October 2010
MOVE, the 11th studio album from multi-Platinum rock band Third Day, takes a spot inside the Top 10 on this week’s Billboard Top 200 Album Chart and No. 1 on the Billboard Top Current Contemporary Christian Chart. Produced by Paul Moak (Mat Kearney, Martha Wainwright), MOVE follows Revelation, which debuted at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 in 2008, and 2009’s CD/DVD Live Revelations, which won the band its fourth GRAMMY® earlier this year.
Mac Powell, Third Day’s lead singer states, “We have such loyal and dedicated fans. We want to thank them for their support of our new project...
Dove Award winning Sidewalk Prophets will be offering a FREE download of their song "All Things New" through Amazon MP3 (http://budurl.com/arxd). The song will be featured as the Free Song of the Day Thursday, October 28 only.
Currently on the road with Kutless for the "It Is Well" Tour, the band is gearing up for Winter Jam 2011 with label mates Francesca Battistelli, Chris August, and Chris Sligh...
Ivoryline's music video for "Instincts" has been selected as one of mtvU's Freshman Five and is up for voting to get into regular rotation on the network.
Fans are encouraged to vote as many times as they'd like on the site as voting is unlimited until the winner is announced on Friday, October 29th.
The video directed by Van Blumreich first premiered in September on the band's Facebook page...
Big Idea Entertainment, the leading faith-based studio and producer of children’s and family programming, characters and brands, announced today that the Company has appointed VeggieTales® co-creator and VP of Development, Mike Nawrocki, to Executive Vice President of Big Idea Entertainment Studios. In his new role, Nawrocki will give oversight and leadership to all Big Idea productions. In addition, Big Idea Entertainment has retained the services of Mark Steele, President and Executive Creative of Steelehouse Productions, to the newly created role of Chief of Creative Affairs, Big Idea Entertainment...
Following a packed summer of touring with the Vans Warped Tour in the Girlz Garage, sister duo Poema is thrilled to announce their digital holiday release, “Once A Year,” on November 16th. This five-song digital release features two original tracks and three classics (track listing below). It will be available digitally for $4.99. Following the holidays, Poema will continue to work on their full-length debut for 2011.
"We're so thankful to have been able to record this Christmas EP,” shares Poema. “Our earliest studio experiences were recording Christmas songs...
Christian music’s largest annual tour, the record-breaking Winter Jam Tour Spectacular, is set to return bigger than ever in 2011, it was announced yesterday. Produced by Premier Productions and presented by Holt International, the tour will feature the most artists and dates in its 16-year history.
Hosted by GRAMMY®-nominated NewSong, the Winter Jam 2011 Tour Spectacular will also feature Newsboys; David Crowder Band; Kutless; Francesca Battistelli; RED; KJ-52, and guest speaker Tony Nolan...
Fervent Records' Chris August is one of the hottest rising newcomers on the Christian Music scene, fitting for this singer/songwriter of the last name “August.” And there is no cooling off in sight as August heads to Indianapolis, IN to co-host K-LOVE’s highly rated morning show, “Mornings with Lisa and Eric.” August will guest co-host Wednesday, October 27 with Eric to fill in for Lisa while she is on vacation. K-LOVE is the largest Christian radio network and the morning show is heard nationwide on all of the network’s affiliate stations...
Known for their captivating live performances, Atlantic Recording artist NEEDTOBREATHE has released a brand new digital live EP entitled Live Horses to iTunes. Check out their announcement of the project below... "We are insanely happy to announce the release of our first live EP ever… Live Horses! Live Horses is a collection of live recordings from our tours following the release of The Outsiders. It includes four tracks recorded live on tour and one track recorded live at PLANTATION STUDIOS...
With great nationwide mainstream success, Owl City is not afraid to stand up for their faith. Today, Adam Young (AKA "Owl City") posted a blog on his website with a stream of a cover of the worship song "In Christ Alone." Check out the blog copied below and visit this link to hear his cover...
