2020 Archives - Indie Vision Music

Creating a list of my top 100 albums and EPs has been fun and all, but it’s really these last 25 that are my personal favorites of 2020. They’re the ones that I’ve listened to the most and the ones I think I will keep coming back to in 2021. So here it is, my top 25 albums and EPs of 2020:

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Best of 2020: Noah Hardwick (Part III)

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Something I realized once I started breaking my top 100 albums and EPs of 2020 list down into four posts is that each post became a micro-list of its own. For example, I wasn’t really thinking too hard about what album I was going to rank 26th when there were 100 albums.… Continued →

Best of 2020: Noah Hardwick (Part II)

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Some would say that putting together a year-end list of your top 100 albums and EPs is insane. And I agree. It’s one of the most ambitious things I’ve attempted since I started writing for IVM. So how did I do it exactly? Well I started out by putting together a list of all the albums and EPs I listened to during 2020—a feat in its own right.… Continued →

Song of the Day: Nightbirde - New Year's Eve

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New Releases: December 18, 2020

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Rock & Metal

Bride – Here Is Your God
Chase Tremaine – Fear Not Want
Fallstar – Waiting
Messenger – In to Win
Northern Flame – Twisted Reality
Steve Taylor & the Danielson Foil – Ecstatic Delight
Then It Ends – Kingdom (Alternative Version)
Words – Trees (Live) (EP)

Pop & CCM

Chris August – Ghost
Conrad – Hidden Places
Crossroads Music – Come In From The Cold
Darla Baltazar – Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus
Eniola Abioye – MARBLED MOSAIC.

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New Releases: December 11, 2020

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Rock & Metal

Anberlin – Tear Us Apart
Ben S Dixon – Psalm 46 Lord of Hosts
The Chariot – Long Live (10 Year Anniversary)
Heliocentric – Antithesis
Living Scars – Hallelujah
Signum Regis – Flag of Hope (EP)

Pop & CCM

Adam Lamb – For Me
Altared – Awakened
Amng Wlvs – Voice of Hope
Anae – You Can Find Me
Cody Johns – Relentless (EP)
Connor Flanagan – Fire of My Father
Doobie Powell – Heartbeat
Edgar Sandoval Jr – last few months
Haiva Ru – Wildflowers
Judah & the Lion – Pep Talks Live
Jon Webster – Selah
NEEDTOBREATHE – Who Am I (Acoustic)
Tauren Wells – Famous For (I Believe) – Collection
UNSECRET – No Sanctuary

Electronic

Bryson Price – Demons Flee
Jack Izaak – Still N Listen

Folk & Singer/Songwriter

Charlie Peacock – Skin and Wind is a Mind Bend
Future Divine – Nightmare Into Day
Jon Foreman – Fear (EP)
Thomas Toole – Time and Space
Whale Bones – The Doors Are Locked, the Blinds Are Closed, I Am Not Home

Hip Hop & R&B

Angie Rose – Not A Monster
Jesse Francis – Frontier
JSteph – Phase II: The Remixes (EP)
King Chai – Godmix 2
LZ7 – Gettin Wild
Tru-Serva – Blessings on the Way (Remix)
Tobe Nwigwe – CINCORIGINALS

Worship & Gospel

Ashton Barber – Inheritance
Ben&blake – Faith Alone
Calvary Worship Live – Never Gonna Let Me Down
Celtic Worship, Praise Gathering – It Is Well
Chris Beland – Morning and Evening Hymns
Curt Vernon – One I Thought You Couldn’t Change
Emmanuel Worship – Songs of Quarantine
Fount + Flame – Pull Me In
Grace City – Holy Ghost (We Say Yes)
Harvest City Church – Greatest Miracle (Live)
Hillsong UNITED – (in the meantime) [Vol.

