Archive for January, 2011

New Releases For February 1st, 2nd and 7th, 2011

Posted by ian On January - 31 - 2011

Canton Jones–Dominionaire
Dominionaire
Canton Jones

Cajo Records
R&B
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The Civil Wars-Barton Hallow
Barton Hallow
The Civil Wars

Sensibility Music
Americana/Pop
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Gradient Skies
Michael Manasseh

SOULMANA
Hip-Hop
(available at soulmana.com)

Overcome-The Great Campaign of Sabotage
The Great Campaign of Sabotage
Overcome

Facedown Records
Hardcore
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Parachute Band-Love Without Measure
Love Without Measure
Parachute Band

Integrity Media
Worship
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red until we have faces
Until We Have Faces
RED

Essential Records
Hard Rock
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february ep sleeping at last
February EP
Sleeping At Last

Independent
Atmospheric Rock
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(available at sleepingatlast.com)

New Releases For February 2nd, 2011

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Art Ambidextrous
Propaganda & Odd Thomas

Humble Beast
Hip-Hop
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New Releases For February 7th, 2011

Hail the Blessed Hour anatasis
Anastasis
Hail The Blessed Hour

Raging Storm Records
Metal

The One21 Top 25 Recordings Of 2010

Posted by ian On January - 28 - 2011

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Thank you all for sticking with us this long as we unveiled our end of the year lists to you. We had a really good time putting them together, but sadly all good things must come to an end. However, we saved the best for last. Below is our top 25 for the year (in no particular order).

Album of the year: Doug Burr-O Ye Devastator

Ascend The Hill-Hymns: Take The World, But Give Me Jesus
Belle & Sebastian-Write About Love
Bradley Hathaway-A Thousand Angry Panthers
Brooke Fraser-Flags
The Chariot-Long Live
Close Your Eyes-We Will Overcome
Deepspace5- The Future Aint What It Used Be
For Today-Breaker
Gileah Taylor-What Kind of Fool/A Crooked Line EP
Heath McNease- The Gun Show
The Innocence Mission-My Room In The Trees
Johnny Cash-American VI: Ain’t No Grave
John Mark McMillian-The Medicine
Josh White-Achor
Listener-Wooden Heart
Mavis Staples-You Are Not Alone
My Epic- YET
Preson Phillips-Weep… He Loves the Mourners Tears
The Reign Of Kindo-This Is What Happens
Sandra McCracken-In Feast Or Fallow
Shad- TSOL
Sufjan Stevens-All Delighted People EP
Underoath-Ø (Disambiguation)
Wovenhand-The Threshingfloor

But wait! This isnt over, for you see we have also put together a little compilation of of some the songs from the list above. We know that you have been missing our weekly free downloads, so we decided to put one together on our own. Enjoy!

HEY WE HAD SOME TROUBLES WITH THE DOWNLOADS FOR A MINUTE, BUT WE FIXED IT AND WERE EVEN ABLE TO ADD TWO NEW TRACKS. SORRY ABOUT THAT

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Download The ONE21 Top Recordings Compilation

1. Red, Red by Doug Burr (from O Ye Devastator)
2. Lord Willing by Deepspace5 (from The Future Aint What It Used To Be)
3. The Audience by The Chariot (from Long Live)
4. How Great Thou Art by Ascend The Hill (from Hymns: Take The World But Give Me Jesus)
5. I Don’t Want To Live Forever (acoustic) by Listener (from Wooden Heart)
6. God Is Love by The Innocence Mission (from My Room In The Trees)
7. Carolina by Bradley Hathaway (from A Thousand Angry Panthers)
8. All Delighted People (original version) by Sufjan Stevens (from the All Delighted People EP)
9. Chalk Outline by Heath McNease (from The Gun Show)
10. You Amaze Me by Josh White (from Achor)
11. Song For The Broken by Close Your Eyes (from We Will Overcome)
12. If You Can’t Tell By Gileah Taylor (from the What Kind Of Fool EP)
13. All Of Us by Gileah Taylor (from A Crooked Line EP)
14. Pilgrim by Preson Phillips (from Weep…He Loves The Mourners Tears)
15. The Threshingfloor by Wovenhand (from The Threshingfloor)
16. Faith’s Review & Expectation by Sandra McCracken (from In Feast Or Fallow)
17. Seraphim by For Today (from Breaker)
18. Lower Still by My Epic (from YET)

Doug Burr appears courtesy of Spune Music
The Chariot appears courtesy of Good Fight Records
Preson Phillips and Ascend The Hill appear courtesy of Come&Live!
The Innocence Mission appears courtesy of Badman Records
Sufjan Stevens appears courtesy of Asthmatic Kitty
Josh White appears courtsey of BEC Recordings
Close Your Eyes appears courtesy of Victory Records
Gileah Taylor appears courtesy of Love Library
Wovenhand appears courtesy of Sounds Familyre
For Today and My Epic appear courtesy of Facedown Records

thank you to all the record label, artists, and PR people that made this download possible

2010 End Of The Year Lists: Staff Top 10s

Posted by ian On January - 26 - 2011

Most music websites like ours publish end of the year lists (most times before the year is over), but we see this as a time to truly celebrate what God is doing through art and music. For the next few weeks we will be posting our lists of the best recordings in 2010, divided by genres and categories. This all leads up to our final presentation of our Essential 25 Recordings of 2010 post on the last week of January.  This is our joyous recounting of all that amazed us in 2010.