Last year, Falling Up did announce their "permanent break-up," so it's a bit surprising that the band just announced on their myspace blog that new music is coming. Check out the vague but to the point announcement... "New music is in the works. Yes we announced a permanent break last winter, but that doesn't mean we can't still record music silly kids!
Spread the word."...
Chosen Records' recording artist The Wrecking has released their latest music video featuring the first winner from the America's Got Talent TV show, Bianca Ryan. Ryan took home the prize in 2006 when she was eleven years old. Now sixteen, Ryan stars in The Wrecking's "About to Fall" music video, directed by Jeffrey Kubach whose resume includes the hit TV show Survivor.
“We met Bianca when we played at her church,” says Darren Elder, drummer for The Wrecking. “She's obviously a talented girl and we were thrilled to be able to work with her on this video...
The music video for Matthew West’s current hit radio single “My Own Little World” will debut on national television tomorrow night, Fri. Oct. 22, on GMC at 8pm EST. The video will also appear on the channel’s website, www.gmclife.com. To find viewing channels for your area, visit http://gmc.viewerlink.tv/?zip=.
The broadcast premiere will be the follow-up to the online debuts from both KLove and CNN Online...
Just weeks after 33Miles released their third studio album Today, the band is appearing on TBN’s top-rated “Praise the Lord” tomorrow, Fri. Oct. 22 at 10pm EST. Jason Barton and Chris Lockwood will be performing songs such as “Where I Wanna Go” and “What Grace Looks Like” as well as sitting down for an interview with host Jason Crabb alongside other performers Ernie Haase & Signature Sound and more. For viewing options for your area, visit http://www.tbn.org/watch-us/how-to-watch-tbn.
33Miles’ Today released on Oct. 5, and was produced by Ian Eskelin (Francesca Battistelli...
Industry vets Project 86 have hit a major career milestone commemorating their 15th year as a band. This is no small feat in an ever-changing industry where most bands fail to find longevity. After releasing 7 full-length albums, 2 EP's, selling nearly half a million records, and playing over 1500 shows in 10 different countries this accomplished group has much to celebrate.
The band is kicking off their anniversary year by releasing their first ever live record titled 15. Live on December 7th...
Critically acclaimed Christian pop/rock band Circleslide celebrated the release of their sophomore album, Echoes of the Light, with a special live performance at Nashville's Apple store last week. Fans gathered amidst the shiny new Macs, iPads, iPhones and iPods to hear the guitar-driven band play songs from Echoes of the Light and to get an opportunity to meet the band members...
Calling all Newsboys fans! The band and Inpop Records want you to be part of their first-ever Newsboys' Remix Competition for their current hit radio single, "Way Beyond Myself." The contest is open to fans of all ages and no production experience is required. The winning remix, chosen by a combination of fans votes and by Newsboys themselves, will then be featured on the band's expanded Born Again edition, set for a March 29th, 2011 release date...
Abandon Kansas is already looking forward to 2011 as they have recently finished recording their full-length album on 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 on November 2...
You may have heard the new single "Hold On" from TobyMac on your local Christian radio station, and noticed that it's a bit different from the Tonight album version. Toby describes it as "kinda like the granola version, a little less affected, au naturel." The radio version is available today on iTunes for $1.29. And if you don't have Tonight yet, get it now on iTunes for just $8.99. The new DVD Moving Pictures marks the first opportunity to own all of TobyMac's music videos on one DVD...
David Crowder*Band’s self-made new music video for their latest single “SMS (Shine)” debuts today using an unrivaled 700,000 LITE-BRITE ® pegs. Releasing today on VEVO.com, the video also features dancing monkeys, jumping frogs and of course an appearance from the David Crowder*Band themselves. The video portraying a love story made completely of LITE-BRITE ® pegs was done solely by hand. Even details such as the piano playing in the background and the monkeys beating a drum in perfect time was done...
