Music Industry veteran, Barry Blair, announces the launch of Tonecrash Records, a ministry focused label with the goal of developing and building young independent artists. With 16 years of history in the Christian music industry, Blair has won Dove Awards, received Grammy nominations and been a part of several number 1 radio singles as an artist, producer, and songwriter. As a founding member of the band Audio Adrenaline, Blair performed on and co-wrote many of the band’s early radio singles, including the #1 song of the 1990’s, “Big House”, and the Grammy nominated album “Bloom”.  Blair also played an integral part in the early success of the band Bleach by introducing the band to Forefront Records in 1996, and producing the band’s number 1 radio single “Super Good Feeling” and “Modern Rock Song of the Year” Dove winner “Epidermis Girl.” […read more] 

tobyMac has continued to thrill fan’s with hit after hit. Set to release Portable Sounds on Feb. 20th, 2007, he takes a few minutes out of his schedule to talk to CMSpin’s Nappy. As usual, Nappy ask’s a series of hard hitting and completely off the wall questions.  Toby was up to the task and didn’t miss a beat. Nappy even asked him the ‘DC Talk’ question and Toby was a good sport about it.  Enjoy! […read more]

Big Shiny Planet is a six-week Bible study for student ministry led by Christian artists. Using music and video, each week a different artist presents a lesson based on one of their own songs. Instead of learner guides or student books, teens in the study receive an enhanced CD containing the music from the study as well as other resources to prepare for weekly lessons. “Music is a powerful way to reach a generation of teens searching for answers,” said Alan Vermilye, executive producer of Big Shiny Planet. “But with teens, you must earn the right to be heard.” Big Shiny Planet provides artists that opportunity with both their music and their ministry. […read more]