Music has been a part of culture, more specifically American culture, since its inception. Whether it's a flute and drums playing a marching tune or the invention of the phonograph transforming parlors everywhere, Americans have always had music integrated into their lives. Yet in recent years, the ...
Trying to nail a square peg in a round hole works about as well as describing Kanye West as humble. The Square Peg Alliance, an artist collective featuring such notables as the ever-controversial Derek Webb and Caedmon’s Call alum Andy Osenga, defiantly claims that label. A band of misfits who don’t ...
After five years of contributing to RELEVANT, the time has come for me to step down. When I started as a music writer, I was a 21 year old hitting up the punk clubs of Chicago every weekend, scouring the Internet for new bands and continually swapping music out with friends. Now, between a major mar ...
A one-line bio of former CCM singer Joy Williams reads like this: girl hits it big, sabotages own career. Signed on the power of her arena-spanning voice, Williams burst on to the Christian radio charts at the beginning of the decade, and went on to sell more than 250,000 copies of her first three a ...
