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Matt Fink is a Pittsburgh-based journalist who is a frequent contributor to music magazines Paste and Under the Radar. Over the past six years he has interviewed artists ranging from Yoko Ono and Beck to Franz Ferdinand and the White Stripes.
August 17th, 2010
She toured with Elvis in the 50s and is now recording a new album with Jack White -- the Queen of Rockabilly discusses music, faith and getting into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Nearly 60 years after its birth, rock and roll remains American music's most successful illegitimate offspring, with everyone from Bo ...
April 15th, 2010
The former Pedro the Lion leader talks about reactions to recent work and his current take on faith and his role as an artist
Last week, we published a piece by Matt Fink about former Pedro the Lion leader David Bazan's career and latest album. After a four-year hiatus ...
April 8th, 2010
Former Pedro the Lion frontman's Curse Your Branches
In the spring of 2007, I was asked as an alumnus of Geneva College (a small Reformed Presbyterian liberal arts college 30 minutes northwest of ...
September 11th, 2009
The legendary artist who influenced generations of musicians talks about God and country (music)
One of country music's great survivors, Charlie Louvin has a career that reads like a Southern gothic novel. He grew up singing sacred ...
May 17th, 2009
Daniel Smith on his numerous musical projects, former bandmate Sufjan Stevens and being a Christian artist who doesn’t connect with Christian culture
Though he'd never want to take credit for ...
February 17th, 2009
Legendary lead vocalist from The Staple Singers on Dr. King, Barack Obama and being wrapped up in the Lord's arms
Lost among the hoopla of the Inauguration of Barack Obama — among the celebrity sightings, the musical guests, and the soaring rhetoric — was the ...
April 27th, 2007
Busted Halo talks conversion, pride, and holistic faith with the leader of indie rock's would-be revolutionaries.
Hang around the Christian music festival circuit for very long, and you'll invariably hear about mewithoutYou's Aaron Weiss. Everyone has a story. Some have seen him walking around the ...
January 19th, 2007
BustedHalo discusses life in the spotlight with the most high-profile Christian band in the post-hardcore rock scene.
Though self-identified Christian bands have been slowly breaking down the distinctions between the music that appears on the mainstream music charts and the albums that are normally trapped ...
September 14th, 2006
Busted Halo discusses the Christian music industry and the culture that birthed it with music journalist and author of Body Piercing Saved My Life, Andrew Beaujon.
Though much has changed in recent years to allow openly Christian musicians to move out of the Christian rock ghetto, it is still rare to come across a ...
June 2nd, 2006
Busted Halo discusses faith's place in art and the public market with one of America's most adventurous singer-songwriters.
In the world of popular music there is perhaps no genre that is more suspicious of Christian faith than indie rock. Having grown out the late 70s punk movement ...
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