Grammy winning Christian artist Chris Tomlin releases new music today with a 2-track single entitled “Always”, including the songs “Always” and “YAHWEH (No One) [with Elevation Worship],” ahead of tonight’s ‘Tomlin UNITED Tour’ launching in San Diego, California at Pechanga Arena.

“Hebrews 13:8 says, ‘Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever,’ and that is the heart behind my new song ‘Always’” shared Chris. “The God we read about in the scriptures… The God of signs and wonders is the same God we worship today and is the same God we put our trust in for the future.”

The song “Always,” co-written by Chris, is uploading to Christian radio immediately and adding to radio airplay on May 13. The 2-track single is available now at all digital retailers and can be found HERE.

Chris continued, “I have always tried to write songs that help give people a voice to worship God and my prayer is that when people hear this song, their faith is strengthened, and they are reminded of the steadfast and unchanging hope we have in God.”

• “Always” – (writers) Chris Tomlin, Jess Cates, Daniel Carson, Jeff Sojka, Ben Glover
• “YAWEH (No One) [with Elevation Worship]” – (writers) Chris Tomlin, Steven Furtick, Jason Ingram, Chris Brown 

Always” follows recent single “God Who Listens,” featuring country artist Thomas Rhett, and Chris’ 17^th #1 single (that reigned for six consecutive weeks) “Who You Are To Me,” co-written with and featuring Lady A. Both songs are from the 2020 Chris Tomlin & Friends album that debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Christian Albums Chart and #9 on Billboard’s Top Current Albums Chart. A companion EP was released last summer with four additional songs.

This spring, Chris will headline ‘Good Friday Nashville’ on April 15th in between legs of the 20+ city ‘Tomlin UNITED’ tour and play back-to-back concerts at Red Rocks Amphitheater in Denver on May 23 and May 24. This will be Tomlin’s fifth visit to the iconic Colorado venue, after becoming the first Christian artist to headline two consecutive nights; he repeated history in 2019. His GFN concert returns to Bridgestone Arena after postponing an in person shows in 2020 and 2021 due to the global pandemic. Since its inception in 2017 GFN has sold out each year and smashed attendance records by becoming the largest ticketed Christian concert in the history of the venue and continuing to accomplish similar feats each year.  Plans are currently in place for Chris to continue the Good Friday concerts indefinitely. Tickets for all concerts available at christomlin.com.

The 3rd Annual Grizzly Awards are set to stream on Facebook at facebook.com/thegrizzlyawards on April 3 at 7:00 PM Central, featuring performances from Seventh Day Slumber, Remedy Drive and Nate Parrish, alongside presenter appearances from artists including Brian “Head” Welch (Korn, Love & Death), Trevor McNevan (Thousand Foot Krutch), Austin Carlile (Of Mice & Men, Whosoevers), James Mead (Kutless), Andrew Stanton and Josiah Prince (Disciple), with more to be announced throughout this week. The evening will be hosted by lauded speaker, spoken word poet and songwriter Egypt Speaks.

The Grizzly Awards exist to celebrate faith-based rock and metal, and this year’s event will continue in that tradition by not only celebrating the winners in this year’s 15 categories, but celebrating the community as a whole. Each performance, presentation and special segment is meant to present a collage of this industry’s impact in 2021.

“We are so humbled and honored to share this platform with such exceptional creatives in the rock and roll community,” Mary Nikkel says on behalf of The Grizzly Awards team. “Every performer and presenter has been so generous in volunteering their time and their talents. We truly believe that the end result will be a moment that recognizes the ways in which this music is healing and changing the world. Our desire has always been to encourage those who pour their blood, sweat and tears into making music that matters. We hope you’ll join us!”

The winners were selected through thousands of fan votes. The full list of results will be announced in a press release following the livestream, including the write-in Fan Choice category. The awards special will also be available to stream on The Grizzly Awards’ Facebook and YouTube after it airs.

The Grizzly Awards is a 501(c)3 nonprofit, and you can donate to support their work at http://bit.ly/TheGrizzlyAwardsDonate.

