Sometimes, when gospel music is being mentioned, the average mind thinks of another boring old folks song preserved only for sunday; sound-tracking the weeks guilt.
However, Afrogospel and Christian Hip Hop artist PROTEK ILLASHEVA like a few other artists, intends to re-design gospel music with the trendy, pop culture touch to appeal to the general public whilst renewing minds, winning & transforming souls.
His latest single, “Spirit High” is a beautiful and that perfect feel good vibe that echoes how we get so high on God’s love. Sonically it’s a blend of melody rap/hip hop and Afrogospel.
It features CalledOut Music (UK), Se Ok (SA) and the young talented Dave Cobs (Nig).
Disciple has released the new song “Bad Words,” the latest track from the forthcoming album Skeleton Psalms, which is due out from BEC Recordings on April 28. Along with the new song, the band launched vinyl and CD preorders. You can stream “Bad Words”
“Bad Words” is a blistering rocker touting a subversive message about what we are and aren’t allowed to say.
“We like to write songs that make people excited about their faith,” band lead singer and founder Kevin Young shares. “Hopefully, not make people annoying, abusive, or violent Christians. More than they’ve set the constitution of their heart to where they are unashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ: I am going to love you.
I’m going to love you no matter your political party, your race, or any other kind of adjective that separates you from someone else. For God so loved the world, and therefore I so love the world.”
He continues, “But if you think it’s a bad word for me to say, Jesus? I just need you to know that I’m going to say what I believe, because of my love and my passion for Him and my love and my passion for people. That they need to know that there is a God. And He did not come to the world to condemn the world, but He came to the world to save them. That’s our message: this bad word known as Jesus.”
Disciple Releases “Bad Words” Alongside Preorder Of ‘Skeleton Psalms’
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Like the rest of the album, “Bad Words” was created in the house: produced by guitarist Josiah Prince at his studio The Ranch, written by Kevin Young, Andrew Stanton (guitar), and Josiah Prince, with drums from Joey West and additional backing vocal support from touring bassist Marco Pera.
The band called on mix engineer Nick Rad (Skillet) and mastering engineer Sam Moses (Tenth Avenue North) to round out the creative team.
The song follows the release of “Promise to Live” and “The Executioner,” which just recently topped CMW’s Christian Rock chart. The band also just wrapped a stint on Winter Jam Tour, playing 40 arenas around the country.
Currently, in addition to preparing for the release of Skeleton Psalms on April 28, Disciple is playing both rock sets and leading worship through their other musical project Honor & Glory. You can find a full list of tour dates at disciplerocks.com/tour.
Emmy Award-winning, Singer/Songwriter, Gospel hit-maker, and Amazon best-selling author Earnest Pugh has just released his second single “Keeper Of My Souls.” The soul-stirring anthem is featured on his forthcoming album The Very Best of Earnest Pugh, slated for release on Shanachie Entertainment on June 2, 2023
The Very Best of Earnest Pugh will showcase such signature hits as “Rain on Us” and “The Great I Am,” as well as two new tracks featuring Zacardi Cortez and Nakitta Foxx respectively. It is a timely reminder of Earnest’s impact and contributions over the past fifteen years.
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Shanachie General Manager Shanachie notes, “We are thrilled to welcome Earnest Pugh to the Shanachie family. His extraordinary voice and consistently outstanding songs set a standard of quality that means a lot on the contemporary scene.”
Earnest Pugh launched his gospel recording career 15 years ago and scored a major breakthrough in 2009 with the Billboard #1 gospel hit “Rain On Us.” Pugh, who is a worship leader at The Church Without Walls in Houston, TX, also scored Billboard #1 hits for the songs “I Need Your Glory,” “God Wants To Heal You” and “Thank You So Much.”
Dubbed “Gospel’s Leading Man,” Earnest Pugh has garnered multiple Stellar Award nominations and he is a recipient of the prestigious BMI (Broadcast Music Industry) award for long-standing radio play with his rendition of “ I Need Your Glory.” With a five-octave range, Earnest consistently sets the bar for quality gospel music as a singer, songwriter, producer, label executive, and mentor.
Centricity Music’s chart-topping singer, songwriter, guitar aficionado, and podcaster Coby James returns with “Good News” released today (March 31). Going to radio on May 15, the song is inspired by Jesus’ command in Mark 16:15 to preach the gospel, the good news, to all creation.
