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Red Weather are a really great indie/emo/pop-punk band out of the state of Virginia that released some music in 2020 and are coming back strong this year. The band dropped their song “Save My Breath” last month and have another single, “Counting Seconds” due to drop on 10/15. The band will release their new full length on 11/12 titled “Wish You Well”. Check out one of their new songs below.… Continued →

Artist and Pastor – Stephen Christian (Anberlin, Anchor & Braille), has just released his new “solo” song titled “King of Impossible” via BEC Recordings. Check out the song below and pick up wherever you find digital music. I dig it, how about you?… Continued →

Bestial black metal/war metal band Goatscorge has just dropped a new single in advance of their forthcoming EP. The raw sound should appeal to fans of Lucifer Impaled, Elgibbor, and Shekinah. The controversial title will raise some eyebrows for sure, but it’s a direct reference to Isaiah 45:7– “I form the light, and create darkness I make peace, and create evil I the Lord do all these things.” Thus the title is not a reference to moral evil, but rather God’s pronunciation of judgement in His just wrath.… Continued →

Christ centered hardcore in the vein of Dynasty, Rapture LAHC, and Stick Tight along with vocals akin to Take It Back! Zack and Where Fire May Fail.

Havalina Rail Co. was a delightfully quirky, eccentric, genre-fusing and genre-bending experimental band from California. Across their 10-year career (give or take), the band dabbled in folk, ska, jazz, ragtime, blues, Americana, surf, and multiple internationally-themed genres. No two albums in their canon treads the same ground, and yet each successive opus is clearly recognizable as Havalina. The band stopped recording as HRC somewhere in the early 00s, but members have turned up elsewhere. Most notably are Matt Wignall who is a renowned photographer and is perhaps now best known as the producer for several Cold War Kids albums.… Continued →

Rock & Metal

• All For The King – Let There Be Light

Pop & CCM

• Brian Reith – Now Is Not Forever ‘Reimagined’ (EP)
• Jonathan Traylor – I’m Here For You (EP)
• Jordan Smith – Be Still & Know
• Josh Wilson – Remember (EP)
• Kali Joy – Real Life
• Sam McCabe – Altar Fire

Folk & Singer/Songwriter

• Leigh Nash – The Tide, Vol. 1 (EP)
• Sophie Keye – TRINKETS

Hip Hop & R&B

• CS LIT – Super Rose 2
• Hunterdrinkswater – Little Lover Boy 2 (EP)
• Levante Joyner – Magnify
• Thomas Nunez – Love is Kind

Worship & Gospel

• Bethel Music – Homecoming (Live)
• Citizens – The Joy of Being Together (Live)
• Kenny & Claire – Are You Weary (EP)
• Pathway – renatus (EP)
• Red Rocks Worship – Things of Heaven
• Switch – Better View, Part I (EP)
• Thrive Worship – Let’s Have Church (Live) (EP)
• Trinity Christian Centre – Pressing Onward (EP)
• Unveiled Worship – Song Of The People (Live From UV Conference) (EP)
• VOX GEN – Goodbye (EP)

Christmas

• Chris Tomlin –Emmanuel: Christmas Songs Of Worship (Live)

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Wonderfully noisy, and delightfully obscure, The Lonely Now only released 3 full-length recordings in their short career: —Captive, 1986, Narrowpath Records (cassette only) —Original Intention, 1987, Narrowpath Records (cassette, LP) —Honest Tear, 1990, Narrowpath/Refuge (cassette only) While all of their releases are somewhat difficult to obtain, ironically their final album–the only one with national distribution through Refuge–is the most difficult. It was released through the same agreement as debuts by The Crucified, Breakfast with Amy, and The Swoon. In fact, founding member Greg Sostrom (AKA Greg Strange) was the owner of Narrowpath Records.… Continued →

This is just a rumor but word on the street is that a possible Strongarm reunion (either in song or set) is taking place at the end of Further Seems Forever’s performance at Furnace Fest this weekend. Don’t quote me but a special ending is planned so stick around, #thesecretsoftheheartmademanifest. Who would love to hear a little Strongarm for old time’s sake? They should totally live stream this as well as the entire fest for us losers stuck at home wishing they were at Furnace Fest.… Continued →

The men of “Boise Boys” are back on HGTV with a brand new show called “Outgrown“. Outgrown is a show essentially about families who have outgrown their current living arrangements and have to expand and/or remodel to make it bigger to suit the families’ growing dynamic. I watched the first episode yesterday and it was really good. Like a mix of Extreme Makeover Home Edition, Hometown, and The Gaines family shows. I think they have a bright future ahead of them. Those early IVM readers will remember Luke Caldwell from his early band – Esterlyn, which I was personally a big fan of.… Continued →

