December, 2013
Curb recording artist - and multiple 2014 GRAMMY® Award-nominee - Natalie Grant has announced plans to host GSN's upcoming new original series, IT TAKES A CHURCH. Each one-hour episode of IT TAKES A CHURCH will see members of a Christian congregation play matchmaker in a competition to help an unattached fellow parishioner find their match. GSN has ordered eight episodes of the series, which is scheduled to debut in mid-2014. "I'm so excited to host IT TAKES A CHURCH and have the opportunity to interact with churches all across America to bring a family friendly show based on Christian faith and values," says Grant. "Church has...
Word Entertainment is partnering once again with Mark Burnett, Roma Downey and their production company LightWorkers Media to release SON OF GOD: Music Inspired by the Epic Motion Picture on December 26. The 12-song collection, a musical companion to the 20th Century Fox feature film "Son of God" due out February 28, features music by today's top Christian artists including Meredith Andrews, Chris August, Big Daddy Weave, Jason Castro, Everfound, for KING & COUNTRY, Love & The Outcome, Dara Maclean, Point of Grace, Sidewalk Prophets and Group 1 Crew's No. 1 hit "He Said" (feat. Chris August). Artists included on the album have a combined total of 45 No. 1 hits and 25 Dove Awards. Also included on the compilation is "Oh, Son of God," a brand new song by Grammy-nominated artist and Dove Awards' 2011 "Artist of the Year" Francesca Batistelli...
Platinum and GRAMMY®-nominated rockers Skillet are back on U.S. soil after firmly making their mark overseas following a massive European fall tour with Nickelback where crowds demanded encores, and six back-to-back sold out headline shows in Russia, including over 6,000 screaming fans in Moscow. Just as the band boarded flights from Kiev, Ukraine to the U.S. they heard the news that their current single from their best-seller RISE (Atlantic/Word), “Not Gonna Die” held onto the No. 1 spot on the Christian Rock charts for the third week, is Top 20 and climbing on mainstream Active Rock...
Acclaimed singer/songwriter John Mark McMillan is gearing up for the independent release of his fourth studio album titled Borderland on March 4, 2014. This will be the first album released through McMillan’s recently launched record label, Lionhawk Records. Borderland was funded by a Kickstarter campaign earlier this year raising over $69,000 and backed by more than 1,500 contributors. “Borderland speaks to the idea of the ‘place between places,’” says McMillan, “which is where I feel I've been living as a person...
GSN announced today that it has green-lit the new original series IT TAKES A CHURCH, with 2014 Grammy® Nominee and multi Dove Award winner Natalie Grant as host. In each one-hour episode of IT TAKES A CHURCH, members of a Christian congregation play matchmaker in a competition to help an unattached fellow parishioner find their match. The network has ordered eight episodes of the series, which is scheduled to debut in mid-2014. “IT TAKES A CHURCH is truly a competition show with heart, in every sense of the word,” says Amy Introcaso-Davis, GSN’s EVP Programming...
Five-time GRAMMY® winner and highly acclaimed singer-songwriter Steven Curtis Chapman wrapped a successful media run over the weekend in support of his new album The Glorious Unfolding, his Christmas album JOY and his GRAMMY®-nominated single “Love Take Me Over.” Chapman first appeared on “The Sean Hannity Show,” the second most listened to radio talk show in America. Chapman later performed his hit single “Love Take Me Over,” on CBN’s 700 Club. The song was recently nominated for a GRAMMY® Award for Best Contemporary Christian Song and hit No. 1 on the Christian AC Indicator chart, giving Chapman his 48th No. 1 single. Wrapping the weekend with dual performances on the...
Irish worshippers and Dove Award-nominated band, Rend Collective, are known for pushing artistic boundaries, daring the faithful to re-imagine worship and community. That fresh, aesthetic call to worship has gathered together believers for sold out events in cities across the world, most recently in nine cities spanning seven states in the U.S. in November on the band's "Campfire" tour with Audrey Assad and Bellarive. The tour was named after Rend Collective's highly acclaimed, No. 1 selling iTunes (U.S. Christian/Gospel) recording, Campfire, which features vocals recorded live outdoors earlier this year around a campfire on Ballyholme Beach in Northern Ireland along with members of the collective's Facebook and Twitter community...
For Today's new studio album Fight The Silence is now available for pre-order on the iTunes Store HERE. When fans pre-order the album, they will receive instant downloads of two songs, "Fight The Silence" and "Pariah." Fans can listen to "Pariah" exclusively on Revolver HERE. Fight The Silence will be released on February 4th 2014 via Razor & Tie. The album was produced by Will Putney (Winds of Plague, Suicide Silence). Merch Pre-orders are available HERE...
