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The 90s comprised an amazing decade for alternative Christian music. We had metal, punk rock, emo, industrial, and out of left field we also had an amazing run of alternative-tinged folk rock. I was primarily a metalhead/hard alternative guy when I got hit by this amazing run of folk acts like Lost Dogs, Nicolas Giaconia, Acoustic Shack, and the UK’s own Eden Burning. While Eden Burning had been going in their native England for several years prior, their first US release was Vinegar and Brown Paper, for Storyville Records, a folk imprint of R.E.X.… Continued →

Rock & Metal

• Behold the Beloved – No Surrender
• Ignescent – Ascension (EP)

Pop & CCM

• Jordan Frye – Beautiful Wasteland
• Jordan St. Cyr – Jordan St. Cyr

Electronic & EDM Folk & Singer/Songwriter

• Emorie – Memory (EP)

Hip Hop & R&B

• Desi Raines – When It Rains (EP)
• Ilish – Love Parables (EP)
• Jes Norris – called to love
• Jor’dan Armstrong – CHURCH GIRLS LOVE R&B
• K-SEE – PG4L (EP)
• Legacy – LEAP OF FAITH 2
• Mogli the Iceburg – this is fine. (act one) (EP)
• Trip Lee – The End.

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Both ZAO and UnoriginalVinyl are dropping some hints at more ZAO vinyl to come. Could “Liberate Te Ex Inferis” be the next Vinyl (re)pressing? Follow ZAO here and UnoriginalVinyl here.… Continued →

Israeli punk rock band, Man Alive, are back (somewhat) as evidenced in some recent shows posted on their Facebook page. Check out a great live video of the band performing their set, below. You can follow this most epic and legendary punk rock outfit on Facebook here. Should I use the term “GOAT” here? YES! If you haven’t heard this band before nor given their past material a listen, check them out on digital networks now, just be warned, a lot of their past material isn’t available, but you can listen to a couple releases there.… Continued →

Empty Atlas are dropping their brand new single titled “Matador” on March 18th. Check out a teaser for awesome new song, below. Pre-save the song right here.… Continued →

If anyone asked me to name my favorite Christian hip-hop project of all time, it is without a doubt Brainwash Projects, and their sole album The Rise and Fall of . . . . Perhaps the album title was a hint at how long the project would last, and we all just missed it at the time. Rise and Fall had everything: lyrical witticisms, dope beats, funky rhymes, and humor by the bucketloads. While the whole album is worth listening to straight through without skipping any tracks, one of the strongest singles is “Want for Nada,” a testimony to God’s faithfulness.… Continued →

I’ve been creating some recent NEW Spotify playlists that a few of you might appreciate. A new one called “Pop Punk 30” which is just that, a top 30 of the moment featuring a bunch of indie pop-punk bands we cover. There is also the “Indie Vision Music Official 2022 Playlist” that has a fair mix of brand new songs and classic hits from some IVM friends, “New Song Hits“, and “Pop Punk Essential Playlist“. On top of those, make sure to follow our profile here to take a listen to the weekly playlists that Noah Hardwick takes care of for IVM.… Continued →

Names Without Numbers will drop their brand new song “You Do The Talking”, on March 11th via Smallman Music. This is the best you’ve ever heard Names Without Numbers and I am confident that if you weren’t a fan before, you will be now. Wait till you hear this complete track. Teaser below. Pre-Save right here. The band last released “Silos & Smokestacks” in 2019.… Continued →

Fallstar who without a doubt, released one of the hottest full lengths last year titled “Sunbreather” are back yet again WITH A NEW ALBUM! Album #5 will be titled “Sacred Mirrors”. They are again turning to crowd funding to help them finish up the record (like on ‘Sunbreather‘) with things like mixing, indiegogo rewards, music videos + lyric videos, etc, while Facedown Records will again handle all the awesome promotion, advertising, hyping, and additional merch. You can get unique merchandise to this campaign by clicking the link here.… Continued →

Lightworker are heading to Southern California to record a brand new full length record. If you didn’t hear the last one on Solid State Records then you’re doing yourself a huge disservice and you need a wake up call 😉 Check out a few of their tracks below and get ready for some new stuff.… Continued →

Furnace Fest is returning yet again this year after a very successful 2021 comeback. The band Life In Your Way has just been added to this year’s line up along with Poison The Well, Counterparts, and Open Hand. To see the full list of bands added so far, click here. More announcements in the near future, so long as we are all still standing and not on the verge of apocalypse…. Tickets are on sale now.… Continued →

