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Joel Zaloum


  • Name: Joel Zaloum
  • Role At JFH: Review Writer
  • Age: 26
  • E-mail: Staff Contact Form
  • Marital Status: Single
  • Job Status: Music Director at a Christian Private School, Private Music Teacher
  • Education: Bachelor's Degree in Liberal Arts
  • Hobbies: Playing and listening to music, playing hockey, baseball, volleyball, or really any sport, playing video and board games with family, hiking, watching movies, studying and reading theology, staying up late
  • Pet Peeves: Letting people down, secular culture, when people try too hard to be funny, bad theology
  • Thing you MUST Know: I write my own songs, you can listen to them on my youtube channel. I lead worship at my local church. I was homeschooled all the way up till college, along with all my other siblings. I am 5th out of 7 kids in my family. We were part of a homeschool group which helped with socializing and learning things such as music.
  • Guilty Pleasures: Heavy Metal (does that count???), listening to theology debates. I don't need to lose weight so any food would be irrelevant here haha!
  • Favorite TV Shows: The Honeymooners, Psych, Dual Survival, West Wing, The Chosen, Murder She Wrote, Odd Couple
  • Favorite Movies: Lord of the Rings, Ratatouille, Miracle, How to Train Your Dragon, Chronicles of Narnia, Jungle Book, Prince of Egypt, School of Rock
  • Favorite Books: Lord of the Rings, Narnia (The Silver Chair if I had to choose one), The Holiness of God (Sproul), The God Who Justifies (White), Pilgrims Progress, Screwtape Letters
  • Favorite Theologians: R.C. Sproul, James White, John Macarthur, John Piper, Albert Mohler, Charles Spurgeon, C.S. Lewis, Robert Godfrey
  • Favorite Bands: Phil Keaggy, Mortification, Theocracy, For Today, Neal Morse, Demon Hunter, P.O.D., Stryper, Impending Doom, Tourniquet, Becoming the Archetype, The Getty's, Don Moen, Owl City
  • Favorite Soundtracks: Lord of the Rings (obviously!), How To Train Your Dragon, Prince of Egypt, Newsies, Adam Young Scores, Narnia
  • Favorite Live Shows: Neal Morse, Theocracy, P.O.D., Sleeping Giant, For Today, Phil Keaggy
  • Favorite Animal: Panda Bear, african animals, anything wild and exotic
  • Favorite Food: Ravioli, tacos, honey and butter on a bagel, anything with cheese on it
  • Favorite Breakfast Cereal: All time is corn pops, but recently probably any kind of granola
  • Favorite Drink: Green tea with honey
  • Favorite Candy: Sour patch kids, dark chocolate
  • Most Embarrassing Moment: Fainting on first day of junior high. Falling on a breakaway during a hockey game with no one around me
  • Little-Known Super Power: Making it look like I meant to play that F#m chord instead of G on stage. The ability to play almost any song by ear after hearing it once.

     


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    This Friday, July 4, 2025
    ALBUMS
    Chad Cory America [DREAM]
    William Murphy Payback (Live) [Motown Gospel]
    Tenielle Neda The Way Of Love [Wings]

    SINGLES
    AyeTJ Nothing Else - Single [Syntax]
    Nick Betzing Plead for Me Remix (ft. 1K Phew and Aha Gazelle) - Single [Syntax]
    Christian Back Now - Single [DREAM]
    Ryan Ellis More Than Enough (feat. Lee Vasi) - Single [Provident]
    Illbrio Feel This - Single (independent)
    KDNS Eternity - Single [Syntax]
    Prodi Da Prodigal Bibles & Blickys (ft. Selah the Corner & Da Commissioner) - Single [Syntax]
    Keith Reign Offering Of Praise - Single (independent)
    Remedy Drive I Don't Belong to You (Reimagined) - Single (independent)
    SNT. VINCENT Garden - Single [Syntax]
    Zippy, OnBeatMusic, QEW Kapow - Single [Syntax]

    Next Friday, July 11, 2025
    ALBUMS
    Hammock Nevertheless (independent)
    Jeremy Rosado The Waiting Room [Capitol CMG]
    Seph Schlueter Counting My Blessings [Provident]
    Stars Go Dim Roses [Curb]

    SINGLES
    Jamie MacDonald Desperate (feat. Lauren Daigle) - Single [Capitol CMG]
    Joel Vaughn Get Over It - Single [DREAM]
    Phil Wickham Song of the Saints - Single [Fair Trade]

    VINYL
    The Swirling Eddies Let's Spin! Vinyl [Girder]
    The Swirling Eddies Outdoor Elvis Vinyl [Girder]
    The Swirling Eddies Zoom Daddy Vinyl [Girder]



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