Grammy and Dove Award-winning vocalist John Schlitt joins a cast of gospel music entertainers when he appears as a guest on Trinity Broadcasting Network's Praise The Lord Christmas Special, which airs at 7 to 9 p.m. P.T. Wednesday. The special, which was taped recently in front of an audience at the TBN studio in Nashville, features Schlitt performing "O Holy Night" and "We Three Kings" from his new CD, The Christmas Project. "I was blessed that Jason Crabb and TBN opened their doors once again to allow me to share my music...
2013 turned out to be another stellar year for Centricity Music, the indie label that opened its doors in 2005. Eight years later, the company has a roster of unparalleled talent with each of them reaching major milestones in their careers. With current artists Aaron Shust, Andrew Peterson, Jason Gray, Unspoken and new signings with Jonny Diaz, Lauren Daigle, Carrollton and Lindsay McCaul, next year promises to be even more impactful, with six new albums and EP releases on tap...
Grammy-award winning rock band Switchfoot gathers its first No. 1 radio hit from its highly anticipated album, Fading West, set to release Jan. 14, 2014 on Atlantic Records/Word. After only nine weeks at radio, "Love Alone Is Worth The Fight" claims the top spot on the Billboard Christian Hot AC/CHR chart with a bullet while simultaneously hitting No. 18 and climbing on the AC Indicator chart. In just its first week at radio, the song garnered plays from every Billboard Christian Hot AC/CHR reporting station, marking the only time this has happened since the chart launched in 2006...
Veteran rock band Guardian will release "The Real Me," the first single from their upcoming album Almost Home, on iTunes and other digital outlets on Friday, December 13th (AmazonMP3 link). "The Real Me" was written by Guardian members Jamie Rowe, Jamey Perrenot, and David Bach. Produced by Perrenot and mixed by Tony Palacios, the song is an uptempo/anthemic rocker featuring the sonic and performance quality that Guardian fans demand from the band...
For Today have released the video for their new song “Fight The Silence” (Watch HERE). The song is from the band’s forthcoming new studio album Fight The Silence, which will be released on February 4th 2014 via Razor & Tie. Merch Pre-orders are available HERE. The video for “Fight The Silence” was directed by Daniel Davison (August Burns Red, The Chariot, Manchester Orchestra, Norma Jean).
“Fight The Silence” has a strong social message...
Just in time for Christmas, Owl City is getting an early gift as his first Christmas single, “Light of Christmas” (featuring TobyMac) is quickly becoming the biggest Christmas song at Christian radio this season. The song is featured on the brand new VeggieTales DVD, Merry Larry and the True Light of Christmas. Making a major impact on several Christian radio formats, "Light of Christmas" is the only new Christmas song...
Acclaimed filmmaker, writer, producer and recording artist Steve Taylor, director of the Blue Like Jazz movie, is taking a sabbatical from filmmaking to release his first studio record in 20 years with his new band, Steve Taylor & The Perfect Foil. Teaming up with veteran musicians Jimmy Abegg, John Mark Painter (Fleming and John) and Peter Furler (Newsboys), Taylor raised over 150% of the funds needed to record the album via a wildly successful Kickstarter campaign that features a video of his comical attempts to renew his "license to rock" at the DMV (Department of Music Veterans)...
On the day that (new) labelmates Switchfoot release their long-anticipated documentary film Fading West, NEEDTOBREATHE has released a short teaser that for a documentary that was filmed on the band's The Reckoning Tour. While there hasn't been much other information released yet about the project, the trailer hints at the band's response to original drummer Joe Stillwell leaving the band (which happened in 2012), as well as being an overall inside look into the band members' lives...
August Burns Red have released a brand new Christmas song just in time to help you get in the Holiday spirit! "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" has been added to their Christmas Album August Burns Red Presents: Sleddin' Hill, A Holiday Album in digital form! The song is premiering at Alternative Press Magazine right now.
"Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" has been added to the digital version of the album, so if you already own the album you can go to iTunes at the link below and get the song...
Curb recording artist Natalie Grant continues her incredible year with another career milestone - a pair of major nominations for the upcoming 56th Annual GRAMMY Awards. "Hurricane," the chart-topping title track from her extraordinary new album, "HURRICANE," was honored in two categories: "Best Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music Performance" and "Best Christian Music Song." "To be nominated is such a huge honor," says Grant, "but these two GRAMMY nominations are especially dear to me, as I wrote the song 'Hurricane...
sixstepsrecords' Matt Redman and Chris Tomlin garnered three total GRAMMY® nominations Friday evening for the 56th Annual GRAMMY® Awards. The internationally renowned artists, songwriters, worship leaders and friends were both nominated in the Best Contemporary Christian Music Album category. Tomlin is celebrating his ninth and tenth career GRAMMY® nominations. The 56th Annual GRAMMY® Awards will broadcast live from the STAPLES Center in Los Angeles on Sunday, January 26, 2014, on CBS at 8 p.m. ET/PT...
