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Matt’s Top 10 Favorite Posts of 2008
Happy New Year! It’s hard to believe that it’s 2009 already. Strangely enough, it doesn’t feel much different from 2008 so far. Hmm. Anyway, James came up with a great idea for the end of the year. We’re both going to go through last years posts and pick our top ten. There was a ton of great music last year, and I had trouble narrowing it down to just 10, but I finally succeeded. Without further ado, my list:
10. Tie: Jonathon Steingard’s Atlantis EP & Fighting the Fall- I just couldn’t decide on this. The Atlantis EP is an excellent & personal solo debut from Hawk Nelson’s guitarist Jonathon Steingard that I really like. On the other hand, Fighting the Fall is a talented independant emo/screamo band with two good free songs. Both Atlantis & the FtF downloads are still available.
9. Run Kid Run “One In A Million” and Sanctus Real “Turn On The Lights” – “Turn On The Lights” is a great song, but the real reason I particularly love this post was “One In A Million”. It’s an awesome, catchy song that I can’t get enough of. Sadly, both songs are no longer available.
8. Leeland “Opposite Way” – Not only do I like the song, but I also really like what Leeland did by asking fans to share their stories about “going the opposite way”. This one is still available, if you’d like to check it out.
7. The Devil Wears Prada, Burden of a Day, Before Their Eyes – It’s hard to top The Devil Wears Prada, and when you add in two promising new bands like Burden of a Day (with an excusive demo, I might add) and Before Their Eyes, it’s probably going to be good. Still available.
6. The Tooth & Nail Fuel Sampler – I shouldn’t really need to explain this one much. Something like 25 free songs from the best Tooth & Nail Records bands. My favorites are Run Kid Run, Capital Lights, and The Becoming. By the looks of it, this sampler is still available too.
5. House of Heroes’ FreeHoH .com – Three awesome songs from The End Is Not The End, House of Heroes’ latest that could very well be the best CD of the year. Really, really good. As far as I can tell the songs are still available.
4. Staple “Dictatorship vs. Democracy” – I don’t know what it is about this song, but I just don’t get tired of it. This one has been on my mp3 player all year, and I still love it. This one is also still available.
3. Number One Gun – Pure alternative rock goodness. I don’t think I can begin to count how many times I’ve listened to these three songs this year. Still available, and highly recommended.
2. Three Cord Wonder – Even though they may not have been the next big thing musically, I think Three Cord Wonder was one of the coolest Christian bands I featured this year. I listen to a lot of music, and I rarely ever get to hear such a unashamedly Christian band. Sure, the lyrics are simple, but they’re true, and give glory to God. That’s a band I can look up to.
1. Esterlyn – I’d never heard of the group Esterlyn before 2008, and now, they’re one of my top artists. In fact, I liked their music enough to write up a whole spotlight on them. Extremely good.
There you have it, the year 2008 in free Christian music as seen by Matt. Now, even though those were my favorite free music posts, there were a couple of others that deserve mention simply because they were particularly fun, random, and unusual. That list includeds No More Gloom, the free CD Everyday Joe’s Coffee House (in Fort Collins, Colorado) released, featuring different songs by artists who’ve played there, which was really random. And then there’s the BarlowGirl song on the German site that required step-by-step instructions. That was a lot of fun to write up. And, last but not least, the mind-blowing weird song titles post. That was so much fun to research and write for, and totally random too.
That’s why I decided to start stockpiling song titles for version 2, which you can look for sometime soon. Like last time, I’d love it if everyone could contribute their favorite weird-and-wacky titles. Leave a comment, or shot me an email at freechristianmusicblog@gmail.com. Thank everyone for reading, and happy New Year!
Oh, and I just remembered, I was going to ask what your favorite posts from 2008 were. Do you agree with me, or have your own top pick?
2 Free Songs from Sanctus Real & Run Kid Run
Not of This World (NOTW), a Christian clothing company, surprised the world a while back by adding free music downloads to their website. They only update their selection once a month, but when they do, you can be sure it’s going to be good.
This month, they have two great rockers by Run Kid Run and Sancuts Real. Run Kid Run’s song is “One In A Million”, a catchy punk-pop-rock tune from the group’s latest CD Love At The Core.
