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The Classic Crime released their debut album Albatross in 2006 on Tooth & Nail Records . The album charted on Billboard’ s Heatseekers Albums charts, and the band quickly became connected with both the Christian and the pop-punk scene, touring with fellow Tooth & Nail acts, joining the Warped Tour , and forming friendships with the likes of Relient K and Emery . The band filmed a music video for the first track on the album, “ The Fight ,” which appeared on TVU . In 2006, Tooth & Nail was in the middle of its golden age. Albums were selling and bands were bridging the divide between Cornerstone and Warped Tour. The Classic Crime was supposed to be the label’s next big band, but Albatross didn’t meet the label or the band’s sales expectations.  OUT ON THIS LONELY LANDSCAPE I AM FINALLY FREE. The Classic Crime’s debut album, Albatross, was produced by Michael "Elvis" Baskette . The band would work with the Baskette on most of their albums until 2017’s How to Be

In February of 2014, Nell released their album Newton’s Apple , which was a culmination of a theme the band had explored on two EPs starting in 2012. The band broke their conscription-imposed hiatus in 2012 with the album Slip Away , released in April. In December, the band was back with a four-song EP Holding onto Gravity , the first in their gravity series. Next, the band released the EP Escaping Gravity in 2013. Newton’s Apple was the band’s full-length follow up to 2012’s Slip Away. Released as a two-disc album, the first disc contained new songs, and the second disc contained the two EPs Holding onto Gravity and Escaping Gravity, making a total of 21 songs loosely based on gravity. The title track , was an electronic ballad in English, comparing falling for the subject of the song "like Newton's apple hit the ground." IT WAS  LIKE A ROLLERCOASTER OF NEVER ENDING QUESTIONS.  formed in 1999 after the four members failed the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT or sun

We’re back to 2003 today, a year we’ve been visiting a lot recently. I’d argue that it was 2003 that made Tooth & Nail Records the biggest label producing mainstream Christian Rock, though the old school Tooth & Nail fans would be quick to point to the ‘90s with MxPx , The O.C. Supertones , and Plankeye . Still, Tooth & Nail seemed more fringe for the conservative listenership in Christian Rock compared to the rosters of ForeFront , Squint , Gotee, and Flicker Records, who signed bands with the intention of ministry. But in 2003, Tooth & Nail released a ton of albums with crossover appeal. On top of the crossover appeal of Tooth & Nail’s catalog, the label started to sign groups that had been established in Christian Rock. Thousand Foot Krutch was one of the acts. But before the band's genre-transitioning Phenomenon , TFK's drummer, Steve Augustine , and lead singer, Trevor McNevan , released an album on Tooth & Nail Records with their side project, FM

I magine being a new band in 2019, releasing your first EP which has earned enough hype to put you on a big tour with a veteran band, only to have that tour canceled because the industry came to a halt with the pandemic. That’s what happened to brothers Sam and Ben Taylor and their friend Nathan Beaton of Paradise Now . The Welsh band did not tour with Disciple in 2020 as planned, however, they released an extra EP called Lockdown Mixtape to lead up to their full-length debut, We Never Die , both released in 2021. The band's social media has been quiet since the release of the LP . IT’S GETTING OLD. In 2019, Tooth & Nail Records revealed that they had signed a new band. The label posted a photo of the band's silhouette and asked fans to guess who had been signed. I commented " dc talk ?" which got a few laughs from the community. Sometimes when a band is signed with Tooth & Nail Records, listeners know who the band is. Often it's a band connected to the

Kye Kye  released two albums in the early 2010s. My earliest memory with this indie-electronic band was their single "Broke" on  RadioU , which took a while to grow on their listenership, failing to beat the other singles of the week on their " Battle of the Buzz " program. However, when the single was finally released to regular rotation, it quickly topped their " TMW " (Ten Most Wanted) program. That summer, I saw the band perform at Cornerstone in the Come & Live tent before or after Showbread. Lead singer, Olga Yagolnikov Phelan , seemed a little shy when talking to the audience, but the band sounded great when performing. The band's strength lies in their atmospheric sound rather than their spiritually cryptic lyrics.  TAKE YOUR TIME; I ALREADY SEE IT.  One Saturday night in college some of my friends and I were invited to one of our professor’s homes. That night the professor taught us a game involving classic issues of National Geographic an

  Slowly, Thousand Foot Krutch is coming back to life with their The End Is Where We Begin recording project. The band is releasing a track-by-track rerecording of the album, and each track features another band. The band has not yet released a new version of today’s song, “ Be Somebody .” I can’t remember if “Be Somebody” was released as a single from the album, especially because it was released after I paid attention to Christian radio. However, The End Is Where We Begin " fits the band’s usual formula, with “Be Somebody” being the band’s most standout ballad on the album. This meant that while the hard rock hits would go to RadioU and the ballads would go to Air1 . The mid-tempo track is one of Thousand Foot Krutch’s best slow songs. It features Trevor McNevan’s soaring vocals and the acoustic guitars. WE'RE ALL SEEN THROUGH JUST LIKE GLASS. Today, I'm bringing my Chilly Mix to Apple Music. Again, it's very hard to define what creates this musical quality. But s