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...singer and songwriter in '70s rock group Orleans (of Still the One fame), Hall is leader of a club that also includes Bill Sali (R., Idaho), who was in the swing band Blue Country, and Paul Hodes (D., N.H.), an award-winning children's musician...
...wrote with Jesse Reeves and Ed Cash), currently the second most popular modern chorus in U.S. churches (after Tim Hughes' Here I Am to Worship), is not particularly profound--the title pretty much sums it up--but it's heartfelt, short and set to a stirring soft-rock melody that sticks in the mind like white to rice. That's Tomlin's gift: immediacy. "I try to think, How do I craft this song in a way that the person who's tone-deaf and can't clap on two and four can sing it?" says the songwriter. "I hope...
...sounding "praise and worship" music that has replaced traditional hymns in congregations looking for a younger crowd. (Recently some churches introduced the U2-charist, a Communion service set to the music of U2.) "We've been closing the gap between what you would hear in church and on a rock radio station," says Matt Lundgren, worship leader at Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Ill. "Artists like Chris Tomlin help bridge the gap more and more...
...Green Day and U2 join forces, atomic bombs won’t be dismantled—they’ll be dropped as close to President Bush as possible. In the video for their new joint single, “The Saints Are Coming,” the venerated rock bands combine their political energies to reiterate their belief that the response to Hurricane Katrina was inadequate. “The Saints Are Coming”—first performed in the Superdome at a Monday Night Football game to commemorate the tragedy—is packed with heavy...
...environment, bad for the workers, and bad for the consumer at the end, so lose, lose, lose, lose.”Linklater has written and directed a diverse array of films, including “Dazed and Confused,” “School of Rock,” “Before Sunset,” “Waking Life,” and most recently, “Fast Food Nation.” At a recent roundtable discussion with Boston-area reporters, Linklater didn’t shy away from political statements about American consumerism...