Provident Label Group celebrates the GRAMMY® nominations for their label group artists as announced on Friday. The company received a total of five nods in the categories of Best Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music Performance, Best Contemporary Christian Music Song and Best Contemporary Christian Music Album. The 56th Annual GRAMMY® Awards will broadcast live from the STAPLES Center in Los Angeles on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014, on CBS at 8 p.m. ET/PT. “I’m pleased to congratulate our artists and writers for their well deserved GRAMMY® nominations,” said Terry Hemmings...
Show Hope™, a nonprofit orphan care ministry founded by GRAMMY® award-winning Steven Curtis Chapman and his wife Mary Beth, is honored to celebrate this joyous Christmas season with the "Gift of Hope" campaign. With the campaign, Show Hope™ is encouraging families, sponsors, supporters, and others to do something different for Christmas - to end the year by giving a life-changing gift that will impact the lives of children all over the world. To promote this initiative, Show Hope is launching a video on its blog so audiences can see firsthand the difference they're making in the lives of others: http://showhope.org/christmas...
Tonight is the night that UP, "America's Christmas Channel," and national radio powerhouse K-LOVE premieres the original UP Christmas Special "K-LOVE Music City Christmas" (#KLOVEChristmas). Airing at 8pm EST, the special, which was taped before a live audience in Nashville, is hosted by actress/author Candace Cameron Bure (Finding Normal, "Full House") and will also be broadcast to K-LOVE listeners later this month...
Six-time GRAMMY® winner TobyMac received his ninth solo career GRAMMY® nomination on Friday. The recently crowned "Artist of the Year" (Dove Awards) garnered a nod for Best Contemporary Christian Music Song for his hit single "Speak Life." The three week No. 1 song (AC Indicator) was written by the singer with Jamie Moore and Ryan Stevenson and is off his GRAMMY®-award winning and Billboard 200 No. 1 record, EYE ON IT. The music video for the GRAMMY® nominated song will premiere January 2014. The 56th Annual GRAMMY® Awards will broadcast live from the STAPLES Center in Los Angeles on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014, on CBS at 8 p.m. ET/PT...
Capitol CMG Label Group garnered seven GRAMMY nominations for the upcoming 56th Annual GRAMMY Awards. Nominations were announced by the Recording Academy on Friday evening live from Los Angeles. Chris Tomlin received two nominations as a writer and artist (Best Contemporary Christian Music Song, Best Contemporary Christian Music Album) and Mandisa was recognized with two nominations as an artist (Best Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music Performance, Best Contemporary Christian Music Album)...
Grammy and Dove Award-winning vocalist John Schlitt has released the video for "Little Drummer Boy," a song from the legendary vocalist's new Christmas CD, The Christmas Project. The video, which was produced by Saylors Brothers Entertainment, marked its official debut this past weekend at Celebrate Community Church in Sioux Falls, S.D., where Schlitt performed music from The Christmas Project. The video also can be viewed on YouTube: youtube.com/DrummerBoy...
2013 has arguably been the most electrifying year of Mandisa's career, and it's closing on a high note with two GRAMMY® nominations in the Best Contemporary Christian Music Album Category for her best-selling and critically acclaimed project Overcomer, as well as her No. 1 smash single "Overcomer" receiving the nomination for Best Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music Performance. Additionally, the songwriters behind the song (David Garcia, Ben Glover and Christopher Stevens) that reigned No.1 on the National Christian Audience chart for 12 weeks, as well as No. 1 for 14 weeks on SoundScan's Digital Core Genre Christian chart, garnered a nomination for Best Contemporary Christian Music Song. The 56th Annual GRAMMY® Awards will broadcast live from the STAPLES Center in Los Angeles on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014, on CBS at 8 p.m. ET/PT...
Today, December 6, indie electronic/rock band Falling Up released their first Christmas project, uniquely titled Silver City. The partly instrumental album contains 11 tracks and can be downloaded for just $7 from their Bandcamp page. At this time, the band won't have any physical CD copies of the album, stating "Physical copies won't be making it out this year because of the turn around time with printing. Maybe next year we can release a remaster print with some additional tracks...
