Fanboy alert: Jason Mraz is back! AAAAACCCCKKKK!!! *deep breath* I first heard Jason Mraz’s I Won’t Give Up at his live acoustic Philippine concert with Toca Rivera last late year at the Araneta Coliseum, and I remember my wife and I both being extremely moved by I Won’t Give Up; we were both in tears at song’s end. Knowing what little we knew about his marriage, we were stunned into silence by how eloquently he put into...

My wife, noted KPop writer Caths Deen, recently gave me for an anniversary present the latest album of Contemporary Christian singer-songwriter Matthew West. The Story of Your Life CD/DVD package is one of the best CCM albums I’ve ever heard for a variety of reasons, and the criminal absence of a #1 Billboard hit from this offering, Matthew’s first since his indie label debut, Sellout, does not undermine the fact that this is a...