Thunderstruck

[U2] • Drawing their fish in the sand, by Angela Pancella (@U2)
• Keys to Bono's success (MTV)
• Spiritual encounters of the U2 kind, by Kate Bowman (Relevant)
• Bono's forward to the book of Psalms (Guardian)
• Is Bono being used in Africa? (Rolling Stone)
• The Beliefnet interview with Bono
• Theologian Eugene Peterson on U2's Bono
• U2 donates early rejection letters from record companies to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
• Bononomics Rocks (Wall Street Journal)
• Bono and Paul O'Neill photo gallery in Africa
• Them, Too, by Hendrick Hertzberg (The New Yorker)
• Bono saves the world one day at a time (cartoon from Entertainment Weekly)
• Bono: Africans need U.S. attention (USA Today)
• Keys to Bono's success (MTV)
• A review of U2: The Best of 1990-2000, by Russ Breimer (Christianity Today)
• @U2 -- the best U2 website
• Data -- the website for Debt, AIDS, Trade in Africa

[P.O.D.] • Ozzy's ratings low in Germany as P.O.D. and Lenny Kravitz thrills the festival (MTV)
• P.O.D. on the lookout for girls that rock for their new record label (MTV)
• P.O.D. Warrior Souls (MTV)
• P.O.D. Beyond Belief (MTV)
• P.O.D.Confessional Booth (Entertainment Today)
• Payable on Death (Regeneration Quarterly)
• P.O.D. should remember the golden rule, by Dallas Jenkins (Beliefnet)

[Bob Dylan] • Bob Dylan's phenomenal gospel (Beliefnet)
• Prophet Bob Dylan (Argosy)
• Bob Dylan performs "I Am The Man Thomas" and "Solid Rock" (VH-1)
• The spiritual journey of Bob Dylan (Oldspeak)

[Evanescence] • Evanescence take Manhattan, gothbabe Amy Lee steals hearts (MTV)
• Evanescence's gothbabe Amy Lee leads rock into fem-friendly new frontier (MTV).
• Evanescence set pulled from Christian distribution (Billboard); Rolling Stone's version; MTV's story; Chris Willman of Entertainment Weekly responds to his story that spurred the whole brouhaha

[Sixpence] • Sixpence, much the richer (CNN)
• Reviews of Sixpence's Divine Discontent: Las Vegas Mercury, Relevant, Rolling Stone, Billboard, Christianity Today
• A wealth: Sixpence's Lewis's melody, by Mark Joseph (National Review)

[Creed] • The sonic spirituality of Creed, by Walter Mueller (Center for Parent/Youth Understanding)
• Creed's stairway to heaven (Rolling Stone)
• The need for Creed, by Steven Chean (USA Weekend)

[MxPx] • Decapolis interview with Mike Herrera from MxPx
• Mixing it up with MxPx, by Evan Barnett (Exitzine)
• The gospel of punk according to MxPx (Hard Rock)
• Decapolis interview with Yuri from MxPx

[Lifehouse] • Jason Wade on Lifehouse
• Lifehouse ready for new moment (Rolling Stone)
• The Rock and Roll Gospel according to Lifehouse (Rolling Stone)
• Currently know as Lifehouse (Breakpoint)
• The second coming of Lifehouse (VH1)
• New life for Lifehouse (Rolling Stone)
• Lifehouse's Jason Wade reveals new band name for worship record (CM Central)
• Kurt Cobain meets Jesus Christ: The Lifehouse package, by Mark Joseph (National Review)

[Los Lobos] • Los Lobos seeks their roots (Los Angeles Times)
• Los Lobos universal note (Los Angeles Times)
• The return of Los Lobos (CNN)

