BMI will celebrate the songwriters and publishers behind the year’s best in gospel at the 2026 BMI Trailblazers of Gospel Music Awards, held at BMI’s Nashville office on Tuesday, July 21st. Multiple award-winning artist and songwriter Kierra Sheard will receive the BMI Impact Award in recognition of her impressive career and impact on the future of gospel music. Throughout the ceremony, BMI will also honor the songwriters, producers and music publishers of the past year’s 25 most-performed gospel songs in the United States. The BMI Gospel Song, Songwriter and Publisher of the Year will also be named during the ceremony. The private event will be hosted by BMI CEO Mike…

23x-platinum rock band Skillet has announced its explosive new single, “Scream,” will arrive July 10, alongside the launch of its upcoming Comatose 20 Years, Still Screaming Tour, a major fall headline run produced by Live Nation. The new track serves as the first taste of a new era of music from the band, with additional releases expected later this year. Fans can pre-save “Scream” now. The announcement follows a monumental start to the year for Skillet. The 6x-platinum anthem “Monster” recently surpassed 4 billion global streams, earned a place in Spotify’s Billions Club, and solidified its status as one of the most-streamed rock songs of all time. The achievement is…

Acclaimed worship leader, singer-songwriter, producer, and author Anthony Evans is celebrating a major career milestone as his powerful duet with rising artist Kaleb Carson, “You’re Not Finished,” has reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Gospel Airplay and Mediabase Gospel charts. The achievement marks both artists’ first-ever No. 1 radio single. Co-written by Evans, Carson, and Danielle Munizzi, “You’re Not Finished” has resonated deeply with listeners through its message of hope, perseverance, and faith in God’s promises. The song’s success is especially meaningful given Carson’s remarkable story. After being diagnosed with leukemia at just two years old and given only a 10 percent chance of survival, doctors warned his family that he…

Presence Music returns with one of its most vulnerable and emotionally compelling songs to date. Their new single, “Footsteps,” is a deeply personal reflection on the pain of growing up in a broken home and the hope that comes from choosing a different legacy through the healing power of Jesus. Written by Leah Monson and featured on the band’s upcoming Open Letters EP (Nov. 6), “Footsteps” draws listeners into the perspective of a child caught in the middle of family conflict before shifting toward a message of forgiveness, redemption, and generational healing. Rather than allowing the wounds of the past to define the future, the song reminds listeners that God’s…

Internationally renowned, Dove Award-winning South African rock band Tree63 releases its eighth full-length album, VOYAGE, today through Just Music, a label of Next Music Group. The album is available now at streaming and digital outlets everywhere from https//orcd.co/t63_voyage. After more than a decade-long hiatus, Tree63 brings back its signature, faith-informed rock & roll with founding vocalist, songwriter and guitarist John Ellis at the helm joined by fellow voyagers Angus Warden (drummer) and Deon Knipe (bassist). The trio formed in 2024 following Ellis’s relocating to Cape Town from Durban and a season of teaching English, earning a Master of Arts degree and releasing a solo album. “These 10 new songs on…

As fast as I drank it, I spit it out. The sourness and bitterness not only offended my taste buds, but all my senses. I couldn’t consume bad cream. Ick! Nasty! I didn’t only spit it out once, but did it again. The aftertaste and me? We didn’t jive. After this horrible encounter with coffee, I just sat there in the car humming down the highway, and thought about how bad sourness in coffee tastes. How it must be spit out. There is no other alternative. I sort of understood God when He said: “But because you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I am going to spit you out…

I’ve been to a lot of concerts over the years. It’s part of what we do. But every once in a while, a night comes along that feels different. Forrest Frank’s sold-out stop on The Jesus Generation Tour at Nashville’s GEODIS Park, where more than 25,000 fans packed the stadium, was one of those nights. This was certainly one of those nights! Part of that was getting to experience it with our son, Ryker. Part of it was the sheer anticipation surrounding the event. In the months since the show sold out, it felt like half of Nashville was trying to find tickets. Once the show started, it wasn’t hard…

Wait… Comatose Is 20 Years Old? I refuse to accept this information. Somewhere in my brain, SKILLET’s Comatose is still one of their “new” records. Then SKILLET goes and announces the Comatose: 20 Years, Still Screaming Tour, and suddenly I’m doing math this 40 year old never asked to do. What do you mean 2006 was twenty years ago? I’m only 25. To celebrate the anniversary, SKILLET has announced a major fall headline run produced by Live Nation, along with the arrival of brand-new music. The band’s new single, “Scream,” arrives July 10 and serves as the first taste of a new chapter that John Cooper says reaches back to…