The annual Harvest (Crusade) event is back and is a one day event taking place October 3rd at the Angel Stadium of Anaheim here in sunny Southern California. The event is FREE like always (additional parking fee by the stadium) and will feature music by For King & Country and Phil Wickham plus a message by Greg Laurie. I’ve gone to many of these over the years dating back to the 90’s and they are always a special time spent in worship, fellowship, and sharing with those that maybe have fell out of love with God and/or the Church as a whole.… Continued →

Salt Creek have dropped a song that comes with an expletive warning on digital networks so guard those ear holes 😉 In all seriousness you can listen to this song right here and judge for yourself or check out the song below this message. The song is titled “High Horse” and you can find it here after you step off. The album “Out of the Sky” is out 10/15/21 through Tooth & Nail Records.… Continued →

Modern heavy metal rock band Love and Death, just dropped a new live music video feat. Lacey Sturm for the song “Let Me Love You”. You can watch the performance and video below this message. Justin Bieber would be proud (I can only hope).… Continued →

Narcissus have recently reunited and show how it’ll be done from here on out. The chaotic and noise filled metal band have played a couple shows leading up to their big festival date at Furnace Fest this weekend (please keep the show on!). The band is teasing new music on the horizon as well as possibly re-releases of their early Takehold Records stuff. Who is excited for this? Don’t know who this band is, well take a peek below.… Continued →

Newer indie band, Last Year’s Model, just dropped their album “The Neon Lights Collection” which you can check out right here. Available on all digital networks and streaming sites now!… Continued →

Holy Batman that was a long post title. Let’s get to the point, Homeplate makes explosive, melodic, and heavy pop-punk sure to bring a smile to any pop-punk purist and fanboy/fangirl at heart. Emotionally charging and altogether charming new music from this Kentucky based based pop-punk band. Check out the new song titled “Pastimes” below and give it a solid listen. “Pastimes” available now through all digital networks. New EP coming soon, I think 😉… Continued →

Hard rock/metal band DIRE has announced their new album, “Volume II” is set to drop October 29th. Fans of hard rock, metal, and metalcore are sure to like what these guys put out. Pre-orders are up now at their site HERE. Check out the video for “Oblivion God” below.… Continued →

Rock & Metal

• Last Year’s Model – The Neon Lights Collection
• Various Artists – Rock Paper Scissors Metal, Volume Two

Pop & CCM

• Abby Robertson – Abby Robertson (Remixes) (EP)
• Natalie Layne – Castles (EP)

Folk & Singer/Songwriter

• Carly Bannister – Same Team
• Cory Dauber – May All Times Go To You
• Taylor Leonhardt – Hold Still
• Zach Maurer – Let Love Win

Hip Hip & R&B

• Alan jb – Children, wake up!
• Bryson Gray – Letters to the Church
• Gabby Callwood – Blood of the Lamb (EP)
• Kmo – The Garden
• Mouthpi3ce – Gardens Vol 1: Nook and Cranny Ep

Worship & Gospel

• Alysha Kyle – Posture (EP)
• Creative Culture Co.

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We Are PIGS has dropped the track “Kids” featuring Brian “Head” Welch and J.R. Bareis (of Love and Death) as well as Morgan Lander of Kittie. The song addresses issues facing this generation and offers hope for the future. A portion of the sales from the track go to We Are Moving the Needle and The Whosoevers. Check it out on Spotify or wherever you find your digital music.… Continued →

Graves End is a metalcore/metal band based out of NJ that is sorely undernoticed/underappreciated. This song is the second single released by the band, with the next planned for November. Fans of metalcore will surely love this. Check it out below!… Continued →

Today, Thumper Punk Records released a video/audio of a project titled “Covering Legends”. The video features punk artists from various bands (see below) covering  Officer Negatives “Don’t Turn Away”, Dogwood’s “Feel the Burn”, and The Crucified’s “Your Image”. Check out the video below and get the download, available HERE. Officer Negative – Don’t Turn Away Jet Wilson of CPR (vocals) Peter118 (vocals) Albert Padilla of Reliance AZ (guitar) David Robledo of The Hoax / Heart Like War (bass) Aaron Wells of True Liberty Dogwood – Feel The Burn Sef Idle of False Idle / uniSEF / The B-Listers (vocals and guitar) Ron Ruhs (guitar) Luis Carlos Medeiros Jr.… Continued →

Swiss band Morgarten are back with a new full-length album, this time on Inner Wound Recordings. The album is called Cry of the Lost and was released in June. While the band still plays in the folk metal genre overall, the new material is heavier than their debut, and features more prominently the elements of black metal and some of the fantasy/epic battle elements of power metal, as evidenced by the accompanying music video. Slight warning: while the band’s lyrics clearly use battle stories to paint an allegorical picture of spiritual warfare and Christian spirituality, there are some moderately graphic fight scenes in the video.… Continued →

