Phil Wickham may not have currently risen to the kind of heights as some of his other Contemporary Christian singer-songwriter colleagues have, including Matthew West, Jimmy Needham, and Brandon Heath, but his new CD, Heaven and Earth (Simple/INO), stands to change all that. A unique melange of pop, rock, and folk, Heaven and Earth will please many the Adult Contemporary Christian lover, and several of the tracks on the CD stand to gain airplay...

Praise and worship leader Lincoln Brewster has crafted some of the finest Contemporary Christian anthems of the past few years, including Today is the Day, Majestic, Everyday, and Let the Praises Ring. Based on what I’m hearing of The Power of Your Name, the new single from Brewster’s latest outing, Today is the Day, may easily end up as one of his most successful. With The Power of Your Name, Brewster and songwriting collaborator...

As of March 27, 2010, these are my top 10 favorite songs. If it weren’t for VV Brown and Starfield, it’d be an all-Korean Top 10. Man, I’ve got to start listening to local radio again. 1. Abracadabra (1) Brown Eyed Girls Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. 2. Bengeul (8) U-Kiss Audio...

Girls Generation/SNSD is one of the most popular girl groups in Korea. Their unique brand of kpop has resulted in some of the catchiest pop tunes in recent kpop memory, including Gee, one of the best songs of two years ago, Genie, and most recently, Oh!, which was the carrier single of their second CD. (Cathy, by the way, got me that CD because it’s now available here, and let me tell you, SM Entertainment has done it again. Terrific job;...

A commenter named Sid left a message on one of my posts from almost a year ago, posing some very interesting – flamebait? – questions to me regarding the need for voters’ education programs. The questions he asks can be summed up to the following: What has been achieved so far? Is there a greater number of “mature” voters? If anything is lacking in the voters education programs, what would these be?  “Are...