Deceiver Deluxe Edition also features the ten tracks from Deceiver, plus bonus material that includes two new songs, previously unreleased remixes and two cover songs. The release also features the music video for “2012″.

Tracklisting for the bonus material is below:

Lights And Stones (NEW TRACK!) LISTEN at AltPress.com
Apologician (NEW TRACK!)
The Wretched (K-C Blitz Remix) LISTEN at AOL NOISECREEP
2012 (KC Blitz Remix) LISTEN on REVOLVER
The Hounds Of Anubis (Wes Borland Remix)
Heartless (Kanye West cover, originally featured on Punk Goes Pop Volume 3)
Over The Mountain (Ozzy Osbourne cover, originally featured on Punk Goes X for Winter X Games 2011)
The Wretched Music Video (previously unreleased)
2012 Music Video

Check out the video here!

The band will be playing all summer on Vans Warped Tour. The band has also been confirmed to be part of Soundwave Revolution 2011 in Australia this fall. Stay tuned for more details!

THE WORD ALIVE – Tyler “Telle” Smith (vocals), Zach Hansen (guitar), Tony Pizzuti (guitar), Dusty Riach (keys/synth), Justin Salinas (drums), Daniel Shapiro (bass) – exploded on to the metal scene with debut album Deceiver, debuting at #96 in the Billboard Top 100 in summer 2010. The band has completed successful U.S. runs with A Day To Remember and Underoath, and continued their 2011 live onslaught with a slot on Motel 6′s Rock Yourself To Sleep Tour in January. The band has gained press support from Alternative Press, Rock Sound, Revolver Magazine and was featured in Metal Hammer’s 75 Bands That Will Shape The Future Of Metal.

Vans Warped Tour 2011

6.24 – Dallas, TX @ Superpages.com Center

6.25 – Houston, TX @ The Showgrounds at Sam Houston Race Park

6.26 – San Antonio, TX @ AT&T Center

6.29 – Las Cruces, NM @ NMSU Practice Field

6.30 – Las Vegas, NV @ TBA

7.01 – Pomona, CA @ Pomona Fairplex

7.02 – Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre

7.03 – Ventura, CA @ Ventura County Fairground at Seaside Park

7.06 – Bonner Springs, KS @ Sandstone Amphitheatre

7.07 – Nobelsville, IN @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheater

7.08 – Detroit, MI @ TBA

7.09 – Tinley Park, IL @ First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre

7.10 – Shakopee, MN @ Canterbury Park

7.12 – Darien Center, NY @ Darien Lakes Fields

7.13 – Mansfield, M @ Comcast Center

7.14 – Scranton, PA @ Toyota Pavillion at Montage Mountain

7.15 – Mississauga, ON @ The Flats at Arrow Hall

7.16 – Montreal, QC @ Parc Jean-Drapeau

7.17 – Hartford, CT @ Comcast Theatre

7.19 – Milwaukee, WI @ Marcus Amphitheatre

7.20 – Cleveland, OH @ TBA

7.21 – Camden, NJ @ Susquehanna Bank Center

7.22 – Burgettstown, PA @ First Niagara Pavillion

7.23 – Uniondale, NY @ Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum

7.24 – Oceanport, NJ @ Monmouth Park Raceway

7.26 – Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavillion

7.27 – Virginia Beach, VA @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre

7.28 – Charlotte, NC @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre

7.29 – Orlando, FL @ Firestone Amphitheatre

7.30 – West Palm Beach, FL @ Cruzan Amphitheatre

7.31 – St. Petersberg, FL @ Vinoy Park

8.01 – Atlanta, GA @ Aaron’s Amphitheater at Lakewood

8.02 – Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Music Center

8.03 – St. Louis, MO @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
8.05 – Denver, CO @ Invesco Field at Mile High

8.06 – Salt lake City, UT @ Utah State Fairpark

8.07 – Phoenix, AZ @ Cricket Pavillion

8.09 – San Diego, CA @ Cricket Amphitheatre

8.10 – Los Angeles, CA @ TBA

8.11 – Marysville, CA @ Sleep Train Amphitheater

8.12 – Nampa, ID @ Idaho Center Amphitheatre

8.13 – George, WA @ The Gorge Amphitheatre

8.14 – Hillsboro, OR @ Washington County Fairgrounds

Written by: Jenny Reader

Published on Rawkzilla by: David Hitchcock

Cover Follows Sold Out North American Tour Dates,

Band’s Fastest Selling Album Ever, AFTERMATH

Modern worship band Hillsong UNITED is featured as the current “Hotstar” cover feature of touring industry trade magazine Pollstar.  Of the more than 11,000 artists on Pollstar’s radar, the publication chose UNITED to be the cover of its April 11 issue following the success of the band’s North American “Aftermath” tour.  Logging 10 sold out events at major venues coast-to-coast and becoming the first Christian artist to ever sell out Los Angeles’s Staples Center, Hillsong UNITED’s tour launched following the release of its 11th full-length album and second ever studio recording, AFTERMATH, which topped retail sales charts internationally and remains the band’s fastest selling album ever.

