K-Pop girl group Secret has released the infectious “Love is Move,” the carrier single off their first full-length album, “Moving in Secret.” I’ve enjoyed the music of Hyosung, Jieun, Sunhwa, and Zinger ever since they came on my radar in 2010 with the funky “Magic.” The brass horns, the sassy attitude, and the fact that Jieun was the prettiest K-Pop singer I’d ever laid my eyes on made me an...

Contemporary Christian supergroup Casting Crowns scores a great week, as its new album, Come to the Well, debuts at #2 on the Billboard 200, selling more than 99,000 copies; the carrier single, Courageous, also the top song from the movie of the same title, finally ascends to #1, knocking MercyMe off #1 after nine weeks atop the Billboard Christian Songs chart with Move. Greatest Gainer honors go to the top debut of the week, one sonic...

Contemporary Christian praise and worship groupDavid Crowder*Band is leaving us with the deceptively whimsically titled Give Us Rest (A Requiem Mass in C [The Happiest of All Keys]), scheduled for release in 2012. The carrier single, Let Me Feel You Shine, is an easily singable praise anthem that I can totally hear being sung in churches and youth groups from here to Atlanta. David Crowder has always had a distinctive voice, and the driving...

This is the Zoom-Zoom version of Beautiful Target, the latest release from Korean boy band B1A4. I know it’s not a Christian song, but I have to confess that as far as K-Pop songs go, this one is hella catchy, annoyingly cute video aside. Check Beautiful Target out and see if the pubescent girl in you doesn’t want to just pinch their cheeks. I’ve also embedded the original video of Beautiful Target in this video; together,...

Contemporary Christian star Brandon Heath has been pushing the envelope further and further, and with The Leaving Eden Sessions, he just treaded into uncharted waters and is emerging successful. Heath goes to various places and performs a track from Leaving Eden, his latest opus, or some of his previous hits, and records them live. Some of the recordings are so clear, it’s almost stunning to think they’re live. (They are.) Leaving...