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I’m a sucker for all things shoegaze, including music that often falls under the wider umbrella of dream pop, madchester/baggy, indie pop and some forms of Britpop and space rock. While shoegaze had a limited representation amongst Christian artists, there were a few who really excelled in the genre. Ypsilanti, Michigan’s Velour 100 was one such artist. Led by Trey Many (who had honed his skills in the mainstream His Name is Alive and Liquorice; also a member of indie rock supergroup Lo-Tom), and rounded out by vocalist Amon Krist (daughter of renowned folk artist Jan Krist) on the debut, the band employed a trio of lead vocalists for their more accessible and also edgier sophomore effort Of Color Bright.… Continued →

Most covers are just quickly mashed together, lacking any real emphasis on originality, pulling an existing song out of it’s sameness and reigniting it to a whole new level. Well my friends, Lightworker have taken the old song “Crawling in the Dark” from 00’s rockers – Hoobastank, and given it a whole new life. Most people don’t know that Hoobastank created a whole bunch of music/songs before The Reason took over airwaves and people’s hearts. This song was a real rocker and Lightworker have breathed new life into this song and the genre as a whole.… Continued →

Lots of Christafari news to report on this beautiful Saturday morning here from Southern California. First up, the band just dropped a brand new album on all digital networks titled “Under God”. The new song “Jireh” is currently getting a music video filmed for it and will be released soon. The band dropped a music video for the song “His Blood (Feat. Roland Manakaja)” last week and the song actually comes from their 2020 album “Musicianaries: At Any Cost” which the new documentary is centered around.… Continued →

Rock & Metal

• Anberlin – As You Found Me

Pop & CCM

• Kevin Hackett – AWAKE AFTER MIDNIGHT (EP)
• NICE. – HOW CAN YOU SLEEP IN A TIME LIKE THIS? (EP)
• Ross King – Unfinished

Electronic & EDM

• JIMMY ROCK – Summer Vibes (EP)
• Jhonny Vergel – Born Again EP

Folk & Singer/Songwriter Hip Hop & R&B

• BigBreeze – Trap Out Da Gospel
• Bishop Freeze – A New Creation: The Memoirs of Bishop Freeze (From Death to Life)
• BrodieDaVinci – I’m Feeling 22 (EP)
• cconsciencee – LIFE INFINITY
• Derek Minor, Greg James, THICC James – I’m Lovely (EP)
• Joey Vantes – SLWD
• R.

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How often have you gone back to listen to an album that was more than 10 years old, only to find it didn’t hold up as well as you thought it would? A sloppy guitar part here, or a bad mixing job there, or even just song ideas that didn’t really work as well in hindsight? I first heard Atlantis in 2007 when I was asked to review it for Uprise Zine (if you remember that publication, give me a shout!) While I definitely remember liking it, I was pleasantly surprised at how good it sounds 14 years after its release.… Continued →

Rock & Metal

• CHPTRS – Chapter Six
• CLOUDLAND – Where We Meet
• Fit For A King, August Burns Red – Guardians of the Path (EP)

Pop & CCM

• For the Fatherless – Poetry EP
• Ryan Stevenson – Weathering the Storm (EP)
• Sam Bowman – Children of the Burning Heart

Electronic & EDM Folk & Singer/Songwriter

• Abby Holliday – WHEN WE’RE FAR APART I FALL APART
• Stephanie Quick – the costly ep

Hip Hop & R&B

• Dedge P – Get Up
• Little Limbo – Prince Vamp (Deluxe)
• NXTMIKE – FTLOG (DELUXE)
• Puntin – Newston (EP)
• Sarah Nathalié – Til The Sunrise (EP)

Worship & Gospel

• Church of the City – Defiant Joy (Live) (EP)
• Citizens – Live in Sydney
• Deeper Well – Live Sessions: June 2021
• Kim Walker-Smith – Revival Nights (Live)