Rock & Metal

• Colony House – Rotten Tomatoes (EP)
• Fang Fang – It’s Hanging on the Cross (EP)
• Fever Fever – Mother (EP)
• Fire from Heaven – DEFIANT
• Living Fire – Mercy Between Love & Hate (EP)
• The Prettybads – Split w/ What’s Your Damage? (EP)
• Sef Idle – Retrogradation (EP)
• Whom I Serve – Eternity

Pop & CCM

• Cade Thompson – Bigger Story
• Chasen – The Great Unknown
• Dave Barnes – Notes from Paris
• David Phelps – GameChanger
• Jeremy Camp – When You Speak
• Rorie – Resonate (EP)

Folk & Singer/Songwriter

• Jonny Hayes – Daybreak

Hip Hop & R&B

• Drup, Ksway – Advantage (Deluxe)
• Jaylon Ashaun – Chapter 2
• Stephen Wray – Trust The Process
• Uknowfro – Street Preacher 6
• YB – NO WARNINGS (EP)

Worship & Gospel

• Canyon Worship – Canyon Worship 2021
• Charity Gayle – Endless Praise
• Christ For The Nations Worship – God of New Seasons
• Church of the City – Defiant Joy (Live)
• Dwell Songs – Songs of Renewal (EP)
• Hillside Worship – Rise
• Imani Taalib – Beloved (Acoustic) (EP)
• Jonty Lees – Dawn Til Dusk (EP)
• The Lockwoods – Domestic Doxology (Part I) (EP)
• Matt Boswell, Matt Papa – Almost Home – The Hymns Of Matt Boswell And Matt Papa (Vol.

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Living Fire recently dropped a new ep, titled “Mercy Between Love & Hate”. This release was different than what I was expecting, but a in a really good way. The new ep shows the guys leaning in a much more hard rock/nu metal direction and they pull it off quite well. I’ve given the release a number of listens since it dropped and have yet to find a song I feel the need to skip or that feeling of wearing any of it out, so, to me, this release has great listenability (yes, I just came up with that, shut it, haha) as well as repeatability.… Continued →

Myself and Noah have been hard at work on creating a variety of Spotify Playlists featuring many bands covered by Indie Vision Music as well as other artists you might recognize. Check out the “Pop Punk Essential Playlist” I created a few weeks ago as well as the “New Song Hits” Playlist I just morphed from the prior “Song Blast” one. Each has new and recent songs from a collection of artists. A little disclaimer: The Pop Punk Essential Playlist is not one that features Christian music only artists.… Continued →

Returning to our collective mindset here in 2021 with their first new song in almost 20 years is “Abyss” by the band Beloved. It is everything you wanted the band to sound like in 2021 and everything you’ve dreamed about for years. It certainly does live up to expectations and takes them in an entirely new yet still grasping on to pieces of the past. While I can certainly name off handfuls of bands that have recently reunited that maybe shouldn’t have, Beloved are not one of those bands.… Continued →

Sef Idle recently dropped a new EP called “Retrogradation” which is definitely a “Plugged In” punk rock collection of songs. There is a fair mix of previous acoustic jams from his past material amped up and explored in a more punk rock direction. This is a really great collection of songs. Take a listen to the 4 song ep below via Bandcamp, Spotify or I also included a youtube clip of “Bindsided” which is one of my favorites.… Continued →

Punk Meets Metal Band, Living Fire, just dropped a brand new ep titled “Mercy Between Love & Hate” and it is quite a diverse set of songs. Fans of the Dogwood meets Good Riddance sound of the past might be a little disappointed but fans of the heavy music realm who are looking for a talented band to follow will be pleasantly surprised. I would say there is a heavy nu-metal type sound mixed with the punk underground spirit and a rock back bone. Imagine Disturbed mixed with P.O.D.,… Continued →

Emery just dropped a new song titled “Concussion”. Listen below or on your digital network of choice. The song will appear on the band’s upcoming album, “Rub Some Dirt On It!” Pre-Order here.… Continued →

San Diego-based rock band Robert Vaughn & the Shadows released their classic album Love & War in 1987. As fate would have it, it was the final release on Exit Records (home of Seventy Sevens, Vector and Charlie Peacock), and its partnership with Island Records. Due to the unfortunate demise of the label, the album never saw a CD release (only LP and cassette). While the master tapes were tied up in red tape for decades, Randy Layton of Alternative Records recently worked out a deal to obtain the original masters.… Continued →

Hey, I get it. 80s metal is a love or hate thing. Many IVM readers are fans primarily of pop-punk and related genres. The thought of dudes in make-up, hairspray and spandex just seems like a bad joke. But for those of us who were there, it comes with a heap of nostalgia, and occasionally some good tunes too! It’s a shame, but Watchmen never quite got the level of attention that some of their peers received (Whitecross, Guardian, Holy Soldier), perhaps because of the brevity of their career.… Continued →