MOVE, the 11th studio album from multi-Platinum rock band Third Day, hits retail outlets nationwide, today. Produced by Paul Moak (Mat Kearney, Martha Wainwright), MOVE follows Revelation, which debuted at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 in 2008, and 2009’s CD/DVD Live Revelations, which won the band its fourth GRAMMY® earlier this year.
MOVE releases amid a flurry of positive media including a review of the album in today...
Today, Project 86 announced the full track line-up of their upcoming debut live project, 15. Live.:
"The moment you have all been waiting for is here. Fifteen years. Twelve songs. One Purpose. We are so excited to bring to you this, our first live album. This one is dedicated to you, the fans...
This unprecedented compilation was written and performed for the Freedom project by many of the biggest names in Christian music – artists MercyMe, tobyMac, Jars of Clay and Tenth Avenue North – who share in the vision of the International Justice Mission and donated their time and proceeds to this project. Third Day takes the lead with the first track, entitled “Arise,” an amazing song that cries out to God for freedom and forgiveness. The accompanying DVD is IJM’s compelling presentation on ending human slavery and includes a feature on The James Fund...
Hawk Nelson recently posted a brand new behind-the-scenes video of the photoshoot they did for their new album Crazy Love coming out in February 2011 from BEC Recordings. The video is pretty candid, but you can get a sneak peek at some new music playing in the background while front man Jason Dunn goofs up his shots. The band is currently headlining a US Tour with John Reuben and Britt Nicole...
House of Heroes' music video for “God Save The Foolish Kings” is in the running for rotation on mtvU’s The Freshmen. Voting starts on October 18 and lasts through October 22, and fan votes determine which video gets into rotation on mtvU. Cast your vote for "God Save The Foolish Kings" at http://www.mtvu.com/category/music/the-freshmen.
House of Heroes' latest release SUBURBA, produced by Mark Lee Townsend...
As UNDEROATH prepare for the release of their much-anticipated fifth album Ø (DISAMBIGUATION)--out November 9 on Solid State/Tooth & Nail--early reviews are beginning to appear. Alternative Press magazine gave the full length disc 4.5-out-of-5 stars in the forthcoming December issue (see below).
In video news, the group will shoot the video for their new single “In Division” in Florida over the weekend...
The up and coming and vastly emerging Chosen Records Christian/Rock/Pop band The Wrecking (www.myspace.com/thewrecking), announces the dates for their second Air 1 Radio national tour. The Air 1 Freedom Tour Presented by Not For Sale Campaign will kick off on October 29, 2010 in Kansas City, Missouri. Following the success of a powerfully impacting Air 1 Radio spring tour, The Wrecking will pair up with other musical acts Vota and Satellites and Sirens with special guest appearance by Big Kettle Drum for the Air 1 Freedom Tour...
Five-time Grammy ® Award winning artist TobyMac receives another honorable nod by the American Music Awards garnering his second nomination for Favorite Contemporary Inspirational Artist. Produced by dick clark productions, the live broadcast will take place at the NOKIA Theater L.A. on Sunday, November 21 at 8pm (EST/PST) on ABC.
For the fourth consecutive year, winners will be determined by online voting at the official Coca-Cola voting location www.amavote.com as well as ama.abc.com...
Multi-platinum selling band MercyMe garners their third American Music Award nomination for Favorite Artist in Contemporary Inspirational Category. Previously winning the title in 2004, MercyMe is one of three nominees in the genre. Produced by dick clark productions, the live broadcast will take place at the NOKIA Theater L.A. on Sunday, November 21 at 8pm (EST/PST) on ABC.
For the fourth year, winners will be determined by online voting at the official Coca-Cola voting location...
With nine No. 1 radio singles, three GRAMMY nominations, 16 Dove Awards, a platinum and two gold albums to his credit, Chris Tomlin is among the most well-known and influential artists in contemporary Christian music. On November 16th, on the heels of celebrating the RIAA Gold Status of 2008s HELLO LOVE, Tomlin will deliver his seventh recording for sixstepsrecords, "AND IF OUR GOD IS FOR US...". The album's first single, "I Will Follow," is already Top 10 on Christian AC...
