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This weekend on social media, worship artist Sean Curran announced that he and his wife Natalia are expecting their first child. “Well… WE ARE HAVING A BABY,” Sean shared on his Facebook page. Natalia posted, “I’m already obsessed.” You can share your congratulations with the Curran family now on their social media pages! In addition to the excitement of the baby on the way, Sean Curran will be hitting the road with Crowder this fall for the Milk & Honey tour. For more information, go to crowdermusic.com.[…]

Unsigned Only is a competition designed to help independent artists get more recognition for their music. All styles and genres of music are accepted, including the genre of Christian music. The last and final chance to enter is approaching soon on June 9. Judges this year include Vertical Worship, I Am They, Sanctus Real, Rhett Walker, Josh Baldwin, and many more, plus industry representatives from NewReleaseToday, Jesus Freak Hideout, Rolling Stone, Pandora, Yahoo Music, Summerfest, Paradigm Talent Agency, and more. Artists can enter their songs for a chance to share in over $150,000 in cash prizes, including $20,000 in cash to the grand prize winner. Click here to enter.[…]

BET Sunday Best alum Latice Crawford’s new EP, The Cure, is available now. The transparent and motivational EP is concrete proof of Latice’s ability to deliver melodic and soulful messages to listeners and followers of Christ. The Cure is available now on all major digital retail and streaming outlets. “This new music I’m releasing is all about our common symptoms. Our temptations, struggles, stumbling blocks on our journey, those pills we use to maintain or fill our voids,” Crawford shares. “I hope that my music will simply help us identify our stuff, see that we all have the same issues and that we all use a variation of the same…

Chart-topping singer, songwriter, and guitarist Coby James released his first-ever AC radio single, “Brand New,” today from Centricity Music. Available now at digital retail and streaming outlets everywhere, the song goes for radio adds on July 14 and is already being heralded by radio programmers across the country. As an accomplished 19-year-old musician, the Nashville transplant and North Carolina native’s rare talent has already notched a No. 1 song on Billboard’s Christian Hot AC/CHR chart as a contributing writer on Courtnie Ramirez’s track, “Who We Are.” Writing “Brand New” with Paul Duncan and Christian Hale, with whom he also co-wrote his Top 5 hit “Born Ready,” James shares a brash…

Today GRAMMY® Award-winning and multi-RIAA Platinum-selling group Casting Crowns released their brand new song, “Scars in Heaven.” The stirring ballad is available everywhere today. The music video premiered this morning on the band’s YouTube channel, which has more than 1.2 million followers. Casting Crowns also debuted the song live for the KLOVE Fan Awards, which air on TBN tonight as well as today at CMB Momentum for radio programmers in Orlando, Florida. “Scars in Heaven” is the debut song from their forthcoming studio album, which will release in November. This will be Casting Crowns’ ninth studio album. Co-written by frontman Mark Hall and Matthew West, Hall began writing this song…

Grammy award winner Chris Tomlin is celebrating the beginning of summer with the announcement of new music and a new tour. On July 2, Chris will release the Chris Tomlin & Friends Summer EP, and on August 13 will kick off a 13-city amphitheater tour with Kari Jobe, Bethel Music, and special guest Cody Carnes. Tickets are on sale to the public on Friday, June 11 at 10 am local time at christomlin.com and fans can sign up for the exclusive pre-sale now by clicking here. “Over the last year, I’ve come to realize that I have taken for granted the ability to gather together as the church in worship,”…