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Free Switchfoot, Family Force 5, Leeland, & More!
I’ve got some very exciting free music news to share today… “Mess of Me” anyone? That’s right, Switchfoot’s latest hit “Mess of Me” is available for free, plus several other great songs. The list:
- Leeland – “Count Me In”
- Underoath – “Writing On The Walls”
- Rapture Ruckus – “One”
- Hillsong United – “No Reason to Hide”
- Parachute Band – “Shout It Out”
- Family Force 5 – “Dance or Die (The Secret Handshake Remix)”
- Falling Up – “Streams of Woe at Acheron”
- And of course, Switchfoot’s “Mess of Me”
All eight songs can be yours, for free, thanks to Parachute Festival (the New Zealand equivalent of Creation or Cornerstone Festival.) You do need to sign up for the Parachute Festival’s website to download the songs, and you can only download each song once, but the music is great, and it’s free. Definitely worth checking out. Enjoy!
Fuel Returns (And Matt’s Head Explodes)
It’s true – Tooth & Nail and Solid State Records have let loose yet another unbelievably epic sampler to wreck musically chaos on the eardrums of fans everywhere. In fact, the only thing that could come close to touching this is the last Fuel sampler. The tracklist:
- Surrogate – “Exercise Machines”
- Living Sacrifice – “Overkill Exposure (Rough Mix)”
- Haste the Day – “68″
- As Cities Burn – “84′ Sheepdog”
- Children 18:3 – “All My Balloons”
- FM Static – “Boy Moves To A New Town With Optimistic Outlook”
- Thousand Foot Krutch – “Bring Me To Life”
- Emery – “Cutthroat Collapse”
- Ivoryline – “Days End”
- mewithoutYou – “Every Thought A Thought of You”
- The Crucified – “The Pit”
- MxPx – “Punk Rock Girl”
- The Ascendicate – “Scottish”
- Oh, Sleeper – “Son of the Morning”
- August Burns Red – “Thirty and Seven”
- Becoming The Archetype – “Dichotomy”
- Copeland – “The Grey Man”
- Hawk Nelson – “Let’s Dance (Dojo Dominating Remix)”
- Showbread – “Nothing Matters Anymore”
- MyChildren MyBride – “On The Wings of Integrity”
- Neon Horse – “Strange Town”
- Corey Crowder – “Look How Far We’ve Come”
- Trenches – “Sacrament”
- The Showdown – “[Achilles] The Backbreaker”
- And Then There Were None – “Reinventing Robert Cohn”
- Family Force 5 – “Fever”
- Jonezetta – “Sick In The Teeth”
- Since October – “Guilty”
- The Chariot – “Daggers”
- Underoath – “Desperate Times, Desperate Measures”
- Secret & Whisper – “Anchors (Acoustic)”
If that doesn’t get you pumped up for this, I don’t know what will. Well, besides the fact that the Showbread and Oh, Sleeper songs are brand new, never-before-heard. They aren’t even on MySpace yet. Extremely epic, and a must-have.
Of course, that’s not to say that it’s perfect. The cover art is a little creepy, and the website mentions a song from The Almost, which wasn’t in my .zip file. I won’t be surprised if there’s an update with the song in it soon enough. Even so, those are minor details. Get this, right, now. Seriously. Do it. Now:
-Tooth & Nail/Solid States’s Fuel Sampler-
Now that I’ve got that out of the way, I’m totally digging the Children 18:3, FM Static, and Ivoryline right now, great stuff, and I’m not nearly through the sampler yet. What are your favorite songs?
Emergency Broadcast: The Downloads Are Near
…And boy, are there a lot of them. 1000 to be exact. It’s all part of Microsoft’s latest promotion idea: Giving away music. The software giant has forged a partnership with ReverbNation, a popular music site, to give away more free songs then you can shake a Zune at, for free.
Due to such a huge number of downloads, I might have missed a few Christian artists – if I did, I’m sorry. That said, there seems to plenty of Christian artists in the list including Underoath’s song “Emergency Broadcast: The End Is Near”, Bobby Bishop’s “All In”, Hillsong United’s “Desert Song”, and independent artists like Adelina Halmajan, Andy Zipf, Devin Williams, D-Cee, HeeSun Lee, LASTAWAKE, Mynista, Mr. Paul, Matt Shanor, Mashach, Mosquito Farm, No Longer Micah, One4All, Pat Hyland, Peter Woolston, P-Duble, Sheri Carr, The Lacks, and likely more.
It looks like there’s definitely plenty of music to investigate, so go check it out! Enjoy it! 
Free. Underoath. Again.
A couple of months back I posted a link to some good Underoath downloads, “Reinventing Your Exit”, “It’s A Dangerous Business Walking Out Your Front Door”, and “When The Sun Sleeps”. All three great songs. Unfortunately, the when the band’s live CD (Survive Kaleidoscope) came out earlier this year they removed the downloads.
