BEC chart-topper Tasha Layton returns with the deeply personal “Lay It Down,” a soul-saturated pop ballad echoing the promise of Jesus “For my yoke is easy and my burden is light” (Matthew 1130). Celebrating freedom from fear, worry and strife, “Lay It Down” was written by Layton, Jess Cates, and Kalley Heiligenthal, along with GRAMMY and Dove Award-winner Keith Everette Smith, who also produced the track. Inspired by Layton’s journey of deliverance from depression and despair, “Lay It Down” finds the “Look What You’ve Done” and “How Far” hitmaker embracing total surrender “You say Your yoke is easy/You say Your burden’s light/You take a soul that’s weary/Give comfort every time/And…

Singer, songwriter, and worship leader Patrick Mayberry has released his highly anticipated, first full-length Centricity Music album, Wild Faith. Available now at digital and streaming outlets globally, the album sets a large table for everyone with untamed melodies and astute lyrics, all artfully crafted and intentionally threaded together to take listeners on a life-changing journey. Holding the tension of both sorrow and joy, meeting listeners in the depths of their humanity, the 10-song Wild Faith also swings the doors wide open for those who are walking circles in the wilderness. With songs that can serve a Sunday worship service while also delving deeper into the human experience, the album encourages…

GRAMMY-nominated, RIAA Certified Gold-selling alternative metal band RED released its double-sided single “Cold World” “Minus It All” from RED ENTERTAINMENT The Fuel Music. The songs are from the band’s first full-length studio recording in three years, RATED R, launching on September 29 and featuring the SiriusXM Octane added lead single “Surrogates.” All three singles are available at digital and streaming outlets globally here, which is where the full album may also be pre-ordered/saved now. The new album is RATED R for RED, and the band’s evocative artistry takes center stage on its eighth studio album, the follow-up to 2020’s chart-topping DECLARATION. The new A-side track, “Cold World,” comes with a…

Leading school assemblies followed by evening, full-production concerts coast-to-coast, Indiana-based pop/rock band Attaboy released its first new single in four years, “Makin’ Moves,” from Radiate Music. Available now at digital and streaming outlets globally, the infectious pop track will also land on dance floors, fitness centers, and workout playlists along with venues across the country as the band hits multiple states on tour this fall. Written by Attaboy band members Ryan Payne (vocals/guitar/piano), Jeff Edgel (guitar/piano), Melanie Watson (bass/background vocals), and Christian Watson (drums), “Makin’ Moves” was co-produced by Doug Weier (Anberlin, We Are Leo), who also engineered and mixed the single, and Luke Johns (The Young Escape, Jordan Feliz).…

Today, multi-platinum-selling GRAMMY Award-Nominee, Cory Asbury has released the latest track from his highly-anticipated fifth studio album, Pioneer. The incredibly personal and introspective song, “My Inheritance,” speaks to Asbury’s relationship with his father and ruminates on whether he is predestined to follow in his footsteps, for better or worse. Listen to “My Inheritance” here. “Sometimes you have to work to write a song, and sometimes the song writes you,” shares Asbury, “Penned as a reminder that our true inheritance doesn’t come in the form of earthly things, “My Inheritance” shows us that it doesn’t always look the way we thought it would, but God has a way of taking the…

Friends, let me start by saying…I DO NOT have it all together. I got this message loud and clear when, two days ago, I pulled a steel crab pot out of the Chesapeake Bay waters. My catch of two weeks’ worth of crabs made my pot heavy. I knew if I used all my weight and if I leaned back hard, I could leverage the steel pot up, hopefully without launching myself over the dock. So, I did just that. Victory. Exasperated, I leaned back for a second and stared at the fruit of my labor on that weather-worn dock. What did I see? It suddenly occurred to me: Hard-shelled,…