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The Weekly Downloads: Oct. 6 – Oct. 12

Welcome to another week of free downloads from all of usual suspects – iTickets, NewReleaseTuesday, Tangle, and Gospel Music Channel – this week, there’s about twice as much music as normal, thanks to Gotee Records – but more on that in a bit.

First up this week, Tangle.com is featuring Mandisa’s song “He Is With You” on their homepage.  It’s from Mandisa’s sophomore album Freedom, and the soundtrack to Mandisa’s second music video, which you can watch here.  Check it out!

-Tangle.com-

Also free this week is a brand new Christmas song from Chris Tomlin, courtesy of Gospel Music Channel.  It’s called “Emmanuel (Hallowed Manger Ground)”, from Chris’s new album Glory in the Highest, which came out two days ago on Oct. 6.  Incidentally, that’s the same release date as Downhere & Family Force 5′s Christmas albums.  Anyway, it’s never to early to start collecting Christmas music, and this is a pretty good place to start.

-Christ Tomlin’s “Emmanuel (Hallowed Manger Ground)” on GMC-

Besides that, last week, Gospel Music Channel had pretty cool song that’s still available.  It’s “It Is Your Grace”, by Andreas Sandlund.  If the name sounds familiar, there’s a good reason – I was privileged to feature his song “We’re Miles Away” on TFCMB last January, and I’m really excited to see him getting some major attention.  Definitely check this one out!

-Andreas Sandlund’s “It Is Your Grace” on GMC-

iTickets also has several free downloads this week, from COS, Relient K, and Paul Wright.  Now, Relient K shouldn’t need much introduction, nor should Paul Wright, but COS doesn’t have the advantage of being famous, at least not yet.  Basically, “Your Will” is a super-stripped down worship song, it’s barely acoustic, and actually sounds quite good.  Worth checking out.

-iTickets’ Free Music Page-

This post is getting long… and I’m only about half way.  Seriously, this is a big week – and the biggest batch of downloads of from NewReleaseTuesday.com.  They have a whopping 8 downloads this week, seven of whom are Gotee Records artists.  The listing:

• Relient K – “The Lining Is Silver”
• B.Reith – “Mess”
• House of Heroes – “In The Valley of the Dying Sun”
• Abandon Kansas – “I Wonder If It’s Me”
• Ayeisha Woods – “Transparent”
• Stephanie Smith – “Not Afraid”
• I Am Terrified – “Falling On Everlasting”

And hanging on from last week, an excellent song from non-Gotee artist Matt Maher called “Alive Again”.  I’ve already gotten all 8 songs free from other sites, but if you’re missing all or any, this is a great opportunity to download them, for free. 

-New Release Tuesday’s Free Music Page-

Augh!  I just keep finding more music…  ah, it’s hard to complain about that.  You can also get three free songs from Michael W. Smith, Matt Maher (once again!), and Phil Stacey at this link:

-A New Hallelujah Tour-

And you can download three songs from Matt Papa, Jason Gray, and High Valley at OnCourse.  Bottom right of the page, follow the instructions there.

-On Course Magazine-

And that wraps up the weekly downloads for this week, so till next week, this is Matt signing off.

Tags: Abandon Kansas, Andreas Sandlund, Ayeisha Woods, B. Reith, Chris Tomlin, COS, High Valley, House of Heroes, I Am Terrified, Jason Gray, Mandisa, Matt Maher, Matt Papa, Michael W. Smith, Paul Wright, Phil Stacey, Relient K, Stephanie Smith

Free Download from ROOTDOWN

Just a week and half ago, Ansley posted a free EP from the group ROOTDOWN, a pop/rock/reggae band created in 2007 by Paul Wright (which he also leads). Well today, you can get their latest radio single, titled ‘Taking Over Me.’ It’s a great song, with just a good message. The song is about letting God’s love take over us and freeing us from the shackles of our broken lives and our sin. In Paul Wright’s own words: “This song is a reminder of how God’s love can transform us and turn the messes we make in life into masterpieces in His timing.” You can read the entire story behind the song and download it at their promotion website for the new single.