In addition to the Staples Center, major market venues that sold out along the tour include Seattle’s ShoWare Center, San Francisco’s Warfied Theatre, Sacramento’s Memorial Auditorium, Dallas’s Music Hall, Houston’s Berry Center, Atlanta’s Gwinnett Center, New York City’s Hammerstein Ballroom and two back-to-back sold out events the same night at Boston’s Orpheum Theatre.  Partially driving the success in each market were Hillsong UNITED’s more than 1.75 million friends at www.facebook.com/hillsongunited.  Plans for a significant summer/fall 2011 North American tour to begin in August will be announced soon.

“Christian music collective Hillsong UNITED from Sydney, Australia, has visited the U.S. several times over the past three years, drawing crowds from 3,000 to 6,000 wherever they went. But it wasn’t until they became the first Christian artist to sell out the Staples Center that the band caught some people’s attention,” notes Pollstar.

For the full Pollstar feature, click this link: http://www.pollstar.com/blogs/hotstar/archive_/2011/04/01/hotstar199084.aspx.

Hillsong UNITED claimed it’s highest sales charting success to date with AFTERMATH.  Landing at No. 17 on the Billboard Top 200, becoming Hillsong Music’s 10^th Top 10 album in Australia and hitting the top 10 on iTunes in numerous countries around the world, Hillsong UNITED’s AFTERMATH debut sales were 55% ahead of its last, critically acclaimed album, A Cross the Earth: Tear Down The Walls. Seven weeks later, AFTERMATH remains the band’s fastest selling album ever as its first single from AFTERMATH, “Search My Heart,” a pulsing, urgent cry to be used by God for His – not simply our own – purposes, has become the band’s most successful radio single ever.  Hitting the Top 20 on Billboard’s national Christian radio audience chart, the single continues to gather radio adds and has been heard by millions of people nationwide.

AFTERMATH is also the first new album from Hillsong UNITED in over two years, and offers an unabashedly creative collection of new songs that celebrates the One who saves, redeems and is the true representation of Hope in a world where hopelessness abounds.

For more information, please visit: www.hillsongunited.com and www.facebook.com/hillsongunited.

Written by: Rick Hoganson

Published on Rawkzilla by:  David Hitchcock

GRAMMY

The celebrity field  for the 2011 AT&T Pebble Beach National ProAm was joined by GRAMMY®-Award winning and multi-platinum selling artist TobyMac this week.

Leading PGA TOUR pros will be teamed with celebrity  amateurs including TobyMac, as well as ESPN sportscaster Chris Berman,  actor Kevin Costner, NCIS: Los  Angeles star Chris O’Donnell and Josh Duhamel.   Other celebrities include former San Francisco 49er Harris Barton, soccer star Brandi Chastain, and actors Don Cheadle and Ray Romano.   The attached photo features TobyMac alongside Kenny G and Michael Bolton.

Played on Pebble Beach Golf Links, Spyglass Hill  Golf Course  and  Monterey Peninsula Country Club’s Shore Course  February 7th– 13th, this is TobyMac’s first visit to the ProAm, and should he continue through the rounds on Sunday, may miss the GRAMMY® Awards and where he nominated for his latest album TONIGHT, which received a nod for “Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album,” and marks TobyMac’s seventh consecutive GRAMMY® nomination as a solo artist.

Net proceeds from the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am go to support a wide variety  of charitable organizations.  Since the tournament moved to the Monterey Peninsula in 1947,  Monterey Peninsula Foundation has made  charitable donations totaling  over $85,000,000.

