November, 2010
David Crowder*Band’s music video composed of 700,000 LITE-BRITE ® pegs will air on The Today Show tomorrow morning, Wed. Dec. 1. The “SMS (Shine)” video will be featured on the show’s weekly webtastic series with Sara Haines in the 10am EST hour. The Today Show airs live on NBC starting at 7am EST every weekday.
The video portraying a love story made completely of LITE-BRITE ® pegs was done solely by hand...
In what is a rather surprising announcement, Haste The Day recently posted on their website HasteTheDay.com that they will no longer continue on together in 2011. Please read the statement in their own words: "This is a very difficult announcement to make, but Haste The Day will be doing its final tour February - March 2011. It has been an incredible 10 years and we want to thank all of our amazing fans who have stuck with us through all of...
Sanctus Real lead vocalist Matt Hammitt and his wife, Sarah, took their 10-week old baby boy, Bowen Matthew, home Nov. 18 from the hospital for the first time since he was born Sept. 9. Bowen, whose name means “small victorious one,” was born with a serious heart defect called Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS), and has gone through heart surgery, an infection and other complications since being born. His parents write in their blog at http://bowensheart.com/...
It's that time of year for great holiday store deals! Centricity Music is joining in with $3.99 albums this weekend! Check out the sale details below...
"Happy Thanksgiving everyone! We just wanted to send a quick email to remind you that Bethlehem Skyline 2 is now available for all of your Christmas music needs! The album is a compliation of classic and new Christmas songs by 8 of Centricity's artists including Downhere, Jason Gray, Andrew Peterson, Sixteen Cities, Me In Motion, Matt Papa, High Valley, and Lanae' Hale! It's a great variety of different music genres for the whole family...
Multi-platinum selling artist Chris Tomlin’s latest album And If Our God Is For Us... the Grammy® nominees’ seventh studio album, has debuted on the Billboard Top 200 at No. 17, and No. 1 on Billboard’s Christian chart, selling over 45,000 units amidst glowing reviews. Simultaneously, Tomlin's Christmas CD, Glory In The Highest: Christmas Songs of Worship is in the Top 200 as well, at No. 20, giving Tomlin the incredibly rare opportunity...
Dave Barnes' newly released holiday CD, Very Merry Christmas, has been receiving acclaim since it hit stores and online earlier this month, courtesy of Razor & Tie. To spread the holiday cheer and to kick off the holiday season, Barnes' song "Very Merry Christmas" is the free iTunes Discovery Download this week.
Also obtaining much-deserved acclaim is Barnes' music video for "Christmas Tonight...
Centricity Music’s Jason Gray has rapidly earned the reputation as one of the hardest working artists in the Christian music industry. He has just completed his opening act gig with World Vision’s Make A Difference Tour 2010, which featured Max Lucado, Michael W. Smith, TobyMac and Third Day. Gray also served as a “behind the scenes” reporter for the tour and the video aired exclusively on...
Abandon Kansas singer Jeremy Spring gets set to hit the road where he will play living rooms across America, literally on a solo acoustic run deemed The Living Room Tour II, dates kick off on November 26. For show specific information visit www.abandonkansaslovesyou.com or http://jeremyspring.tumblr.com/ “Basically, I would like to sit in your living room and share some music with an acoustic guitar...
Seabird is partnering with the charitable organization, Mocha Club, for their upcoming “Over the Hills and Everywhere Tour” with Ben Rector. The tour will launch in early Dec. and wrap towards the middle of the month, a complete tour schedule is listed below. Mocha Club is about connecting your community with their community in Africa by giving up $7 a month, the cost of 2 mochas. Specifically, Seabird’s partnership will assist in the education efforts of the Mocha Club established in schools in Africa such as Emmanuel Vo-Tech School in Kenya, Learn to Earn in South Africa...
With Thanksgiving just around the corner, Fervent Records young trio sensation pureNRG (comprised of Caroline, Carolyne, and Jordan) are giving thanks for their many blessings as they celebrate the release of the group’s last album together Graduation: The Best of pureNRG, available now on their website www.purenrgonline.com and at all Christian retailers. In just a few years pureNRG has accomplished more than most artists twice their age and are excited to move on to the next chapter...
