My nephew, Nick Potter, just graduated high school and is an up-and-coming Christian rap artist who has entered a contest in his hometown of Detroit.  If he gets enough votes, he’ll get an opportunity to perform one of his songs on stage at a big Christian rap concert there featuring Grammy nominated Christian rap group, [...]

In the 1980′s, Lou Gramm, the front man for the group Foreigner, cried out, “I want to know what love is!  I want you to show me!”   In 1998, the song was rerecorded by Australian singer, Tina Arena, and then in 2009, it was covered again by Mariah Carey.  Evidently, people still want to [...]

I was shocked and saddened when I learned this week that Christian rock pioneer Dana Key had died unexpectedly from a ruptured blood clot last Sunday night at the age of 56.  Key was the co-founder of the Christian rock band DeGarmo and Key back in the 1970′s and was serving as senior pastor of [...]

Jennifer Knapp is a songwriter and Christian musician whose lyrics have always been honest and at times profound.  Her music is good; a folk/rock mix with a sometimes gritty and raw edge.  Two of her three albums were Grammy nominated, and in total, the three albums have sold nearly one million copies.  She put out [...]

I was working out yesterday, and a rather profound song came up on my iPod.  It’s a song by the now-defunct British band,The World Wide Message Tribe, from the mid 90′s. In light of all the death and destruction in the news recently, it kind of struck a cord with me. I’m not sure what [...]

In honor of the Stryper concert in Albuquerque tonight, I’m re-posting this from August 25th. Twenty-five years ago, I was a 14 year-old, pimply-faced kid struggling through the pubescent journey.  I loved food (couldn’t eat enough), loved girls (I hadn’t really noticed them until that year), loved music (had a monster stereo system in my [...]

I’m on vacation this week, and in addition to sleeping in, playing golf, and painting a room, I’ve been getting caught up on music downloading and listening. This is something that often gets pushed aside when I’m busy, but I finally made some time this week to do it. Here’s what I’ve been downloading and [...]