Instrumental & Other

• Cageless Birds – Generosity: The Sound of Cultivate

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I’m incredibly late with this post and I apologize. European Metal kings by way of Finland – Ocean Dark, just dropped their album last month titled “Hope & Chaos”. It’s incredible stuff and brings to mind some of your favorite metal bands that the scene has produced but on an even grander scale. This mostly unknown band has begun making waves and there’s no stopping them. Please check out “Hope & Chaos” by Ocean Dark on your favorite digital network. The song “Home” is posted below to give you a taste of the whole thing.… Continued →

Well, we just returned from a wild week at Great Wolf Lodge here locally in So Cal. We spent countless days at the water park and even Knott’s Berry Farm as well as spending precious time with my wife and children. We even had our oldest son Brayden stop by for a bit on last Thursday. Overall, was a great time spent with family and unforgettable memories were had. My wallet still aches but well, what did I expect lol. I have some pics/vids up on my private Instagram so check it.… Continued →

This is a truly exciting and mood stimulating new music project from Adam Lohrbach formerly of pop-punk kings, Home Grown. Radical Radical has now grown to be an official band with 4 members and played their first live show a few weeks ago to a very enthusiastic crowd here in Southern California. The band just released their latest song, the 3rd one so far in 2021 for those keeping track. The song is titled “I’m Not OK, and That’s OK”, which most definitely has an honest, open, and hopeful viewpoint expressed through some great emo/pop-punk.… Continued →

August Burns Red just dropped a cool new collaborative EP with Fit For a King titled “Guardians of the Path” and guess what? It’s out now! Through Solid State Records. Check out a couple songs below. Find out more and get merch by clicking this link here.… Continued →

One of the longest-running indie/alternative bands in the Christian scene, The Choir emerged in the 1980s initially as Youth Choir, shortening the name after the release of one album and one EP. The band formed in 1983 and were instrumental in the early 80s Calvary Chapel scene in Southern California, that also included stalwarts like Undercover, Altar Boys, and 4-4-1. Where some of their counterparts flirted with punk and harder alternative sounds, The Choir’s sound rarely ‘rocked’ so much as it created atmospheres and layers that have never been easily pigeonholed into any particular scene or sound and yet have toyed with dream pop, indie pop, and at times even shoegaze.… Continued →

The band TAKE, from Las Vegas, Nevada are back with a brand new album titled “Power Trip”. The album is a trip down a familiar path while retaining the heaviness and originality the band has become known for. This isn’t the typical, this isn’t mundane and this certainly is not boring. It’s a heavy album but not consisting of that same cookie cutter style everyone is going for. Brings to mind bands like The Warriors, Pantera, Living Sacrifice, Every Time I Die, and really closing the divide between all the diverse sounds of heavy bands you know and love.… Continued →

The somber yet soothing sounds of Benjamin Daniel and his music, are woven into the fabric of Indie Vision Music and our community here that has been built back up post-2016 “rebirth”. If you don’t know who he is or what his music sounds like then do yourself a huge favor and pull up “Benjamin Daniel” on your favorite digital network (or here) and give it a listen. He just launched an IndieGoGo campaign to fund the new album, “Shelterheart”, which you can read all about right here.… Continued →

The hard rock band – The Protest, will release their brand new song titled “Show Up to the Showdown” through their label Rockfest Records on July 23rd. A music video will follow the single release. This massive sounding new hard rock song will hit radio soon. Read the full press release below.… Continued →

Legendary masters of punk-thrash-metal – The Blamed, are going to re-record their landmark, classic album from 1994 called “21”. This debut was really great back when I first heard it and reminded me why I love/loved punk rock. It was like a garage-y, underground sounding album that evoked immediate love for the live experience and sweat drenched, basement worthy punk shows. Even though many of us didn’t venture into that scene as much as others, just hearing a record like this brought to mind what it must have been like.… Continued →

I also found this old concert footage of the band Pennylane performing at Kauai Christian Fellowship in Poipu, Kauai in the great state of Hawaii. This is also a short segment and I believe my camera died which is why I didn’t film it all or something (memory is foggy). Anyway, check out this long lost fragment of Pennylane in a time long since past, and enjoy what you see. Sound is not good FYI and it was a small room with bass overflowing and drowning out the rest of sounds.… Continued →

