“I just want to make music that moves peoples hearts,” says Joel Price, Christian rock artist. “In today’s world, music has been turned into a vehicle to promote impurity, sex, drugs, greed and hate. I believe that music should move people’s hearts closer to God and that’s what I try to do with the songs that I write.” Joel’s music is blend of... [+] Read More

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Caedmon's Call is a CCM band that fuses folk-rock with adult alternative rock influences. Cliff Young (vocals, rhythm guitar), Derek Webb (lead guitar, vocals), Danielle Glenn (vocals), Aric Nitzberg (bass), Todd Bragg (drums), Randy Holsapple (organ), and Garett Buell (percussion) formed the Houston, TX-based band at Texas Christian University... [+] Read More

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One of the most successful performers in contemporary Christian music, Carman was born Dominic Licciardello on January 19, 1956; "saved" at an Andrae Crouch concert, he was later discovered by Bill Gaither, eventually founding his own ministry and recording arm. Debuting in 1982 with Some-O'-Dat, he issued a series of LPs which gradually... [+] Read More

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Formed in the early 90s Clear Frontier, a CCM band orginating from Tampa, Florida, has been performing and recording unique alternative rock with various changes to the group's lineup for well over a decade. Tom Cummins - Guitar/Vocals, Danny Southard - Bass - Kim Cummins - Vocals and Jacques Levi - Drums. Though the band took some time off the... [+] Read More

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The alternative CCM group Grammatrain comprised singer/guitarist Pete Stewart, bassist Dalton Roraback and his drummer brother Paul. Formed in Seattle, in 1994 the trio self-released their eponymous debut LP, grabbing the attention of ForeFront Records label exec Eddie DeGarmo, who immediately signed Grammatrain to release their 1995 sophomore... [+] Read More

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Jars of Clay were the breakout band of the so-called alternative CCM movement of the '90s, scoring an enormous mainstream hit with their debut single, "Flood." The group's lyrics may have been exclusively Christian, but their mostly acoustic music fit perfectly into the folky jangle pop wing of alternative rock radio, at the time a rarity on the... [+] Read More

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The pop/rock quartet Lifehouse featured singer/songwriter Jason Wade, who originally tagged the band Blyss during the group's initial 1996 conception. After playing in various music scenes in Seattle and Portland, Wade brought Lifehouse to life in Los Angeles. Their thick sound was compared to Live and Matchbox Twenty, but Wade insisted... [+] Read More

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One of the more media-exposed Christian rock bands of the '90s, Newsboys formed in the late '80s around a core of John James, Peter Furler, and Philip Urry. Though early in their career the band was panned for a perceived overreliance on religious clichés in their lyrics, Newsboys later grasped secular music's alternative revolution in the early... [+] Read More

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Originally called Inside Out, PFR was formed in Minnesota by Mark Nash, Joel Hanson, and Patrick Andrew. For their 1992 album debut on Sparrow, the trio changed their name to Pray for Rain but changed it again to PFR for sophomore work Goldie's Last Days. 1994 brought the release of Great Lengths; Them followed in 1996. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide

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Denise Jones, Heather Floyd and Terry Lang began singing as the Oauchitones in Norman, OK, but added Shelley Phillips in 1991 to form Say So (later Point of Grace) at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, AR. The CCM vocal group began touring, and a first-place finish in the group competition at the Christian Artists Seminar in Estes Park,... [+] Read More

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Dallas-based alternative CCM band Seventh Day Slumber was led by frontman Joseph Rojas, a former cocaine addict who turned to religion in the wake of a near-fatal overdose. Teaming with guitarist Evan Weatherford, bassist Joshua Schwartz and drummer Adam Witte, he formed Seventh Day Slumber in 1996, and upon signing to the Afinia label the group... [+] Read More

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Named in honor of a passage from C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity, the Austin, TX-based CCM trio Sixpence None the Richer began taking shape in the early '90s, when guitarist Matt Slocum first met vocalist Leigh Nash (nee Bingham) at a church retreat. Initially a trio rounded out by bassist T.J. Behling, the group recorded a 1993 demo which led to... [+] Read More

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Influenced by the Southern rock of Lynyrd Skynyrd and other artists such as U2 and Rich Mullins, Third Day was originally formed by vocalist Mac Powell and acoustic guitarist Mark Lee. The duo added bassist Tai Anderson and drummer David Carr from another local band, and recorded some demos. Third Day's live shows gradually built a loyal fan... [+] Read More

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