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Derek over at Industrial Addiction just gave me a heads up about this band he stumbled across. The group is called “RED” and you can find out more from their website here or their street team, Red Nation MySpace page. From listening to the song he had originally heard “Already Over” and a couple of more from their website, the lyrics seem to clearly have a message of hope and salvation. March 29, 2006 Red (Sony/BMG) will release its first nationally distributed project End of Silence on June 6. Red brings a unique blend of roiling guitars, epic string arrangements, strong melodies, and passionate vocals.Read More →

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Steven Curtis Chapman can probably be called the father of contemporary Christian music, although you’d probably have to put him and Michael W Smith right up there together. Chapman shares this in an article about his experiences in the early days of Christian music. “When Sparrow, the label I was on, was purchased by EMI in the early 1990s, the folks at EMI were able to say, “We don’t even pretend to understand fully how this music works, but people are connecting with it and we respect you,’ ” Chapman said. “But they gave us the resources to make the music sound better.” Though ChapmanRead More →

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I just stumbled across this article that talks about a university study that was researching the proliferation of drugs and alcohol as mentioned in songs across genres. Less interesting to me than the facts of the study, that basically drugs are mentioned a lot in popular music these days, was the comment made by the writer of this particular post. The study, lead by Dr. Brian Primack, showed that some genres of music contained more drug and partying references than others. Rap music, for example, is almost a complete wasteoid, being high or drunk 77% of the time, while Country is only mildly out ofRead More →