I dug this old VHS tape out of the deepest cavern of Pre-Indie Vision Music archives that I could search through. This old tape was converted to digital (Digitized) by a company called imemories out of Arizona. I love their services and they’ve done a tremendous job so far. Anyway, check out this really old concert footage of the bands Unashamed and Strongarm from 1995 at a Church in Capo Beach California (Dana Point) called “Capo Beach Calvary Chapel”. I was 17 years old at the time and holding my parents VHS camcorder.… Continued →

Rock & Metal

• Gospod – Israel’s Exodus
• No Lost Cause – Take 2 (Update 2021)
• Once & Future – As the Mourning’s Borne

Pop & CCM

• Brynn Elliott – Can I Be Real?
• TobyMac – Live In Denver

Electronic & EDM

• God’s Warrior – For Eternity

Folk & Singer/Songwriter Hip Hop & R&B

• Bobby Bendito – Redemption
• BrodieDaVinci, BRM Aka Brandon R Music, Xay Hill – Revenge (Juice Pack) (EP)
• BrvndonP – Outta Line
• Icy toolow – 115 (EP)
• Street Minister Whitehead – All Souls Matter
• Swoope – 24
• WestEndShawty – Gonna Be Hard to Stop

Worship & Gospel

• (the autumn) – In the Stillness (Songs from a Quiet Place)
• Joshua Mills, Janet Mills – You Are Blessed
• RiverLife Worship – Behold
• Veritas Worship – V3 (Live)
• Zach Williams – Rescue Story (Deluxe Edition)

Instrumental & Other

• Charlie Peacock – Eye On The Spy
• Wild Harbors – Monument Instrumentals

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Rock & Metal

• 2 Minute Minor – A Goons’ Best Friend Till the Very End
• 4th Point – New Horizons
• Alex Henry Foster – Standing Under Bright Lights (Live from Festival International De Jazz De Montréal)
• Almost Always – think / walk / etc. (EP)
• Anberlin – Paper Tigers
• At The Wayside – Somewhere Between (EP)
• August Burns Red – Guardians Sessions EP
• Boiling Point – Hope Lives Here
• The Choir – Deep Cuts
• Convictions – I Won’t Survive
• Death Therapy – Melancholy Machines
• Dens – Tamed Tongues
• The Devil Wears Prada – ZII
• Diamonds to Dust – Decisions (Instrumentals) (EP)
• Empty Atlas – Dipping Vat Sessions (EP)
• Huntingtons – Judy Judy (EP)
• I Am Spartacus – Trigger Happy
• Jerry Fee  – Truth
• Morellas Forest 1988 – Tales
• mothaltar – Prologue (Instrumentals) (EP)
• Namesake – Demos & Legacy Recordings
• Ocean Dark – Hope & Chaos
• ØM-53 – The Voyager
• Real Face – Dumb Blue Car
• Revival Hymns – Birth Pains
• Searching Serenity – Instrumentals, Vol.

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I decided to celebrate Indie Vision Music’s 21st anniversary with a new playlist. I picked 21 new songs from 21 of my favorite female solo artists to create the playlist. You’ll find a variety styles here, from well-known artists like Madison Cunningham and Lacey Sturm to lesser-known artists like Tenielle Neda and Abby Holliday—because you know that’s just how we do it here at IVM. … Continued →

In honor of our country’s independence and a day of mass country-wide celebrations, I thought it would be appropriate to share a very special new album that Thumper Punk Records is releasing next week by the ska-punk project, NO LOST CAUSE. It is special in that very few “Christian” bands are even playing this style of music and even fewer can play it as good as this sounds. “Take 2” is a full length record comprised of new and old songs from the NLC catalog all reworked/remixed and with added horn sections to make these songs sound so much more incredible than they did in the past.… Continued →

Anberlin are taking their reunion to another level signaling a possible longer stay. The band have just dropped some dates for a fall tour they’ve been planning. I sense a bunch more dates will be added soon. View the dates and ticket packages right here.… Continued →

Rock & Metal

• Autumnboy – Autumn Forever
• Context – Kingdoms
• Saving Jackie – It’s Critical

Pop & CCM

• Jarrett Cesmat – I’ll Hold On (EP)
• John Jin Han – Days of Youth
• KAINA – Comeback Kid

Electronic & EDM Folk & Singer/Songwriter

• Man0 – DAVID COMPLEX

Hip Hop & R&B

• Diomer – GAMEDAY (EP)
• Dre.Tuff – MONARCH (EP)
• JesusGang – Trap Gospel 3
• Josiah Davis – TIP OF THE ICEBERG: Some Remixes
• Limoblaze – God’s Favourite Baby

Worship & Gospel

• Chris Tomlin – Chris Tomlin & Friends: Summer EP
• Daniel Bashta – Wave Your Flag
• Destiny Worship Music – Live from Destiny Studios, Vol.

