When you can't make up your mind, go with three headlines!
PacMan Jones a Cowboy? Wow.
Chad Johnson? Oh wow.
I am midweek in the last week of deadline. I am very confident that the scoreboard will go down in the "W" column this time. Now it's Deadline 06 - DVP 02. I think I'll be at 03 when Friday ends. We'll see. I am super stoked about this issue. We've got two really good cover stories -- P.O.D. and Showbread. Yep, it's our third "Double Flip" cover issue in three years. In addition to those two stories, we've got: a missions trip journal type story written by Josh Dies of Showbread; a similar story I wrote about our trip to Uganda; stories on Kevin Max; Run Kid Run; Destroy The Runner; Soul Embraced; Ivoryline; Kittie (Says); Holy Blood; With Blood Comes Cleansing; Oceana; a "primer" on Southern Metal; and the longest article in HM Magazine history (8 pages!) -- "The Christian Rock Experiment." I asked two guys to only listen to Christian Rock (if they were pretty much a regular non-Christian Rock listener) and/or "secular" Rock (if they pretty much usually only listened to Christian Rock). The Christian who rarely listens to Christian Rock but had to for the 30 days of January this year was Mark Salomon (who fronted The Crucified, Stavesacre, and (don't tell anyone) Neon Horse, not to mention his hiphop project from the early 90s, Native Son). He did an awesome job and can be thanked for making the story 8 pages long. His side of the story is like a manifesto of what's wrong with Christian Rock and what needs to change. The Christian who rarely listens to secular rock but could only listen to it or nothing for 30 days was Tom Denlinger (who fronted Sardonyx and sang on The Scream of the Guillotine project, as well as currently playing with Just Rain). I think it's a great read. Oh, and there's a tribute to Larry Norman ... and a poster of Larry, too.
How's that for a great May/June issue?
Posted by Doug Van Pelt at March 26, 2008 08:08 AM