Randy Phillips of Phillips, Craig & Dean recently donated $15,000 from his Texas Ranger’s fan favorite tune, “The Claw,” to Col. Dave Jones of Ft. Hood’s Phantom Trackers unit. The full proceeds from the song will go to support the families of the 400 piece squadron while they are serving in the most dangerous parts of Afghanistan for a year, and ensure that their families experience memorable times during their deployment such...
Multi-platinum selling band MercyMe was named America’s Favorite Contemporary Inspirational Artist at last night’s 2010 American Music Awards. The ceremony aired on ABC and was held at the NOKIA Theater in Los Angeles. Winning by fan vote for their latest album The Generous Mr. Lovewell (INO Records), the GRAMMY ® nominated band previously took home the title in 2004. Since then...
One year after the release of their critically acclaimed release “Welcome to the Masquerade,” Tooth & Nail Records’ Thousand Foot Krutch celebrates their third No. 1 Rock single from the album and their 10th career Rock single with “E For Extinction,” for the past two weeks. Their CHR single “Look Away” is already climbing the charts as their third Top 20 CHR single from this album...
Grammy Award ® Winning artist TobyMac will kick off 2011 continuing to astound and entertain audiences as he launches his Winter Wonder Slam Tour this January. Also accompanying the multi-platinum selling artist will be Dove Award winning singer/songwriter Brandon Heath and Gotee Records’ House of Heroes.
The tour will visit U.S cities starting January 14th in Tulsa, OK at the Mabee Center and carry through to February 20th in Cincinnati, OH at the Gardens, visiting major markets such as Los Angeles...
The soulful five-piece rock band Echoing Angels recently completed the biggest radio tour of their career promoting their latest single, "Say What You Believe." For one full month, the band ventured across the nation visiting a total of 25 states, stopping by 52 CHR and AC stations and tracking an astounding 10,000 miles along the way. Averaging a stop in three cities a day, the band personally hand-delivered their radio single to each station...
GRAMMY and GMA Dove Award winning artist Rebecca St. James, respected as one of contemporary Christian Music’s groundbreaking and key influential personalities, announced her signing to Provident Label Group’s Beach Street/Reunion Records. Plans for a 2011 worship project, produced by Mark Miller (Casting Crowns), are currently in motion.
“I couldn’t be more excited to be in partnership with Terry Hemmings and the Provident team,” shares St. James. “I’ve spent the past several months writing and recording new music with Mark Miller...
2010 has certainly been a momentous year for Newsboys. From their July CD release of Born Again to the major radio airplay with both the No. 1 hit "Born Again" and current radio single "Way Beyond Myself," to the consistent touring at venues and festivals, the band just hasn't stopped. Top that off with kicking off a remix contest, filming music videos and releasing their first-ever Christmas project, Christmas! A Newsboys Holiday, the year is not yet over for Newsboys...
Matthew West is set to perform his single “My Own Little World” from his latest album inspired by 10,000 stories titled The Story of Your Life this Fri. Nov. 19 on the popular CBN show, The 700 Club. To find out where and when to catch The 700 Club in your area, visit http://www.cbn.com/700club/ShowInfo/Schedule/schedule.aspx. The performance on the 700 Club comes just days after West and the Caple family who inspired the song “To Me” appeared on...
Fervent Records' hot debut artist Chris August has a lot to be thankful this Thanksgiving with his smash No. 1 single “Starry Night” holding the coveted No. 1 spot on both the Christian AC Monitored Chart and the National Christian Audience Chart for the third week in a row, making this song the most played single in the Christian format. "Starry Night" has also become a fan-favorite, selling well over 80,000 digital singles-to-date. This catchy, up-tempo tune is from August’s debut album No Far Away...
One of Christian music’s most acclaimed singer/songwriters and platinum-selling artist Mark Schultz is hitting the road this winter to headline a Christmas tour with featured artist DOWNHERE. The “How Many Kings” Christmas Tour is sponsored by World Vision and will also feature CCM artist Alli Rogers. The 16-city tour begins in Hastings, Nebraska on December 2, running through the 19th in Greenford, OH...
