Time to get retrospective with 2012. With our recent year-end staff picks, House of Heroes‘ latest album Cold Hard Want averaged in at third place amongst the entirety of the staff’s individual votes. A couple listens to this alt rock record should reveal just why it connected with so many listeners. The HOH boys […]
Year: 2012
“YOUR 2012 Year-End Top Album Picks” by John DiBiase
Hey guys! Each year, the JFH staff like to choose their favorite albums of the year and post them for all to read, and we know everyone’s thoughts and opinions differ, so we – once again – want to give you, the reader, the opportunity to share YOUR top 10 albums in the […]
“Favorite Christmas Memories Involving Christian Music” by John DiBiase
I’m going to go out on a limb here with a blog post that’s a little random and probably out of left field. I love Christmas — there’s the timely, relevant part. My mind is wired to start feeling like a kid again around the holidays. Christmas music triggers all […]
“The Power of One” by Jeremy Vanderloop
When I was eighteen I spent some time in Mozambique, Africa living with three hundred orphans. While sitting with some of the poorest people on the planet, I learned about the portion of God’s heart that is about individuality. Christ’s heart is to stop for the one, the proof is […]
“When A Music Video Makes You A Fan” by John DiBiase
There are many different ways fans of an artist can discover the artists they become fans of. When I was a teen, music video shows — like Signal Exchange and CCMtv — were big parts of my after school television viewing and I would be subject to music videos of […]
Ten of Michael Weaver’s Top Favorite Songs of All Time
After reading John’s list of Top 10 songs, I was inspired. I was inspired by his openness and felt like I had gained a new and better understanding of him. This caused me to look back over the songs that have really spoken to me. I couldn’t do an injustice to what John had […]
“Progress Report on Falling Up’s ‘Machine De Ella’ (Review)” by Nathaniel Schexnayder
Last year, Falling Up released possibly their best album to date, Your Sparkling Death Cometh. Earlier this year, the band threw a bone to fans in the form of the hit and miss remix project Mnemos. Now, Falling Up is using their independence to release their newsiest endeavor in a unique way. Their Machine De Ella […]
We Recommend: Glassbyrd, “Open Wide This Window”
“God Of Wonders” is sung every Sunday morning somewhere in the Western world (and beyond). But not many folks singing it would know the great artistic histories of its two songwriters, Steve Hindalong of longtime Christian Music vets The Choir and Marc Byrd, formerly of Common Children and half of […]
10 Years Later: Underoath, “The Changing of Times”
I think it to be highly appropriate to write a blog like this about a band who has recently announced their break up, simultaneously breaking the hearts of many music fans (though with all the understanding in the world from said fans). Ten years ago, one of the best things […]
We Recommend: Big Tent Revival, “Open All Nite”
My dad is about as blue collar a guy as you’re likely to meet. As a fisherman in Maine, he has owned almost twenty different pickup trucks in my life time (and surely many more before I was born) and a wardrobe made up of ten pairs of jeans and […]