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My Top 10 Christmas Albums of 2020

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I should probably be working my Best of 2020 list right now, but as I set out to make my annual Christmas playlist I kept stumbling across great new albums and EPs. So while my top albums of 2020 list sits on the backburner for a few more weeks, enjoy this list of my top 10 new Christmas albums and EPs that were released this year.… Continued →

New Releases: December 4, 2020

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Rock & Metal

Andrew Stanton – Entrance Music
Boiling Point – Come All You Weary
Diamonds to Dust – Decisions (EP)
Fallstar – King Lazer
Fight The Fade – In Love. in Hope. in Peace. (Deluxe)
Neal Morse – Jesus Christ the Exorcist (Live at Morsefest 2018)
Phil Keaggy – Keaggy, Blazier & Lunn (An American Garage Band)
They Came Running – Movement 1: Dawn – They Came Running (EP)
Two Dimensional – Superman // Between You & Me
Winona Avenue – December Night

Pop & CCM

Drew Poole – I Love You I Love You
Emily Brimlow – Nickel
Freedom Heart – Lost and Broken
Grace Graber – Heart For Me
The Gray Havens – See You Again / / Autumn Sessions
Heart + Soul, Vito Vasquez – Made In Heaven
I AM THEY – I AM They Song Session
joan – partly cloudy (EP)
Joe Bae, Philip Shibata – Unravel
Joseph – NYE (Violents Remix)
Kios – Stay With Me (EP)
More Than Rubies – Forgiveness
Mountaintops – Wherever I Go (Ambient Version)
Paul Cardall, Thompson Square – My Heart Beats for You
Pyramid Park, Andy Lowe – Day and Night (Andy Lowe Remix)
Timothy Li – Leaving

Electronic

Folk & Singer/Songwriter

Hip Hop & R&B

Aklesso – My Life is a Beautiful Mess
Andy Mineo – Happy Thoughts (EP)
Antoine Bradford – Seasons Change
Cellus Hamilton, BlessThePen, Trubl3 – The Row Men
Dillon Chase – Every Piece Matters
Flame – Oh Yeah (Original Radio Edit)
Guvna B, Madison Ryann Ward – Watching over Us
I-Von – Hands to the Plow
Jon Keith – Rose
Jude.

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Featured Album: Rottweiler Record's Fleas Naughty Dog Vol. 8

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I know it’s not Christmas yet, but in the spirit of the season, Shawn Browning’s Rottweiler Records released their yearly Christmas compilation back on November 24, 2020. I remember seeing various Facebook posts about the upcoming project & is up on Rottweiler’s Bandcamp page. Consisting of 20 songs, this comp is sure to satisfy most hard subgenre lovers.… Continued →

New Releases: November 27, 2020

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Rock & Metal

Pop & CCM

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New Releases: November 20, 2020

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Rock & Metal

Awaken – The Veil
CHPTRS – When You Came Along
CLOUDLAND – Lights
Faintheart – Growing Pains (EP)
Kevin Max – Revisiting This Planet
The Lasting Hope – Lead Me
Mike Mains & The Branches – Briggs (Cinematic Version)
No Lost Cause – Hope For The Hopeless (2020 Version)
The Reversalist – Falling Embers
VERIDIA – Crushed Velvet
Weathered – Everything All at Once

Pop & CCM

21:03 – Never Let Me Down
Bien – Megaphone
Cristabelle Braden – My Story Now (Lo-Fi Remix)
Daulton Hopkins – I Melt With You
DC Talk – Trying to Find A Life
Feikje Douwina – This Time (EP)
Gabriel Conte – Belong
Jacob Hilton – A Voice Shouting (Féz Remix)
Jessica Love – Stronger
JJ Weeks Band – JJ Weeks Band
John Michael Howell, Ashylnn Rose – You Will Love Again
Jordan St.

