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April 7, 2021
In the early 2000s, as the pop-punk glory days were coming to a close, a new crop of indie rock bands began to rise to prominence.
For artists who happened to be Christians not necessarily “Christian artists” questions about faith and a sense of authenticity were more evident than traditional CCM artists who were heard in church-music circles.
Here’s a look back at 10 Christian indie rock albums from the early ‘00s that still hold up.
(Also, here’s a similar note we included on our extremely official, not-to-be questioned “Definitive Ranking of Bands From Christian Pop Punk’s Glory Days”: Like a lot of “Christian music” genres, some of the bands have disputed the label of being “Christian” bands. But, for the sake of our rankings, we’ve chosen artists who have put out music on Christian labels, played at Christian festivals and who have at some point been generally associated with “Christian” music).
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Just seconds into my phone call with Shane Tutmarc, I tell him I’ll do my best to not inundate him with questions about Seattle. We both lived in the city in the early 2000s. I covered music at the popular alt-weekly
The Stranger, and he had just started to play baroque-pop music around town under the moniker Dolour.
Now that we’re meeting again, several years after we separately and coincidentally moved to Nashville, it feels impossible to not at least dip a toe into the pool of Pacific Northwest nostalgia.
“You wrote the ‘Shane is leaving Seattle for Nashville’ article for
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Damien Jurado Unveils The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania LP
Hear Helena from the upcoming album
The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania next month.
The album follows 2020 s
What s New, Tomboy? and, depending on your count, is either his 16th, 17th or 20th full-length. Regardless of how you view the discography, it s a stunning and deep well.
A press release explains that the album includes ten intense stories of people determined not to be broken by dire circumstances. The album was produced by Jurado himself, who will release it on his own new Maraqopa Records imprint.
Ahead of its arrival on May 14, you can stream the album s opener Helena below.