Popular Southern Gospel quartet Canton Junction has been awarded the 2014 Singing News Fan Award for Favorite Southern Gospel New Traditional Quartet at ceremonies held last week in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, during the National Quartet Convention.
It's hard to be write a captious review on a Christmas album. With evergreen carols like "What Child is This," "Silent Night" and "White Christmas" they have such timeless melodies that even a child could hum them if he or she has been in the shopping mall long enough over the festive season. What right then do we have to say anything pernicious about these Yuletide staples?
Two twin brothers Ruben and Efraim Meulenberg have taken to task to make the Bible fun again by turning the stories of Scripture into a video game. The Meulenberg brothers, also known as the Tornado Twins, are both media artists and programmers. Together they have launched a Kickstarter campaign to create The Game Bible Series. Ultimately the series will allow gamers to play their way through the entire Bible.
hristian rock band Disciple has just released their first new album in nearly two years, "Attack" last week through The Fuel Music. The album march all the way to No. 2 on the SoundScan Christian chart, just behind LeCrae, and to No. 44 on the Billboard Top 200. Partly driving the success of Attack is the lead single, "Radical," which jumped from No. 20 last week to No. 3 this week on the Christian Rock chart. "Radical" is also the first video from the new album, which can be seen on Disciple's YouTube page at https://www.youtube.com/user/disciplerocks.
Singer/songwriter/author Andrew Peterson will be releasing his brand new album "After All These Years" on November 11. The new album will feature Peterson offering new renditions to 15 of his formerly released songs and three new compositions: "After All These Years," "To All The Poets," and "Everybody's Got A Song." The physical copy of the album will feature eighteen songs, while the digital version will offer two bonus tracks.
After a three-year wait, Toronto-based MANIC DRIVE will release their brand new studio project, VIP. Over the past decade, this award-winning trio has built a loyal international following, fostered by their infectious brand of power-pop and a genuine commitment to a relationship with their audience. Now, on October 14, a new season begins with the debut of their fifth studio album, VIP. We are honored to be able to catch up with them for this exclusive Hallels' interview.
Jonah Kirsten Sorrentino, better known by his stage name KJ-52, is a Christian rapper from Tampa, Florida. The "KJ" part of his name refers to his old rap alias, "King J. Mac," a name which he later described in one of his podcasts as "horribly cheesy." "52", which is pronounced "five two", not "fifty-two", is a reference to the Biblical story of Jesus feeding the multitude with five loaves and two fish, which is also sung about in his song "Push Up" from The Yearbook and in the "KJ Five Two" on It's Pronounced 'Five Two.'
Former American Idol champ and country music supersat Carrie Underwood speaks candidly about her faih in Jesus Christ as she releases her new faith-filled single, "Something In The Water."
If you ask Nicolas Cage why he took the lead role of "Rayford Steele" in the upcoming biblical thriller "Left Behind," he'll likely cite his admiration for the script and the opportunity to work again with director Vic Armstrong. But the Hollywood star has also revealed a more personal motivation.
Though Ricky Skaggs and Sharon White have successful careers on their own and they are married together, they have never released a duets album until now. The first time they ever scored a hit together was in 1987 when their single "Love Can't Ever Get Better Than This" became a top 10 hit.
There are some sounds that never have an expiration date. And there are some sounds that are tailored made for certain times of the year that they seemed inseparable like a horse and a carriage.
After country crooner Glen Campbell retired from the music scene because of his Alzheimer's disease, a documentary movie GLEN CAMPBELL...I'LL BE ME will be released soon.
Contemporary Christian artist Jeremy Camp has released a brand new single "He Knows" digitally. The new track is from his forthcoming new studio project slated to release in early 2015. This new single comes from the last year after Camp released his autobiography I Still Believe, which spurred more fans to approach him asking how he dealt with losing a spouse. It was those questions that led Camp to pen "He Knows."
Producer and songwriter Bernie Helms is celebrating the fact that he's one of the producers on Barbra Streisand's brand new #1 album "Partners." On Streisand's latest album of duets, Helms produced "I Can Still See Your Face"which finds Streisand duetting with Andrea Boccelli.
His long flowing silver mane, his signature goatee, his huge glittering buckle belt, his glistering black cowboy boots, and his deep Southern raised accent certainly makes one think that Guy Penrod is plucked right out of a scene in one of those cowboy western movies. Indeed, over the years, Penrod has used his Southern pedigree to the advantage of God's kingdom.