Thankfully, I’ve found another place where you can get all three songs once more, on the band’s Virb profile. You can read my previous review, and if you missed getting songs last January, you can grab then from the link below.
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!
"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).
Free. Underoath. Enough Said.
Underoath. Some how they went from near obscurity to being the premier Christian hardcore act. And now, I am trilled to announce that they have three free songs downloads on their Purevolume page…
The songs are “Reinventing Your Exit”, “It’s a Dangerous Business Walking Out Your Front Door”, and “When the Sun Sleeps”. They are all incredibly. If anything will get you to like loud music, it’s these three songs. All I can as is wow. Beautiful yet chaotic. Even if you don’t like hardcore music as a rule, you still should check Underoath out. It’s free! What do you have to lose?
11 Bands to Watch for in 2008
11. Stellar Kart. If we really can Expect the Impossible, it must be pretty cool.
10. Inhabited. Their new album Love has been getting good reviews already, and looks to be an great CD.
9. Inhale Exhale. After a great debut, their sophomore disk looks to be great as well.
8. Pillar. With the apparent return to their older style, For the Love of the Game looks to be a worth squeal continuation to the Pillar legacy.
7. Hawk Nelson. If past awesome-ness is a sign of future awesome-ness, they are in great shape.
6. The Afters. After, what, three years, the band return with their second album, which looks to be as good or better then then I Wish We All Could Win.
5. P.O.D. (Payable on Death). Overlooking there new CD, When Angels and Serpents Dance, would be a serious mistake.
4. Showbread. Is a so crazy. They are releasing two different CDs on the same day. Who know what will happen? For sheer unpredictability, you need to keep an eye on them.
3. Kutless. With a new CD supposedly on the way, the massively popular band will definitely be one to watch for.
2. Underoath. The hardcore phenomenon. The mere fact that they are doing a new CD has music fans around the world in desperate anticipation.
1. Family Force 5. In two years, they went from unknowns to one of the hottest bands in Christian music. With a new, untitled CD on the way, the dance party that is FF5 will likely continue to spread.
Honorably Mentions:
A Rotterdam November. Despite being unsigned and unknown, they landed a hit with “City Without a Heart” and look to be a promising band.
Fireflight. Looks Unbreakable.
Leeland. Blindside. Switchfoot. Anberlin. John Reuben. Krystal Meyers. Deserved to fit in the top 11, only I ran out of room. 
SpiralFrog Review – Is it worth it?
I’ve been reviewing the ad-supported free music service SpiralFrog this week. It’s a mixed bag, with some highlights, low-lights, and interesting song selection. The following is my review.
Signing up is reasonably easy, although I had to download a third party plug-in to access the site. Before I could do anything with the site, I also had to download the “SpiralFrog Download Manager”, which I’ll get to a bit later. After that, I got in.
To start with, the first thing you notice is the advertising. Several ads banners and ad boxes. It reminds me of another teen-oriented website, Myspace. I was able to hide most of the advertisements using AdBlock Plus. The ads aren’t too terribly annoying.
The selection is…interesting. For Christian music, they have a couple of pretty cool MxPx CDs, the Elms’ Chess Hotel, the Flyleaf EP and the new Flyleaf Special Edition album, and several interesting String Tributes CD. There’s a String Tribute to Flyleaf, Casting Crowns, and Underoath. So if you’ve ever wondered what “Does Anybody Her Here”, “It’s A Dangerous Business Walking Out Your Front Door”, and “I’m So Sick” sounds like rendered in guitars, violins and cellos, now is your chance to find out. There’s even a documentary-CD from POD, which was tells the band’s history. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like the band had anything to do with it. That’s all I could find in a week. There may be more.
Another feature of the website is the music videos. I was able to find several MxPx videos (Including my personal favorite “Responsibility”.), as well as Flyleaf’s latest, “All Around Me”.
The system itself is rather buggy. The website is slow, taking a long time to load pages. It’s been getting faster, but I can’t help but wonder if the site is slowing browsing down to make sure people view the advertisements. Could be it’s just a popular site too though. I don’t know. The SpiralFrog Download Manger runs all the time, even when the service is not in use. I’ve noticed it taking from around four megabytes to 11 megabytes of RAM. It’s not a huge resource hog, but enough to annoy you.
There are some pretty serious limitations to what you can do with the music and videos. Songs will only play on certain Mp3 Players (iPods and my Sansa se130 aren’t supported), and only on two different devices, and only then if you sync it with you computer every thirty days. You aren’t allowed to burn CD with any songs you download. You also have to visit the website and renew your membership every thirty days to continue playing download songs and videos on your computer.
In conclusion, you probably shouldn’t plan on becoming a long term member unless you are a fanatic MxPx or Flyleaf fan. For everyone else, I would recommend surfing the site awhile. Maybe become a member to try the site out. Download some songs, watch some videos. After all, if you don’t like it, you can always let you subscription expire.
Update: And even if you let your subscription expire, you will still get email from SpiralFrog, asking you to come back. Ask me how I know this.
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