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New Releases: November 13, 2020

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Rock & Metal

12 Stones – Smoke and Mirrors Volume 1 (EP)
Amongst Wolves – Golden (Remix)
Cory Shane – Pyramid Scheme
Crushing the Deceiver – At The End Of The Tunnel
Fallstar – SSRI Feel Better Already
Fight The Fade – What’s Left (Acoustic)
The Fold – Young & Free
Love and Death – Down
Revelation Attic – Agony
The Rocket Summer – Bee Sides: Select Rarities 2015-2020
Talkie – to be alone
Then It Ends – Despised (Acoustic)

Pop & CCM

Andrea Hamilton – Time Under Tension (EP)
Camryn Leigh Smith – Tightrope
Freddie Fardon – Under Your Wings
Grace Graber – Real
Harolddd – Hoodie Weather
Jessie Early – The Fire Never Dies (EP)
Jon Webster – Rendezvous
Judah & the Lion – Spirit
MacKenzie Phillips – Deeper
Marie Bashiru – Joyride
Matthew West – Gobble Gobble
Neoni – OUTLAW
Punch Parade – Stay In
Smalltown Poets – In Real Life (Live)
Spencer Kane – Smoke
Terrian – Light It Up
Whosah – Heaven Here

Electronic

Folk & Singer/Songwriter

Hip Hop & R&B

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New Releases: November 6, 2020

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Rock & Metal

2 Minute Minor – Stand for Something or Fall for Anything (EP)
Chaotic Resemblance – Unto the Lamb
Collision of Innocence – Sorrows End
Dawnbreaker – Vanquished Horrible Night
Diamonds to Dust – Corpus Christi
The Midnight Wedding – Set Me Free
Northern Flame – Sanctification of the World
Talkie – look at me
Weathered – In This World

Pop & CCM

About A Mile – Godless America
After Grace – Forever Home
The Brilliance – Hurricane
Common Courier – At the Table
The Complete Fiction – Things Are Looking Up
Future Of Forestry – We Can’t Breathe
Gabriel Conte – Los Angeles
GALLERY – Beacon (Radio Edit)
The Gray Havens – Forever / / Autumn Sessions
Greg Attwells – So Crazy
Jamie Grace – Normal
JJ Heller – Impossible
Joel Vaughn – It’s Okay
Mary Ives – Is There Anybody Out There
Tom Read – Dead Things to Life (Live)
Tyler Batts – Falling In
Xandria Cross – Marionette
Wake Low – Wake Low

Electronic

Edu Linares – Is Now
God’s Warrior – Honor Jesus
Jeremy James Whitaker – I’m a Mess (Buryme James Whitaker Remix)
JSteph – I’m Sorry (Sam Bowman Remix)
Man Cub – In A Dream (Remixes)
Neon Beach – Countdown
Roberto Rosso – Freedom (Radio Mix)

Folk & Singer/Songwriter

Hip Hop & R&B

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New Releases: October 30, 2020

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Rock & Metal

09 x Matty Mullins – Masquerade
Aaron Ray – In My Blood
Barry Blair – Down in the Lowlands
Gable Price and Friends – You Are My Country
Last Year’s Model – Rondé Vous
Living Scars – Without Me
My Epic – Lower Still
Nine Lashes – Follow
Odds of an Afterthought – The Truth Will Set You Free but First It Will Piss You Off
Paradise Now – Lockdown Mixtape (EP)
The Protest – Greater
Shelbi – Rocket Science (EP)

Pop & CCM

Amy Grant – Unguarded (Re-Release)
Andrew Marcus – No Reason to Say Goodbye
Alisa Turner – Run for Your Life
Ben Fuller – Town Called Grace
Ben Laine – 12
Caitie Hurst – At All Times (EP)
Chris Howland – Dreamworld
Coby James – Homesick (EP)
David Dunn – Perspectives (Deluxe)
DOE – DOE (EP)
Ernstly Etienne – Jericho
Frankie Orella – While My Guitar Gently Weeps | Help!

