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An incredibly talented band by the name of Yours For Mine (which we covered back in December of last year) are dropping their brand new album titled “How Dark The Night” on Friday, their first new music in 10 years. The independent band brings to mind some of that abrasive meets melodic, spoken word meets screaming over layer after layer of melodic emo tinged rock songs.… Continued →

So maybe a handful of people actually tuned into the Grammy Awards last night to feel the full brunt of relevance that awards shows have actually turned into (sarcasm). Well surprisingly enough but not really, considering the mass appeal (and star power) coming from one such winner in the “Contemporary Christian Music Album” category at the Grammys last night.… Continued →

Names Without Numbers are BACK! The band drops the new single “Empire on Fire (Feat. Matt Baird of Spoken)” on April 16th. It’s an explosive first single that truly captures the band’s unrelenting energy and righteous anger fueled rock n’ roll. This is heavy and melodic at the same time. If you enjoyed the band’s earlier music and are maybe just discovering them for the first time, you’ll be blown away.… Continued →

I’ve been waiting for this for over 20 years. The classic Too Bad Eugene album, “At Any Rate”, is getting the vinyl treatment by People of Punk Rock Records. The album will be available on 2 different color options, and there is a test pressing available for purchase as well.… Continued →

Rock & Metal

• ALLISSA – Inside Out
• Arson – Wolves
• August Burns Red – Westworld
• Convictions – The War That Followed Me Home
• The Drowned God – Gnashing of Teeth
• Flatfoot 56 – Sorry
• Gandhi’s Gun – Feed the Lion
• Revelation Attic – Future Being Invented
• Unwed Sailor – Ajo

Pop & CCM

• Aaron David – In Your Sight
• Adelitas Way, New Medicine – Own It
• Band Reeves – Wild Oats (EP)
• Blessing Annatoria – I Smile
• JJ Heller – JJ Heller – You Can Fly!

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Hard rock/Metal band, DIRE, has dropped a new song, “Oblivion God”. The track has a great mix of heavy and melodic sound that work together quite well. See what you think in the video below!… Continued →

WOW!!!! I guess it was sometime last year or maybe the year before I first came across these guys. When I did, the first material I heard of theirs was really heavy hitting stuff, really good, really promising. Then, at some point things seemed to get far more melodic and tame.… Continued →

The long wait for the announcement of a new Convictions album is over! Yesterday, the band announced their upcoming album, “I Won’t Survive”, is set to release on 5/7/21. In coordination with the announcement, a new single/video for the song, “The War That Followed Me Home” was released as well (check it out below).… Continued →

Miqedem which is the world-music vibe project featuring James (Jamie) Hilsden of Man Alive, just dropped a brand new song titled “Nava Tehila” which you can download/purchase over on their bandcamp page. Listen below. The song is based on Psalm 147: 1-5. You can find lyrics and further info on their bandcamp page.… Continued →

Depending on how you define the term, Resurrection Band was arguably the first Christian heavy metal band. While their debut album was released in 1978, their earliest demo recordings date back to as early as 1973. While many fans and critics will argue, “they’re not heavy metal, just hard rock,” this outlook unfortunately judges the past by current standards.… Continued →

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Watashi Wa have begun posting on Twitter quite frequently and it appears as though something new is in the works. The band wants you all to follow them so that they can release new music. Come on, you can do it. 2001 marks the 20th anniversary of their break through indie hit, “What’s In The Way”, which dropped on Bettie Rocket Records.… Continued →

Tennessee based punk band, Small Wars, are releasing their new EP “Cry Havoc!” on March 26th via Coffin Curse Records. I was fortunate enough to get the opportunity to work with these guys on their debut and I am excited to see them move on to the next chapter.… Continued →

MxPx are about to drop the most epic box set you have ever seen and it’ll be in the band’s own merch store sold by the band themselves. These are all CLASSIC MxPx albums going all the way from “Pokinatcha” (1994) to their last “Self Titled” release (2018). 10 albums, 14 Vinyl LP Set.… Continued →

Beloved indie rock/post-hardcore band, DENS, return with a completely new and reworked version of their 2020 album titled “Tamed Tongues”. The album will featured all reworked versions of the songs found on “Taming Tongues” but incorporating a more toned down, acoustic, Americana like vibe. The band dropped a new music video for the lead off track, “To”, that you can watch below.… Continued →

Rock & Metal

• Andrew Stanton – Black & Blue (EP)
• Autumnboy, Jay Costlow – Life After Living
• Christian Liljegren – The Rock
• Demon Hunter – Songs of Death and Resurrection
• Dens – To (Tamed Sessions)
• Flight Deck – Signs of Life
• Ocean Dark – Fallen
• Reclaim the Day – Sentenced to Life
• Tonelantern – The Coming