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About TobyMac:

With over 10 million in career sales, TobyMac’s first three solo projects received RIAA Gold status and GRAMMY® nominations, his live CD/DVD took home a GRAMMY® award in 2009, and this year the much-celebrated and acclaimed artist celebrated his second American Music Award nomination, in addition to his seventh consecutive GRAMMY® nomination for his latest album TONIGHT that received a nod for “Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album.”  The GRAMMY ® nominated single from the hit record “City On Our Knees” track topped the sales and radio charts faster than any of his previous singles, spending 8 weeks at #1 on the Christian Audience Chart.  TONIGHT also garnered him the highest sales debut of his solo career with over 78,000 units and a No. 6 Billboard Top 200 debut. The album was also named as iTunes® Best Christian Album of 2010.

Along with sold out tour dates, back-to-back radio hits and being named the GMA Dove Award’s 2008 Artist of the Year and recently nominated for Favorite Contemporary Inspirational Artist at the 2010 American Music Awards, the title-track of TobyMac’s latest album was also chosen as the theme song for MLB’s 30 Clubs in 30 Days Spring Training Series and featured on the Golf Channel.  In addition, his music has been heard in major motion pictures such as “Hancock,” “TRANSPORTER 2,” while also being featured on Fox sports, The NFL network, being selected as the theme song for Fox College Football, WWE’s Fatal 4-Way Pay-Per-View and “Showstopper” was featured in ESPN’s ESPY Award Show and most recently chosen to launch the new season of CBS hit television show CSI: NY. For more information on TobyMac, go to: http://www.tobymac.com

Go Radio continues their stellar year by announcing they will be touring with Secondhand Serenade and The White Tie Affair this July. The dates come in support of the band’s new EP Do Overs And Second Chances, which debuted at #8 on the Billboard heatseekers Chart this spring. Full dates are as below!

GO RADIO - Jason Lancaster (vocals/guitar), Matt Burns (bass/vocals), Steven Kopacz (drums), Alex Reed (guitar/vocals) – Armed with an enviable combination of musical prowess and an impressive collection of honest, melodic songs, Tallahassee’s Go Radio is one of the most exciting new bands to emerge from Florida’s hotbed of rock n’ roll talent.Signing to Fearless Records at the start of the year, the quartet’s second EP Do Overs And Second Chances was recorded with Zack Odom and Kenneth Mount (All Time Low, Mayday Parade, Cartel) and debuted at #8 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart and #179 on the Billboard 200 in April 2010. The band completed a sold our tour with A Day To Remember, August Burns Red, Silverstein and Enter Shikari.

Written by: Jenny Reader of Fearless Records

Published by: David Hitchcock

“We at Centricity Music feel like it is such a privilege to partner with Andrew Peterson,” says Steve Ford, Vice President of Sales/Marketing, Centricity Music.  “When he delivered ‘Counting Stars,’ it reminded the entire staff of why we love Andrew.  The twelve finely crafted songs are produced in a way that draws the listener into a place of revelation, a place where you see your life through Andrew’s eyes. This is a gift few songwriters have and that’s why we are excited about ‘Counting Stars.’”

The bulk of material for Counting Stars was recorded within eight days in Washington State during January 2010, as Peterson camped in a recording studio with Shive, Gullahorn, Gabe Scott and engineer, Todd Robbins.  They loaded up their guitars, hammered dulcimer, accordion, dobro and banjo, flew from Nashville to the Northwest and started collaborating.  The twelve new songs were written over a two-year period by Peterson, who is one of the most respected songwriters in several genres of music.  Counting Stars gives intimate glimpses of everyday life that is so important to everyone’s heart….family, friendship, community and home.

The first single from the new album is “The Reckoning,” which has just gone for radio adds and is already receiving airplay from such stations as, KCRN/San Angelo, TX and KNLB / Phoenix, AZ.  Peterson wrote the song while sitting on the porch of his home outside of Nashville when a severe thunderstorm was rolling into the area.

“I love the humility that a big, dangerous storm system gives us,” Peterson explains. “Everyone remembers they’re quite small and powerless in the scheme of things. In the twenty-first century, with jumbo jets and air conditioning and high-speed internet, we still sometimes have to run for our lives and hide in the closet under a blanket.”

“Dancing In The Minefields” is already becoming a favorite tune from the CD, as it is a thought provoking song that despite the title is a positive love song. And we’re dancing in the minefields/We’re sailing in the storms/This is harder than we dreamed/But I believe that’s what the promise is for. “World Traveler” addresses the wander-lust that lives in all of us and lets us know that the grand adventure can be in our own backyard. “In The Night” celebrates how hope lives on even through our daily pain and struggles, while “Fool With A Fancy Guitar,” reminds us that we are all priests who live in the Kingdom of God.