Secret and Whisper recent emerged from Retirement (hiatus) and have been teasing fans on Instagram about new music they are working on. Don’t believe me? Head over to their Instagram account for proof. Just type in @secretandwhisperofficial in your handle little mobile instagram search box to see. Don’t have Instagram or Facebook, then just look below for a classic music video. As soon as there are more links, we will share them. A very underrated gem of Tooth & Nail past.… Continued →

Ronnie Martin (Joy Electric, Brothers Martin, Dance House Children, etc) who recently dropped a “Solo” album under his name, is now moving into the realm of literature. He will be releasing a book this fall geared around the Birth of Christ and published by B&H Publishing Group. It is titled “The God Who is With Us, 25 Day Devotional for Advent”. Illustrated by Nathan Schroeder. If you missed out on the album, they still have copies available in a few different formats right here.… Continued →

Rock & Metal

• Absent from the Body – This World’s Disease
• Battled – From The Silence (EP)
• November Sky – Out of the Black (EP)

Pop & CCM

• CASS – diaspora
• Convent Bonfires – Conversations with the Fire that Sustained Me
• The New Respects – Don’t Panic (EP)
• Trinity (NL) – Desert Rain

Electronic & Metal Folk & Singer/Songwriter Hip Hop & R&B

• Brett Raio – Faithful (EP)
• Brideboi – bois who cry (EP)
• Byron Rhodes – THE FALL (EP)
• Cahm – Midnight Nostalgia
• Drup, Ksway – Advantage DLC (EP)
• H.U.R.T.

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Synth-pop is sort of the illegitimate child of alternative rock and disco. Although it’s not obvious, its roots like in experimental forms of music like krautrock and post-punk. As new wave splintered further and further away from punk, and added more and more synthesizers, synth-pop was being birthed. In the mainstream, acts as diverse as Kraftwerk, New Order, and Pet Shop Boys were solidifying the sound. I loved 90s synth-pop, or simply “techno” as we called it then. It was fun and danceable, dark and poppy, all at the same time.… Continued →

Rock & Metal

• VERIDIA – Pain Reliever (EP)

Pop & CCM

• DOE – Clarity
• Jill Phillips – Deeper Into Love (EP)
• Spencer Kane – The Journey

Electronic & EDM Folk & Singer/Songwriter Hip & R&B

• BKE – Love at First Sight (EP)
• Christ Jr – LetsGetIt
• Deraj – All On Me (EP)
• Elijah McGill – DEAD IN LOVE (EP)
• Evan Ford – CC (EP)
• iNTELLECT – Ephesians Remixes (EP)
• Kelo – Different Route (EP)
• L.U.G.0 – STORM CHRONICLES (EP)
• Mr. 2-17 – 217ATL
• Shiwan – Prepare For The Worst (EP)
• 678NATH – HIS & HERS (EP)

Worship & Gospel

• Andrew Hopkins – Live at Fire & Glory, Vol.

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The Fold just dropped their new single titled “Behind Us Now” which you can listen to below or on your digital network of choice. The band will release a new full length record this spring! Can I just say that this new song is the best thing the band has done up till now? This is really great stuff! Less keyboards, more ROCK.… Continued →

Light The Way just announced their brand new 12 song full length record “Long Story Short”, is due out on April 1st via Small Step Records. This is the first album on the new indie label and first full length since 2018 “False Memory Syndrome”. You absolutely have to put this record on your must have lists and it will without a doubt probably top much of those “Best Of” lists at the end of this calendar year. Pre-Order the album right here.… Continued →

Nate Parrish is dropping the next single off his upcoming album, “Soul Surgery”, which is due to release on April 8th 2022. Check out “Life In Dissonance” everywhere this Friday!… Continued →

Florida-based Wind Words first made it into the public eye due to his connection to Mark Nicks of Cool Hand Luke fame. And while a couple auxiliary releases have surfaced over the years (including a spoken word project on the minor prophets), this split album is the first full-instrumentation effort we’ve seen from Wind Words since his debut LP in 2017. Joining Wind Words is Yearling, an emo/post-rock project from West Virginia. The three Wind Words tracks were recorded by Brandon Shattuck at Parafonic Studio. You may remember Brandon from Polyvalent or Cora, and both he and Mark Nicks lend their talents on these songs.… Continued →

Georgia-turned Kentucky-turned Georgia again songwriter Rob Ray has returned with a new album eventually on the horizon. “Tacky” shows his aptitude for blending humor and levity with the substance of faith. In some ways, it’s counter to the deconstruction movement – Ray acknowledges and embraces some of the kitschy qualities of 90s youth group culture but points listeners past this to something far more substantial. “I found things to make me feel better. They never made me feel better,” he notes. Material and easy solutions are not at the heart of enduring faith Musically, this is one of Ray’s strongest offerings yet – upbeat drums, soothing keys and synths, and buttery bass make this an upbeat indie-whatever song that is primed for coffeehouse playlists.… Continued →

