Music News
The latest Christian & mainstream music news, from NZ and around the world! You'll also be hearing a lot of this on the music news on the Late Show with George (and Dan) at 9.10pm weeknights and the new music pulse on Saturdays.
New Abandon Kansas tune = awesome
Heard the new Abandon Kansas tune "Turn It To Gold" yet?? Get yourself familiar with the lyrics thanks to this handy video.
Get the song on iTunes now - and expect a full length release some time pretty soon!!
Introduducing: Benjamin Dunn & The Animal Orchestra
Aside from having one of the coolest band names EVER, this is pretty awesome!! Have a watch of the video and let me know what you think in the comments.
New Albums Today - Aug 14
Few choice albums out today - The Classic Crime have released their first independent album Phoenix - and Dan's gonna be talking to Matt from the band tomorrow on the night show.
There's also a new worship/pop/ambience album from An Epic, No Less called An Echo Of Love - think Owl City doing worship - well worth checking out.
Or if more traditional worship is your thing but you still want a sweet bit of groove to it, Israel & New Breed have Jesus At The Centre out today. Well, they say "center" but here in NZ, we spell things properly.
Taylor Swift New Song!
Someone made T-Swifty angry - and she's picked up a guitar and some drums (maybe not actually picked up but you get the metaphor) and released this little ditty, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together".
Thoughts??
Kickin' Hawk Nelson
Hawk Nelson is in the studio working on their first new album since lead vocalist Jason Dunn exited and guitarist Jonathan Steingard stepped in the vocal role, and they've launched their first Kickstarter campaign to help fund the project.
As little as 10USD gets you a copy of their new album, but I really want someone to pay the 10,000USD to name the album. How awesome would that be??
The new sound of Hawk Nelson is looking to be released March-ish next year.
Flyleaf debut new single "New Horizons"
Flyleaf has debuted the title track from their new album. The single will be available for purchase on August 21st. The song is taken from the band's new album, titled New Horizons, is set to release before Christmas.
Mutemath Live in DC now available!
A keyboardist that flies, a drummer that duct-tapes his headphones to his head... a live show not to be missed!!! Mutemath have just released their Odd Soul: Live In DC album and it's even made its way to NZ iTunes!!
Check out the "Blood Pressure" video from the concert below, and add this to your live album collection. Someone please bring Mutemath to NZ!!!!!
139 sleeps to go...
Source: Black Lodge PR
After releasing an amped-up cover of a holiday classic in each of the past four years, genre giants August Burns Red are officially announcing details on their oft-rumored full-length Christmas album: August Burns Red presents: Sleddin' Hill, A Holiday Album.
The 13-track release features not only fresh takes on classics such as "Jingle Bells," "Winter Wonderland" and even "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer," but also original compositions that are destined to become future headbanging holiday favorites. The album also compiles remixed and remastered versions of the band's previous holiday hits, like "O Come, O Come Emmanuel," "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" and "Little Drummer Boy." Rounding out the collection is an updated version of the band's rendition of "Carol of the Bells," heard in Frank Miller's (300, Sin City) movie The Spirit and Seth MacFarlane's (Family Guy) American Dad.
"The idea of doing a full Christmas album has been floating around in the ABR camp for a few years now, but what always held us back was finding the time and energy to write an additional full-length in between touring and writing our regular records. Writing metal versions of Christmas songs has always been a challenge for me because the songs are driven by simple vocal melodies with the only variety in the lyrics. We decided to take the songs and go the instrumental route – the main melodies are there, but this record has a lot more to it then that. The songs have sections of music that flow in and out of the classic melodies we've all come to recognize. There is a lot of substance in these songs- more than you'd find in your typical cover."
On whether Sleddin' Hill is destined to become a novelty album or a key part of the band's discography, Brubaker has the final word: "To some, the concept of a metal Christmas album may come off as silly and a waste of time, but I think this record has plenty of original ABR substance to interest even the biggest Scrooges out there."
Track Listing for August Burns Red presents: Sleddin' Hill, A Holiday Album:
1. Flurries
2. Frosty the Snowman
3. Sleigh Ride
4. God Rest Ye' Merry Gentlemen
5. Jingle Bells
6. Oh Holy Night
7. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
8. Sleddin' Hill
9. Little Drummer Boy
10. Winter Wonderland
11. O Come, O Come Emmanuel
12. Carol of the Bells
13. We Wish You a Merry Christmas
New Album From Derek Webb
You know how I keep telling you to go to noisetrade.com to download free tunes, or album samplers etc?? Well the GUY WHO STARTED NOISETRADE.COM has just released another album.
Derek Webb's new album Ctrl is available now at his website derekwebb.com. You can head to noisetrade to get a sampler of the album as well (naturally).
Music Video: Samestate "Shadows"
Check out the new music video for Samestate's tune "Shadows"