The album inspired by 10,000 stories from around the world has been well received by fans making it the No. 3 Christian album in the country according to soundscan and the No. 41 album on the Billboard Top 200. Additionally, Matthew West’s The Story of Your Life consistently held the No. 2 spot on the iTunes ® Christian and Gospel Album charts throughout its street week helping to make it No. 2 on the Christian/Gospel Current Digital Albums Chart...
Multi-Platinum, GRAMMY winning artist Casting Crowns is once again tapped as a “Favorite Artist” nominee for the 2010 American Music Awards® (AMAs) in the Contemporary Inspirational category, as announced this week during a press conference from the JW Marriott Los Angeles at L.A. LIVE. Casting Crowns won the AMA Inspirational category in 2007. This is the band’s fifth career AMA nomination. The live broadcast of the 38th annual AMAs will take place at the NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE on SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21st (8:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT)...
On October 12th, Leeland released a new worship EP entitled Majesty to iTunes. Two of the tracks are b-sides from their 2009 release, Love Is On The Move with the third being a cover of the popular worship song, "Majesty." Check out the band's announcement and video below...
Yesterday, Mat Kearney released his live video recording, Live At The Fillmore San Francisco, in audio form exclusively on iTunes, making all 17 tracks available to download for the first time. The performance took place in November 2009 and was released in video form earlier this year. Click here to check out the project on iTunes now...
Josh Wilson, currently on tour with Matthew West and Jonny Diaz, released his new single "I Refuse" off his upcoming release, See You, due out February 15th. The song is available now wherever you buy digital music including iTunes and Amazon...
Church music teams across the nation still have the unique opportunity to come together for training and encouragement at Integrity Music's popular Seminars4Worship Glorious events this fall and based on the response from the first event held last week in Pittsburgh, the upcoming Seminars in Boston, Raleigh-Durham, Augusta and Mobile are not to be missed.
As part of Integrity Music's commitment to serve and equip local churches, each Seminars4Worship Glorious event features internationally renowned worship leaders/songwriters Paul Baloche...
The grassroots brain child of two Nashville men has saved the making of the Blue Like Jazz movie, based on the New York Times Bestseller, by raising $125,000 in only 10 days. “Blue Like Jazz,” which is scheduled for theatrical release in fall, 2011, has garnered an unprecedented response at Kickstarter.com, a “crowdfunding” website that raises money for creative projects. With over 2,000 backers and $155,000 now raised, “Blue Like Jazz” is poised to become Kickstarter’s biggest...
A new song from The Almost entitled "Wrong" is streaming now on the band's MySpace page. The song is off of the band's upcoming releases, the MONSTER MONSTER DELUXE EDITION and MONSTER MONSTER EP which will be available October 25th. The MONSTER MONSTER DELUXE EDITION will be available online digitally only and will feature all 12 songs on the original MONSTER MONSTER album released in 2009, as well as five additional songs and four music...
Late last week, Relient K announced a headlining Christmas acoustic tour coming this December. Check out the tour dates below:
"We’re happy to announce our first acoustic Christmas Tour with Sherwood and Deas Vail! Tickets go on sale next Friday October 15 and Fanclub pre-sale tickets are available Monday. Check the tour dates below to see if you’ll be joining in any of our reindeer games...
Real Life, the seventh solo recording from Integrity/Columbia Music singer/songwriter and worship leader Lincoln Brewster, debuted at #1 on Nielsen SoundScan's Praise & Worship Albums chart and at #3 on Billboard’s Christian Albums chart, following its September 28 release. Landing at #61 on the Billboard 200, which reflects the top-selling albums across all genres, Real Life is Brewster’s most personal project to date and is garnering widespread critical acclaim...
