Contemporary Christian pop-rock worship band Esterlyn has released a cover of Hillsong United’s Freedom is Here (VSR Label Music Group). Taken off the band’s new Call Out opus, Esterlyn’s take on Freedom is Here is every bit as delicious as the original, although – to be expected – we can’t wait to hear what it sounds live to make a total and complete call on whether we feel it trumps Joel Houston and...

Fresh from its Top 15 Christian AC hit My Help Comes From the Lord, Contemporary Christian pop-rock band The [M]useum is releasing Allelujah, another winning track off its Let Love Win release on BEC. Allelujah – like The [M]useum, apparently, we’re open to different spelling options on everything! – is a soaring ballad not completely unlike My Help Comes From The Lord, and is now picking up at Christian AC. While not as...

Contemporary Christian rock band The Great Transparency has released the anthemic Rebuild Your Love as the carrier single to its new studio EP of the same title. Rebuild Your Love (Razzbarry Records) is an instantly catchy rock song, with powerful guitars, nontraditional drum beats – several tempo changes, and yet solid! – and solid bass lines, plus an irresistible “Oh-oh-oh!” singalong track that will work well from...

Superstar supercedes superstar, as Contemporary Christian singer-songwriter Chris Tomlin leapfrogs over erstwhile #1 champ Jeremy Camp (The Way) and former #1 champ Laura Story (Blessings) to score another #1 hit on the Billboard Top Christian Songs chart with I Lift My Hands. Greatest Gainer and new to the Top 10 is Hold Me by Jamie Grace featuring TobyMac, a very real contender for #1. (She’ll be the third female artist to go to #1...

Contemporary Christian progressive worship band Leeland is returning with a new album, The Great Awakening, which drops on September 20 across the United States in CD and digital formats via Essential Records. The first single off The Great Awakening is I Wonder, and if the live performance at LifeLight Missouri 2011 (the video of which I’ve embedded here) is any indication, friends, we are in for an explosive worship experience that...

Contemporary Christian singer-songwriter John Waller, who scored a radio hit in 2007 with While I’m Waiting off the smash film Fireproof, has released As For Me And My House in CDs and digital formats to an eager public that brought the album to #26 on the Christian album charts in June 2011. The first single, Yes, is rapidly picking up steam at Christian AC radio stations across the United States; this week, it is one of the...