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“Pray Tell’, Anberlin

New music from Anberlin!  The band is giving away “Pray Tell” from their upcoming album Dark is a Way, Light is a Place on Spin.com.  It’s a little different from what Anberlin has done in the past, but I’m already enjoying it.  Based on the three songs I’ve heard so far, the new album should be fantastic.  Check it out!

-Anberlin “Pray Tell” on Spin.com-

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Summer Roadtrip Playlist

I love roadtrips, music, and summer.  So, with the aid of the terrific fans of TFCMB’s Facebook page fans and rad Twitter followers, I’ve combined a list of some of the best summer roadtrip songs.  For best results, listen on an open highway with the top down and the wind in your hair and a few of your best friends in the car.

• Group 1 Crew – “Live It Up”
• TobyMac – “Getaway Car”
• Newsboys – “Go”
• Whiteheart – “Convertibles”
• Johnny Cash – “I’ve Been Everywhere”
• House of Heroes – “Sooner Or Later (You’ll Want I All)”
• The Almost – “Souls on Ten”
• Relient K – “High of 75″
• Jars of Clay – “Scenic Route”
• Anberlin – “Autobahn”
• The Rocket Summer – “Hills and Valleys”
• Ruth – “Rolling With The Punches”
• Newsboys – “Wherever We Go”
• Mat Kearney – “Nothing Left To Lose”
• Capital Lights – “Mile Away”
• The Elms – “Back To Indiana”
• The Wedding – “Southside”
• Relient K – “I’m Taking You With Me”
• The Wedding – “Fireworks”
• Audio Adrenaline – “Free Ride”
• The Almost – “Free Fallin’”
• Owl City – “Sunburn”
• Relient K – “Forward Motion”
• Jonezetta – “Communicate”

Additions:

• Paper Tongues – “Ride to California”
• House of Heroes – “Mercedes Baby”
• Superchick – “Karaoke Superstars”
• TobyMac – “Boomin’”
• Hawk Nelson – “Live Life Loud”
• Stephen Curtis Chapman – “Live Out Loud”
• Hawk Nelson – “The Show”
• House of Heroes – “God Save Us the Foolish Kings”
• Mae – “Summertime”
• The O.C. Supertones – “Supertones Strike Back”
• Ruth – “Back to the Five”
• Relient K – “Chapstick, Chapped Lips, and Things Like Chemistry”
• Anberlin – “True Faith”
• The Rocket Summer – “So Much Love”
• Owl City – “Cave In”
• Blood and Water – “The Government Stole My iPod”
• The Classic Crime – “Solar Powered Life”
• Number One Gun – “Forest”
• Newsboys – “Born Again”
• Rapture Ruckus – “Hold On”
• We Shot The Moon – “The Bright Side”
• Ghoti Hook – “On The Road Again”
• Audio Adrenaline – “Chevette”
• MxPx – “The Wonder Years”
• MxPx – “Southbound”
• Family Force 5 – “Ghostride the Whip”
• Leeland – “Follow You”
• Avalon – “California”
• Fireflight – “Desperate”
• Hawk Nelson – “California”
• Relient K – “Forget and Not Slow Down”
• Lecrae – “Jesus Muzik”
• Owl City – “Tip of the Iceburg”
• Lost Ocean – “Just Glide”
• RED – “Hide”
• House of Heroes – “Code Name: Raven”
• The Fold – “Backseat Drivers”
• Mainstay – “Roads”
• Group 1 Crew – “Movin’”
• TobyMac – “Ignition”
• Thousand Foot Krutch – “Forward Motion”
• Switchfoot – “Mess of Me”
• Skillet – “Awake and Alive”
• Kutless – “Tonight”
• The Almost – “Hands”
• Decyfer Down – “Crash”
• Krystal Meyers – “Feels So Right”
• Switchfoot – “The Shadow Proves the Sunshine”
• Relient K – “High of 75″
• Stellar Kart – “Student Driver”

Well, there you have it.  Am I missing anything obvious?  What would you pick?

Tags: Anberlin, Audio Adrenaline, Capital Lights, Group 1 Crew, House of Heroes, Jars of Clay, Johnny Cash, Mat Kearney, Newsboys, Paper Tongues, Ruth, The Almost, the Elms, The Rocket Summer, The Wedding, TobyMac, White Heart

They’ve Come A Long Way: Anberlin

I was watching music videos on TV this afternoon, and I happened to see some very, very old videos from Skillet & Switchfoot.  As I watched them, I thought it was funny how far they’ve come (and how they’ve aged…) since their first music videos.  As I thought, I decided I need to showcase a few examples of just how far a few of your favorite artists have come since their first projects.  To kick it off, I’ve found Anberlin’s “Ready Fuels” from their debut Blueprints for the Black Market, and “The Unwinding Cable Car” from their third album, Cities…

“Ready Fuels”

“The Unwinding Cable Car”

Now, haven’t they come a long way? Enjoy!

