she pens a regular humor column on The Writing Life for ByLine Magazine. Joanne lives in Western New York with her darling husband David, their Border collie Scout and their cat Murphy. Their almost adult daughter Cassie drops by often. Find out more about Joanne at JoanneBrokaw.com.

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