On the heels of their latest project AWAKE receiving RIAA Gold status in just 10 months, Atlantic/Ardent/INO rockers Skillet are now celebrating the Gold certification (over 500,000 units) of their digital single for the smash hit "Monster." In addition to being a top 5 Active Mainstream Rock single, "Monster" was also a hit Christian rock single , and was used during the “25th Anniversary of WrestleMania...
Traversing the world’s continents, Hillsong UNITED announces its return to North America Feb/March 2011 for its AFTERMATH North American Tour. The tour dates will be revealed every half hour today beginning at 5:00 pm EST / 2:00 pm PST. As the tour dates are announced, an event page will go up on Hillsong UNITED’s Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/hillsongunited), where the band has 1.2 million friends. On this page, fans can RSVP to receive a password...
Grammy-nominated, indie rock pioneers The Choir waited five years to release Burning Like the Midnight Sun in the summer of 2010, unsure of how it would be received. While the band has a loyal and dedicated following, this 12th project in the band’s catalog felt like a bit of a risk. But with media outlets like the Chicago Sun-Times giving the album 4 out of 4 stars and calling it “a late career triumph,” and a sudden new generation of fans discovering past projects, the band has found new momentum...
Guitar maestro Phil Keaggy has joined forces with his Glass Harp bandmate, drummer John Sferra, and keyboardist Jack Giering to create some of the tastiest jazz-funk licks to come out of Music City in a long, long time. Releasing today, The Phil Keaggy Trio's Inter-Dimensional Traveler features 12 brand new tunes ranging in sonic vitality from Traffic to Booker T & the MGs to Jeff Beck, with an eclectic mix...
On GOOD MORNING AMERICA tomorrow morning, November 16th, the Multi-platinum and Grammy Award winning artist Amy Grant, and the show's co-host Robin Roberts will talk about being "50 & Fabulous," as both women prepare to celebrate this incredible milestone in their lives (Roberts on November 23rd, Grant just two days later on November 25th). The segment will air early in the 8am EST hour on ABC. Along with discussing how they'll both celebrate turning 50, in a pre taped interview the ladies pondered...
Show Hope™ founders Steven Curtis and Mary Beth Chapman dreamed for years about creating a major entertainment event for Nashville. They wanted to be able to give back to the supporting community as well as to serve as a platform to celebrate and illuminate the mission of Show Hope, their adoption assistance and orphan care organization. They are proud to announce that for the second year in a row, their dream will again become a reality! On Friday, April 15th, 2011, Show Hope will present the 2nd Annual Spring Celebration featuring the concert production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Enchanted Edition...
Caedmon’s Call’s Raising Up the Dead album will be featured as AmazonMP3’s “Deal of the Day,” Mon. Nov. 15. The album produced by member Derek Webb will be priced at only $3.99. The following day, Raising Up the Dead will release to all digital retailers. To view the album on AmazonMP3's "Deal of the Day," click here...
For yet another year the popular Christmas Rock Night festival will attract Christian rock fans form all over Europe to this well-know German fest established more than 3 decades ago. The ultimate Christian rock and roll weekend to be held in Ennepetal near Düsseldorf kicks off December 3 at 5 pm and runs through till Sunday morning 1 am.
24 international and national bands will be performing 33 concerts on 2 stages. CRN 2010 will be headlined by Kutless and Disciple, both bands playing 2 sets over the weekend...
TLC and Provident Label Group today confirmed that the song “Follow Me There,” from multi-platinum rock band THIRD DAY, has been selected as theme music inside the new docu-series SARAH PALIN’S ALASKA. In addition, TLC and Sony Music Entertainment’s Provident Label Group have partnered to cross-promote both brands during the series run.
Premiering Sunday, November 14, 2010 at 9/8c on TLC, SARAH PALIN’S ALASKA takes viewers into the country’s ‘last frontier’ through...
Matthew West will perform “To Me” on Fox & Friends this Sun. morning, Nov. 14. The top-rated Fox News morning show airs from 6-10am EST on the Fox News Channel.
The song comes from the Grammy ® nominated, singer/songwriter’s album, The Story of Your Life, generated by 10,000 stories he received from every state in the U.S. and 20 countries internationally. Appearing alongside West will be the family whose letter inspired the song. He will also...