Oh, and if you don’t have it already, you can download “Ready Fuels” , along with “A Day Late” and “Glass to the Arson”, from Anberlin’s Purevolume profile, here:

-Anberlin on Purevolume-

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Free Anberlin Single Download (Again!)

Quick Update:  Even though you can’t download Anberlin’s “Feel Good Drag” on AOL Music any more, you can download it from Fuse.tv’s free music page.  I originally posted about the song way back in August, and here’s what I thought then:

“I’ve only heard it 7-8 times so far, and it’s great… If you like Anberlin, or alt-rock in general, don’t wait, download now and ask questions later.”

-Anberlin on Fuse.tv-

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Free Anberlin Single Dowload (Yes!)

As any Anberlin fans are well aware, the new CD from the band, New Surrender, is due out September 30, 2008.  While I don’t know about the rest of the world, I can’t wait to hear it.

Which brings me to today’s free song, from New Surrender, “The Feel Good Drag”.  You can download the song for free exclusively from AOL Music.  I’ve only heard it 7-8 times so far, and it’s great.  I should warn you, the lyrics are a bit mature (it’s written from a Christian perspective, but still not appropriate for everyone).

If you like Anberlin, or alt-rock in general, don’t wait, download now and ask questions later.

-“The Feel Good Drag” on AOL Music-

(Pssst!  Word on the street is that you can already pre-order New Surrender on Amazon.    It ships September 30.)

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Brand New Tooth and Nail / Solid State Sampler

This could very well be the biggest news in free music since MyFreeMusicFriday.com shut down.  Only this time, it’s good news.

Tooth and Nail and Solid State Records have teamed up again to create the ultimate free sampler once again.  (The last one was the Hey! sampler, last year.)  This time, it’s full of free new and unreleased songs from the latest and greatest artists on Tooth and Nail.  To save time, I’ll just post the track listing.  It speaks for itself.

• Children 18:3 – “LCM”
• The Classic Crime – “Abracadavers”
• Underoath – “In Regards To Myself (Live)”
• Capital Lights – “Outrage!”
• Ivoryline – “Be Still and Breathe”
• Sever Your Ties – “Captive”
• August Burns Reds – “Composure”
• Secret and Whisper – “XOXOXO”
• MYCHILDREN MYBRIDE – “HEADSHOT!”
• Oh, Sleeper – “Vices Like Vipers”
• Inhale Exhale – “I Needed A Spaceship (Instead I Got Problems)”
• Destroy the Runner – “Mr. & Mrs. Cuckoldom”
• Emery – “The Party Song”
• MxPx – “Shut It Down”
• The Becoming – “I Cry”
• Anberlin – “The Haunting”
• Demon Hunter – “Storm the Gates of Hell”
• Once Nothing – “The Dust of A Town”
• The Famine – “Scar the Earth”
• Advent – “Blackout”
• The Chariot – “And Shot Each Other”
• Soul Embraced – “Curtain of Deceit”
• Showbread – “The Pig”
• Search the City – “Son of a Gun”
• Family Force 5- “Fever”
• Run Kid Run – “Captives Come Home”
• Far-less – “A Toast To Bad Taste”
• Norma Jean – “Robots 3 Humans 0″

You can get all of the mp3s for free, in one .zip file, just by entering your name, email, and country of residence at the website.  Tooth and Nail will them email you the link for the sampler.

Standout tracks are Anberlin’s “The Haunting”, which is a hauntingly beautiful Cities b-side, Capital Lights’ “Outrage!”, which is so unbelievable happy and catchy, it should be a controlled substance.  Capital Lights is one of the best power-pop bands I’ve ever heard, and a must-hear for Hello Kelly and Eleventyseven fans.

For hardcore fans, “Vices Like Vipers” by new hardcore band Oh, Sleeper, is amazing.  Tons of lyrical depth, plenty of screaming, eerie choruses, the works.  And you can’t go wrong with Demon Hunter, Norma Jean, The Chariot, Inhale Exhale, and August Burns Red.

Actually, most of the songs on this are must-hear.  Packed with new and old songs, this is one sampler you don’t want to miss.  After all, it’s free!

