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NEWS SOURCE: DREAM Records
October 1, 2013 Los Angeles, CA (October, 2013) -- DREAM Records is very proud to announce the release of #LITO by PRESS PLAY. The group's 4th studio album on DREAM, #LITO (short for Love In The Open) has received critical praise for the press community. With a combination of great hooks and the lyrical theme centered around loving people, the band's new album is sure to not disappoint. The album is about to break the top 10 on the Christian iTunes Charts as well. In addition to their new album, their single (which is also titled, #LITO) debuted on the Hot AC / CHR charts recently and has landed this week safely at #16 with it rising quickly. PRESS PLAY is also pleased to announce that they teamed up with Air1 to present the World Premiere Music Video Of #LITO. Check it out by clicking here. To check out the group's new album head on over to iTunes - http://bit.ly/18RUXTB and Amazon - http://amzn.to/15IxmUK To purchase tickets to the JCTV Tour visit: JCTVTour.com ABOUT PRESS PLAY: The Southern Californian act started back in 2000 by frontman & founder, Dave Hanley. After releasing their debut album on DREAM with Life Is Beautiful and their follow up, NY2LA charting 1 on the Christian Billboard Charts and multiple tours, the electronic dance pop group, quickly made a name for themselves. After several tours playing in front of thousands of people and having multiple chart toppings on the Hot AC / CHR National Audience Charts, the group is adding to their highly successful careers. ABOUT DREAM RECORDS: DREAM was founded in 2008 to provide artists with a genuine approach to how real artist development should be done. By allowing for a partnership as a business model, Dream's artists empower themselves to develop and carry out a real vision for their lives as they affect other people's lives with their music and message. Incorporating social media, press, radio and touring it's allowing it's artists grow together as a family. Eleventyseven: Good Spells EP Normally when bands release albums, they hire a publicist to create a press release for them. That guy or gal gets paid to make the band sound like creative geniuses who somehow think more deeply about the world than you do, and to make their album sound like this mind altering journey through the depths of heartbreak that no one but them could have ever walked away from and lived to tell the tale. Those types of press releases are really fun to read, so I apologize in advance for this not being one of them. Since day one of our musical career we’ve been asked by various management, labels, and even friends to talk about Jesus more in our music. We were told that we had to write more spiritual songs to have a career in the Christian music industry. I can’t even remember all the times I heard the phrase: “We really need that one song that pulls on the heartstrings of the soccer moms enough to make them go buy the album.” It didn’t take us long to realized that the point of a Christian music industry is to make money off of Christians, not to share a gospel that has always been free to all. For us to put the name of Jesus in a song just to make something marketable and profitable is blasphemy. It is to reduce the name of our Savior to a marketing point. There is nothing wrong with making money, and running a good business, but there is something wrong with us telling people the music we make in our own CCM bubble is somehow more acceptable to Christ than other kinds. Putting the name of Jesus in a song doesn’t make it “Christian”, or even good. We shied away from making overtly Christian flavored music because we didn’t want to treat the name of Jesus like a clearance sticker. We didn’t want to take something sacred to us, and use it for our own gain. We have come to have no interest in being a part of “Christian” music, in being role models, or in building a following. It’s taken us a long time to learn that those things are kingdoms built to us, and built on shifting sands. What we love is making music, because the Lord gave us a passion to do that, and we hope to honor Him by pursuing that passion. We just want to be a part of Jesus, abiding in Him and following his lead. Anything of worth in our lives comes from Him, and Him alone. We never really fit into the subculture of Christian music, and maybe that was for the better. We know we are a little rough around the edges, unpolished, and unprepared in many ways. May Christ be glorified in our weakness; may He somehow be honored through this crappy music we make! We have learned that you don’t need Christian music, perfect theology, a clean reputation, awesome camps, huge festivals or even great teaching. You only need Jesus, and he usually shows up in a quiet whisper (not at 180 decibels). People don’t need another mind-numbingly regurgitated Christian ballad that sounds like the same thing they have been punching their ears with for the past decade. They need a reason to wake up every morning, a way to hold their marriage