The Devil Wears Prada
Yet Another Way To Fight!
You know how I christened last week the week of samplers? Well, I hope you still have some hard drive space yet, because this week is already looking like it’ll have some amazing samplers too, specifically, Another Way to Fight – Vol. 2. I’m really excited about this, and hopefully, you’ll be too. 
The new Another Way to Fight has got no less then 60 songs, from artists like Maylene & The Sons of Disaster, The Devil Wears Prada, Sleep for Sleeper, X-Sinner, Abandon Kansas, and lots more. Seriously, this is huge – don’t miss it! Check out all the details, included the full track-list in English, and download the compilation at the link below!
-Another Way to Fight – Vol. 2 on Beehave.fr-
Oh, and if 60 songs isn’t enough for you, you can also check out the Another Way to Fight – Vol. 1 here. I’d recommend you do. Also, I’m curious, what are your favorites songs on here? There’s such a lot, and it would be really sad to miss a good song, so if something sticks out to you, leave a comment and let the rest of the world know, okay?
Sampler Attack!
I’ve already had two samplers this week (here and here), and guess what? I’ve got two more to share, plus updates on two previously featured samplers. Unfortunately, none of the samplers are completely Christian, but they do all have a couple of good songs each, so they’re still worth downloading.
First things first, hardcore is one genre that hasn’t shown up much on TFCMB lately, but that’s about to change, thanks to several of these samplers. First up, Hassle Records and Vagrant Records have joined forces to create a sampler that features, among quite a few mainstream bands, August Burns Red’s song “Meddler” and Thrice’s song “All the World Is Mad”.
Don’t freak out, August Burns Red is still signed to Solid State Records – I have from a reliable source that Hassle Records is just distributing ABR to the UK, and Solid State is still handling the US. Also, Thrice. I’m not sure about the rest of the band, but I know they’re lead singer Dustin Kensrue is, and from what I’ve seen a lot of their songs draw heavily from his faith, so I’ll leave it to your discretion whether to keep the song or not. Either way, you can download the sampler by signing up for Hassle & Vagrant’s mailing list. Check it out!
-Hassle/Vagrant’s Free Sampler-
Update: Bad news, despite my having signed up over a week ago, I still haven’t heard anything about it, so I’ve come to the conclusive that the Hassle/Vagrant sampler must not be available at present. 
Next up is an update on a post James did last July, on the Face the Change compilation. It’s mostly mainstream songs, but there are tracks from Emery, Anchor & Braille, and We Shot the Moon, and it turns out, contrary to what I thought at the time, the We Shot the Moon song included, “Sway Your Head”, is actually an exclusive acoustic version of the song – something I wish I had know before I deleted the song (and had to re-download the sampler). I’ve been on a We Shot the Moon kick lately, and I really didn’t want anyone to miss a chance to get the acoustic version free. Check James’s post for the details!
Now for another hardcore sampler, this time from Revolver Magazine. It’s 21 songs, most of which look pretty nasty, but, it also features free songs from Impending Doom, Corpus Christi, and For Today. Check it out below!
-Revolver Magazine’s Mayhem Metal Compilation-
Lastly, despite being rather old news, I’d like to point out that Equal Vision & Rise Record’s Jawsome Summer Sampler 08 is still available, and it features The Devil Wears Prada’s song “HTML Rulez D00d”. I’ve already posted about this once before, but it was a rather small mention in a big post, and I thought it deserved a bigger mention. I mean, it is free TDWP.
-The Jawsome Summer Sampler 08 on Equal Vision-
Actually, since I’m on the topic of samplers, hardcore, and The Devil Wears Prada, I’m going to take advantage of this opportunity to recommend another older sampler, from Rise Records, with some awesome songs from the aforementioned The Devil Wears Prada, plus Before Their Eyes and a sick rare song from Burden of a Day. Check it out!
James’ Top 10 Downloads Of 2008
So, it was hard, but I narrowed down my top 10 list. And I only included three of my own posts, unlike Matt, who listed ten of his. Nevermind the fact that I joined him late in the year and only posted one day a week for not even every week til the end of the year…
Anyway, I sorted through the 300+ posts and probably 1000+ songs and ended up with this list of favorites:
10: Tie Between Children 18:3, Children 18:3, and Children 18:3 – So, Matt had a tie at 10th, so I thought it was only fair that I do the same. Children 18:3 was a band I found near the beginning of the year and was the first band that year to show me that pop-punk could be something that I could enjoy if it was done right.