-Get “Taking Over Me” by ROOTDOWN-

Tags: Paul Wright, Rootdown

Free Song from Paul Wright

Free music today from Paul Wright.  He’s got the song “From Sunrise to Sunset”, from the album Sunrise to Sunset, up for free download on his Purevolume profile.  Despite being from an older song (Sunrise to Sunset was released in 2005), it’s still a great song.  If you enjoy good, acoustic guitar-backed rap, along the lines of Shawn McDonald or, to a lesser extent, Mat Kearney, you definitely don’t want to miss Paul Wright.  Enjoy!

-Paul Wright on Purevolume-

Tags: Paul Wright

A Failure to Excommunicate

Gotee.com recently added 7 new free songs to their already impressive line-up of free songs.  They’ve got two new, old House of Heroes songs (“Friday Night” and “Serial Sleepers”), one Flynn Adams song (“Feel It Now”), two sweet old school Relient K tracks (“Failure to Excommunicate” & “I Am Understood?”), and two free Paul Wright songs (“Heaven” and “You’re Beautiful”).

I would highly, highly recommend the Paul Wright & Relient K songs.  I hadn’t heard much of Paul Wright before, and he really impressed me, both lyrically & musicially.  And of course you can’t go wrong with Relient K, especially their older stuff.    Trust me, it’s good.

You do need to sign-up to download the songs, but it’s easy enough to do.  And, after that you can get all 7 songs, plus the 8 that were previously available.  Enjoy!

-Gotee.com-

Tags: Flynn Adams, House of Heroes, Paul Wright, Relient K

New Sampler from Indie Vision Music

Indie Vision Music has put out many, many samplers recently, and though many of them are no longer posted online, they have taken the best songs from the seven samplers (sans the heavy stuff, which might be getting its own “best of” sampler) and put them into one. What you get is free songs from Chasing Victory, Project 86, Stavesacre, Ever Stays Red, Esterlyn, and 35 other awesome bands.

I haven’t been able to listen to everything yet, as I have not only been busy but also overwhelmed with this and another even bigger sampler that all of you will probably see in the near future. You might get spoiled this week, thats all I’m saying.

-The Best of IVM Vol. 1-

-James

Edit:  Apparently the wonderful people at IVM are working on another compilation that they hope to put out in time for Christmas.  If you’re in a band and have a quality recording they are interested in possibly using your song in the compilation.

Tags: Amaradio, Amen. The Animal, Arkeo, Avery Pkwy, Blood & Water, Burning Tree Project, Cathy Crescendo, Chasing Victory, Darkroom, Dennis Zender, Dogwood, Erika Soto, Esterlyn, Ever Stays Red, Failure to Excel, Fairgreen, Finchley, Forever Changed, Hands, Kessler, Kings to You, Makeshift3, Man Alive, My Jeremiah, Ocean is Theory, One Hot Minute, Orion Walsh, Paul Wright, Project 86, Quick and the Dead, Say You Will, Send Out Scuds, Sleep for Sleepers, Stavesacre, The Apprentice, The Echoing Green, The Trade, Thrush, Tumbledown, We Shot the Moon

Hearts Bleed Passion Vol. 4 – Free Massive Sampler from IVM

YES! I’m finally going to write up Hearts Bleed Passion Vol. 4. I’ve gotten more emails about this then any other sampler in the history of this site. After waiting a couple of weeks before I could download it, and then another week for me to actually listen to enough of it to post (I still haven’t finished it… that’s how big it is!)

Well, like I said, this is one huge sampler. I counted 59 different songs. The full file is around 300 megabytes. Make sure your internet connection can handle it before you try to download it.

I wish I could go through and recommend all of the songs on the sampler, but I don’t have the time to type up a list. I’ll just say that the sampler has some awesome songs, some good songs, and some that just aren’t my cup o’ tea. There’s hardcore, punk, acoustic, rock, pop, and rap, pretty much something for everyone.

-Hearts Bleed Passion Vol. 4 on Indie Vision Music-

PS: I’d love to hear what your favorite song(s) are from the sampler are! Leave a comment and let me know! I’ll even go first.