Underoath's "Ø (Disambiguation)" is currently available for pre-order at the Tooth & Nail / Solid State Store. You can get it there bundled with an Underoath shirt, water bottle, postcard pack and limited edition 10" clear vinyl featuring three remixes from the album on Side A and a laser etching of the album art on Side B. The deluxe edition of the album also includes the three remixes and a making of the record documentary...
It has been over a month since the release of Jeremy Camp’s worship album, We Cry Out: The Worship Project. Camp’s sixth studio project debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Christian chart (and has remained in the Top 5 since street week) and No. 15 on Billboard Top 200 (his highest Top 200 debut). Check out below to see what has been going on with Jeremy Camp, the worship project, and his upcoming tour that starts tomorrow...
Echoing Angels, the soulful five-piece rock band hailing from Atlanta, Georgia, has just kicked off on the biggest radio promotional tour of their career. Yesterday the band began the month long run that takes them to an average of three cities a day to an astounding 51 AC and CHR radio stations across the U.S. to personally hand deliver their brand new radio single, "Say What You Believe," the first single off their self-titled CD releasing in early spring 2011 on Entertainment One Music. The radio visit schedule is highlighted below...
Joining the immensely successful Passion Talk Series (PTS) is the lines’ first Christmas talk with Passion Movement founder Louie Giglio, “The Twelve Words of Christmas,” available now on DVD from sixstepsrecords. Recorded live during Chris Tomlin’s “Glory in the Highest” 2009 Christmas tour “The Twelve Words of Christmas” shares a special message of Christmas, that God is with us, full of grace and truth, and that no one on earth is too far from His love or beyond His reach...
Over the last decade, Charlie Hall has become both a renowned worship leader and a voice for the lost, the broken and the unlovely. Last week Hall returned with the triumphant new recording The Rising, which debuted at No. 14 on the Top Contemporary Christian Overall chart. Available on CD and digitally, The Rising...
Gotee Records rings in the holiday with ‘Tis The Season To Be Gotee Christmas compilation, releasing today as a digital and CBA exclusive. Each song on this project has never before been available to retail, and features Gotee Records’ favorites Relient K, House of Heroes, Ayiesha Woods, Stephanie Smith and Abandon Kansas performing a variety of favorites. At the low suggested retail price of $7.99, ‘Tis The Season To Be Gotee...
To celebrate the release of their sophomore album Echoes of the Light on Save the City Records, critically acclaimed Christian pop/rock band Circleslide will give a special live performance at the Apple store in Nashville's Green Hills Mall on October 12, 2010 at 8p.m. CT. Fans will hear the guitar-driven band play songs from Echoes of the Light and have an opportunity to meet the band members...
Matthew West’s latest album, The Story of Your Life, inspired by letters from all over the world is releasing today with momentum from his headlining tour, current radio single and the release of his music video for “My Own Little World.” West is also releasing a deluxe edition of The Story of Your Life...
in:ciite recording artist, Travis Cottrell will share the Carnegie Hall stage in New York City with American Idol finalist, Melinda Doolittle, in the Isaac Stern Hall for the Sacred Heritage Series. One of the most prestigious venues in the world, Carnegie Hall has hosted memorable performances from Benny Goodman, Judy Garland, Harry Belafonte, Stevie Ray Vaughn & Double Trouble and more. The October 18 event...
For Word/Warner Bros. Recordings artists and Platinum-Selling trio Point Of Grace (Shelley Breen, Leigh Cappillino, Denise Jones), it is never too soon to break out the Christmas music, and with their new collection entitled Home For The Holidays available everywhere today, fans can get in the yuletide spirit early as well. This album encompasses a broad range of styles including pop, jazz and country that...
Gotee Records band House of Heroes recent release Suburba is available this week at Itunes for the low price of $5.99 also this week at Itunes the track "God Save the Foolish Kings" will be the free Discovery Download from October 5 - October 11. SUBURBA produced by Mark Lee Townsend (Relient K, Deas Vail) and mixed by J.R. McNeely...