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The Incomplete List of 2020 Albums & EPs

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Rock & Punk

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New Releases: October 23, 2020

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Rock & Metal

Cyborg Future & Emery – The Road We Find Ourselves Upon
Deane Walden – Stupid Cupid
Earth Groans – Waste (EP)
Faintheart – Say to Me
Fireflight – Who We Are: The Head And The Heart
HANDSXFEET – Grace
Hard Look – Breathing in the Wrath
Ignite the Fire – Unstoppable
Nate Parrish – Bullets and Blades
Paradise Now – Monsters
WeAreGeneration – Nightmare
Weathered – Chasing Me
Words – My Body’s a Zombie for You

Pop & CCM

Adrienne Acosta – Keep Holding On
Cade Thompson – Almost Dawn
Caleb Crino – Basics
Connor Caughlan – Skeletons (Live Version)
Cory Asbury – Dear God (Acoustic)
Courtnie Ramirez – Chase Me Down
Chris Bray – More Like You
DLLN – Imma Winner
Ernstly Etienne – Quarantine
Evvie McKinney – Look No Further (EP)
Gabriel Conte – Wrong With Me
The Gray Havens – This My Soul / / Autumn Sessions
I AM THEY – Faithful God
Jason Gray – Order, Disorder, Reorder
John Jin Han – Young Folks
Natalie Layne – Tell Them I’m Brave
Riley Clemmons – Healing

Electronic

Fishburn – Known All Along
JackSayFree – King of Nations (2k20 Edit)
ØM-53 – Rain Down

Folk & Singer/Songwriter

Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors – Live at the Tennessee Theatre
Paul Demer – Singing at a Restaurant
Taylor Armstrong – Taylor Armstrong
Teressa Mahoney – Maybe

Hip Hop & R&B

Akil Hamilton – Best Part
Andrew Puckett – Right Time
Andy Mineo – Jackson Pollock (TikTok Remix)
Anh Thai x Paul the Messenger – Overwhelm
Arrow – On God (feat.

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Song Of The Day: As We Are-Paralyzed

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So I had a chance to meet these guys while I was recording a sound byte from their record label owner for my online radio station a few years ago at Audiofeed Festival in Central Illinois. Wow, has their style changed. I would have classified As We Are’s (stylized sometimes as AsWeARe or just plain AWA) sound as pop punk, but with a rock twist a few years back when they came out with their self-titled EP.… Continued →

New Releases: October 16, 2020

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Rock & Metal

As He Is – Let It Go (Re-Recorded)
Ben S Dixon – The Brightest Light
Brotality – Foxhole
Ethan Luck – Lockdown (EP)
Everything In Slow Motion – Influence
Gable Price and Friends – Fractioned (Live) (EP)
Often Home – Outgrown (EP)
Relent – Last Days
We Are The City – Lover is Dead

Pop & CCM

Alisa Turner – The Window
boy & KING – Younger
Built By Titan – Will You Grow Old With Me
The Citrus Trees – The Citrus Trees
Cochren & Co.

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New Releases: October 9, 2020

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Rock & Metal

Pop & CCM

Emily Raymond – Remade
Grace Graber – Darkness
Haiva Ru – Space
HillaryJane – Never Left
Holly Halliwell – You
Iryne Rock – Cleanse Restore Renew
Izzi Ray – Self Untitled
Jeremy Horn – Never Knew
Jon Shabaglian – With God
Jonas Myrin – Not Alone (Stockholm Symphony Version)
Landry Cantrell – Glasshouse
LZ7 – Won’t Run Out
Marci Coleman – Glimpse of Heaven
Mat Kearney – Until We Meet Again… (Live Unplugged)
Melody Adorno – Uncertainty (Live)
Mercedes Nodarse – My Savior
Ruelle – Good Day for Dreaming
Sarah Reeves – Life Love & Madness

Electronic

The Complete Fiction – New
Everen Maxwell – Dancing Under Neon Skies
Matthew Parker – Pray for You (Remix)
Mediatrix – I Wanna
Micah Ariss – Pray for You (Remixes) (EP)
Trampolines – The Way God Sees You