Sanctus Real’s contribution is “Turn On the Lights”, the electric anthem title track from their latest release. You don’t want to miss this one.
Anyway, if you’re into either band, or just need some good music, check both out.
2 Free Songs from Run Kid Run
Free music today from a band called Run Kid Run. They are a Christian pop-punk band on Tooth and Nail Records, originally from Illinois. I was checking RadioU this morning, and saw that the band had added two free songs from their first CD, This Is Who We Are, to their MySpace page.
Of course, being the free-music-freak that I am, I immediately went to see if the songs were the ones I’d posted about before, or if they were new.
Turns out, one of the songs was previously available, an excellent song called “I’ll Forever Sing” – but, the other was new. The new song is called “Modern March”, and is supposed to be really good. I haven’t heard it yet, but I plan on listening as soon as I finish my current playlist.
Free Sampler with “To Know That You’re Alive”
As you may know, Kutless released a new CD not long ago entitled “To Know That You’re Alive”. You’ve probably heard the first single “The Feeling”, and hopefully, you got it free. (The post)
If you haven’t already picked a copy of the CD up, make to check this out: If you purchase the new CD at select stores, you can get a free sampler from Tooth and Nail and BEC. It’s got songs from Underoath, Since October, Manafest, Capital Lights, Thousand Foot Krutch, Run Kid Run, and more.
For a full list of participating stores, arranged by state, check out the link below.
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!
Free Sampler from Creation Fest!
Not two days since I posted about the last free music from Creation Festival, the catchy song “Captives Come Home” by Run Kid Run, Creation has officially topped themselves 10 times over. As in a 10 song free sampler featuring Run Kid Run, Thousand Foot Krutch, Pillar, Fireflight, Dizmas, The Afters, Leeland, Mike Farris, and more. There are at least 3, if not 4 or 5, number one hits inside this sampler. Totally, absolutely sweet.
These aren’t no-name songs either. “Unbreakable”, by Fireflight, “Falls Apart” by Thousand Foot Krutch, “For The Love of The Game”, Pillar. Seriously cool stuff.
I could probably wax eloquent about how incredible it is all night, but I really need to get to bed. So just get it and enjoy it.
New Music From Run Kid Run and TobyMac!
New music on iTickets! This week only, you can download the live version of TobyMac’s song “Ignition” for free. Originally from Portable Sounds, the new live version is from Toby’s new CD/DVD, Alive and Transported. Personally, I prefer the original version, but that’s just my taste. It’s still a good song.
Also update is Creation Festival’s free download page. Run Kid Run’s “Captives Come Home” is the free download for June, from the band’s new CD Love At The Core. It’s also the first single from Love At The Core.
Now, to get the song, you’ll have to fill out the form on the website, then check your email. The required code, and instructions for getting the song on iTunes, are included in the email.
Run Kid Run! Free Music Today!
Pun intended. 
Today’s music is from Run Kid Run, a Tooth & Nail Records power-pop-punk band. They are one of the best new bands to come from Tooth & Nail Records. Great for fans of Stellar Kart, Side Walk Slam, Hawk Nelson, and fm Static.
You can download two songs (“Sing to Me” and “I’ll Forever Sing”) for free on their Myspace page. There is a catch, however. You have to be signed in to download them. Which means you need a Myspace profile. I think it’s silly that they did that, because not everybody is on Myspace for one reason or another, so if you aren’t, just find a friend to download them for you.
One Dark Summer
Another Tooth & Nail-Solid State Purevolume Sampler! This one is huge. 32+ different song by that many artists. It’s awesome. If you like rock (Thousand Foot Krutch, The Almost, Jonezetta), punk (fm Static, Hawk Nelson, Run Kid Run), and/or hardcore (Underoath, Emery, Destroy the Runner), you have got to check this out! I can guarantee that if you enjoy loud music, you will find something you can listen to on here.
Get all 32+ Songs at Purevolume here now!
Note: You do need to give your email address to get the sampler. It’s worth it.
Update: During a recent upgrade, Purevolume.com removed all of the free samplers from the website. Including this one. So I’m sorry to say it’s no longer available. However, if you looked through the archives here on The Free Christian Music Blog, you could probably find some music that is just as good. I know it’s not the same, but it’s the best I have to offer, so please accept my humble condolences.
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