On this week's episode of Clarksville Conversations, Charlie Koon interviews John Cooper from Skillet, and Darren Mulligan of We Are Messengers.

As Christian artists embrace a wider variety of sounds and market songs savvily on social media, they are rapidly widening ...

Remember the alternative rock song “Kiss Me” by Sixpence None The Richer? This song is such a quintessential 90s playlist song, and it was a pretty hefty hit in 1998. “Kiss Me” peaked at No. 2 on the ...

Van Zant – led by Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Johnny Van Zant and his brother, 38 Special’s Donnie Van Zant – have announced their return with their first album of Christian rock. “I’ll be honest… the Devil was ...

MS musicians are 2026 Grammy Award nominees. Jamal Roberts, Bobby Rush, Charlie Musselwhite, Hayley Williams get nods for ...

No one takes Christian rock music seriously, not even most Christians. It’s not a lack of ability among the musicians performing it that negates its popularity. Rather, it is the repetitiveness of its ...

When rock and roll emerged in the 1950s, ministers denounced it from their pulpits and Sunday school teachers warned of the music's demonic origins. The big beat, said Billy Graham, was "ever working ...

Out with the old, in with the new. In a departure from the usual dominance of Christian music pioneers such as Michael W. Smith and Amy Grant at the annual Dove Awards, a new generation of acts ...

Christian/Gospel music consumption has increased, surpassing World Music and nearing Country music's popularity. Nashville's influence is expanding beyond country music, impacting pop charts with ...

Singer-songwriter Chuck Girard, one of the pioneers of contemporary Christian rock and the lead singer of the band Love Song during the 1970s, died on Aug. 11. He was 81. Girard had announced on ...

Executive director Steve Gilreath talks celebrating a wide variety of faith-based music and intersections with secular ...