GRAMMY Award-winning rock band Switchfoot has unveiled plans for a massive summer co-headlining tour with Collective Soul. The 40 stop tour is set to get underway July 15th with a concert in Gary, IN and run through September 24th with a show in San Antonio, TX.

“It’s always a thrill to go on tour, but this year is going to be so special because we get to be with not only our friends but a great band, Switchfoot! Southern boys meet Southern California boys, which will be a fun time for all,” Collective Soul’s Ed Roland says. Switchfoot’s Jon Foreman adds, “Been fans of Collective Soul and their songs from day one. Can’t believe it took this long for us to finally tour together. Psyched it’s finally happening!”

Tickets for the Collective Soul and Switchfoot tour go on sale this week, beginning with a special Artist Presale that launches on Tuesday, March 29 at 10 a.m. There is a Spotify presale as well, which begins on Wednesday, March 30 at 10 a.m., with the General + VIP onsale beginning Friday, April 1 at 10 a.m local time.

Switchfoot & Collective Soul 2022 Tentative Tour Schedule:
Fri 7/15 Gary, IN Hard Rock Casino
Sat 7/16 Council Bluffs, IA Harrah’s Council Bluffs – Stir Cove
Sun 7/17 Maryland Heights, MO Saint Louis Music Park
Tue 7/19 Cleveland, OH Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica
Wed 7/20 Columbus, OH KEMBA Live! – Indoor Music Hall
Sat 7/23 Fond du Lac, WI Fond du Lac Fair
Sun 7/24 Wabash, IN Honeywell Center
Tue 7/26 Newport, KY PromoWest Pavilion at OVATION
Wed 7/27 Midlothian, VA AfterHours Southside
Sat 7/30 Grantville, PA Penn National Racecourse – Hollywood Casino
Sun 7/31 Hampton, NH Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom
Tue 8/2 Silver Spring, MD The Fillmore Silver Spring
Wed 8/3 Huntington, NY The Paramount
Thu 8/4 New York, NY Palladium Times Square
Sat 8/6 Webster, MA Indian Ranch
Sun 8/7 Pittsburgh, PA Stage AE
Mon 8/8 Jackson, MI Jackson County Fairgrounds
Sat 8/13 Billings, MT MetraPark – First Interstate Arena
Sun 8/14 Denver, CO The Mission Ballroom
Mon 8/15 Sandy, UT Sandy City Amphitheater
Wed 8/17 Jacksonville, OR Britt Pavilion
Sat 8/20 Paso Robles, CA Vina Robles Amphitheatre
Sun 8/21 Saratoga, CA The Mountain Winery
Tue 8/23 Inglewood, CA YouTube Theater
Wed 8/24 San Diego, CA Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre
Fri 8/26 Henderson, NV Sunset Station Outdoor Amphitheater
Sat 8/27 Flagstaff, AZ Fort Tuthill Park – Pepsi Amphitheater
Mon 9/5 New Haven, KY The Amphitheater at Dant Crossing
Wed 9/7 Cary, NC Koka Booth Amphitheatre at Regency Park
Fri 9/9 Charleston, SC The Riviera Theater – Sottile Ballroom
Sat 9/10 Atlanta, GA Cadence Park Amphitheatre at Chastain Park
Sun 9/11 Nashville, TN Grand Ole Opry House
Tue 9/13 Jacksonville, FL Florida Theatre
Wed 9/14 Clearwater, FL Ruth Eckerd Hall
Fri 9/16 Orlando, FL Hard Rock Live
Sat 9/17 Pompano Beach, FL Pompano Beach Amphitheatre
Tue 9/20 New Orleans, LA Mahalia Jackson Theater
Wed 9/21 Sugar Land, TX Smart Financial Centre
Fri 9/23 Austin, TX Austin City Limits Live
Sat 9/24 San Antonio, TX Majestic Theatre

Collective Soul celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2019, releasing their 10th studio album to critical acclaim. Blood debuted at No. 3 on Billboards Alternative Albums chart, helping inject new material into the bands live sets. I think Blood is the beginning of a lot of good music to come, singer and songwriter E Roland said after its release. I think its the best weve ever done. The band had rocketed to fame with the 1993 Shine, the lead single to the multi-platinum album Hints Allegations and Things Left Unsaid.