This week we take a look at our staff’s personal top 10 lists. This is the only time that we rank our albums, and believe me it was a hard task for all.
*click on the name of the artist to find out more about them, click on the album title to listen to samples and purchase*

Chuck’s Personal Top 10 of 2010

1.Doug Burr-O Ye Devastator
2.Sufjan Stevens-All Delighted People EP
3.Mavis Staples-You Are Not Alone
4.Preson Phillips-Weep… He Loves the Mourners Tears
5.Brooke Fraser-Flags
6.Belle & Sebastian-Write About Love
7.John Mark McMillian-The Medicine
8.Johnny Cash-American VI: Ain’t No Grave
9.Shad- TSOL
10.Bradley Hathaway-A Thousand Angry Panthers

Ian’s Personal Top 10 of 2010

1.Doug Burr-O Ye Devastator
2.The Chariot-Long Live
3.Deepspace5- The Future Aint What It Used Be
4.Listener-Wooden Heart
5.Sufjan Stevens-All Delighted People EP
6.Gileah Taylor-What Kind of Fool/A Crooked Line EP
7.
My Epic- YET
8.
Josh White-Achor
9.
Close Your Eyes-We Will Overcome
10.
Shad- TSOL

Rebecca’s Personal Top 10 of 2010

1.The Chariot-Long Live
2.
Listener-Wooden Heart
3.
Ascend The Hill-Hymns: Take The World, But Give Me Jesus
4.
Josh White-Achor
5.
Underoath-Ø (Disambiguation)
6.
Heath McNease- The Gun Show
7.
My Epic- YET
8.
Doug Burr-O Ye Devastator
9.
Preson Phillips-Weep… He Loves the Mourners Tears
10.
Shad- TSOL

On Friday, we will publish our ONE21 Top 25 Recordings of 2010. We hope that you all have enjoyed the way we did the lists this year, because we all felt that this was the only way to truely celebrate this year in music.

As a thnk you to all of you, we have also put togeather a compilation (our first!) with tracks from some of our top albums of the year. Check back with us on Friday to not only see our final list of the year, but to also download some free music!

New Releases for January 25th, 2011

Posted by ian On January - 24 - 2011

ben and vesper honors
Honors
Ben + Vesper

Sounds Familyre
Indie Rock
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cold war kids mine is yours
Mine Is Yours
Cold War Kids

Interscope Records
Garage Rock
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Deitrick Haddon-Church On The Moon
Church On The Moon/Stand My Ground
Deitrick Haddon

Verity Records
R&B
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i am empire kings
Kings
I Am Empire

Tooth & Nail Records
Hard Rock
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lovedrug ep pt 3
EP-Part III
Lovedrug

Street Talk Media
Rock
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Luminate–Come Home
Come Home
Luminate

Sparrow Records
Pop
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A Week In Music Videos:Jan 15th-21st, 2011

Posted by ian On January - 21 - 2011

Our weekly posting of all the music videos happening in the scene. Enjoy all the video goodness. Comment and tell which one is video of the week.

Spoken Nerd- “Apocalypse Awareness Day”

Benjah & Dillavou- “Come Follow”

Andrew Ripp- “Peace Like A River”

As I Lay Dying- “Anodyne Sea”

Manafest-”Bring The Rukus”

I Am Empire-”Brain Damagae”

2010 End Of The Year Lists:Hip-Hop, R&B/Gospel, EPs

Posted by ian On January - 19 - 2011

Most music websites like ours publish end of the year lists (most times before the year is over), but we see this as a time to truly celebrate what God is doing through art and music. For the next few weeks we will be posting our lists of the best recordings in 2010, divided by genres and categories. This all leads up to our final presentation of our Essential 25 Recordings of 2010 post on the last week of January.  This is our joyous recounting of all that amazed us in 2010.
*click on the name of the artist to find out more about them, click on the album title to listen to samples and purchase*
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Hip-Hop album of the year: Deepspace5- The Future Aint What It Used Be

Braille-Weapon Aid
Group 1 Crew- Outta Space Love
Heath McNease- The Gun Show
Lecrae- Rehab
Playdough- Writer Dye
Rhema Soul- Fingerprints
Sev Statik- School Shooting EP
Shad- TSOL
Spoken Nerd- Apocalypse Awareness Day
Stephen The Levite- The Forerunner EP

