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 […]
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We Recommend: Bebo Norman, “Myself When I Am Real”
Ten years ago, then-Essential Records folk pop artist Bebo Norman released one of his best projects, Myself When I Am Real. When Bebo first debuted, his music was considerably more stripped-down and folk-based than people have probably come to know him for in recent years. By 2002, Myself When I Am Real was probably the […]
10 Years Later: Newsboys, “Thrive”
In many ways, Thrive marked the end of a chapter of the Newsboys story. It was the last album of all-original material that the classic Take Me To Your Leader lineup would make together (sans John James, of course). After Thrive, the lads from Australia (well, mostly) would go on to make a few worship albums (with some […]
Ten of John DiBiase’s Top Favorite Songs of All Time
About a year or so–maybe even longer now–the JFH staff talked about compiling our top, favorite songs in Christian music of all-time. They’d be songs each staff member had chosen on a personal level, and we’d comment on why we chose those songs. Recently, and I forget exactly what brought […]
10 Years Later: Pillar, “Fireproof”
I became a Christian in the year 2000. Before that, I didn’t know that Christians had their own music. My favorite band at the time was (don’t judge me) Limp Bizkit. Yes, rapcore was cool once (honestly, I’d be down for some right now). As I became introduced to this […]
We Recommend: Zilch, “Platinum”
Zilch started off as dcTalk’s touring band and featured now widely-known producer Mark Lee Townsend (Relient K, Supertones, and The Wedding) on guitar and lead vocals. When the guys decided to record their own material, Toby McKeehan was there to help, and released the album on his then three-year-old label, Gotee. The band’s […]
10 Years Later: Norma Jean, “Bless the Martyr, Kiss the Child”
Today’s hardcore fanatics, whether Christian or not, are most likely familiar with (and in love with) both Norma Jean and The Chariot. Of course, those who have followed the bands since their respective roots know that, before forming The Chariot, vocalist Josh Scogin was the frontman of Norma Jean. And it was […]
“Christian Music Dream Teams” by John DiBiase
Left to right: Kevin Max, Dave Ghazarian, Jared Byers, Will McGinniss, Jason Walker Well, the cat’s out of the bag! We had been keeping the lid on the recent leaked Audio Adrenaline news at the request of the band, but apparently not everyone around the web got that memo. So with the news […]
“To infirmary… And BEYOND!” by John DiBiase
With every week — and sometimes every day — offering new experiences in the parental role, one unexpected encounter came when I went in to have my blood taken earlier this week on Monday. The unimportant detail to this story is it was a routine check-up on the levels of […]
10 Years Later: Project 86, “Truthless Heroes”
With the release of Wait For the Siren on the horizon, let’s take a look in the rearview at one of Project 86’s best records to date, Truthless Heroes. The band’s third album found them in a dark place lyrically and offered no sort of hope or encouragement to their listeners. What it did offer, […]