Moses seems to be a movie darling. Clinging onto big screen for as long as the birth of cinemas is Moses. The great Hebrew prophet, according to the Bible, lived for 120 years.
more"Jesus ain't worried 'bout tattoos and cigarettes/Or if you wear a golden cross around your neck." Lines like these from Rhett Walker Band's brand new album "Here's to the Ones" are going to throw a monkey wrench for many.
moreThis is one time we can safely deviate from the adage: "Do not judge a book by its cover."
moreEver since her triumphant win at the American Idol, Clarkson has been on autopilot driving her record making machine shooting off singles. Eleven years after her acceptance of her Idol diadem, with No.1s such as "Before Your Love," "My Life Would Suck Without You" and "Stronger," Clarkson has had more hits than misses.
moreZane and Donna King are great travelling companions. More perspicacious than "Lonely Planet," Zane and Donna King have a way of tracing the under workings of God through life's journey via their well-crafted songs.
moreYou won't find Marvin Sapp's "Christmas Card" in the discounted bins at your local Dollar Store. "Christian Card" is by no means one of those conveyor belt efforts. Unlike many manufactured Christmas albums, here you won't find a haphazardly thrown together assembly of obligatory carols merely stamped by Sapp's signature vocal ilk. In fact, none of these 12 tracks rings hollow with a predictable flair.
moreCarrie Underwood rode on the crest of the American Idol just at the right time. Nowadays, with the ebbing popularity of the TV singing contest show, most of its winners struggle to place even a respectable hit on the chart. Most tragic was year's winner Caleb Johnson; his debut album came and went without any rustle at all.
moreWhen Idina Menzel sings about a "voice as big as the sea" in "Do You Hear What I Hear?," it doesn't sound like a metaphor, she stretches her notes so loud and high until they became so elastic that they could play yoga with them.
moreTrailing just behind Taylor Swift's "1989" on Billboard 200 this week at a lofty #2 position is Pentatonix's "That's Christmas to Me." In a climate where record sales are sloughing as if they were stately monuments, "That's Christmas to Me" fluidly moves thousands of copies each week, easily making "That's Christmas to Me" this year's best-selling seasonal album.
moreHunter Thompson has a way of placing mortality under the microscope. Calling to mind the words of Moses from Psalm 90 to "number our days," this 5-track EP gives pause to our hurried lives.
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