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R&B/Soul/Gospel album of the year: Mavis Staples-You Are Not Alone

Aaron Neville- I Know I’ve Been Changed
Al Green- Love Ritual
The Holmes Brothers- Feed My Soul
Israel Houghton- Love God. Love People.
Joy Ike-Rumors
Karen Clark Sheard- All In One
Marvin Sapp- Here I Am
Molly Williams- Take Me Down to the River
Solomon Burke- Nothing’s Impossible

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EP Of The Year: Sufjan Stevens-All Delighted People EP

Bradley Hathaway-A Thousand Angry Panthers
Cold War Kids-Behave Yourself EP
Gileah Taylor-A Crooked Line EP
Gileah Taylor-What Kind of Fool EP
Joy Williams-We Mapped the World EP
Same As Sunday-Earn Your Stripes EP
Sev Statik- School Shooting EP
Stephen The Levite- The Forerunner EP
The Rocketboys-Wellwisher EP

Next week is the big one! The ONE21′s top 25 recordings of 2010! Also our staff will reveal their personal top tens for the year, so hit us again next week!

The Famine Ready New Album

Posted by ian On January - 18 - 2011

Below is the album artwork and tracklisting for Architects Of Guilt, the upcoming February 15th, 2011 release from The Famine on Solid State Records.

Architects of Guilt The Famine
1. The New Hell
2. Ad Mortem
3. We Are The Wolves
4. Turner Classic Diaries
5. Bigger Cages, Longer Chains!
6. The Crown and The Holy See
7. VII The Fraudulent
8. A Pavement Of Good Intentions
9. A Fragile Peace
10. Pyrithion House
11. To The Teeth

New Releases For January 18th, 2011

Posted by ian On January - 17 - 2011

Ace Augustine-The Absolute
The Absolute
Ace Augustine

Strike First Records
Metalcore
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alex williams epic salvation
…Epic Salvation
Alex Williams

Independent
R&B
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Brandon Heath-Leaving Eden
Leaving Eden
Brandon Heath

Reunion Records
Contemporary
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john p kee the legacy project
The Legacy Project
John P. Kee

Verity Records
Gospel
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Mark Arthur-The Obligation
The Obligation
RockSoul Production
Rap
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A Week In Music Videos:Jan 9th-14th, 2011

Posted by ian On January - 14 - 2011

Our weekly posting of all the music videos happening in the scene. Enjoy all the video goodness. Comment and tell which one is video of the week.

Senseless Beauty-”Reverse The Curse”

MYCHILDREN MYBRIDE-”King Of The Hopeless”

Orion Walsh-”Freedom Lost, Freedom Found”

Cold War Kids-”Louder Than Ever”

2010 End Of The Year Lists:Indie, Worship, Folk/Country

Posted by ian On January - 12 - 2011

Most music websites like ours publish end of the year lists (most times before the year is over), but we see this as a time to truly celebrate what God is doing through art and music. For the next few weeks we will be posting our lists of the best recordings in 2010, divided by genres and categories. This all leads up to our final presentation of our Essential 25 Recordings of 2010 post on the last week of January.  This is our joyous recounting of all that amazed us in 2010.
*click on the name of the artist to find out more about them, click on the album title to listen to samples and purchase*

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Indie Album Of The Year: Sufjan Stevens-All Delighted People EP

Belle & Sebastian-Write About Love
Ben + Vesper-LuvInIdleness
Cold War Kids-Behave Yourself EP
Gileah Taylor-A Crooked Line EP
Half-Handed Cloud-As Stowaways in Cabinets of Surf, We Live-out in Our Members a Kind of Rebirth
The Innocence Mission-My Room In The Trees
ME-Hamden
Ortolan-Time On A String
The Rocketboys-Wellwisher EP

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Folk/Country/Americana Album Of The Year: Doug Burr-O Ye Devastator

Avalanche City-Our New Life Above Ground
Bradley Hathaway-A Thousand Angry Panthers
Johnny Cash-American VI: Ain’t No Grave
Josh White-Achor
Listener-Wooden Heart
Patty Griffin-Downtown Church
Sandra McCracken-In Feast Or Fallow
Sean Michel-I Know I’ve Been Converted
The Wayside-Spiritual Songs

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Worship Album Of The Year: John Mark McMillian-The Medicine

Ascend The Hill-Hymns: Take The World, But Give Me Jesus
Josh White-Achor
Gungor-Beautiful Things
Lovelite-Nearness
Mattie Montgomery-When The Sons Become Fathers
Preson Phillips-Weep… He Loves the Mourners Tears
Red Letter-Red Letter
Rend Collective Experience-Organic Family Hymnal
Sandra McCracken-In Feast Or Fallow

Next week we are hitting you with our favorite Hip-Hop, R&B, Soul, and Gospel albums along with our favorite EPs of the year.