Music Minute

Hey music fans! Hope y'all are doing well. Do you know about Twitter? It's a "microblogging" service - you get to enter and publish what you're doing, but only in 140 characters or less, and you can "follow" people you're interested in hearing about - you'll see their "tweets" (or posts) show up on your page. Just like with anything on the web, you should proceed cautiously and use common sense - and remember that EVERYTHING you say is public.

You can find a lot of Christian musicians on Twitter who post little updates about what they're doing. And of course ec magazine has a Twitter feed — which we also publish right there on the left hand side in the blog sidebar. You can follow us - @ecmagazine - and you'll get a daily devotion tweet, plus a glimpse into the production process of ec magazine.

As far as I can tell, absolutely nothing came out this week in Christian music, and of the two albums that were on my list to cover, only one is actually releasing. So here's a preview of what's coming up. It's a little bit of a changeup from my regular format, but here we go!



House of Heroes is a alt-rock band made up of four guys from Columbus, Ohio who signed to Gotee Records in 2005. (Since Gotee usually deals with pop-rock, hip-hop and rap artists, they started an imprint label in 2003 called Mono Vs. Stereo to release indie music — including HOH.) Their sound is full of driving guitars, kicky drums, pretty vocals, and clever lyrics. Best of all, if you put your email address in at Free HOH, you'll get to download three of their songs for free. (Yes, free!) The End Is Not The End hits stores March 3rd. You can already buy some of their new stuff at the iTunes store, though.

"Code Name Raven" leans heavily toward power pop and is so catchy, we can't stop listening. We hope the rest of their album is as much fun to listen to as what we've heard. You can pre-order the album now and you'll get two bonus tracks and a free dog tag (according to Gotee's Twitter feed).



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