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Hosted by Andrew Gill and Leah Payne · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 67 episodes
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Rock That Doesn’t Roll looks at how Christian music shaped the world we're living in now by telling individual stories from the peak era of the contemporary Christian music industry. In the 80s, 90s and early 2000s CCM grew into a billion dollar business that affected millions of evangelical young people. Through interviews with artists, industry players and average fans Dr. Leah Payne and Andrew Gill trace the long-lasting personal, cultural and political impact of sometimes cringe-worthy music. Expect hilarious moments and heartfelt yearning, purity culture and conservative politics- all in equal measure. Whether you’ve deconstructed, come out or renegotiated your faith, we hope you feel seen. If you’ve never given Christian music any thought beyond a punchline, we hope you’ll gain a deeper understanding of a subculture that’s shaping the world around us now.Join our <a href="https://www.patreon.com
Andrew Gill and Leah Payne hosts Rock That Doesn't Roll: The Story of Christian Music, a music show with 67 episodes published.
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Chad Matheny is better known by his folk punk band name, Emperor X . His 12th full length album, Unified Field , is out on June 26 and features a single called "Praise Jesus! Hail Reagan!" Much of the album was recorded
Jewly Hight is a noted music journalist best known for her work with NPR Music, Nashville Public Radio, The Bitter Southerner and more. She's also a friend of Leah's from their days together in grad school at Vanderbilt
Flamy Grant may be the world's only Christian drag queen songwriter. She's one of the few queer artists to ever top the Christian music category in the iTunes Store. She's also a guest we've wanted to have on the show si
Nina Hagen is a true legend. She's considered an icon of German culture. And she's known as "the Godmother of German Punk." But our interview with her revealed that she also should be considered a longtime Jesus Freak. H
Tim Dillinger returns to the podcast to continue our examination of 1985 as a pivotal year in Christian music. This time his focus is on artists who tried to break into the Christian industry, including Donna Summer and
Rosie Thomas is a singer-songwriter who came up alongside artists like Damien Jurado, Pedro The Lion and Sufjan Stevens. She was one of the first folk artists signed to Sub Pop Records and had a long-running comedic alte
In the late 1990's Andrew Osenga's high school band caught the ear of a member of Whiteheart. That led Osenga to Nashville and his band, The Normals, releasing three albums on ForeFront Records. In the decades since The
Jeremy Alder is a comedian who mines his life as a homeschooled youth group kid growing up in Texas for jokes that will probably be very relatable for our audience. We talk with Jeremy about his special, Purity Pants, hi
Sam Sanders is the host of The Sam Sanders Show from KCRW. He was a founding host of The NPR Politics Podcast and It's Been A Minute from NPR. Sam grew up in the Black Pentecostal church in Texas, where he played saxopho
Rock That Doesn't Roll is coming back with Season 4 launching on March 4th. We'll be publishing every other week after that. Do you have a Christian rock story to tell? Want to respond to this episode? Leave us a message
This episode is a feed drop from Transmissions with Jason Woodbury from Aquarium Drunkard. Here's their original show notes: This week, we have an exceedingly rare interview with Jason Martin, of California dream pop ban
Introducing The Sam Sanders Show from KCRW This episode is a perfect fit for Rock That Doesn't Roll. Big Freedia is best known as the Queen of Bounce, but her new album Pressing Onward showcases her gospel choir roots. S
It's our third annual Christmas special! Leah and Andrew are joined by returning guests Kelsey Kramer McGinnis and Daniel Gill. Everyone brought a Christmas song or two to celebrate and we even hear some picks from liste
Co-host and producer Andrew Gill's day job is with Sound Opinions. He recently interviewed John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats, so we're doing a feed drop here of that episode. To share a song pick for the Rock That Doe
Please enjoy this episode from a podcast we love: When We All Get To Heaven. To share a song pick for the Rock That Doesn't Roll Christmas Special, call (629) 204-4264 and leave a message. To join our Patreon community
In our season three finale, we tell the full story of Steve Scott's lost records that Larry Norman produced in 1978, but never released. Moving Pictures (and its companion Close Ups) were victims of short-sighted Christi
Todd Fadel is our guest this week. He is an individual whose life experiences defy easy categorization. He was the lead singer of a Star Wars-themed side project to Tooth and Nail grunge band Sometime Sunday. He was a wo
David Dark is a life-long Nashvillian and an admitted member of what he calls "The Prayer Trade" as a professor of religion and the arts at Belmont University. In 2002 he published his first book, "Everyday Apocalypse: T
The English worship band Delirious (technically Deliriou5?) certainly changed church music and probably influenced a young Chris Martin of Coldplay, but was their lasting impact on music bigger than Nirvana's? That's the
Flamy Grant
1 appearance on this show
Andrew Osenga
Worship leader, songwriter, Christian music producer
1 appearance on this show
Jeremy Alder
1 appearance on this show
Jason Martin
Director of Adversarial Research · Highpoint Performance Horses
1 appearance on this show
Kelsey McGinnis
writer for Christianity Today, professor at Grand View University, musicologist · Christianity Today
1 appearance on this show
John Darnielle
The Mountain Goats
1 appearance on this show
Steve Scott
Wall Street Journal bestselling author · The Duneland Theatre
1 appearance on this show
David Dark
Assistant Professor of Religion and the Arts at Belmont University · Belmont University
1 appearance on this show
Aaron Carnes
author of In Defense of Ska · In Defense of Ska
1 appearance on this show
David Gate
assistant professor of Neurology · Northwestern Medicine
1 appearance on this show
Kelsey Kramer McGinnis
co-author of "The Myth of Good Christian Parenting" · Christianity Today
1 appearance on this show
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