Yesterday, Project 86 announced some upcoming goodies for fans, including a brand new live album to be released December 7th. Check out the following announcement: "2011 marks the 15th year of P86! To commemorate this achievement we wanted to celebrate the most important part of our journey and that is our FANS. We so appreciate your fierce loyalty and support that we decided we should celebrate for the entire year. To kick off this milestone we are releasing a brand new live record titled "15. Live." on December 7th...
Critically acclaimed singer/songwriter, Andrew Peterson, ended a recent radio tour in support of his new single, “Dancing In The Minefields.” The tour took Peterson throughout the Southeast and he visited stations in such markets as, Atlanta, GA; Vero Beach, FL; Orlando, FL; Sarasota, FL; Asheville, NC and Knoxville, TN. The single is New & Active at #38 on the AC Monitor chart...
According to a report released by WJIS/The JOY FM, which serves central and southwest Florida, in a record-shattering outpouring of support listeners in the community provided 27,716 new pairs of shoes for orphans located in Guatemala through the "Shoes for Orphan Souls" program. Curb Records' recording artist, MIKESCHAIR, once again joined The JOY FM to help provide for orphans with their own hands-on involvement by collecting shoes, by providing their hit song...
GRITS song “Ooh Ahh (My Life Be Like)” continues to find fans and solidify the duo as one of the most recognized voices, yet relatively underground groups in hip-hop. As a digital single, “Ooh Ahh (My Life Be Like)” recently scanned over 500,000 downloads, adding their name to a small and select group of Christian artists who have achieved such sales success. After being used as part of the theme song last year, “Ooh Ahh (My Life Be Like)...
Two Nashville, Tenn. based men have launched a viral campaign to raise $125,00 in only one month to save the making of “Blue Like Jazz,” the movie based on the book of the same title from New York Times’ Bestselling Author Donald Miller. With over 20 days to go, the online efforts have already surpassed the halfway mark in only six days and have caused an unparalleled stir on www.kickstarter.com, the site where fans can donate to the making of the film, causing it to be the most popular project on the website...
Premiere modern rock band Fireflight kicked off the opening dates of its headlining “For Those Who Wait – The Tour” last weekend with crowd-rousing performances in Richlands, Va. (Sept. 23), Huntington, W.Va. (Sept. 24) and Wilkesboro, N.C. (Sept. 26). The tour readies tonight for Rockford, Ill. and upcoming shows in Mount Vernon, Ohio (Oct. 2), Lafayette, Ind. (Oct.3) and its sold-out Denver, Colo. area show on Oct. 7...
Following a flurry of national media coverage earlier this week, Michael W. Smith reveals his latest music video “Save Me From Myself” (also the first radio single from his new project, Wonder) on the country’s #1 cable news network’s website, FOXNews.com.
The video will World Premiere today at 9 AM EST on http://www.foxnews.com in the Features & Faces section on the site’s home page...
On December 1st “The Christmas Pageant” tour presented by AP and featuring Family Force 5, Forever The Sickest Kids & special guests Secondhand Serenade and Shorelines End will kick off in Grand Rapids, MI. Atlanta-based Family Force 5’s combination of dance and rock, funky rhythms and percolating club grooves will get anyone up and out of their seats. Similarly, Forever The Sickest Kids’ style is a blend of classic-lined power-pop, punk energy and space-age electronics. Together, Family Force 5 and Forever The Sickest Kids are sure to infuse the holidays with a never-before-experienced energy...
Available Saturday, October 2nd at Christian retail stores everywhere, It’s a Meaningful Life has already garnered significant coverage in media outlets such as Kidscreen Daily, Cynopsis: Kids!, License!, Christian Retailing, CBA Retailers+ Resources, American Family Radio Network, LeSEA Broadcasting, ToyBook blog, Total Licensing Report, and others. Here’s what critics are saying: “A lesson about being content, this new animated parable from VeggieTales explains Jeremiah 29:11 to kids in a fun way...
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