[Buddy & Julie Miller] • Buddy Miller's Midnight and Lonesome, reviewed Jeffrey Overstreet (Looking Closer)
• Buddy Miller: Playing with guitars (Paste)
• The sounds of Buddy and Julie Miller's livingroom (PopMatters)
• Julie Miller's Broken Things reviewed (Chasing Hats)
• Buddy Miller's Midnight and Lonesome (The Tennessean)
• Buddy and Julie Miller mix it up again for a new recording (Rolling Stone)
• It's Miller Time: Buddy Miller moving from a side show to the main stage (No Depression)

[Roots rock]
• Dave Alvin blasts back (Rolling Stone)
• Bobby Womack on Sam Cooke (VH-1)
• Go tell it on the mountain: A VH-1 interview with Al Green
• Knitters reunite for benefit in San Francisco (SonicNet)
• Snake Charmers: Trailer Bride slithers to its own ryhthm of Southern schism (No Depression)
• No Depression's review of X's "Beyond and Back" and the Blasters' "American Music"
• Hearts on Fire: Buddy and Julie Miller (No Depression)
• Nice Guy, Punk legend: Billy Zoom on life before and after X (OC Weekly)
• Elvis Inc. Lives (BBC)
• The Relevator: The further Gillian Welch migrates from the gospel formula, the closer she brings her listeners to God, by Bill Baue (Killing the Buddha)

[Punk rock] •Punk band revels in rocking for God (The Bakersfield Californian)
• Decapolis interview with Brian Baker of Bad Religion
• Scarlet Crush profiled in OC Weekly
• The Huntington's chat with Vagrant Cafe
• The Ooze interview with Social Distortion's John Mauer
• HM Magazine interview with Social Distortion's John Mauer
• Blitzkrieg bop: Try sweating to these oldies (ABC News)
• Punk Rock Aerobics: exercise class that gets participants sweating to Sex Pistols (MTV)

[Goth] • The taste for something spooky: Adventure in the goth underground, by Dave Canfield (Cornerstone)
• Don't be afraid of the dark: Finding God amongst the goths, by Jimmy Stewart (Charisma)

[Garage rock] • The Hives come from Sweden to show America that real rock can be fun, by Robert Hilburn (Los Angeles Times)
• The White Stripes Stand Out in the Middle of a Crossroads, by Robert Hilburn (Los Angeles Times)
• Don't try to pin down the White Stripes, by Robert Hilburn (Los Angeles Times)
• Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Bible Smugglers? by Jewly Hight (Relevant)
• The Hives reviewed by Nate Dickerson (Relevant)
• Oh the angst. Oh the sales. (Los Angeles Times)
• The Get Up Kids Kick Up Emotion, by Steve Appleford (Los Angeles Times)
• Decapolis interview with Chris Carrabba of Dashboard Confessional
• Emotional Rescue: EMO is about feelings, the sad kind, but it makes teens and record labels happy, by Josh Tyrangiel (Time)
• The confessions of Chris Carrabba (Relevant)
• Jimmy Eat World: The next great American rock band (Relevant)
• Jimmy Eat World's monster 'Middle' is tops (USA Today)
• Garage door openers: Bands evoking the stripped-down sounds of the 1960s by Matthew S. Robinson (Christian Science Monitor)
• Happily parked in the past: Garage bands make it sound new (USA Today)

[Lauryn Hill] • Lauryn Hill continues her lofty course, by Robert Hilburn (Los Angeles Times)
• Lauryn Hill hits Hollywood Bowl with the new stuff (CDNow)
• Reviews of Lauryn Hill's MTV Unplugged: Oregonian, USA Today, Washington Post

[Michelle Shocked] • Michelle Shocked's Deep Natural reviewed by Jeffrey Overstreet
• Michelle Shocked righteous birdsong (Rogovoy Report)
• Steve Stockman on Michelle Shocked
• The Deep Natural of Michelle Shocked
• Michelle Shocked's eccentric life (OC Weekly)
• New York Rock interview with Michelle Shocked

