Artist: Hawk Nelson
Album: Christmas EP
Release Date: November 1′st, 2011
Style: Pop / Rock / Punk
Label: BEC Recordings / Tooth and Nail Records
Location (from): Peterborough, Ontario

About:

Hawk Nelson delivering a jolly of a good time with their “Christmas” album! Features a ton of favorites to lighten the mood. Read More bellow…

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Hawk Nelson has picked some of their favorite Christmas songs and is wanting to share them with you! They picked classics like “Silent Night,” “Hark The Herald/O Come All ye Faithful,” and “I Saw Three Ships” to name a few. This is a must have Christmas album for an Hawk Nelson fan! And be sure to see them as they go out on the Christmas Pageant Tour with Family Force 5! – This 7 piece album was produced by Jonathan Steingard, Mixed by JR McNeely and arranged by Hawk Nelson

Track Listing:

1. Hark The Herald Angles Sing w/ O Come All Ye Faithful
2. The Wassail Song
3. Up On The Housetop
4. The Holly And The Ivy
5. Joy To The World
6. I Saw Three Ships
7. Silent Night

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Artist: Crunch
Album: Icarus EP
Release Date: 2011
Style: Alternacore /  Alt. Rock / Post-Hardcore
Label: Maxpowerrecords
Location: Haltern am See, Germany

About:

Crunch band has offered their latest EP to christiansonic.net visitors. So here goes, you can have this EP for free offered by the band. The download link is down at the bottom of the article.

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For a first listen i would say Crunch looks to be a promising band on the alternative rock stage. Even though the guys are from Germany, Icarus EP consists of their latest songs which were fully recorded in English. In the matter of other influential genres it has a small Punk/Core influence. The songs provide a religious background, and all the guys from the band belong to Christ. I would encourage you to download this EP because it’s for FREE! Download link below.

Track Listing:

1. Icarus
2. Hourglass
3. Nature’s Blue
4. This is the song…

Listen: Icarus

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Artist: Family Force 5
Album: III EP
Release Date: April 15th, 2011
Style: Rock / Crunk / Punk
Label: Transparent Media Group
Location: Atlanta, GA

About:

This limited edition EP is limited to 3,000 copies* and will ONLY be available in the official FF5 online store and on the Tourantula tour this spring. These will sell out so get your hands on yours now! Only 500 copies available in the online store!  If you purchased an Arachnocoustica VIP pack, you will receive a copy of III during your VIP experience.

Listen Below:

Track Listing:
1. Dang Girl

2. Wobble

3. You Got It

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Artist: Cendoya
Album: Hear My Cry
Release Date: February 1st, 2011
Style: Praise & Worship / Pop / Rock
Label: Unsigned
Location: Woodinville, WA

About:

Adrian Cendoya is a veteran to the pop music world. He has used his catchy melodies and moving lyrics to bless the Christian community with a new refined sound of worship. God has opened the doors that have allowed him to lead worship at Emmaus Church in Bothell, WA. During this time Cendoya has been in the studio to record several EP’s and with the help of many others this full length album.

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Adrian desires to take the songs that God has inspired him to write and bless both the saved and the lost with them, to draw the church closer to Christ through those songs. Although he finds inspiration from personal experiences, his greatest source is Scripture.

Track Listing:

1. Let The Spirit In
2. We Praise
3. Forever and a Day
4. My Savior
5.Hear My Cry
6. Take Control
7. Abba Father
8. Make Us Alive
9.Faithful
10. How Good It Is
11. Light and Truth

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Artist: FM Static (Trevor McNevan Steve Augustine)
Album: My Brain Says Stop, But My Heart Says Go!
Release Date: April 5th, 2011
Style: Pop / Pop Punk / Rock
Label: Tooth & Nail Records
Location: Toronto, Ontario, CA

About:

Trevor & Steve of FM Static have just announced that they are about to release their 4th studio album which will be named “My Brain Says Stop, But My Heart Says Go!”. Not only that they have a busy year with “Thousand Foot Krutch”, band in which they both take part but they are also keeping up with their side project. The singles of this new record will be “Last Train Home,” “My Brain Says Stop, But My Heart Says Go!!”, and probably many more that you you will sure get attached too as soon as you get a glimpse of them on radio or here on Christian Sonic. Bookmark this page for more information to come as the album will be released in April next year.