Shane & Shane in cooperation with StageHop.com present Shane & Shane's 2013 Christmas tour live from Watermark Community Church in Dallas, featuring Phil Wickham. The $4.99 admission fee includes both access to the live webcast as well as an exclusive download of the live Christmas EP, to be recorded during the concert. "It's Christmas tour time of year!!! We are so excited to once again be on the road with our great buddy Phil Wickham for the 2013 Christmas tour. We can only hit so many cities in the few weeks, but on Dec 10...
The second annual K-LOVE Christmas Tour, presented by 25 Entertainment, kicked off with a sold-out crowd Wednesday night in Greensboro, NC. Big Daddy Weave headlining tour featuring for KING & COUNTRY and Meredith Andrews is slated to hit an additional nine cities including four sold-out dates in Pittsburgh, PA; Indianapolis, IN; Chicago, IL, and Kansas City, MO. This past June at the first-ever K-LOVE Fan Awards both Big Daddy Weave and for KING & COUNTRY won two of the top honors with Big Daddy Weave taking home "Song of the Year" for their smash hit "Redeemed" while for KING & COUNTRY were presented the award for "Breakthrough Artist of the Year" by Meredith Andrews...
Van's Warped Tour today unveiled metal band For Today as one of the first five acts confirmed for next year's touring festival. For Today will perform on the entire nationwide run from June 14th through August 3rd. The Van's Warped Tour dates are below. For Today's new studio album Fight the Silence is set to be released on February 4th 2014 through Razor & Tie. Merch Pre-orders are available HERE. The band recently premiered the first song off the new album...
Award-Winning Recording Artist Jaci Velasquez kicks off her 2013 Christmas tour this week. The tour begins in Bloomington, Minn. on December 6. For more details on tickets, visit https://www.facebook.com/JaciVelasquezOfficial. Jaci Velasquez has three RIAA® certified Platinum® albums, three RIAA® certified Gold® albums, 16 number one singles, 6 singles in the top 10, 7 Dove Awards...
Singer/songwriter, worship leader and author Clay Crosse is set to celebrate the Christmas season in his new church home at First Baptist Church of Bentonville, in Bentonville, Ark., where the four-time Dove Award winner has been appointed to serve as worship pastor. In his first major musical production at FBC, the church choirs, under Crosse's leadership, will present "Sing Christmas 2013!," featuring all the choirs during worship services on Sunday, December 8. A family celebration and children's choir program will be held during that evening...
Five-time GRAMMY® winner and highly acclaimed singer-songwriter Steven Curtis Chapman has wrapped his hectic and successful "The Glorious Unfolding Tour." With special guests Laura Story and Jason Gray, Chapman sold out 17 shows on the coast-to-coast run in support of his new album, The Glorious Unfolding, which released earlier this year. "Steven is a timeless professional with an incredible heart on and off stage. 'The Glorious Unfolding Tour' was one of the best tours of the year," said Mike Alley, Director of 48Live Productions...
Grammy-award winning rock band Switchfoot will release their debut feature film, Fading West, across all leading Video On Demand platforms in the U.S. on December 10, including iTunes, Amazon, Instant Video, Cable Movies on Demand, Google Play, Xbox Video, Sony Playstation, Cinemanow and Vudu with digital entertainment curator, FilmBuff. In addition, fans can request screenings of the film in a number of markets around the country in partnership with Gathr...
Just before Thanksgiving, artist/producer/director Steve Taylor launched a Kickstarter campaign in order to fund a brand new album with his all-star band, "The Perfect Foil." The goal, a hefty $40,000, was reached in 36 hours so the band announced today that a new goal has been set to bring the show on the road.
Today, Taylor announced: "What to do when all your dreams come true in 36 hours? Implant new dreams! WE WANT TO SEE YOUR FACES! If you'd like to see us on tour, have we got a deal for you: You can pre-buy a concert ticket/backstage pass for $25 and fund our first tour ever...
This week marks the "real" opening of Christmas season for GRAMMY-nominated, five-time GMA Dove Award winning artist Brandon Heath and his devoted fans. With the recent release of the singer/songwriter's first Christmas album, Christmas Is Here, Heath's highly viewed, tongue-in-cheek online campaign has been pounding the message that Christmas music and displays should be reserved for after Thanksgiving. The campaign has already reached more than 5.8 million fans...
Foreign & Familiar, the anticipated documentary from August Burns Red chronicling the entire 18-month touring cycle behind their 2011 album, Leveler, is now available as a Best Buy exclusive BluRay + CD edition with a special one-day Cyber Monday price of $8.99.
Foreign & Familiar Best Buy Exclusive Edition: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/rescue-restore-11-25-cd/2728201.p?id=2769424&skuId=2728201. Beginning tomorrow, 12/3, Foreign & Familiar will be available elsewhere in a DVD + CD combo as well as an iTunes exclusive digital download...
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