Folk & Singer/Songwriter

Hip Hop & R&B

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New Releases: October 2, 2020

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Rock & Metal

Acceptance – Wild, Free
Crowned In Chains – King Suffering Part II
Everything In Slow Motion – Satellite
Fire from Heaven – Twilight of the Evil Wolf
Fireflight – Who We Are
Flight Deck – That Isn’t Me
Harbor & Home – Hold on to Love
I Am The Deceiver – Another Perfect Day
Ignescent – Exodus
Perpetual Paranoia – The Reapers
Relesser – Empires to Ash
Simply Leslie – Little Movement
Then It Ends – Restored
Words – Trees (Instrumental) (EP)
World Divided – Dispirit
Zambroa – Repent / Believe

Pop & CCM

Abe Parker – 80 Dollars
Arie Camp – What We Need
Ayiesha Woods – Full Circle (EP)
Brooke Staten – Still Here
Chris Sligh – Enemies
Clemency – Dare to Dream
Jason Gray – Reorder
Jessie Early – The Fire Never Dies
Lipstick Kid – Connection Together
Manic Drive – Thank God I’m Alive (Remix)
Throwback Kid – Back to the 90’s
TobyMac – I’m Sorry (a lament)
Wake Low – Testify
Zoe Hinkle – Wake Up, Girl

Electronic

Kingdom Squad x Bryson Price – Secure
Jimmy Rock – World of Drops (EP)

Folk & Singer/Songwriter

David Benjamin Blower – Apocalyptic Lockdown Blues, Pt.

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55 New Songs from September 2020 You Should Listen To

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While I haven’t been posting about it the past few months like I was earlier in the year, I’ve been continuing to update the New Release Sampler playlist on Spotify every month with new songs. I felt like taking some notes while I was putting the finishing touches on it today though and thought I’d share them readers.… Continued →

New Releases: September 25, 2020

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Rock & Metal

Blessed By A Broken Heart – Another Day Another War
Buried Above – It’s Never Too Late
The Citrus Trees – Little Town
Collapse Revive – Arid
Collington – Vagrant
Death Therapy – Reject (feat. Brook Reeves)
Earth Groans – Shatter
I Am The Deceiver – For Charity’s Sake
Messenger – Time Machine
Pantokrator – Wedlock
Shadow Puncher – Covered by the Blood of the Lamb (EP)
Sink In – Fed Up
Slick Shoes – Rotation & Frequency
TIMŌRĀTUS – Bleed American
the UPAFTER – Remedy
VERIDIA – Light It Up
The Waymaker – The Waymaker
Wolves At The Gate – Counterfeit (Redux)

Pop & CCM

April Kane – Stay the Same
Ashton Barber – Treasure (Oil Song)
Built By Titan – Birds
Coby James – Infinite
DaFOO – Take Your Time
Eddy Mann – Pray On
The Gray Havens – Rest (EP)
Falcon – The Good Stuff
Grace Spencer – Confidence (Radio Version)
John Mark McMillan – Enemy Love: Stabal Session (Live)
Judah & the Lion – Judah & the Lion (Unplugged) (EP)
Kane Adams – Draw Near (EP)
Kinn – Medora
Landry Cantrell – Close To Me
Matt Hammitt – Treetop
Matthew Parker – Bloodstream
Natalie Grant – No Stranger
Rachael Nemiroff – How to Save a Life
Ronnie Freeman – You Don’t Waste Anything
Rorie – Avalanche
ROY3LS – Worth It
Sarah Reeves – Motions (EP)
SHORE – Messages (EP)
SVRCINA – Elysian Fields

Electronic

Jack Izaak – Love So High
Jeremy James Whitaker – Something, Anything, Everything

Folk & Singer/Songwriter

Jim Andrew Rogers – Rocks and Stars
Joey Gonzalez – Tonight
Madison Cunningham – No Surprises
Sarah DeShields – Death and the Woman
Sarah Sparks – Golden Hour
Zan Fiskum – Still Thinkin’ About You