House of Heroes is gearing up for the holidays by lending tracks to two new Christmas compilation releases. ‘Tis The Season To Be Gotee, out now and the Warner Bros. release Gift Wrapped II: Snowed In, available November 23.
House of Heroes' version of "O Come, O Come Emmanuel" is featured on Warner Bros. Records' holiday album Gift Wrapped II: Snowed In, which features 11 brand-new recordings...
Integrity Music's Israel Houghton is interviewed on Fox News this Saturday, Nov. 13 at Noon CST/1:00pm EST. Hougton is interviewed by Fox reporter Kelly Wright as part of his regular "Beyond the Dream" segment, which has recently featured Denzel Washington and Joel Osteen.
Multiple GRAMMY, Stellar and Dove Award winner, Soul Train Award winner and double RIAA certified Gold-selling artist Israel Houghton released his critically acclaimed album...
America has heard her on MTV’s The Hills and NBC’s The Biggest Loser, and this week Sparrow recording artist Britt Nicole is debuting her brand new music video, “Headphones” on iTunes ® http://is.gd/gS9B1. After just 24 hours of being release, it skyrocketed to No. 1 on the Christian & Gospel iTunes®“ video chart. Headphones” can be heard on her critically acclaimed sophomore album The Lost Get Found in addition to a new studio version on her...
For what's become a Switchfoot tradition, the band has released unique Christmas merch packages for several years now, available exclusively through their online merch store. In past years, exclusive DVDs (like Switchfootage or 2004's Feet Don't Fail Me Now...), CDs and assorted goodies have been made available just through these online purchases. This year, the long awaited EP Eastern Hymns For Western Shores will finally see the light of day. Check out the band's announcement...
After four successful solo albums, three of which have been certified Gold and received Grammy ® nominations, five-time Grammy ® Award-winning artist TobyMac is excited to share his entire work of music videos on one DVD, TobyMac: Moving Pictures, available nationwide now.
The DVD features all of TobyMac’s creative music videos from his solo career including his biggest hits “Irene”, “Extreme Days”, “Gone”, “Boomin’”, “Lose My Soul” and more...
Showbread harbors some strange tendencies when it comes to music and art. Hardcore punk, pop, alternative and industrial are only a few of the genres that make up the bizarre amalgamation that is Showbread’s self described “Raw Rock” sound. Stranger still is the way one genre devours another on each new Showbread record, jarring and dividing their fan base every time. On the band’s sixth album Who Can Know It?—which will be released as a free download through Comeandlive.com...
Multi-platinum recording artists ` and Michael W. Smith have announced plans for a multi-city U.S. tour that will reunite these two iconic singer/songwriters for the first time on the road together (for a non-holiday tour) in more than two decades. Kicking off in early February, the “2 Friends” tour is slated to hit approximately 20 cities across the country, including Chicago, Omaha, Minneapolis and Cleveland, among others.
Undoubtedly a landmark experience for music fans, the tour showcases two of Christian...
Shawn McDonald will release his fourth album with Sparrow Records, Closer, on March 22, 2011. The current radio single, “Closer,” is also available to consumers today with its retail debut on iTunes ®. To purchase the single, visit http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/closer-single/id398828568.
Closer comes as the newest recording from McDonald in three years. The album offers themes of hope and redemption through the storms of life...
Critically Acclaimed singer/songwriter Sara Groves brings the Christmas spirit to the women of an Illinois prison in her upcoming holiday release Sara Groves O Holy Night Tour: Live The Prison Show. In the spirit of giving, Groves is making the album available to everyone for free through www.sararoves.com starting today.
The INO Recording artist partnered with Hope Shows Ministry, an organization that produces Christian concerts in prisons...
On the heels of releasing their third studio album, Today, 33Miles will be releasing their first, full-length Christmas record titled Believe. The Christmas CD will be sold separately at all digital retailers, and will also be available in stores with purchase of their latest recording Today.
"Christmas is my absolute favorite time of year,” explains 33Miles’ Jason Barton. “Chris and I have both wanted to make a Christmas record since childhood...
Tooth & Nail Records / BEC Recordings’ Hawk Nelson has just finished their fifth studio release, “Crazy Love,” set to release on February 8, 2011. Produced with Ian Eskelin (All Star United, Francesca Battistelli, Starfield), “Crazy Love” is already generating a buzz among fans. Last week, more than 20,000 fans downloaded a free new track, “Skeleton,” in just four days. Hawk Nelson promises fans that this new release will be a combination of punk rock and new styles...