-Tooth & Nail and Solid State Fuel Sampler-

Tags: Advent, Anberlin, August Burns Red, Capital Lights, Children 18:3, Demon Hunter, Destroy the Runner, Emery, Family Force 5, Far-less, Inhale Exhale, Ivoryline, MxPx, MyChildren MyBride, Norma Jean, Oh Sleeper, Once Nothing, Run Kid Run, Search the City, Secret and Whisper, Sever Your Ties, Showbread, Soul Embraced, The Becoming, The Chariot, The Classic Crime, The Famine, Underoath

"Under the Watchful Eyes Of T.J. Eckleburg" {And Other Weird Song Titles}

Here it is! The highly anticipated list of weird, strange, random, unusual, and wise, song titles. When I first announced this, I had no idea the response I would get. I also had no idea that such interesting titles existed. Therefore, without further ado, the moment you’ve been waiting for:

• Relient K – “Crayons Can Melt On Us For All I Care”
• Five Iron Frenzy – “At Least I’m Not Like All Those Other Old Guys”
• The Devil Wears Prada – “Reptar, King of the Ozone”
• Daniel Amos / The Swirling Eddies – “Donna Nietche And Her Super Race Of Kick-Boxing Uber Parrots”
• Daniel Amos / The Swirling Eddies – “Arthur Fhardy’s Yodeling Party”
• Five Iron Frenzy – “The Phantom Mullet”
• Search the City – “In This Scene You’re Just An Extra”
• Showbread – “I Had Music In My Heart, But Now My My Heart Is Broken”
• House Of Heroes – “You Are the Judas of The Cheerleading Squad”
• Relient K – “Chap Stick, Chapped Lips, And Things Like Chemistry”
• Underoath – “I Have Ten Friends and A Crowbar that Say You Ain’t Gonna Do, Jack”
• MYCHILDREN MYBRIDE – “A Bayonet Doesn’t Make You A Hero”
• Blue Cadet and the Brave December – “Brass Knuckles Won’t Do You Any Good In Soul To Soul Combat”
• The Devil Wears Prada – “Hey John, What’s Your Name Again”
• Send Out Scuds – “This is So Cliche That it Will Rot Your Teeth”
• Showbread – “Oh! Emetophobia”
• Underoath – “It’s Dangerous Business Walking Out Your Front Door”
• The Almost – “They Say You Can Never Write I Told You So In A Song But Here I Go DEMO”
• Falling Up – “The Dark Side of Indoor Track Meets”
• Project 86 – “The Forces of Radio Have Dropped A Viper In The Rhythm Section”
• Emery – “You Think You’re Nickel Slick (But I Got Your Penny Change)”
• Rich Mullins – “Alrightokuhhuhamen”
• MxPx – “Another Song About T.V.”
• Five Iron Frenzy – “Wizard Needs Food, Badly”
• David Crowder*Band – “O God Where Are You Now (In Pickerel Lake? Pigeon? Marquette? Mackinaw?)”
• Anberlin – “A Heavy Hearted Work of Staggering Genius”
• Sullivan – “Under the Watchful Eyes Of T.J. Eckleburg”
• Anberlin – “There Is No Mathematics to Love and Loss”
• Showbread – “A Llama Eats a Giraffe (And Vice Versa)
• Nodes of Ranvier – “Nagheenanajar”
• Maylene And The Sons of Disaster – “Bang! The Witch Is Dead”
• Norma Jean – “I Used To Hate Cell Phones, Now I Hate Car Accidents”
• Demon Hunter – “Our Faces Fall Apart”
• Daniel Amos / The Swirling Eddies – “(Near Sighted Girl With Approaching) Tidal Wave”
• Daniel Amos / The Swirling Eddies – “(It’s The Eighties So Where’s Our) Rocket Pack”
• DC Talk – “It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)”
• Gwen Stacy – “What Will Happen If I Hit Enter?”
• The Chariot – “If Wishes Were Horses, More Beggars Would Ride Them”
• The Devil Wears Prada – “Swords, Dragons, and Diet Coke”
• The Devil Wears Prada – “This Song Is Called”
• The Chariot -
  1. Back To Back
  2. They Faced Each Other
  3. They Drew Their Swords
  4. And Shot Each Other
  5. The Deaf Policemen
  6. Heard This Noise
  7. Then Came To Kill
  8. The Two Dead Boys
  9. Forgive Me Nashville
  10. The Trumpet

And my two personal favorites:

• The Chariot – “Someday In The Event That Mankind Figures Out What It Is That This World Revolves Around, Thousands Of People Will Be Shocked And Perplexed To Find Out That It Was Not Them. Sometimes This Includes Me.”