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Track Listing:
1. My Brain Says Stop, But My Heart Says Go

2. F.M.S.T.A.T.I.C

3. (Hey) I Want It

4. Lost In You

5. U Don’t Know Me Like That

6. Cinnamon & Lipstick

7. Black Tattoo

8. Last Train Home

9. Breaking Me Again

10. Inside Out

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Artist: Hawk Nelson
Album: Crazy Love
Release Date: February 8th, 2011
Style: Pop / Rock / Punk
Label: BEC Recordings / Tooth and Nail Records
Location: Peterborough, Ontario

About:

Hawk Nelson has sold over 500,000 albums so far in their career and are getting ready to release their 5th studio album- “Crazy Love” featuring the singles “Crazy Love,” “We Can Change the World,” and more.

Listen to the single “Crazy Love” below:

Short Bio:

Christian punk-pop quartet Hawk Nelson formed in Peterborough, Ontario, in 2003. Originally comprising frontman Jason Dunn, guitarist Davin Clark, bassist Daniel Biro, and drummer Matt Paige, the group’s self-released debut EP, Saturday Rock Action, earned the attention of fellow Peterborough native Trevor McNevan, vocalist of Tooth and Nail label act Thousand Foot Krutch, and thanks to McNevan’s cheerleading the label extended a contract offer to Hawk Nelson, who issued their full-length debut, Letters to the President, in mid-2004. That fall the band co-starred in an episode of the NBC drama American Dreams, portraying the Who and delivering a performance of the classic “My Generation.” Clark and Paige exited the lineup soon after, and with new guitarist Jonathan Steingard and drummer Aaron “Sqwid” Tosti, Hawk Nelson made a cameo appearance in the 2005 Hollywood family film Yours, Mine & Ours, performing their song “Bring ‘Em Out.” Their sophomore LP, Smile, It’s the End of the World, followed in the spring of 2006.

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Also listen to “Skeleton” from “Crazy Love” Album:

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Artist: Rocky Loves Emily
Album: American Dream
Release Date: November 22nd, 2010
Style: Pop-Rock / Indie / Alternative
Label: Tooth & Nail Records
Location: Detroit, MI

Line-Up:

Brandon Ellis – Vocals; Pete Kalinowski – Drums; Sean Kick – Guitar; Andrew Stevens – Guitar; Stephen Hull – Keys; Wood Simmons – Bass.

“American Dream” the Album:

Detroit sextet Rocky Loves Emily deliver an impressive debut on Tooth & Nail Records filled with pop-rock hooks and sing-along worthy choruses. Teaming up with critically-acclaimed producer Casey Bates (Chiodos, This Providence), the band brings enough witty lyrics and catchiness on “American Dream” to remind you of summer all year long.

Biography:

What is the American dream? For Rocky Loves Emily that dream isn’t a white picket fence and a nine-to-five job. For them, the dream is something unique to each person, something that can only be defined from within. For Rocky Loves Emily, the American dream is traveling around the country in a beat-up van, making friends, and playing music that brings joy to people’s hearts. The pop-rock group, who hail from a suburb of Detroit, MI, has lived their vision every day since the band formed in early 2009. They released their first EP at the stroke of midnight that New Years Eve posting three songs on the Internet “just to see what would happen.” The response was so positive the group booked a show at a local venue in Detroit a performance that evolved into many more throughout 2009 and 2010. Rocky Loves Emily self-booked their own tours, aiming to hit the same cities every few months to reconnect with the friends and fans they met across the country. “We’ve definitely done this grassroots, with smaller shows,” Brandon says. “We’ve built our fan-base from the ground up. We like doing our own thing. I feel as if it keeps us honest and pure. You know the kids at the shows are there for you. Playing intimate shows has been a blessing because I feel like people come to our shows not just as fans, but as our buddies. We’ve made so many friends, and on top of that, I feel like I even know the name of each individual fan and what’s actually going on in their lives.” Not only has the band played countless self-booked shows around the U.S., but they’ve planned their tours around Hot Topic’s in-store acoustic series. Rocky Loves Emily quickly discovered what a wonderful opportunity these shows are and began booking them almost every day on tour around the time school was letting out for the day. They played nearly 70 acoustic sets in a year and created a buzz for being the Hot Topic band. The company even invited the group to perform at a corporate meeting in Seattle in April 2010. “It was cool because we had a reputation for being constantly at Hot Topics,” Brandon says. “Kids would hang out and we would get to meet their parents, aunts, and even grandparents! The managers would say things like ‘Oh you played my friend’s store the other day!’ It’s a really amazing way to connect with our fans and even though we’re signed now we’d like to keep our relationship with Hot Topic as awesome as ever!” Because of this hard-working attitude and the band’s creative ideas, Rocky Loves Emily was awarded a spot in Alternative Press’s annual Hometown Heroes feature in January of 2010. This brought record labels knocking on their door, but the band’s actual signing with Tooth & Nail happened after coincidentally meeting the label at a Copeland show in Seattle in March 2010.

“We heard someone outside the venue yelling ‘Rocky Loves Emily, where are you?’” Brandon says. “Confused, we turned around and it happened to be an A&R guy from Tooth & Nail who’d heard we were at the show. We’d already been talking with the label a bit earlier that year so it was wild to get to actually meet them in person.”

A few months later, the label called and asked the band to drive from Detroit to Seattle, with only a day’s notice, to showcase for Tooth & Nail. “We dropped everything we had and got in the van,” Brandon says. “It was the scariest fifty-three hours of our lives. We didn’t know if the van would make the drive. Our van was acting up in Montana and we were so nervous. Trust me, those mountains were intense. We ended up arriving about six hours before we had to play, so thankfully, it all worked out. The band signed with the label shortly after and went into the studio in August with producer Casey Bates (Chiodos, Pierce the Veil, Foxy Shazam) to record their new EP, American Dream, which comes out exclusively in Hot Topics stores and online November 23. The three weeks spent in the studio in Seattle were transformative for the band, refining their hooky songs into even more compelling pop numbers. The resulting five songs are accessible, lively and fun, inspired by good-time rock ‘n’ roll and even a little bit of country. All this fueled the group’s mission to convey their new definition of what the American dream can mean. “Our record portrays that just because you live in America doesn’t necessarily mean that ‘the’ American dream has to be your American dream.” Brandon says. “We all know that everyone has a specific dream in their heart. For instance, our dream is tour nonstop and meet as many people as possible all while trying to be sincere in what our fans are doing. The cool thing is, that’s just our dream. Your dream is something awesome and unique.”

Track Listing:

1. American Dream
2. Clueless
3. See Her Again
4. Name Of The Game
5. There’s A Word For You

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Artist: Shake The Nation
Album: Follow
Release Date: October 26th, 2010
Style: Rock / Pop-Punk / Worship
Label: Dream Records
Location: Corpus Christi, TX

About:

Shake the Nation is a movement a sonic expression of what God is doing through Bay Area Fellowship and Bil Cornelius Ministries. Shake the Nation represents a passionate purpose and deep desire to live for something much more transcendent than this world. We are changed people with a common cause!

We remember our Egypt and those who are still there. We exist to rescue the hurting ones, uplift the saved ones, and to exalt the only One!

We perform every week in front of our congregation at Bay Area Fellowship in Corpus Christi, Texas (8,000+ people). Even though our city is named after the very “body of Christ”, we relish in the honor and privilege to bring the “unchurched”, the lost, and the broken, to Him through worship. Our congregation is comprised of the wealthy and those struggling for their next meal, the healthy and those leaving crack pipes, heroin needles, and pornography in our offering buckets, those who are saved, and those who are not and it is our honor to witness God turning lives inside out for His glory.