We are sad to announce the passing of Randy Miller, drummer from the band, The Myriad, on November 5, 2010. A wonderful husband, dedicated father, beloved friend and talented musician, Randy had been battling chondrosarcoma, a form of bone cancer since 2008. Randy was 39 years old.
Randall J. Miller was born February 9, 1971 in Long Beach, CA, and moved to Redding, CA in 1985...
Abandon Kansas recently finished recording their full-length album for Gotee Records, Ad Astra Per Aspera (latin for "to the stars through difficulties") with producer Mark Lee Townsend (Deas Vail, House of Heroes). To give fans an early taste of Ad Astra Per Aspera, the first single from the release ‘The Golden State’ will be available on iTunes and all digital outlets on November 5...
On the heels of his holiday CD debut, Very Merry Christmas, acclaimed songwriter and performer Dave Barnes is releasing his new Christmas music video for the song "Christmas Tonight," which features the guest vocals of Hillary Scott from Lady Antebellum. Filmed in Los Angeles, the video guest stars movie and television actress Jennifer Love Hewitt. "Christmas Tonight" will premiere on Barnes' You Tube channel next week...
Disciple announced today their involvement in RED's fall "Nothing & Everything Tour" with Brian "Head" Welch (of Korn) and Silverline. Check out the dates below...
"We help kick off the Nothing & Everything Tour with Red, Disciple, Brian "Head" Welch & Silverline tonight in California!
For current dates and ticket information, hit up our TOUR section...
The stars are aligning for Fervent Records' hot debut artist Chris August whose smash single “Starry Night” secured the No. 1 spot on both the Christian AC Monitored Chart and the National Christian Audience Chart this week, making the song the most played single in the Christian format, reaching over 7.5 million fans. Not to mention, August is the first new artist to reach No. 1 at Christian AC Monitored with a debut single in over three years. "Starry Night" has been in the Top 10 for the past 13...
UNDEROATH’s striking video for their first single “In Division” premieres today on VEVO.com. The dream-like clip finds the band performing in a house that becomes engulfed with water, complimenting the powerful track. View the video here: http://www.vevo.com/watch/underoath/in-division/USTN11000424.
As UNDEROATH prepare for the release of their much-anticipated fifth album Ř (DISAMBIGUATION)--out November 9 on Solid State/Tooth & Nail--the group will host...
ADVENT CHRISTMAS, VOLUME 2 by Future of Forestry, releases today, November 2, 2010, through iTunes and on the www.futureofforestry.com website. Over the coming weeks the EP will appear on additional online music sites and at live events during the band’s holiday tour. The EP features the holiday classics "Joy To The World," "Do You Hear What I Hear?," "Angels We Have Heard On High," and "Pie Jesu," as well the original song "The Earth Stood Still...
Tenth Avenue North continues to build an undeniable reputation as the next A-level breakthrough artist in today’s Christian music marketplace. The road-steady, Dove Award-winning progressive pop band, anchors itself with a heart for “knowing Christ and making Him known” which is resonating with audiences packing venues across the country to catch The Light Meets The Dark fall tour.
In addition to successful headlining tour numbers “You Are More” -- the band’s second single from its sophomore The Light Meets The Dark...
Seabird is releasing a seven-song Christmas EP Over the Hills and Everywhere. The EP is available now exclusively with iTunes ®.
Over the Hills and Everywhere comes as a follow-up to the band’s release of the song “Joy to the World” which was featured on an episode of “Grey’s Anatomy” during last year’s holiday season...
BEC Recordings’ artist Jeremy Camp was honored last week with the ASCAP Songwriter / Artist of the Year Award at the 32nd Annual ASCAP Christian Music Awards in Nashville, TN. This is the first year for the Songwriter / Artist of the Year Award category, which recognizes not only the songwriter, but the artist that performs his/her own songs.
"I am so incredibly honored and humbled to receive this award,” shares Jeremy Camp. “My sincere thanks to ASCAP for all the work they do for artists and songwriters, like myself...
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