Next week will be a week of great significance for Christian music in general. The Cornerstone Music Festival will begin on Monday, July 2nd and then on Saturday July 7th, the festival will close its gates for the last and final time. After 28 years, Cornerstone will be no more. The main and obvious reason for this is finances, but the more significant part of the story is the loss of Tastyfresh... Read More »
The debate on what a Christian EDM event should be like is one with a pretty long history and in many ways, not a very clear answer. Christian rock concerts would seem like a nice model to follow, but outside of the lyrics of the songs, what the band’s frontman says between songs and the absence of drug and alcohol abuse, they tend to look very much like their secular counterparts. With EDM ... Read More »
Recently, Anthony Lee hosted an event called “Awakenings” in Florida. He had been struggling with various issues including funding and ticket sales. The event came and went without a major hitch though and was a solid success for the first event in a new series. I gotta hand it to Anthony, he kept his head down and struggled through it all while keeping focused on God. I asked Anthony to give ... Read More »
We’ve all experienced some great events in our lifetime. For most of those events, you as an attendee have had expectations of what the event would be like from the moment you first heard about it. These expectations slowly build as you get closer to the date or start taking actions like purchasing tickets, making dinner reservations, planning how to get there and so on. In fact, just about ... Read More »
In 1992, on the way back from a youth skiing trip, a friend of mine slid a tape called Jyradelix into the church bus’s tape deck. From that tape, I heard techno for the very first time. I was also hooked on it. It was also Christian. After that, I couldn’t find enough electronica. Fortunately, that was start of Christian electronica. Well… maybe not the start, but that is when it... Read More »