Hip Hop & R&B

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New Releases: September 18, 2020

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Rock & Metal

Acceptance – Bend the Light
Asfirefalls – Out of Line
Audiophile – Neapolitan (EP)
Deep Valleys – Beyond the Waves
Dire – Forever New
Disciple – Love Letter Kill Shot (Deluxe)
Everything In Slow Motion – Choke
Final Greetings – Burn
Fit For A King – The Path
The Reign of Kindo – Better off Together
Then It Ends – Reality
12 Stones – Empty Words

Pop & CCM

Apollo LTD – Better
Austin French – Wake Up Sleeper (EP)
Beckah Shae – Awake
Cameron James – Game Changer
Chasing Daylight – You Are The Song
Crystal Rome – Not Going Under
Jason Gray – Right On Time
Jordan Feliz – Wounds
Josh Baldwin – Into the Wild
Spencer Kane – Do This Again
Talkie – Blue Underground
Tasha Layton – Into the Sea (EP)
Terrian – I’m In Love (w/ Ian Alxndr)
Tommee Profitt – Faking Love: The Remixes EP
7eventh Time Down – Questions

Electronic

Daniel Baciu – Alpha
Paulo Gomes – Psalm 91 EP

Folk & Singer/Songwriter

Matt Stinton – Son of the Sea (EP)
Mike Crawford and His Secret Siblings – Walk With Us
Wake Low – How Did We Get Here

Hip Hop & R&B

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New Releases: September 11, 2020

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Rock & Metal

Adorned Graves – Being Towards a River
Almost Always – come apart in your light (EP)
The Lionhearted – Lover of the Light
Micah Ariss – My Own Worst Enemy
Neal Morse – Sola Gratia
Skillet – Victorious: The Aftermath (Deluxe) – Skillet
Slick Shoes – The Worlds Were Mine

Pop & CCM

Cody Johns – Moment With You
Idle Achiever – The Emo Tapes
Jerry Fee – Count on Me
Jimi Cravity – Happy 2 Be Alive
John Mark McMillan – Juggernaut – At Stabal (Live)
Jonny Henninger – Waiting Here
Kate Stanford – Mirror
Lize Hadassah Wiid – Return to Me
Manwell – Don’t Fail Me Now
Matthew Parker – Lead Me Home (Remix)
Neon Feather – Easy Love
Rae Rae – Conversations (EP)
Sanctus Real – Today Tomorrow & Forever (Acoustic Sessions)
Wakeup Starlight – One Step Away

Electronic

Folk & Singer/Songwriter

Darla Baltazar – Where Should I Be?

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New Releases: September 4, 2020

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Rock & Metal

Andrew Stanton – Human Terrain
Behold the Beloved – Come Alive
The Classic Crime – Patterns in the Static (Instrumental)
Fight The Fade – Crawling
Five Iron Frenzy – So We Sing
Gold, Frankincense, & Myrrh – Operation Take Over (EP)
Grave Forsaken – The Footsteps of God
I Am The Deceiver – White Roses
Kios – Felt Like Heaven
Knox Hamilton – Weekend Yet (EP)
Medical Morning – The Truth Is Hard to Hear
The Midnight Wedding – I Swear
Since the Death – The Black Must Come Out
Stryper – Even the Devil Believes
Symphony of Heaven – The Ascension of Extinction (EP)
Then It Ends – Depravity
Wolves At The Gate – A Voice in the Violence (Redux)
’68 – Love is Ain’t Dead.

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Five Iron Frenzy - So We Sing (Lyric Video and Watch Out For Angry Grown Ups)

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Five Iron Frenzy just dropped their controversial new song with a reference to a donkey. Forgive Reese, he really doesn’t know that he just invited like a ton of grown ups to come chase him down, and maybe their kids too? Yikes! Seriously though, people will be upset (even I have questionable taste) but remember one thing, the more angry you get, the more Reese will write.… Continued →