David Crowder has just premiered his brand new video "Come As You Are" which has already gone viral on the Internet. At his worshipful best, the video features Crowder with just his guitar and backup musicians on the acoustic worship song.
15-Time 2014 GMA Dove Award Nominee and StowTown Records co-founder Wayne Haun has just released his brand new Christmas project, Sentimental Season. Currently available at Christian Bookstores, online, digital outlets, and general market retailers, this CD is the follow-up to his debut solo release of Old Soul last year.
If you have been to church long enough, you would know all the overwrought clichéd answers to the standard religious questions people often asked. One of them being: what's the meaning of Christmas? It's not so much about Santa, his reindeers and his sleigh. Rather Jesus is the reason for the season. Though the answer is spot on; it's so superficially and thoughtlessly recycled that the varnish of how the truth impacts us has long been eradicated.
DREAM GOSPEL Records is proud to release the debut album of Javis Mays for the label that is entitled "#PLUGGEDIN." This high enery powerful album of contemporary worship is bound to draw us closer in intimacy with our Savior. T
Carolyn Arends has released 10 albums and is the author of 3 critically-acclaimed books. 15 of Arends' songs have become top 10 radio singles on the Canadian pop and US Christian charts. Arends has earned 2 Dove Awards, 3 Juno Nominations, and was recognized as the West Coast Music Awards' Songwriter of the Year.
Daughter of contemporary Christian artist Crystal Lewis, Izzi Ray has just released her sophomore CD,Make Much Of You, today. The project, being distributed by Word Records, finds Ray working with musician/producer Blaine Stark.
Australia's megachurch Hillsong United has received a nomination for an American Music Award in the Contemporary Inspirational Artist category this week, marking the band's first-ever AMA recognition. The 2014 AMA's will be broadcast from Los Angeles' Nokia Theater on Nov. 23.
The wait is finally over, fans of Manic Drive can now pick up their brand new album "VIP" as of October 14th. For this their fifth album, the band from Toronto has decided to gone the independent route by raising their own funds for the record via Pledge Music.
One of the most resonating voices on today's gospel scene belongs to newcomer, Casey J (Casey Janice Hobbs). The 28-year old worship powerhouse is among a cool clique of young female singers such as Michelle Williams, Jekaylyn Carr, and Alexis Spight who are collectively flexing their girl power and making room for themselves at gospel music's male-dominated welcome table.
In preparation for their first ever European headline tour, rock band Skillet will release "Vital Signs" for the European market on October 14. Though "Vital Signs" is not meant to be a Best Of or is it by any means a Greatest Hits, it contains 10 of their classic songs. The track listing was put together by the band to commemorate 10 years of recording and performing.
"On a rough day, I found this promise-filled video so strongly shoring up my faith, and the absolutely terrific voice of Martin Smith, filling my heart with comfort," comments one fan at the YouTube site. "I tend to forget that the Lord is 'HERE' with me every moment, especially when I am down. Joshua 3:10 tells us 'The Living God is among you'...thank you Integrity Music and Martin for helping me to grasp that."
The music of Kingsmen is the default template that many Southern Gospel quartets have adopted over the years. Almost every quartet these days will find traces of their sound going back to the Kingsmen. Their tight four-part abstemious harmonies, their Scripture-soaked Cross-centered lyrics and the way they approach each and every song they record with verve and panache are some of the ingredients that make this quartet a national icon.
Southernman Quartet Roy Bray was killed in an RV crash. Bray had been involved in gospel music since the 1960s, and toured around the country - and to Canada - with the Southmen Quartet. He described his 'mission in life' as 'to seek and save the lost'.
Indeed love already has had its day when it comes to the life of worship leader and songwriter's Laura Hackett Park. Just as her wedding bells are still ringing as Laura marries fellow worship leader Jonas Park and just before they have had finished honeymooning, out comes her debut album "Love Will Have Its Day."
4-time Grammy nominee Wayne Haun is known for his behind-the-scenes work as a songwriter, producer, arranger, orchestrator, record label founder, publishing company owner, frequent Grammy and GMA/Dove committee member, and more. However, since Ernie Haase convinced Wayne Haun to join a worldwide tour as the band leader and keyboard player for Ernie Haase & Signature Sound, Haun has been increasingly drawn into the spotlight to sing with the group, and has recently added solo recording artist to his resume. Called an "old soul" by those who know him best, Wayne Haun's vocal interpretations of timeless love songs and classic Broadway tunes are now gaining him devoted listeners in a new arena of artistry.