Yes, Teddy did steal your lover but don’t cry, you have some great music to wipe away those tears and wash those blues away. The artist known as Teddy At Night just dropped his brand new song under the title “Stole Your Lover” (see what I did above?) and it is available through all digital networks and streaming sites now. It’s spicy and drenched in sugar pop, enough that it’ll be stuck in your head for hours. Check out the song below.… Continued →

One of my favorite punk/solo artists known as the guy “Sef Idle“, has carved out a truly unique, original, and diy inspired ethic, has a great new song out. This song is titled “Nowhere To Go” and I think many of you will appreciate it. Check out the song below and make sure to stream/listen on your favorite digital network.… Continued →

Brace yourself. The Souls Unrest has one of the more complicated histories in all of Christian metal. The roots of the band lie in old school punk band Spudgun, who released one album on Bulletproof Records (a division of Gray Dot). That band got heavier and darker, changing styles so much that a new name was warranted–World Against World. That version of the band also released one album (an amazing album at that) for Bulletproof, before morphing again. A short-lived project called The Orcrist followed, but released no official recordings.… Continued →

Christ centered street punk band, Breakaway, announce limited merch release and full length update. FFO: The Havoc, Officer Negative, Unshackled, The Deal, The Hanover Saints

Rock & Metal Pop & CCM

• He Is We – Treehouse

Electronic & EDM

• God’s Warrior – BOUND BEYOND

Folk & Singer/Songwriter

• A Brother’s Fountain – Made from Scratch
• Make Sure – Ninjutsu (Deluxe Edition)
• Sandra McCracken – Carry Each Other
• Zambroa – By What Standard?

Hip Hop & R&B

• Change The Kids – ROSEGOLD (EP)
• Deane Walden – Brown eye beauty (EP)
• Dee-1 – Finding Balance
• Wilsxn – X

Worship & Gospel

• Jonathan David Helser, Melissa Helser – The Land I’m Livin’ In — DAYS ONE & TWO (Live)
• Josh Villegas – Reminders for the Heart (EP)
• Maverick City Music – Breathe – EP
• Victory House Worship – You Won It All (Live)
• Zach Smith – Holy Spirit & Fire (EP)

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This band was the epitome of one of those all-too-common scenarios in 90s Christian music: the frustratingly great one-album wonder. Driver Eight released Watermelon via Tooth and Nail Records in 1996, to high acclaim from fans and critics alike, and then disappeared into the . . . well, that’s just it–we don’t know what happened! The album featured a highly-effective mix of alternative rock styles including Britpop (even though the band was American), quasi-shoegaze, and jangle pop. It seemed that they were channeling equally such disparate influences as Smashing Pumpkins, Catherine Wheel, R.E.M.,… Continued →

Rock & Metal

• Heliograph – This is the Movement

Pop & CCM

• Adam Agee – He Is With You
• Fyr Fytr – Two
• Saint Esprit – Eclipse

Electronic & EDM Folk & Singer/Songwriter

• Chris Renzema – Get Out of the Way of Your Own Heart (Deluxe Edition)

Hip Hop & R&B

• Bptheofficial – Healing
• Fonz Carter – Beatz Barz Hookz, Vol. 1 (EP)
• GOSPEL READY – Use Me Lord
• J.Diamond – Sonship (EP)
• K-Drama – V XV XX, Vol. 1 (EP)
• Nu Tone – The Most High (EP)
• Xay Hill – When It Hurts: A Story By Isaiah Hill
• YB – GLASS CEILINGS

Worship & Gospel

• All Peoples Worship – Wholehearted (EP)
• Allswell – Be
• Brice Davis – Already, Not Yet (EP)
• CYA Worship – Never Gets Old With You (Live)
• Flourish Music – Acoustic Sessions, Vol.

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This beautiful song was released near the end of December by the Eastern European Ska-Rock-Punk band, October Light. The song is titled “It’s Cold”. Yes it is festive and Christmas oriented but don’t let that stop you from enjoying it right here in February. Who else here appreciates the music of October Light? One of my faves.… Continued →

You may have blinked and missed this super special 20th anniversary printing of “The Moon Is Down” by Further Seems Forever on Vinyl (one of the colors is sold out as of this post). It is a beautifully assembled piece of art and includes an 80 page hardcover book with photos, art, and more plus an Oral History of the Band with contributions from every member of FSF who played on this album. Grab one today right here in the T&N store before it too sells out.… Continued →