• Gwen Stacy – “Hey God, This Song’s For You. I Hope You Like It.”

Pretty crazy, huh? Let me know what you’re favorites are by leaving a comment on this post.

One other thing, if you want to copy the list and use it on your blog, Myspace, Facebook, etc, go ahead. Spread the weirdness. All I ask is that you link back to The Free Christian Music Blog (http://www.thefreechristianmusicblog.com).

Tags: Anberlin, Blue Cadet and the Brave December, Daniel Amos, David Crowder Band, DC Talk, Demon Hunter, Emery, Falling Up, Five Iron Frenzy, Gwen Stacy, House of Heroes, Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, MxPx, MyChildren MyBride, Norma Jean, Project 86, Relient K, Rich Mullins, Search the City, Send Out Scuds, Showbread, Sullivan, The Almost, The Chariot, The Devil Wears Prada, The Swirling Eddies, Underoath

Christmas Series: Day 12 – Carried Away, Christine Evans

Well, this is the last of the Christmas series.   I am just going to post everything I’ve got left today.   Which just happens to be Carried Away and Christine Evans, as well as a couple of bonuses.  You can download two different Christmas songs at Christine Evan’s Myspace page, “Mary Did You Know?” and “How Far to Bethlehem”.  Alas, like all Myspace downloads, you need to be signed in to Myspace to download the songs.

After you’ve got those, you can switch over to Carried Away Insiders (CAI) and download five different songs free after you sign-up.   You can get “Christmas Medley”, which is rendered acapella.   Next is “Soaring Through the Sky”, which is a nice, pop-contemporary song, followed by two remixes of “Mystery”, which is also a great song.  Finally, the 2007 Christmas song, “Snow Falls”.  It’s way better then the first song “Christmas Medley”.   Slow and Christmas-y.  Great song.

Now for the bonuses.  You can listen to Spoken’s “Mary Did You Know” on their Myspace page, here.  You can also listen to TobyMac’s “This Christmas” here.  And, you can listen to Stellar Kart’s original song “Punk the Halls” on their Myspace page!  And, if that’s not enough, you can listen to Christmas songs by Anberlin, the Huntington’s, and probably Joy Electric, though I didn’t check.  Just look and you’ll probably find.

Also, I found this song that’s free. It’s not exactly the best song, but it’s free and Christmas.  Get it here.

And with that, I bring to a close the Christmas Series…

Tags: Anberlin, Carried Away, Christine Evans, Joy Electric, Spoken, Stellar Kart, The Huntington's, TobyMac

Anberlin – Lost Songs

1. The Haunting (Cities B-Side, released on the Godspeed EP)
2. Uncanny (Cities: Special Edition)
3. Like a Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan cover)
4. A Day Late (Acoustic) (Purevolume exclusive, which you can download)
5. Enjoy The Silence (Depache Mode cover)
6. Cadence (Acoustic)
7. Downtown Song (Never Take Friendship Personal B-Side, only released on Tooth & Nail vs. Solid State Sampler)
8. There is a Light That Never Goes Out (Cities: Special Edition, The Smiths cover)
9. Dismantle.Repair. (Acoustic)
10. The Promise (Cities: Special Edition, When in Rome cover)
11. Naïve Orleans (Acoustic)
12. Inevitable (AOL Sessions Under Cover)
13. The Unwinding Cable Car (AOL Sessions Under Cover)
14. Creep (AOL Sessions Under Cover, Radiohead cover)
15. Baby Please Come Home (Happy Christmas Vol. 4 Compilation)
16. Readyfuels (Demo)
17. Driving (Autobahn) (Demo)
18. Everywhere and in Between (Demo)

While you are checking out “A Day Late (Acoustic)”, you can also download “A Day Late”, “Readyfuels”, and “Glass to the Arson” for free, ready for your listening pleasure. Get all four below:

Tags: Anberlin

Hey! It’s another sampler!

Hey! It’s another Tooth & Nail/Solid State sampler. Pun intended. Anyway, it’s got 18 songs from a variety of T&N artists, including Anberlin, Neon Horse, Ruth, Surrogate, The Send, and MxPx. It’s got some sweet songs, and it’s made even better by the fact that they are all newer songs. So, don’t wait another minute.

-The Hey! Sampler on Purevolume-

Tags: Anberlin, As Cities Burn, August Burns Red, Cry of the Afflicted, Haste the Day, MxPx, Neon Horse, Project 86, Ruth, Sullivan, Surrogate, The Almost, The Fold, The Send, Underoath