in reference to my last post about shoutcast. I’ve been looking around for a good christian streaming station…and i’m still looking. There are basically two divisions of Christian music according to the radio- heavy rock or praise. I’ve been listening to a little of the heavier stuff lately (a la thousandfootkrutch, spoken, blindside, etc) partially because the teens I work with like it…partially because it’s NOT praise music. Don’t get me wrong, I like praise and worship music…but not all the time. Every single contemporary Christian artist it seems has a praise album out…and those albums are just played out! I know that there is more music out there…I know there are other artist like Andrew Peterson, Over the Rhine, 77’s, and Bill Mallonee…great Christian musicians, but they don’t get any play because they don’t do praise or they’re not heavy enough. So, where’s the station for people like me with my taste?
Not every song has to go through the praise-blender*. There is such a thing as music that just happens to be performed by Christians that doesn’t come out and talk directly about God. It’s called being abstract…it’s called art.
*praise-blender: a term defined by a friend of my college roomate’s describing all those Christian songs that take the same words you hear in every praise & worship song, mix them up, and spit out as a new song.
i like that: praise-blender
I like the Elms…they think outside of the box a bit more than some. I just realized you were looking for a station that plays music by such artists…oopsie daisy. Check out the Elms anyways?