Leeland

By Matt Conner • Jun 29th, 2009 • Category: Features

The band’s namesake unpacks his thoughts about the band’s motivations and upcoming album.

Andrew Osenga

By Matt Conner • Jun 25th, 2009 • Category: Features

Jack of all trades talks Brite Revolution, Caedmon’s, and about growing as an artist.

Dan Macaulay

By Matt Conner • Jun 22nd, 2009 • Category: Features

Up and coming worship leader shares about working with Nathan Nockels and lessons learned.

Glenn Packiam

By Matt Conner • Jun 22nd, 2009 • Category: Album Reviews

Glenn Packiam might already be a familiar name to some of you, as a member of the Desperation Band at New Life Church and director of its School of Worship. But it’s here that he makes his solo debut to accompany his new book Secondhand Jesus and the results are fantastic. If anything, it doesn’t [...]

Stars Go Dim

By Matt Conner • Jun 18th, 2009 • Category: Features

Mike Wittig shares how this side project has morphed into a full-time gig and why.

Robbie Seay

By Matt Conner • Jun 11th, 2009 • Category: Features

Worship leader shares about the recent tour and talks about the upcoming album.

Until June

By Matt Conner • Jun 8th, 2009 • Category: Album Reviews

The sweet swirls of piano pop that defined Until June’s self-titled LP in 2007 only persist even more so on their recent six song release, Sound of Defeat. While success has been harder to come by here in the States, the Hollywood trio made it big in Greece and Norway with top five chart placements [...]

Run Kid Run

By Matt Conner • Jun 8th, 2009 • Category: Features

Pop-rockers talk growth, progress, and the ups and downs of being a headliner.

Aaron Sprinkle

By Matt Conner • Jun 4th, 2009 • Category: Features

The veteran producer shares his recipe for success and talks about his sources of inspiration.

Chris and Conrad

By Matt Conner • Jun 3rd, 2009 • Category: Album Reviews

Much ado is made for new pop duo Chris and Conrad about their hooks and ideas for the new self-titled album. On the band’s bio, the Chris part (Chris Kuti) says, “Writing for us consists of a multitude of, what we like to term, hook ideas.” And this methodology is readily apparent on the twosome’s [...]

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Leeland –
...that's been one big thing on our hearts - to give God our life outside of our music. How are we treating our wives? How are we treating our families? How are we treating our friends and strangers or people at home?...It's how you're treating people and if you're being love to the world around you. It's a question of if you're giving God your entire life.

Andrew Osenga –
You learn things about God and that changes your view. You learn that God exists and that he loves me, but at the end of the day, there's a lot of mystery. There are very few things you can be absolutely for sure about. The rest of it, you believe in a person but not specific, you know?

Dan Macaulay –
I think the thing we always have to keep in mind when any of us are leading worship is that it's all about Him...I believe in being balanced in approach, but ultimately it's not about what we like, it's what He likes. And what He likes is for people to worship Him in Spirit and in Truth, to love Him together in unity with one another. We all need to get our agendas in line with His and make our worship less about us and more about Him.

Glenn Packiam –

Stars Go Dim –
We don't shy away from anything. Even in the general market, we don't shy away from sharing who we are or our faith. If Christian people want to do interviews or shows, we'll do that, too. We just want to go wherever the door is open for us.

Robbie Seay –
I want to make sure that we're very excited about and that we believe in. I never wanted to be a part of music that didn't sound passionate. I'll never be the guy selling a million records. So I want to be the guy that sounds like he believes the music that he's singing. That's the ultimate compliment to say that there's passion in your music - that there's a stirring and passion that you can't describe. If I am not doing that, then it's time to pack it in and move on to something else.

Until June –

Run Kid Run –
I think we talk about where we'd like to be and what we want to do. How to attack that, I don't know if we do that. Which I guess we should be doing if we actually want to get there...We do talk about goals and stuff I guess. We do talk about what we should change, but if that happens or not is a different story.

Aaron Sprinkle –
...if what happens in the end is beautiful and connects with people and people are positively affected by it emotionally or spiritually or whatever, that's what matters. That's why I do what I do. The number one reason that I do what I do is connecting with people. I love the thought that what I'm doing in the studio is going to inspire or encourage or make someone not feel so alone in their life.

Chris and Conrad –