together, strength to keep a family running, and a way to not feel like they give away all their peace to every person or circumstance that they encounter. These songs remind us that Jesus is all of those things, and we hope they can do the same for you. This EP contains 5 of our favorite hymns that we used to sing growing up in southern churches. Over time these hymns have come to resonate a Truth so powerful and so perfectly placed that we feel indebted to them. They remind us of all the times we were ready to quit, ready to give up, and ready to leave loved ones. They remind us that the Lord asks for mercy, not sacrifice. They remind us that our identity doesn’t come from our preferences or how strong our opinions and arguments are; it comes from Christ. He is greater than our ability to defend Him. He is perfected in our weaknesses and not in our strengths. Our music won’t change your life, make you a better person, or bring you any closer to Christ. Jesus will. This has been longer than a normal press release, so congratulations if you’ve read this far. We can geek out and talk more about the album some other time. This all just seemed much more important to write about. -Matt Langston (Eleventyseven). Facedown Records have announced a FREE song sampler. Featuring 12 Tracks, it includes artists such as Means,Indwelling and more. Here is the Track List: FACEDOWN RECORDS THROWBACK SAMPLER VOL. 1 Means - "Connected" Figure Four - "In The Face Of Death" Symphony In Peril - "For Now We See In A Mirror, Dimly, But Then Face To Face" One 21 - "Runaway" Alove For Enemies - "The Harvest" Nodes Of Ranvier - "Don't Blink (Or We May Miss It)" Seventh Star - "Thick And Thin" Inked In Blood - "Lest I Sleep The Sleep Of Death" Dodgin' Bullets - "Tomorrow The World Will Change Forever" Bloody Sunday - "The Curse" Falling Cycle - "Rose Adore" Indwelling - "Hymn" Hurry and Download this great sampler while it is still available. You can get it HERE. From: Christian Post BY CHRISTINE THOMASOS, CHRISTIAN POST REPORTER September 22, 2013|11:46 am Ja Rule, the 37-year-old rapper who was born Jeffrey Atkins, is speaking up about how a two year prison sentence strengthened his relationship with God. Atkins was released from an upstate New York prison earlier this year after being charged with tax evasion in 2011. Still, the rapper is reflective and recently spoke about how the experience shaped him. "It's been real crazy. Real reflective. You go through something like that…it changes you a little bit," Rule told New York City's Hot 97 radio show host Angie Martinez recently. "You get a chance to really to be at one with yourself. A lot of late nights, by myself." A lot of those nights were spent reading the bible, according to the rapper. "When I went to jail, I read the whole Bible," Atkins told Martinez. He also spoke about needing to let go of some repressed feelings. "I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life," he said on the Hot 97 radio show. "So, you know, I'm really in a good head space. I really want to just do what I'm doing and not focus on nothing negative at all." As a testament to his strengthened faith, the rapper said he made a few changes. "Right now I'm on my God flow, you know what I mean?" he told Martinez. "I got Job 1:21 tattooed on my chest." The scripture states, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will depart. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised (NIV)." Now, Atkins is gearing up to star in the movie "I'm In Love With A Church Girl," which is scheduled to debut in theaters Oct. 18. The movie is based off of the life of Pastor Galley Molina, who led a life of drug trafficking before he decided to become a preacher. Before Atkins went to prison, Molina told The Christian Post that the rapper had been reading his bible. "Ja Rule has been ministered to. He's a dear friend," Molina previously told CP. "We've been praying for him a lot. He's been open; he's been so [receptive] to the word." FREE HIP HOP DOWNLOADS-----> HERE Christian music legends Amy Grant and Kirk Franklin have been announced as the hosts for the 44th Annual GMA Dove Awards.
“There are not too many names more synonymous with Christian and gospel music than our hosts Amy and Kirk,” says GMA Executive Director Jackie Patillo. “We are so grateful for their contributions to the Dove Awards throughout the years, and we’re excited to have them as the co-pilots of what is turning out to be one of the most compelling nights of music ever on the Dove stage.” The event will feature performances from past Dove Award winners and nominees, including Gaither Vocal Band, Michael W. Smith, Tamela Mann and TobyMac, among others yet to be announced. Awards will be conferred in 42 categories voted on by the GMA membership. Presenters of the awards include Lecrae, Rick Warren and Jaci Velasquez. The music award ceremony will be held Oct. 15 at Lipscomb University’s Allen Arena in Nashville, then broadcast on Oct. 21 at 8 p.m. Eastern on the UP network. |
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