This message of love and pursuit of change is inspired by our Pastor, Bil Cornelius, who has developed a exponential television ministry with over 150,000 viewers. Shake the Nations’ music will be added to the television program after the release date of the album. We are also planning to be apart of our Pastor Bil’s exciting upcoming book tour with his latest book, I Dare You to Change. Anticipating big things from an amazing God, we will earnestly await the plans He has in store, but for now, we’ll proceed to shout His name, and Shake the Nation.

Opinions:

“Incredible music amazing message! I saw these guys open for Casting Crowns! Matt Redman! Press Play they are the real deal a new upcoming band that Christian Music has been waiting for! ” - HeyThere

“This is an incredible debut album by a terrific band! Shake The Nation will amaze you… check them out! ” - Robin

Track Listing:

1. The Anthem
2. Undone
3. You
4. Satisfy
5. No Greater Love
6. Hero
7. Be Still
8. Open
9. You Hold Everything
10. How Beautiful
11. Follow
12. Right Now
13. All I Need
14. Face To Face

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Artist: Without Cause

Album: Side by Side

Style: Pop / Rock

Label: Tate Music Group / Indie

Location: Missouri, US

About:

Without Cause formed in early August of 2008 as a Christian Rock/Pop band under the original membership of James Bohner (vocals/bass), Will Miller (backup vocals/guitar), and Andrew White (drums). After a brief period of time spent in the Concord Baptist Youth Praise Band of Jefferson City, MO, the three original members assembled under the name of Without Cause, a name suggested by singer James Bohner to convey the eternal and unconditional love of Jesus Christ for His people “without cause.” Bohner, Miller, and White spent approximately two months together as a three-man act before picking up Logan Brunner (keys/piano) in October of 2008.

The newly formed four-man group then spent the winter and spring of 2008-09 writing original compositions before picking up pianist Jake Wise in March of 2009. With the new addition of Wise, Brunner shifted his talents to rhythm and acoustic guitar while Wise assumed the role of full-time pianist. Now as a five-piece group, Without Cause began writing some of the first songs in recorded Without Cause history.

Throughout the late spring and summer of 2009, they began performing their four original songs: “Save the Hour,” “Inevitability of Invisibility,” “Promises and Broken Hearts,” and the uniquely identifiable and well-known “Mystery Man” whose lyrics have since been used as the theme for several youth retreats and organized youth ministry events in the Midwest. In July of 2009, Without Cause produced their first recording under the name of the “Save the Hour E.P” and began its official distribution at Brandon Spring Group Center near Kentucky Lake, KY. The “Save the Hour E.P.” release party proved to be Brunner’s last performance as a part of Without Cause before leaving the country to participate in a foreign exchange program in Ecuador.

Soon after, the four-man group was contacted by Tate Music Group (TMG) and offered a small recording contract in early September of 2009. In November, Without Cause signed their first official recording contract with TMG and began preparing original music for their debut album. Alongside road manager Bill Wise, the group then traveled to Oklahoma City, OK in January of 2010 to record their first full-length album. Without Cause’s debut album “Side by Side” became available for purchase July 9, 2010 at its official release party held at Concord Baptist Church. Follow their progress here on Christiansonic.net, Facebook, Twitter, or on MySpace at myspace.com/withoutcausewc. Recently, Without Cause released “For Your Own Sake (To Whom It May Concern)” – Single on iTunes and other digital download sites.

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Artist: Hello Kelly
Album: Hello Kelly
Release Date: Apr 15  2oo8
Style: Pop/Rock/Powerpop
Label: Fearless
Location: Nashville, TN

Track Listing:

01 – 10 Good Reasons
02 – Bring It Broken
03 – Favorite Arcade
04 – Disappearing
05 – Fall Over Me
06 – Simple Love Song
07 – Radio Edit Interlude
08 – The Right Thing
09 – Wait For Dreams
10 – No Time For Tears
11 – Paper Bag Princess (Hey Elizabeth)
12 – My Girlfriend
13 – Thinking Positive

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