9: Sides of the North – This small band was one of Christian music’s best kept secrets, which is a shame because they were awesome. Six songs by them is definitely an awesome post and worthy of placing in the top 10.
8: Summer Slam Volume 2 – Indie Vision Music has been one of the top sources of free Christian music, and SSV2 is their biggest and best. It gave me free songs from Project 86, Stavesacre, Ocean is Theory, The Dark Romantics, and introduced me to a bunch of smaller bands, especially The Human Flight Committee, with their song “She’s A Car Destroyer.”
7: The Devil Wears Prada – I became a fan of TDWP when I saw them at Warped Tour (and crowdsurfed to them). So I was very excited when I found a free sampler containing “Hey John, What’s Your Name Again?”
6: The Awkward Romance – The Awkward Romance was already my favorite local band before they came out with this CD, This Song Is Writing Me, but this CD caught me by surprise by how well produced it was. And the fact that they gave it away for free was an even bigger surprise.
5: Capital Lights – What Children 18:3 started was reinforced by the introduction to my of Capital Lights. And what we have here with “Can I Get An Amen” is Capital Lights at their best.
4: Stavesacre – Stavesacre is a band that I’d heard of a for a while but never listened to for the longest time. However, once I saw on here that they had a song (“It’s Beautiful Once You’re Out There”) up for download, I decided to give them a listen. I was far from disappointed, and I must say that I have found one of my new favorite bands.
3: mewithoutYou – As I’ve mentioned before, mewithoutYou is my favorite band. The only reason that this isn’t listed higher is that I already had the song long before I found the download that I featured. Still, they are my favorite band.
2: Tooth & Nail Fuel Sampler – Any Tooth & Nail sampler is gonna have awesome songs on it, but this one caught me by surprise with the artists that I enjoyed the most on it. Now, I already had the great songs from Children 18:3 and Showbread, but this sampler introduced me to Capital Lights and Oh, Sleeper plus it gave me amazing songs from Sever Your Ties and my personal favorite on the whole sampler, “Abracadavers” by The Classic Crime, which was a band I had long ago written off.
1: House of Heroes – Sure, I found it before I found this site, but the three free songs, in combination with the ones they streamed on myspace, held me over until their new CD finally came out in September. “In The Valley Of The Dying Son” has been in my collection since March and has yet to ever at any point get old, and neither have any of the others, which is why this places as the number one download of the 2008.
Honorary Mentions:
Everyday Joe’s – This sampler was no longer available by the time that I found this site, but anything that includes Listener Project is awesome.
Christmas Day 12 – Matt put a ton of work into this post, listing something like 2 dozen artists with Christmas songs up for download.
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?
Free Massive Sampler from the French!
Yes, you read right. The huge, epic sampler James and I have been talking about all week is actually available from the French website Beehave.fr. It’s massive and awesome, representing hardcore, rock, punk, and indie. The track-listing, featuring all 62 songs:
01. Fireflight – “Unbreakable”
02. House of Heroes – “In The Valley of the Dying Sun”
03. Ocean Is Theory – “Oh Broken Son”
04. Anchors – “Jack Meets John And Paul”
05. Maylene & The Sons Of Disaster – “Dry The River”
06. La Dispute – “Said The King To The River”
07. My Epic – “The Oil Press”
08. Saving Grace – “The Most Beautiful Promise”
09. Nitengale – “Flatline”
10. Day By Day – “A Better Way To Fight”
11. Dalton – “Gabriel”
12. Atmosfog – “J’ai besoin de toi (démo)”
13. Take It Back! – “Standing on the Edge of Hope”
14. Kingston Falls – “Dry Skin (Moz Def)”
15. As I Lay Dying – “Within Destruction”
16. Icon Clan – “BNB”
17. xDEATHSTARx – “The Great Opiate”
18. War Of Ages – “Sleep Of Prisoners”
19. The Winston Jazz Routine – “A Ghost Beneath The Tower”
20. Gwen Stacy – “The Fear In Your Eyes”
21. The Devil Wears Prada – “Hey John, What’s Your Name Again”
22. La Rose de Saron – “Avorté”
23. State Bird – “I Saw The Light”