Pop & CCM

• Alvin Cedric – Build Bridges
• Brandin Reed – Something The World Ain’t Got
• Chad Gentry – 25 Years (EP)
• Chasing the Light – The Moment
• Danielle Apicella – Little Things
• Dimas Cortez – Not the Same
• Forsaken Hero – God of Revival
• The Gray Havens – Rhythm of the East
• Jack Cassidy – Let Go, Let God
• JJ Heller – Anything
• Katie Lynn Wise – Show Me Your Love
• Marie Bashiru – State Of Mind: Stabal Session (Live)
• Matthew West, Carly Pearce – Truth Be Told
• Me+mad – Muush
• Mike Donehey – Work of Art (EP)
• NEEDTOBREATHE – The Campfire EP
• PASSIONATE – Everything
• Rachel Morley – Preference
• Riley Clemmons – Keep On Hoping
• Ross King – All My Heroes Are Underdogs
• Ryan Stevenson, Vince Gill, Amy Grant – When We Fall Apart (feat.

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In a stunning change of events, Furnace Fest WILL return this year and in that fall slow they rescheduled to last year. You definitely don’t want to miss this one time opportunity to catch some of the biggest bands of the music scene along with some reunions and other one off shows.… Continued →

Adam Lohrbach of the classic Southern California based pop-punk band Home Grown, has just launched his brand new song titled “Misfit Toys” under the band name Radical Radical. Check out this nostalgia drenched and super fun new song below. This is a song perfect for those summer drives of 2021 and one that helps usher in some much needed positivity in a time of great uncertainty.… Continued →

4•4•1 burst onto the SoCal new wave scene in 1984, releasing their debut album on Royal Commandment Records (soon to be re-named Blue Collar Records). The band formed in 1983 in Los Angeles County, diligently rehearsing in the garage of bassist/keyboardist Glenn Holland’s parents. They recorded a 4-song demo and subsequently sent out copies to area youth pastors.… Continued →

Drop those masks and party hard with RED this June in Texas. They are playing in 4 different cities in Texas beginning on June 23rd. For dates and info, look below. You can also visit the band’s website here for further information. So my question is this, do you think it’s safe to host concerts again?… Continued →

One of my favorite long running emo/indie/post-hardcore bands, Names Without Numbers, will return VERY soon with a brand new song titled “Empire on Fire”. All I can tell you is that this is a powerful and heavy track, perfect for long drives and weight lifting sessions. This is one of the best songs the band has ever written.… Continued →

An up and coming new metal band from San Diego, CA. with that southern chaos “core” sound has just signed with Solid State Records. They are called The Undertaking and have dropped their new song “Oh, Negative” that you can listen to below. For fans of Every Time I Die, Norma Jean, Maylene and The Sons of Disaster, and The Showdown.… Continued →

Continuing our “Song Blast Playlist” series into March 2021, I just made public the new playlist for this month. This will now be a monthly playlist series and will be updated throughout the month with NEW songs as they become available. Check out new, recent, and a few classics squeezed in there.… Continued →

Light The Way will return this year with quite possibly, THE BEST pop-punk album in years. The band known for their high energy, spirit-filled, unique sound is quite remarkable in a scene with run of the mill relationship driven songs and profanity laden banter. The band seek to change things up by connecting with audiences in a deeply emotional, honest, and spiritual way.… Continued →

The independent punk band, Small Wars, are like the little engine that could. Born from the remnants of bands like Joey’s Loss and The Hotshot Freight Train, the band has been charging forward with their politically led punk rock anthems since 2018 when they dropped their 4 song debut via Indie Vision Music.… Continued →

This legendary 3 piece punk rock band known the world over as TOO BAD EUGENE, have just joined up and coming label, People of Punk Rock Records. The Adam Nigh (Ex-Craig’s Brother, Thrush) led band first burst on the scene with their nationally released debut, “At Any Rate” which was produced by Mike Herrera of MxPx through his label, Rock City Recordings back in the year 2000.… Continued →

Rock & Metal

• Awaken – Monsters & Machines
• Dire – Oblivion God
• The Drowned God – All Haunted
• Emo Empire – Peace, Bitterness And Understanding (EP)
• Images Of Eden – Fight the Good Fight
• Images Of Eden – Where Dreams Begin
• Jerry Fee – Truth
• Killdevil Theory – Woke and Problematic (W.A.P.)

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Andy Squyres released a gem of an album on Thursday which I already reviewed here. It’s an album that fully lives up to anticipation. But one thing I’ve noticed is that folks act as if this is the only type of album with this level of honesty, the only album that pairs hope and pain for closely.… Continued →

Welcome to what is probably the most underrated album in Christian alternative music history. The problem is largely that it just wasn’t heard by enough people. This Pennsylvania band comprised one third of the ‘holy trinity’ of Christian jangle pop, rounded out by Virginia’s The Throes and Minnesota’s The Swoon (coincidentally all band names beginning with the definite article).… Continued →

Officer Negative have returned, well, in the form of Merch that is. A couple former band members including Chad Wiggins, have put up a bunch of great designs like shirts, buttons, patches, and yes – Vinyl. You are buying direct from them so please hit up this link here if you are a ON fan or even just a casual lurker about to turn into an ON fan.… Continued →