Juno Award-winning and Dove Award-nominated Canadian Christian rock band downhere is releasing, via Centricity Records, a new album, On the Altar of Love, on August 23 in the United States and Canada. Beginning May 24, however, On the Altar of Love will be available for download from the band’s official website at www.downhere.com, as well as iTunes. The carrier single, Let Me Rediscover You, gave me chills the first time I heard it...

Independent Contemporary Christian rock band Worth Dying For, which released its sophomore album Love Riot online in February 2011, is responsible for Through Your Eyes, a hard-driving call to God to inspire and move them to action. One of the most added songs at Christian rock radio this week, Through Your Eyes moves up 28-23, earning the track Greatest Gainer honors for the week. Love Riot debuted at #3 on the iTunes Christian charts the...

UK-born Contemporary Christian singer-songwriter Mariette Davina has released You Are Holy, an elegant cross-classical worship song available on her official website, as well as on Amazon and iTunes. Born in the UK but raised in South Africa, Davina’s extensive schooling in music – with a specific focus on opera – has resulted in an interesting musical style not readily available on Soft AC/Inspo, where a track like You...

I made a huge mistake not featuring Hope is Rising and Come Home by Contemporary Christian ambient rock band Luminate, but I will not make that same error with the buoyant Healing in Your Arms, now rising up the charts at Christian AC. The Tyler, TX band may have been around since 2005, but the 2009 signing to Sparrow Records and the subsequent EMI/CMG distribution may be what truly got Luminate on the map. Healing in Your Arms is one of...

The number one tracks on both Christian and secular Top 10s remain chart leaders, with Britt Nicole’s Hanging On hanging on for week #2 on the Christian chart and Adele’s Rolling in the Deep registering a second week on the secular chart. Over on the Christian chart, mikeschair debuts at #9 with their spectacular Someone Worth Dying For; on the secular chart, John Legend (pictured) scores a Top 10 hit with his YouTube-only...

Contemporary Christian band Mikeschair has had a fantastic year. After the chart success of Can’t Take Away and Keep Changing the World, the Curb Records artists release Someone Worth Dying For is MIKESCHAIR’s most radio-friendly single to date. Set to drop on iTunes on May 3 – that’s just four days away! – Someone Worth Dying For is already picking up at Christian AC radio, being the second most-added new single...