Switchfoot has sold nearly 10 million copies worldwide, releasing their 12th full-length album interrobang in August of 2021. The album was recorded in a burst of pent-up mid-pandemic creativity in 2020 and 21. They have performed sold-out tours in front of millions of fans in over 40 countries following their breakthrough 2003 double-platinum album The Beautiful Letdown, which helped launch the band with a string of alternative radio hits. In 2011, Switchfoots seventh studio album Hello Hurricane won the Grammy for Best Rock Gospel Album.

This Friday, artist and worship leader Allie Murphy releases “Better Things,” her new single written to encourage mothers like herself to find joy in all things – even the mundane.

Inspired by Ephesians 2:10 and 1 Thessalonians 4:11-12, Murphy originally wrote, “Better Things” as a personal cry out to God. She felt stuck in the tension between her dreams and callings for both creativity and motherhood for many years. Murphy believes the little moments in life that lead to the sometimes draining feeling of being a mother can be viewed as tender moments raising the future generation and beauty in the sacrifice.

“You see, the folding of the laundry and the wiping of little hands is an act of creation,” said Murphy. “In caring for these souls, I am helping to grow and nurture the Kingdom of God. Perhaps this is the greatest creative act I’ll ever be engaged in. It matters.”

Murphy’s own husband Mike Murphy and Blue Sky Studios helped produce the inspirational single. The entire team hopes the song encourages listeners to choose joy in the better things, diligently going after God in the journey He has called them to.

Days are long and all the years they go too easy
But life’s a dance of choosing joy no matter what it takes
OHHH I’m done chasing wind, I’m done
The better things, I’d rather choose, I’d rather choose
I’d rather choose the Better Things

Murphy is excited to release a lyric video full of snippets of the everyday life of motherhood. She plans to promote and share her story as a mother and songwriter on all of her existing platforms.When listeners around the world hear this song, they will be lifted up to see that the little things matter because God sees, cares and made them for this.

Manus Akpanke a ace music producer, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in the city of Abuja, Nigeria is gearing up for his debut single for the year 2022.

It can be recalled that his last body of work was the song Holy Spirit which came alongside an official video that was released in December 2021.

Talking about the inspiration behind the new song, the producer cum singer explained that the cunning enemy who has always been in the business of deception is still very much doing the same thing. He’s moving to and fro planting in hearts and minds of people the impossibilities in life, impossibilities of recovering from that illness, impossibilities of achieving that set goal/vision.

This song is loaded with the message that “all things are possible” no matter how they seem to be or look. It will ignite in the heart of listeners’ hope and the need to continue believing while standing on the promises of the one that never fails.

This amazing song which was recorded in October 2021 at the Manus Akpanke Live In Concert with the Hallel 100 mass choir will be coming alongside a music video and would be available on all digital stores and music outlets from on Friday the 1st of April 2022.

Get your mind and souls ready to be blessed and have the confidence and assurance that All Things Are Possible.

The cutting-edge rock artist from Nashville, Tennessee, Munday Martin, is gearing up to release his much-anticipated 10 song, self-titled album.

The upcoming album, releasing this Friday, was set in motion to bring captivating melodies to music fans. The culmination of Martin’s debut album has been in the works for many years as Martin grew up in a musical family and started singing for talent agencies in New York and Chicago at a young age and was selected for commercials like Hungry Hungry Hippos, Wheaties and Nintendo. This release allows Martin to share his powerful story of forgiveness with the world via his passion for music.

Martin grew up in a dysfunctional home and his mother was an alcoholic. Throughout his childhood, Martin experienced abuse. Later in life, patterns of addiction became apparent in his own life as well.

