Dove Award-nominated rock band Remedy Drive is gearing up for a busy spring with a slot on the popular Rock and Worship Roadshow Tour, along with one of Christian music’s biggest names, MercyMe. “We are thrilled to be on the Roadshow with Remedy Drive this spring,” says MercyMe’s Bart Millard. “They bring so much energy and passion to the stage; it’s going to be a great show.”  Other special guests include David Crowder Band, Family For...
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  Myrrh Records’ five-piece worship-focused band Pocket Full of Rocks will be releasing their long awaited new project, More Than Noise on March 2, 2010. Featuring the rising single “Alive”, More Than Noise was produced by Dove Award-winning producer Ed Cash (Chris Tomlin, Steven Curtis Chapman, Bebo Norman). More Than Noise also includes a recording of “Let It Rain”, a worship standard in the contemporary church, written by frontman...
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  Australia's national Christian music charts, The Rock Across Australia (TRAA), today announced Mat Kearney's Closer To Love as the 2009 Song of the Year, and honored 30 year old American singer Brandon Heath as 2009 Artist of the Year. This is first time Mat Kearney (pronounced Karni) and Brandon Heat...
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Here are a few upcoming releases in Christian albums for the first quarter of the year that are relevant to the music played on J103:

January 12, 2010
- All Star United - The Good Album - E1 Entertainment

January 26, 2010
- Various - WOW Gospel 2010 - Verity Records - Provident
- Above The Golden State - The Golden Rule - Sparrow Records - EMICMG
- Deas Vail - Birds & Cages - Gotee Records - Word

February 9, 2010
- tobyMac - Tonight - Forefront Records - EMICMG
- Fireflight - For Those Who Wait - Flicker Records - Provident

March 2, 2010
- Point Of Grace - No Changin' Us - Word Records - Word
- Various - WoW Worship Purple - Word Records - Word
- Pocket Full of Rocks - More Than Noise - Myrrh Records - Word
- Meredith Andrews - As Long As It Takes - Myrrh Records - Word
- Francesca Battistelli - My Paper Heart (Deluxe Edition) - Word Records - Word

March 9, 2010
- Sanctus Real - Pieces Of A Real Heart - Sparrow Records - EMICMG
- Chasen - That Was Then This Is Now - INO Records - Provident

March 23, 2010
- Robbie Seay Band - Miracle - Sparrow Records - EMICMG
- DecembeRadio - Live CD/DVD - CHP - EMICMG 

March 30, 2010
- Amy Grant - Somewhere Down The Road - Sparrow Records - EMICMG
- Sarah Reeves - TBD EP - Sparrow Records - EMICMG
- Remedy Drive - Daylight Is Coming (Re-release) - Word Records - Word

    Here is an interview Nappy did with Mark Schultz. Nappy:  Are you originally from the North Carolina area? Kansas is where I grew up.  Then moved to Nashville right after college, Kansas State University.  Packed everything up in my Mazda RX-7 and moved to Nashville.  Then I got married three and half years ago. My wife is a doctor OB/GYN, so she went to undergrad at UNC/medical school and doing her medical residency at UNC so we are here at Chapel Hill. Nappy:  That definitely m...
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