Coby James not only takes this command seriously but with a joy that permeates much of this 21-year-old’s life and music.
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Written with award-winning songwriters Paul Duncan and Colby Wedgeworth, Coby James is sharing “Good News” live across the country while on the “Still” tour with Steven Curtis Chapman. The tour began March 2 and runs through the end of April. All the latest tour dates can be found at https://cobyjames.com/#tour.
“Dreams can come true,” states James on Instagram following the first night of the tour in Springfield, MO. “Unbelievable. What a night. So excited for all that’s to come.”
Chapman invited Coby James, along with Gotee records’ Joseph O’Brien, on tour following this duo’s musical tribute to the legendary artist on their The CoJo Show podcast.
The beloved Christian music group, Newsboys, is releasing “He Lives”, the first of multiple digital singles they intend to release in 2023, in anticipation of their latest recording project. Written by Chris McClarney and Church of the City (Franklin, TN).
“He Lives is such a powerful song about the resurrection of our Savior,” says Michael Tait, lead singer. “Having sung it at church while we are home from the road, I knew it was one to include as we put this next project together, and to have it feature our friend and touring mate Adam Agee as he joins the band, it is the perfect song to celebrate this Easter season.”
Newsboys are excited to welcome long-time friend and touring mate Adam Agee to the group. Agee, the founding member of pop-punk band Stellar Kart, before taking the helm of Audio Adrenaline in 2014, has been touring with the band for the last several years as a solo artist and speaker on behalf of Child Fund International, the long-time charity partner with Newsboys.
Newsboys Releases New Digital Single
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“I’ve been best friends with these guys for most of my career and have been able to spend the last several years on tour with them…,” said Agee. “I am very excited about this next season together as friends and now band-mates, and what God calls us to do with it!”
Agee officially joined the Newsboys in February as they launched their Let The Music Speak Experience which has been attended by sold-out audiences all across the country.
Newsboys will continue to tour throughout the summer, visiting six cities on the East Coast with Franklin Graham on the God Loves Your Tour, before bringing the Let The Music Speak Experience to several festivals, fairs, theme parks, and multiple international events in England and Germany. For concert information, visit www.newsboys.com/tour for dates and locations.
Two-time GRAMMY Award-winning singer-songwriter Lauren Daigle debuted a brand new song today titled “Waiting.” You can now hear the new song below with the official lyric video. Stream/download “Waiting” here.
Daigle will be appearing on NBC’s Today Show this morning (March 30) as well. She is set to perform her recently released single “Thank God I Do” for the first time on TV during the first hour of the program. Then, she will be back during the fourth hour of to debut “Waiting.”
Waiting – Lauren Daigle
These two new songs mark the launch of a new creative chapter for the multi-platinum selling, Louisiana-born artist, who just last month announced signing to Atlantic Records in partnership with longtime label home Centricity Music. With a creative team led by Grammy-winning producer Mike Elizondo (Twenty One Pilots, Mary J. Blige, Fiona Apple, Carrie Underwood), and featuring co-writers Natalie Hemby, Shane McAnally, Amy Wadge, Lori McKenna, Jason Ingram and Jon Greene, to name a few, Lauren Daigle comprises twenty soulful and uplifting songs to be released in two parts. The first ten arrive May 12, and the other ten release later this year.
Daigle also recently unveiled her much-anticipated US arena tour, set for fall 2023. The Kaleidescope Tour kicks off on September 6 in Memphis, TN with an entirely new and innovative stage production. The 30-city run will take Daigle across the country – from New Jersey’s Prudential Center (October 20) to LA’s Crypto.com Arena (November 10), with stops in Boston, Atlanta, and Seattle as well as cities in which Daigle hasn’t performed in nearly four years, including Baton Rouge, Baltimore and Tulsa. Visit www.laurendaigle.com for ticket information.
Dwan Hill releases his new single ‘Mansion’, a groove-infused song that showcases Hill’s musical skill and highly creative approach to worship music.
Having always been interested in Jesus’ use of the word “mansion” in the Scriptures and finding out the translation of the original word to be closer to “many rooms” through studying, Dwan Hill chose to use the King James’s description as inspiration and metaphor.
From it, the Nashville-based singer-songwriter created an illustration of the restoration of all things in the new heaven and earth at Christ’s return. The joyous soundscape holds the theological backbone of the songs, bringing listeners to grasp the wonder of Jesus’ return afresh.
