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Tuesday, 16 April 2013 15:24

The Forum: What is Christian Music?

Last week TobyMac made history by topping the mainstream charts in the States. It was the first time in almost 15 years that a Christian album made number one on the Billboard 200.

A few days ago we announced the line-up for this summer’s Parachute Festival.

And our album of the week on Life FM was from Justin Bieber.

On the Forum this Sunday we’re talking about music.

Is some music more ‘Christian’ than others? What about ‘worship’ music – how would you define that?

What do YOU listen to? What inspires and impacts you?

Listen below for the audio.

Published in The Forum

Thanks to hook ups from NZ On Air and Kellog’s , every day during the first two weeks of NZ Music Month we are chatting with some of your favourite local artists, and there will be exclusive live performances and you might even get to hear new songs from them before anyone else…

Here’s Week One’s Line Up:

Tuesday 1st May - Paper Plans

PAPER PLANE was formed between King and his 3 touring band mates. “We’re primarily buddies who love recording and performing music together. In touring my solo record the songs and sounds kept getting bigger and sounding more like a band - so the forming of PAPER PLANE was an easy and organic process really. It made total sense that we do this next album together because we had been playing live for a couple of years already.” Says Nathan. Recorded in the basement of Neil Finn’s Roundhead studios, ‘PROOF’ was essentially recorded as a live album, but with honed edges.

Interview - Bjorn and Jon E and Paper Plane

Video

Wednesday 2nd May - The Jury and the Saints

A relentless first year for The Jury & The Saints saw the band play live to over 50,000 people. C4 picked up the boy’s first single, Brand New, as the channel’s promo song as well as a short documentary about the band and their music. The video for Brand New soon became the number one most played video on C4 and a top five single on myspace music.

Interview - Bjorn and Jon E and Jury & The Saints

Part One

Part Two

Thursday 3rd May - The Right Ones

A boy and a girl fell in love. They had similar dreams of writing + playing music to as many people as they could. Having had many successes within their solo careers, Geneva + Jono decided to become a duo. Their goal; to write good, honest + moving music that stemmed from their experiences together.

Interview - Bjorn and Jon E and The Right Ones

Part One

Part Two

Video - Children Song