“What the enemy meant for bad: God intended for good,” Martin said. “My mother and I were able to find the power of forgiveness. She became my very best friend as she overcame her addictions and we became very close the last few years of her life before she died in 2015.”

When Martin’s mother died, he took it as a sign to begin healing from his past – overcoming prescription drug and alcohol addiction in 2019. However, this process was not easy. Martin still recalled dealing with suicidal thoughts, clinical depression, nearly being aborted in the womb, drug overdoses growing up and ultimately found Jesus was the answer as is best portrayed in his new song “Barely Survived.” Music was part of his inner healing that brought balm to the old wounds as he found wholeness again in Christ.

Martin’s artistic outlet first led him to paint, then to write and resulted in recording over 30 songs with his producer John Mark Painter, known for producing hit singles like “Ooh Ah” by Grits. Martin has dedicated all 10 songs on the new album, including hits like “Silver Lining” and “The Fix Is In,” to the Lord for how He’s been faithful and healed Martin of childhood trauma.

While songs from the album like “Reactor” relate to fans when they feel alone and encourage coping mechanisms so that fans will live longer and happier lives, songs like “Snap Out Of It” serve as a constant reminder to all listeners to share the gospel when they can’t get the song out of their heads.

Listeners can stream/download the album on their favorite music platform this Friday.

Just days after releasing her first solo single, globally renowned vocalist TAYA has announced plans for her first solo tour. On Friday, “For All My Life” dropped as a preview for her forthcoming debut solo album slated to release on May 27 under a new partnership with Capitol CMG. And now, Introducing TAYA has been unveiled, five intimate pre-release events in major US cities. Stay tuned for more details including ticket information.

“Accabelieve it — we are going on tour y’all and I’m so thrilled to invite you,” TAYA posted on social media. “Before writing this album it was said from the top that I prayerfully get do this however I feel led and this is another part of that. It’s a night I get to craft from top to bottom in 5 sweet little venues that will hopefully be intimate, honest and a place where Jesus would want to come and dwell.”

The world first heard TAYA on UNITED’s RIAA Certified Multi-Platinum global worship anthem “Oceans (Where Feet May Fail)” which was boasted #1 at Radio and spent a record-setting 61 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Top Christian Songs Chart. Since then, her voice has become an unmistakable clarion call to worship across the world. During her tenure with UNITED, as well as Hillsong Worship, TAYA has helped steward over 1 Billion global career streams as well as performed live for over 10M people in 12 different countries across six continents.

Acclaimed Song Garden recording artist Chosen Road marks another first in a noteworthy career with the Top 5 debut of their latest recording, Appalachian Hymns, on Billboard’s Bluegrass Albums chart. The collection lands at #4 on the publication’s March 22 chart and is the highest debut of the week.

Appalachian Hymns joins recordings by such iconic artists as Dolly Parton and Robert Plant/Alison Krauss on the chart’s Top 5 this week. Chosen Road’s 2020 release, Appalachian Worship, spent 30 weeks on the same chart.

“As a band, we are truly honored to see Appalachian Hymns on Billboard’s Bluegrass Albums chart,” said Jonathan Buckner, Chosen Road founding member. “The album is a collection of some of our favorite hymns of faith. The response it has received is proof that these songs are timeless, and the Truth contained therein is forever relevant.”

“We at Song Garden are grateful for and proud of Chosen Road’s success,” said Marilyn Keffer, Director, Song Garden Music Group. “I credit their success to being a group that truly sings from their heart. They live and believe every lyric they record.”

Produced by Chosen Road’s Zachary Alvis and Tyler Robertson, Appalachian Hymns released last fall and pairs the band’s unparalleled acoustic instrumentation and vocal harmonies with classic songs of faith. The 12-song collection features “Be Thou My Vision,” one of the oldest hymns of the Church, along with the rousing “Brethren We Have Met To Worship”; the striking simplicity of “My Savior’s Love”; the gentle, guitar-driven “Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus”; the a cappella “How Beautiful Heaven Must Be”; and the crowd-pleasing instrumental “Send The Light.”

