Weapon Aid
Braille
Hip-Hop Is Music
Midwest Hip-Hop

Punk Rawk Christmas
MXPX
Rock City Recording Co.
Pop-Punk/Christmas
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Borrowed Chords, Tired Eyes
Northcote
Black Box Recordings
Folk
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Take Everything: The Acoustic Sessions EP
Seventh Day Slumber
BEC Recordings
Alternative Rock
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Amazon MP3 is having a huge sale of $5 digital albums this whole week. I waded through the 545 some odd albums and came up with this list of digital albums for sale from the artists we cover. There is a lot of good stuff on here, including a lot of albums that came out just this year. $5 isn’t bad either, considering a LOT of the albums are closer to ten songs than five, so its almost like paying 50 cents a song. Let me know if I missed anyone, here is the list:

Christian Music Artists For Sale on Amazon MP3

Owl City - Ocean Eyes (buy now

Basically there isnt a whole lot of “news stuff” going on this week (and next). However there are a whole bunch of music videos that have hit the web lately, so here they are. Enjoy:

Take Me As I Am by FM Static

Halfway Gone by Lifehouse

Backfire by MuteMath

The Warrior by Before There Was Rosalyn

The Fill by Half Handed Cloud

She Said by Everfound… Continue reading

Signal Hill Revival
Chris Lizotte
Varietal Records
Praise & Worship
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Downe In Yon Forrest
Kemper Crabb
Deus Vult
Celtic Folk
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Heaven Came Down
Marie Barnett
Varietal Records
Contemporary Worship
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Paste magazine just released their list of 50 greatest albums of the decade on their website. Five recordings made by Christian music artists made the list.

We were excited that iconic indie artist Sufjan Stevens was number one on the list with Come On Feel the Illinoise (notice Paste did not get the name correct)  and alternative rock’s darling Pedro The Lion made the list with Control.  The rock cred of Jack White garnered the attention of Paste writers so that country legend Loretta Lynn made the list with Van Lear Rose.  The best movie soundtrack of the decade ‘O Brother Where Are Thou? made the list but why do we include it here?  Well, the soundtrack was the brainchild of Christian music artist and famed producer T Bone… Continue reading

Voices Of The Underground is a series that seeks to explore one question from many different angles. Every week, we will ask one question of many of your favorite music artists. We will post their responses below, and what you will find is that there is never truly one answer to every question, but instead a whole world of ideas that come from simple matters of taste, to deep held beliefs. Our hope is that through this series you are able to see past the promo pictures and the stage persona, and get to know the hearts of believers who are creating music every day.

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I discovered Jay Tholen a few weeks back when I was searching the net for free music. Jay Tholen is a one man band of sorts, as far as I can tell all of his music is written, played, and recorded by him. The obvious would be that he creates electronic music, but the fact is that he does so much more. Jay experiments with almost every sub genre of electronica, ranging from quirky arcade sounding electro house to straight trance. Jay has over 10 albums under his belt, which is giving away for free, so expect to see more from him in the coming weeks.

His Shadow Is Light… Continue reading | 2 Comments

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The 2009 HM Magazine Reader’s Poll is now open. Now go vote for your favorite music this year! Fill out the 2009 HM Magazine Reader’s Poll.

We Shot The Moon flipped their tour van this weekend on some icey roads. All band members walk away from the accident with minimal injury.

Nevertheless will be splitting at the end of 2009. They will play two more hometown shows and then disband “with no hard feelings”

Second Thief has signed on (again) with Alien Patrol Records.

Although no official announcement has been made, Amber Pacific has signed with Victory Records. That makes four bands we cover on Victory. Cool stuff…

Corey Crowder has apparently split from Tooth & Nail Records as he will release his next… Continue reading

Christian music artist Kris Allen (see our artist profile) won American Idol Season 9 over Adam Lambert. Many considered it a travesty at worst, an upset at best. We thought America got it right.  We thought then that Kris Allen was the most soulful, nuanced winner of American Idol since Season One’s Kelly Clarkson.

Both Kris Allen and Adam Lambert have new CDs releasing this month. Judging by the first real videos we have seen from Kris Allen and Adam Lambert, we believe even more strongly that America got it right.

Here is the video for “Live Like We Are Dying” Kris Allen’s single off of his debut album entitled Kris Allen.

“Live Like We Are Dying” is a soulful funky uptempo song about gratitude and… Continue reading

Blueprints For City Friendships: The Anberlin Anthology
Anberlin
Tooth & Nail Records
Rock
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Live
Jeremy Camp
BEC Recordings
Contemporary
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Until the Whole World Hears
Casting Crowns
Reunion Records
Contemporary
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