[Etc.] •The soul of Duke Ellington (Books & Culture)
• Christians involved in rock and roll increasing in the U.K. (The Observer)
• Youth rave as church service rocks by Andrew Chung (Toronto Star)
• Hail Mary Mary: A diet of God, noodles and supercharged R&B (The Guardian)
• Pumpkins smashed: Billy Corgan has regrouped -- and his talent and vision are intact (Los Angeles Times)
• White Stripes meet The Coal Miner's Daughter at New York show (MTV)
• Lucinda Williams settles into her "World" (USA Today)
• With God on Our Side: Pop-gospel albums affirm the persistence of faith through adversity (Village Voice)
• Maria McKee is back. (Rolling Stone) Yes, there is a God!
• Blindside jams with Linkin Park and Mudvayne (El Paso Times)
• DMX retiring from hip-hop to read his Bible (MTV)
• B.B. King: Spinning blues into gold, the rough way (New York Times)
• Metal? Christian? Gay? Queer talk with King�s X�s Doug Pinnick (OC Weekly)
• Robert Randolph and the Family concert review, by Erika Larson (Relevant)
• A link in the chain: The Blasters (PopMatters)
• Sk8ter bois: Village Voice on Good Charlotte
• Haggard & cashed out: Commercialized country stations fade into irrelevance as the influence of Americana music continues to grow, by Gene Edward Veith (World)
• Pearl Jam's new album tackles big ideas--including God (Seattle Times)
• British DJ Andy Hunter rocks Alias (CM Central)
• Gospel Soul: Dana Glover gives us her "testimony" (Rolling Stone)
• Bo Diddley: Pioneer of a beat is still riffing for his due (New York Times)
• Chuck Berry: Sweet tunes, fast beats and a hard edge (New York Times)
• Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Capital-'R' Romantics and secular priests (Village Voice)
• Tom Petty is peeved. Read his rant (Rolling Stone)
• Sex and death are his themes, the church his sanctuary. The Violent Femmes' Gordon Gano remains an enigma (Sydney Morning Herald)
• The Cultural Icon Series: The Electric Guitar (NPR)
• Alice Cooper is 54 and we like it (Washington Post)
• Blind Boys of Alabama put God's work first (Billboard)
• Music in a new light: Christian rockers keep the faith but lose the label (USA Today)
• Are the Blaster trouble bound? (Country Standard Time)
• Why are American rock bands so angry (Blender)
• Chevelle: How three brothers fought their way to Ozzfest (Rolling Stone)
• The MTV Video Music Awards wrap-up, by Steve Beard (Relevant)
• Rockabilly is alive and kicking, Daddy-O (New York Times)
• Relevant Magazine reviews Zwan's Mary Star of the Sea
• This cat never strayed: 20 years later, Lee Rocker is still rockabilly�s biggest fan (OC Weekly)
• Singin' the blues (Wall Street Journal)
• How Christina Aguilera went from Disney to �Dirty� (ABC)
• Death before disco: The Ministry of Rock sends an apolitical star down the memory hole (Reason)
• San Fran Examiner on Blindside
• OC Weekly on gospel singer Marvis Staples
• Pumpkin Pious: Billy Corgan Reborn (Washington Post)
• Singing for her Sixpence: Leigh Nash (Wichita Eagle)
• The gospel according to Aaron Neville (Chicago Sun Times)
• Christian rockers no oxymoron (Orange County Register)
• Gary Cherone's New Tribe (Rolling Stone)
• Billy Corgan in search of personal Jesus on Zwan debut (MTV)
• It's a swing thing (Washington Post)
• Blind Boys take their message to the mainstream (Journal-Sentinel)
• Classic Albums: Good Dog, Bad Dog -- Over the Rhine, by Angela Pancella (Thunderstruck)
• 2003 Grammy spotlights (Relevant)
• Blindside dubbed the House of Blues Emerging Artist of the Month
• 50 years later, fans remember Hank Williams (USA Today)
• The Thunderstruck Top 40 Albums of 2002 (submit yours here)
• The gospel according to Aaron Neville (USA Today)
• Down to the Nitty Gritty: Home to the country (National Review)
• Entertain Us: Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and the rapture of distress, by David Dark (Christianity Today)
• VH1 interview with soul singer Dana Glover
• The Cornerstone interview with Andrew W.K.
• Bluegrass, Brother: An American tradition, by T.M. Moore (BreakPoint)
• The windup world of the nervous tick: Looking hard with Elvis Costello, by David Dark (Books & Culture)
• Exploring Sun Records -- the room where rock was born (Slate)
• Pearl Jam's Riot Act reviewed, by Geoff Robson (culture@home)
• Relevant's interview with DJ Andy Hunter
• Come on Up for the Rising: The latest from the Boss, (National Review)
• Rock: Shaking the pews, but also a Spirit unto Itself (Los Angeles Times)
• God save the teens: Local youth seek a new kind of church through hardcore and hip hop (Village Voice)
• 12 Stones: Hard rockers with perspective (Relevant)
• Pedro the Lion's David Bazan: Control Freak (Relevant)
• Grooving at club worship (Philadelphia Inquirer)
• Steve Stockman on Sheryl Crow's "C'mon, C'mon"
• Reviews of Spiritualized's album, "Let It Come Down," from Steve Stockman (Phantom Toolbooth) and Jeffrey Overstreet (Looking Closer)
• India.Arie: Love matters more than anything (Relevant)
• Steve Stockman on Wilco
• Art: A witness itself? by Steve Stockman
• Jars of Clay's Dan Haseltine pushes to the front by Mark Joseph (National Review)
• Where buzz is born: South by Southwest (The Christian Science Monitor)
• HM Magazine's interview with Alice Cooper [Part 1] [Part 2]
• Is Emenim the most egomaniacal rapper of all time? (MTV)
• More churches getting in step with hip-hop (Charisma)
• Avril Lavigne: The Real Deal (MTV)
• Avril Lavigne: Too much, too young? (VH1)
• Avril Lavigne skates straight to the top (USA Today)
• Lenny Kravitz: American Man (VH-1)
• This 70s Show: Who will induct Sheryl Crow into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Village Voice)
• Jars of Clay fill a void (CNN)
• David Bowie chats it up with God (USA Today)