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Thumper Punk Records have put together a really cool little fundraiser in the form of a pay what you want download via the TPR Bandcamp page. The album is out today! There are 6 artists + Adam Nigh himself, contributing different versions of the now classic Craig’s Brother song – “My Annie”. Adam Nigh of Too Bad Eugene, played and sang on this classic song which appeared on the 1998 Craig’s Brother album, “Homecoming”. You can find this cover album fundraiser right here. Be sure to chip in a few bucks to support Too Bad Eugene and help cover their studio costs.… Continued →

First things first: I must apologize for missing a couple of weeks on my Song of the Day features. We’ve been in the middle of an international move. Yes, after 13 years of life in the UK, my family and I have returned to the United States! And we’ve been living out of suitcases while we finalize our housing. So do please forgive me for missing a few posts. However, I hope a new song from Starflyer 59 this week can make up for it. The first thing I noticed from the track was the eerie new wave keyboard sounds and quasi-goth guitar leads.… Continued →

Craig’s Brother just dropped a big update regarding Album #4. They are still working on the currently untitled 4th full length record which surprisingly will feature Not 10, not 12, but 18 punk rock tracks! Can you believe it? You can buy the band’s tshirts, hoodies, hats, and more by clicking this link right here. The band sold their “Devils In The Details” Vinyl exclusively through People of Punk Rock Records so be sure to visit their site and get your copy. Read the full update below.… Continued →

To Speak of Wolves will unleash their brand new song “Annihilation” on the masses, July 20th. More news as it happens. Make sure to follow them on social media @tospeakofwolves (Facebook & Instagram).… Continued →

Rock & Metal

• Boiling Point – Hope Lives Here
• mothaltar – Prologue (Instrumentals) (EP)
• Winona Avenue – Winona Avenue

Pop & CCM

• Ellie Holcomb – Canyon
• ØM-53 – The Voyager

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

• Christopher Syncere – THE MIDDLE (EP)
• GOSPEL READY – Redeemed
• Mlpc – 2 H Y P E R (EP)
• NXTMIKE – FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
• SiahThyLegend – HARDCORE MODE (EP)

Worship & Gospel

• As Isaac – Exodus
• FREE CHAPEL MUSIC – From the Heart
• Housefires – Housefires VII (Live)
• Legacy Worship – Glory to Glory, Year 1
• Lion & Bear – Hollows
• MBL Worship, Brennan Joseph – Live From Crossroads
• People & Songs – Walls Fall Down
• Phil Wickham – Hymn Of Heaven
• WELOVE – WELOVE Instant Live Hymnology I (EP)

Instrumental & Other

• Antoine Bradford – Even In The Dark (Instrumentals)

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DENS released an absolutely stunning reworking of their 2020 full length, “Taming Tongues”, and re-released it as “Tamed Tongues” earlier this year. As you may have guessed, this too would further cement the band’s place among among some of the best bands in the music scene today. “Diverse” doesn’t even begin to tell the whole, complete story. You really have to experience all 4 of the band releases to understand the complexities, the melodies, the words, the worship, and the heart beat that keeps this band spinning.… Continued →

Josh White just dropped his brand new 6 song EP titled “Holy Haunt”. The EP is released in partnership with Humble Beast and Deeper Well. The title track, “Holy Haunt”, sounds amazing, brings on the chills and lets you know just how important Josh White’s music is. Influential is an understatement. Definitely the authenticity runs deep. “Holy Haunt” by Josh White now available on all digital networks and streaming sites. Listen to some songs below.… Continued →