24. Remove The Veil – “The Revision”
25. All Your Friends Are Dead – “Almost Home”
26. For Today – “Never Lose Sight Of The Goals”
27. Gray Lines of Perfection – “Letting Go”
28. See The Light – “Better Get Used To This Sore Throat”
29. Impending Doom – “My Nemesis” (2:51)
30. Interstates – “Uniforms Forever” (5:13)
31. Simon Says No! – “Shiver” (5:49)
32. Austrian Death Machine – “If It Bleeds, We Can Kill It”
33. Jeroan Drive – “Cheat vs. Clockwork”
34. Kashee Opeiah – “Oh Endless Ocean”
35. Letter To The Exiles – “Eulogy”
36. Means – “What We Seek”
37. NoiZ – “Zemlya Palaje”
38. Recovery – “Not Yet Lost My Faith”
39. Saphena – “Schatten”
40. Source of my Faith – “For You”
41. Thieves & Liars – “The Author Of My Dreams”
42. World To Ashes – “Crown Of Victory”
43. A Hero Remains – “Tuxedo Black”
44. A Plea For Purging – “Sons Of Vipers, How Will You Escape…”
45. Blessthefall – “Guys Like You Make Us Look Bad”
46. Blood Command – “Five Inches Of A Car Accident”
47. Bringing Down Broadway – “Barely There”
48. Corpus Christi – “Starry Nights, Cloudy Hearts”
49. Cottonbomb – “Down There By The River”
50. Deuteronomium – “Fields Of War”
51. Escape From Sickness – “Dreams Are Not To Die”
52. FBS – “Fight Before Surrender”
53. Rapid Rascals – “Till I Die”
54. The Spirit That Guides Us – “Control”
55. Kekal – “Isolated I”
56. Illuminandi – “The Rider (English Version Of “Je?dziec”)”
57. Our Proclamation – “Relapse Recovery”
58. The Closure – “Vacant Hearts”
59. Make Up Your Mind – “The Wind Blows A Lovesong”
60. Triplet – “Breaking Cars, Hearts & Falls”
61. Eastone – “Tout Pour Moi”
62. Sleeping At Last – “Heaven Breaks”
(Source: Indie Vision Music)
There you have it, all 62 songs. That should pretty much speak for itself. It looks like hardcore/metal songs form the backbone of the sampler, but there’s enough “normal” music to make it worth while even if screaming isn’t your thing.
Now, there is one small problem. Like I said, Another Way To Fight Vol. 1 was created by a French website. So, the site is in French. Thankfully, thanks to Google’s handy Translator, the rest of us can read it too. Enjoy!
Speedlinking: House of Heroes, The Devil Wears Prada,
1. Indie Vision Music recently covered ANOTHER sampler with The Devil Wears Prada, only this time the song it “HTML Rulez D00D”. The name is almost as cool as the song.
2. “In The Valley of The Dying Son”, the new video from House of Heroes, is the coolest video I’ve seen in a long time. I know I just posted it, but go see it if you haven’t already.
3. Cindy Morgan posted a demo of her song “How Do You Live (Turn Up the Music)” a while back, and it’s still available.
And that’s all I have. If you’ve written a post about free music, send me the link and you could be featured in Speedlinking! (You know, that came out with a bit more Bob Barker then I intended. )
Free Song by The Devil Wears Prada
A while back, Matt put out a reward for anyone that could find a legal, free download of The Devil Wears Prada. If you don’t remember this, check the comments off of this post here and mourn the fact you only clicked the download link (or didn’t click it either) and decided not to comment. However, all is not lost, because if you look carefully, you will see that TDWP was only half of the offer.
Anyway, the song up for download is “Hey John, What’s Your Name Again?” It is found on a sampler put up by their former record label. The problem is that you have to download the whole sampler, and the some of the bands are not Christian bands, but you can delete their songs (or if any of you know that one of them actually is a Christian band, tell me in the comments).
Edit: Burden of a Day is also a Christian band. It’s not the song Matt was looking for a download of, but its nonetheless a legal, free download from a Christian band. And from what I’ve seen, At The Throne of Judgment might be. And then Before Their Eyes is a Christian band. That’s all I have time to check for you, but if anyone wants they can look the bands up. I sort of feel like an idiot now for saying there weren’t any other when there is at least three more (and I’ve only checked out half of the bands) Christian bands.
-The Devil Wears Prada (and others)-
-James
"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.
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