“The title Counting Stars ties the themes of relationship and hope together in the hope of God’s promise to Abraham,” says Peterson.  “We’re a part of the cloud of witnesses, passing the promises of God to our children and their children, building this Kingdom that has no end.”

About Andrew Peterson

Peterson began his career in 1996 and signed with his first label, Watershed/Essential records in 1999. His first CD, Carried Along made CCM magazine’s list of Top Ten albums of 2000.  In 2004, Peterson received his first Dove nomination for “Family Man” for Country Recorded Song of the Year.  Peterson’s first project for Centricity Music in 2008, Resurrection Letters, Volume II, became the highest Billboard charting album of his career.  Since 2004, Peterson has toured with several Nashville musicians and artists on his annual Christmas tour, Behold the Lamb of God: The True Tall Tale of the Coming of Christ. Peterson has also authored three children’s books, The Ballad of Matthew’s Begats, On the Edge of the Sea of Darkness and North! Or Be Eaten. For updates about Andrew Peterson please visit www.andrew-peterson.com or www.rabbitroom.com.

About Centricity Music

Centricity Music is an independent recording and publishing company based in Bellevue, Washington and Nashville, Tennessee.  The company’s mission is to enable our artists to create life-changing experiences for the world. Centricity Music’s artist roster includes Jaime Jamgochian, Downhere,  Jason Gray, Daniel Kirkley, Lanae’ Hale, Andrew Peterson, High Valley, Matt Papa, Sixteen Cities and Me In Motion.

Written by: Janet Bozeman

Published by: David Hitchcock

Behind the Songs With Stellar Kart..

Adam Agee shares the inspiration behind “Spirit In the Sky,” from Stellar Kart’s newest project,Everything Is Different Now:

“We put this song on the record as a tribute to 70’s rock and roll. The lyrics are spiritual in nature, but it was not necessarily written to be a religious song. We really enjoy putting our spin on classic songs, but would never attempt to compete with the original tracks. I feel as though the vibe of this song fits what we were trying to accomplish with the record and gives it a bit more depth.” –Adam Agee

Published on Rawkzilla by: David Hitchcock

Tim Mahoney

But his music also offers a timeless quality, as evidenced by this fan, Dena Pasicznyk Rasmussen:  “Tim’s music was the soundtrack to my youth, and continues to be played in my home 20 years later, making it the soundtrack to my childrens’ youth as well.”

Further evidence of Mahoney’s magic as a live performer, local station Cities 97 has had his song, “Talk To Me,” in rotation for a few years, and it’s a live version of the song that they’ve been spinning.  Mahoney will be in studio that week for an interview and to promote the show with some ticket giveaways.  This is on the heels of another songwriting honor, literally.  It was announced late last month that Mahoney earned an Honorable Mention for the 2009 International Songwriting Competition (ISC) for his song, “What are We Waiting For.”  Last year, Mahoney finished third in the Top 40 category of the ISC for “Theme Song,” which he co-wrote with Kevin Kadish.

Tim Mahoney is living proof that great music always speaks volumes, ultimately determining what the listening public wants to hear.  65,000 of those listeners heard Mahoney sing the National Anthem at the Metrodome more than once, but for an artist having this much success without the support of a label, Tim Mahoney’s career is still just getting started. Mahoney, who wins songwriting competitions regularly, won the grand prize in the Great American Song Contest in 2008, and he was also selected in 2008 as one of the Twin Cities’ 40 Under 40 by The Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal.  Mahoney has had songs from hisStay/Leave album licensed for eight TV shows last fall including MTV”s “The Hills” and “Life of Ryan,” and E!’s“Keeping Up with the Kardashians” and “Living Lohan.”  In 2007, Mahoney won the Ray-Ban Never Hide Music Contest, which landed him in a two-page spread in Rolling StoneMagazine’s 40^th Anniversary issue. Mahoney has sold over 125,000 units as an independent artist and continues to tour both with his band and as a solo performer. Stay/Leave was also selected by Target as part of its Emerging Artists Program, landing it on the end caps in music sections of 500 Target stores in the Midwest.

Written by: Mike Farley

Published by: David Hitchcock

Every Avenue and Artist Vs Poet has just been added to the bill, alongside previously announced bands The Maine, The Word Alive,Let’s Get It and Eye Alaska. The Bamboozle Festival will take place in East Rutherford, NJ on May 1st and 2nd. Other bands scheduled to play include Paramore, Something Corporate, Ke$ha, Angles And Airwaves, Weezer, MGMT and Motion City Soundtrack.

Published on Rawkzilla by: David Hitchcock