Tags: Aevory Nash, Agnes the Mother, Ajax Starglider, Amen. The Animal, Aneirin, Avery Pwky, Blood & Water, Braveheart, Broken Scarlet, Cathy Crescendo, Cookbook & Uno Mas, Crimson Thorn, Dennis Zender, Dominic Balli, DrawCard, Escape from Emptiness, Esterlyn, Fairgreen, Falling Tsar, Fellow, Finchley, Freddie Bruno, Goodnight Darling, Hands, Kiven, Lewis Vs. Clark, Mammuth, Mendelson, Michael Sandoval, Morse, My Jeremiah, News from Verona, Nihilo, NoiZ, Now the Nursery, Ocean is Theory, One Hot Minute, Orion Walsh, Our Proclaimation, Paul Wright, Pedestrian X, Photoside Cafe, Poorly Build Parachute, Ready the Way, Rene Velarde, Resting in Fragments, Rootdown, Ryan Brown, Say You Will, Second Thief, Sintax the Terrible, Sleep for Sleepers, Source of My Faith, The Advantage, The All Star Class, The Apprentice, The Dingees, The Mone Raths, The Tug Fork River Bend, This Is Luke, When Only Darkness Remains

Unexpected Sources of Free Music – Part 1

I know this isn’t totally free, but when a friend emailed me about this, I knew I had to feature it…

ChristianBook.com is got Absolute Smash Hits Volumes 1 & 2, a four disc CD se

t (think a WOW Hits clone), on sale for $5.99.  That’s 50 songs for 6 bucks.  50 songs!  That’s 8.3472454090150250417362270450751* cents per song.  That’s approximately 91 cents cheaper per song then iTunes.  Not bad at all, for a collection of some of Christian music’s greatest hits.  In fact, it’s a steal.  Not as good as free, but almost.

Of course there has to be a downside.  In this case it’s the selection.  It’s almost all somewhat under-the-radar artists CCM artists.  The loudest it get’s in 12 Stones and Skillet.  But, that maybe perfect for you, in which case that would be a plus and not a minus.  So, anyway, it’s worth checking out.

-Absolute Smash Hits Vol. 1-2 on ChristianBooks.com-

*To be precise.

Tags: 12 Stones, Andrew Peterson, BarlowGirl, Big Daddy Weave, Big Dismal, Broken Frame, Building 429, By The Tree, Enter the Worship, Exit East, Ginny Owens, Grits, Inhabited, James Clay, Jeff Deyo, Jennifer Knapp, Jill Phillips, Jonah33, Monk & Neagle, Mute Math, Natalie Grant, Nate Sallie, Out of Eden, Palisade, Paul Wright, Pillar, Plumb, Salvador, Sarah Brendal, Shane & Shane, Shaun Groves, Sixpence None the Richer, Skillet, Stellar Kart, Superchic[k], The Swift, Todd Agnew, Tree63, Warren Barfield, Watermark

Fighting From the Ground Up Vol. 1

Indie Vision Music is offering a massive sampler of independent Christian artists. The sampler is called Fighting From The Ground Up Vol. 1, and is packed with great music. There are 41 different artists featured, from praise and worship to punk to hardcore to rock to rap. I couldn’t begin to list them all. Some songs are better then others, but it’s free and I’m not complaining. 

Note: The sampler is 200 megabytes, so you should make sure you’ve got the computer for a while before you attempt it.

Tags: Chaeros, Darkroom, Deepspace5, Esterlyn, Failure to Excel, Fairgreen, Kiros, Morse, Nihilo, Paul Wright, Tumbledown

Christmas Series: Day 6 – The Fold (And bonus download from Paul Wright)

Free Christmas music today from the Fold. They have their rendition of “O Holy Night” as a free download on their Myspace profile. It’s from the Happy Christmas Vol. 4 CD (which is one of the best Christian Christmas CDs ever). The song itself is one of the best Christmas songs I’ve heard all year.

Tags: Paul Wright, The Fold