From Building 429 to Britt Nicole and Earnest Pugh to Tenth Avenue North, this week in the Top Christian Songs Chart has it all.
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From the underground days of the Resurrection Band of the late 1970's to the 21st century, as a genre, Christian hard rock has twisted, turned and grown. But one thing has remained the same - the reason they sing and play - Jesus!
From Building 429 to Britt Nicole and Earnest Pugh to Tenth Avenue North, this week in the Top Christian Songs Chart has it all.
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Shane Barnard from Shane & Shane talks about what love really is in this Valentine's Day exclusive.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways ...
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Kutless has close to 30 concert events scheduled for this spring (so far), including the new "This Life Is...LOUD" event with Hawk Nelson, KJ-52, Harris III, Chad Eastham and Courtney Clark Cleveland.
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Tonight, the nominees for the 2012 GRAMMY Awards will find out who won. With the new, slimmed down categories, Christian rock, rap, southern Gospel, country and bluegrass all got crammed into a Contemporary Christian listing. While this move didn't delete them (like Traditional Gospel and Contemporary R&B Gospel), it did effectively remove them from the running.
Congrats to Brandon Heath and Chris Tomlin. They both got three nominations. Other artists with more than one nod were Kirk Franklin and Mary Mary - they both walked away with two.
For those artists and bands that were too hard, too country or too anything else to fit into the "Contemporary" mold, you have my condolences.
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