“I wanted to bring a fresh, tangible portrayal of [Christ’s] second coming, one that looked forward to the beauty of our renovated world to come and the revelation of Christ’s eternal kingdom, which will truly and literally be heaven on earth,” Hill says. ‘Mansion’ is meant to bring fresh expectation, in the midst of the trauma and catastrophe in the world at-large, for the people of God to sound a clarion call about the hope in eternal life through Christ.
“In no way do I support escapism or a disregard for immediate reality,” Hill concludes, “but I do believe Christ is the present-day answer to the troubles we face, and His imminent return is a future reality in which we should all place our hope.” ‘Mansion’ was co-produced by Kevin Dailey, marking the first time Hill invited someone to produce his music alongside him.
Inspired as a healing prayer following a season of pain and suffering both in his own life and the world at large, acclaimed singer/songwriter and recording artist Jon Shabaglian’s “Symphony of Peace” is now available on streaming platforms.
One of Shabaglian’s most personal tracks to date, the Sam Hart-produced song features recording artist, educator and activist Temitope, along with Psalmist Mission.
A soaring anthem encouraging listeners to be instruments of reconciliation in a divided world, “Symphony of Peace” was written by Shabaglian, Temitope and Hart. The song’s tenderly emotive verses give way to a powerful proclamation of peace showcasing a choir of graduates from Shabaglian’s Psalmist Mission training ministry.
Symphony Of Peace – Jon Shabaglian
“‘Symphony of Peace’ was birthed last year as I was going through a very difficult season and feeling the absence of peace in my life,” Shabaglian shares. “From the moment I stepped into the songwriting session with Sam and Temitope, it was clear that we were kindred souls who shared a deep heart for reconciliation. Three hours later, we had written a song that speaks to healing, growth, and unity. In a time of such evident division in our culture, it was an honor to feel as though God was writing a healing prayer through us that will hopefully inspire others to live as peacemakers reflecting our Lord’s heart as His children.”
“Temitope is of Nigerian descent and was raised to understand the importance of reconciliation, and my grandparents escaped the Armenian genocide in Turkey, so we both have hearts for peace and unity,” Shabaglian adds. “I pray this song will soothe the wounded heart and inject a vision, into even the most broken of relationships, that we would be healers and restorers—a ‘Symphony of Peace.’”
ELEVATION RHYTHM introduces a new song, “You Will Be Saved,” available at all DSPs (listen here). This song and the previously released “PRAISES,” will both appear on the sophomore album, This Is the Gospel, which will release on April 14th. The upcoming release is available for pre-add/pre-save here. The group’s new seven-track collection follows ELEVATION RHYTHM’s first full-length offering, Growing Pains. But unlike their emotionally-focused debut, This Is The Gospel is not only a work of art but a testament to faith.
“I felt this call and this responsibility to say, ‘OK, if the next generation needs a foundation for their faith, what does that foundation look like? What is the Gospel? What are the pillars? What is the truth?,” shares ELEVATION RHYTHM’s lead architect and primary producer, Josh Holiday. “I just knew this next album had to be truth-centered, and I wanted to create music that was going to be foundational for this next generation in their faith journey.”
The new track that dropped today is a straightforward opus and a simple invitation of salvation. In addition to the song being available, the live performance video is available now below.
ELEVATION RHYTHM
Holiday continues, “Knowing Jesus as a Savior is so humbling. I never want to get to a place where I feel like I don’t need saving. I never want to live that lie. This song isn’t just a salvation call for sinners. We all need to be saved. It’s for the lost — for the one — but it’s also to remind the 99, hey, don’t ever think you don’t need a Savior.”
Repentance. Salvation. Sanctification. Wrapped in timeless melodies, these essential tenets of faith are all presented in an elementary manner on This Is The Gospel with ELEVATION RHYTHM declaring: This is what we believe.
ELEVATION RHYTHM continues to hit the road this spring for Lecrae’s “The Final Church Clothes Tour” and on Elevation Nights with their sister collective Elevation Worship and their pastor Steven Furtick. You can find a full list of travel dates for ELEVATION RHYTHM here.
Nigerian Gospel music singer Chidinma has released a new single titled “Over And Over”, and she features young and gifted singer who is known as Indura.
Chidinma who has previously collaborated on some singles and videos with other African artists is here again on another one with the young Cameroonian singer Indura.
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