"I'm just at a place where maybe I'm becoming more comfortable with myself. If you listen to all the records, those themes continue. They change and they grow because you experience more, you learn more, but I've always been about love and God and positivity in general, and people. That's always been my thing, that's the kind of upbringing that I had in my family, and I know that I was definitely blessed to have it, 'cause I know that most of my friends did not have that kind of upbringing."
--Lenny Kravitz
VH-1

"At the end of the day, the Lord knows I have no malice in my heart. But I've got tattoos, and I still fornicate."
--Pharrell Williams of N.E.R.D
Rolling Stone

"I know there is a God, and I know there is a reason why we're here. But we live on a planet where the international pastime is tribal warfare. It just seems so…immature and malicious. What I hope for is that everybody in the world would connect a little bit more to their spiritual side. That's 80 percent of what I'm all about. The other 20 percent is diarrhea talk."
--Blink-182's Tom Delonge
Alternative Press

"I sing rock-and-roll but I always believe in God. I believe without God we're nothing. I believe you can tell the difference when you meet a man who knows God."
--Little Richard
The Washington Post

"I find solace in places I never could have imagined: the quiet sprinkling of my child's head in Baptism, a gospel choir drunk on the Holy Spirit in Memphis, or the back of a catherdral in Rome watching the first cinematographers play with light and colour in stained glass stories of the Passion. I am still amazed at how big, how enormous the love and mystery of God is -- and how small are the minds that attempt to corral this life force into rules and taboos, cults, and sects."
--Bono, from the forward of Adam Harbinson's "They've Hijacked God"

"Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's rebellion."
--Alice Cooper
The London Sunday Times

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