Singer/songwriter, and newest Centricity Music artist, Katy Nichole, hits No. 1 this week with “In Jesus Name (God of Possible)” on Billboard’s Hot Christian Songs chart. Her viral debut single has also topped the iTunes Christian & Gospel Songs chart for eight consecutive weeks so far, never leaving No. 1 since it released Jan. 26.

Releasing her first concept music video and a piano version of the song inspired by the early chorus that went viral on TikTok, Nichole also recorded “In Jesus Name (God of Possible)” live for Essential Worship while additional resources for the song are available at PraiseCharts, MultiTracks and Worship Together.

As the song continues to resonate with people of all backgrounds across the world, Nichole is also receiving numerous invitations to sing the song live. Going from zero to 50 concerts on her schedule so far, upcoming events include “Good Friday Nashville” with Chris Tomlin at Bridgestone Arena April 15 plus a K-LOVE-sponsored Live at Red Rocks appearance and a major fall tour (both to be announced soon). She also recently sang “God Bless America” at the NASCAR WISE Power 400 live held at Auto Club Speedway, joined Big Daddy Weave for four concerts and sang “In Jesus Name (God of Possible)” last week during Jason Gray’s SiriusXM The Message Acoustic Story Time event.

With a remarkable 62 Christian reporting radio station adds in 10 days following its release, a feat never been done by a debut single, “In Jesus Name (God of Possible)” also world-premiered on Christian music’s largest radio network, K-LOVE. The video of Nichole hearing her song on radio for the first time has received more than 4.5M views on TikTok and another 2.6M views on K-LOVE’s Facebook page.

Reaching well over 150 million people with the chorus of “In Jesus Name (God of Possible),” 21-year-old Nichole created the song from words in her prayer journal that were written in the midst of a global health crisis and in response to her own story of suffering, hope and healing. She suffered for years with scoliosis before a new doctor took out the metal rods that had been placed in her back, which miraculously went straight, no longer giving her pain.

People worldwide are hearing Nichole’s song and telling their own heart-warming, and many times heart-breaking, stories. Each story branches out into a series of new shares that continues branching virally. More than 7,200 examples of this can be seen now on TikTok.

While her first single is a worshipful anthem ready-made for roomfuls of people to sing, it only reveals one facet of this multidimensional artist who is working on her debut album now, again drawing from her journal and well of life experiences.

Five-time GRAMMY® nominated and Stellar Award-winning collective, Maverick City Music, celebrate earning their first #1 Billboard Gospel National Airplay single, “Jireh,” (Elevation Worship & Maverick City Music). “Jireh” is lifted from the 2021 album Old Church Basement, in collaboration with Elevation Worship and was written by Steven Furtick, Chandler Moore, Naomi Raine and Chris Brown.

This Summer, Maverick City Music, with 16-time GRAMMY Award winning icon Kirk Franklin, have announced the largest tour of their career in support of their forthcoming collaboration album, Kingdom. Produced by Live Nation and Undivided, the 37-city tour, KINGDOM, kicks off on June 1st at FTX Arena in Miami, FL making stops across North America in Atlanta, Toronto, Nashville, Los Angeles and more before wrapping up in Denver, CO at Ball Arena on July 31st.  Tickets are available now, HERE.

Maverick City Music has been making noise since forming in 2018.  Featuring a rotating group of members that include Chandler Moore, Naomi Raine, Dante Bowe, Lizzie Morgan, MJ George, Aaron Moses, Joe L Barnes and Brandon Lake, Maverick City Music brings together a diverse array of voices, drawing inspiration from soul, gospel, R&B, and indie rock. Their 2021 album Old Church Basement, in collaboration with Elevation Worship, earned the group five GRAMMY® nominations across three categories including nominations for their largest single to date, “Jireh (feat. Chandler Moore & Naomi Raine),” and “Wait On You (feat. Dante Bowe & Chandler Moore.)”