Jonezetta

By Mark Fisher • Sep 12th, 2008 • Category: Album Reviews

A couple of years back, Jonezetta was one of the most talked about independent bands around. Their Tooth & Nail Records debut, Popularity, was critically acclaimed and has become a staple of indie rock fan’s music players since its release. Fans that fell in love with Jonezetta’s upbeat brand of new wave rock in the [...]


3-2-1 Penguins

By Mark Fisher • Aug 30th, 2008 • Category: Album Reviews

Hot on the heels of a new VeggieTales comes the release of the 3-2-1 Penguins’ Save the Planets!, a collection of three episodes that originally aired on television. The show has been building momentum since debuting on QUBO, the popular Saturday morning program that also features My Friend Rabbit, Dav Pilkey’s (of Captain Underpants fame) [...]


VeggieTales

By Mark Fisher • Aug 9th, 2008 • Category: Album Reviews

Tomato Sawyer and Huckleberry Larry join us for the latest installment of the groundbreaking VeggieTales series. Big River Rescue tells the story of the aforementioned as they attempt to get the wrongfully accused Little Jimmy (aka “Big Jim” and “Little Yimmy”) back to his mama in St. Louis. Of course, that would be too easy, [...]


Tammy Trent

By Mark Fisher • Jul 29th, 2008 • Category: Album Reviews

Tammy Trent has been around the Christian music world for a good, long time now. Since her debut on the now defunct R.E.X. label, she has always been there, in the background. Over the years she has, bit by bit, built an extremely loyal fanbase though and, considering the state of the music industry right [...]


Keith Green

By Mark Fisher • Jul 20th, 2008 • Category: Album Reviews

Keith Green is a central figure in the history of CCM music. Prior to the plane crash that sadly brought his time on Earth to an end at age 28 in 1982, he released four proper studio albums that would lay the foundation for Christian Music as we know it. To this day they rest [...]


Flame

By Mark Fisher • Jul 16th, 2008 • Category: Album Reviews

Since hitting the scene in 2004, Flame has had hit singles, been nominated for a Dove Award (for the song “Gotta Notice”), and hit the Billboard charts. That’s a surprising amount of success in a very short time for an artist on a relatively small label. Inspired by a neighborhood conversation in which he realized [...]


Worth Dying For

By Mark Fisher • Jul 13th, 2008 • Category: Album Reviews

From Calvary Temple of Modesto, CA comes Worth Dying For. The anti-band prefer to be called a youth movement and rightfully so if their debut album is an indication of what is to come. The rear cover art for the self-titled album clearly states the band’s mission, offering:
“Each generation has a certain sound and [...]


Keith Green

By Mark Fisher • Jul 11th, 2008 • Category: Album Reviews

While Keith Green’s recorded material sounds more and more dated as the years go by, his live material sounds as fresh today as it did when those of us who are old enough to have done so first witnessed him. I was a young child when I first saw Keith Green but the passion he [...]


The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir

By Mark Fisher • Jul 6th, 2008 • Category: Album Reviews

The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir is quite possibly the most recognizable choir on the planet. Their powerful and uplifting live performances have been wowing audiences since before I was born, no matter how in or out of fashion the style of music (or it’s message) was. The renowned choir has returned with a live offering entitled [...]


Only Won

By Mark Fisher • Jul 3rd, 2008 • Category: Album Reviews

California’s Chinglish Holy Hip Hopper, Only Won, is one of many faces. He has shared the stage with underground peers Deeper Than Most, The Holy Rida, and One Truth, among others. In addition to his hip-hop work he is also an actor and model who has appeared alongside Ang Lee, Ashley Judd, Jennifer Connelly, and [...]