mewithoutYou - Brother, Sister (w/ Jonah Wilson from Jazzcore Friction!)

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We talked about the beginnings of American Christian Rock, with The Resurrection Band, and today we get into a Christian Rock group that continued that humble hippie-Christian approach, but decades later, in the 2000s, in a completely different context. Between the 70s and the 00s, the Christian music industry grew from a few psychedelic groups composed of former hippies to a fully fledged money making machine in the Reagan era. In the 80s, they tapped into the hair/glam metal trend with groups like Stryker and Petra--and by the 90s, every other youth pastor in America was taking their shot at being the next big thing in the conservative Christian music market. They even had their own greatest hits compilation to compete with "NOW that's what I call music" called "WOW". Christian families finally had their OWN music, and some of them started limiting what their children could listen to, opting out of "secular" (non-Christian) music altogether. This created a problem for young music loving Christians. They were only allowed to participate in music if it was "Christian" and "Christian" music... was pretty corny. It was always extremely apparent that the Christian messaging took precedence over interesting song structure or good songwriting. In the mid 90s, all Christian music sounded like worship tunes you would hear at the hip, new Evangelical Church down the road. Cut to somewhere in the 2000s. Emo, Screamo, Angst, 9/11... Teenagers were obviously dealing with a lot of stuff at the time and the sappy stuff just wasn't cutting it for Christian youth and they were sick of being pandered to. So, they started screaming with the rest of their friends. And pretty soon, there were so many bands from Christian backgrounds screaming and making metal and other interesting genres that the entire Christian music industry changed. Many of these bands saw the writing on the wall in how commercialized God had become and like JC in the old bible story, they started flippin tables. mewithoutYou is perhaps the greatest example of this shift in how bands expressed their spiritual beliefs. It's spacey, it's weird, there's yelling slam poetry, and it's not always sunshine and rainbows when they're talking about Christianity. They're getting into the nitty gritty...

Today, Brad, Dave, and Kevin (Brad's brother) are joined by Jonah Wilson from the amazing new band that you should immediately check out, Jazzcore Friction!!!

Links from ep:

Jazzcore Friction's Bandcamp: https://jazzcorefriction.bandcamp.com/

mewithoutYou "Nice and Blue (pt 2)" Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blXhSF72nxs

Mellow Harsher documentary "This can Only be as Terrible as We Are: https://youtu.be/NyBaW5NYmFE