Tenth Avenue North?s Mike Donehey says the band?s mission is to ?know Christ and make Him known.? A very vertical lyrical orientation and thoughtfully arranged soundscapes will open doors easily for this melodic message.

New Gotee artist Stephanie Smith has a story to tell, and she tells it well through the 12 rocking tracks of her debut Not Afraid. Her hard life lessons are spun into helpful gold that are sure to both entertain and help many young listeners.

At times dissonant and rollicking, and other times spacey and ambient, Out of Ruin?s What I Can?t See has been well received even before its release?getting close to 150,000 plays on MySpace within four months of posting.

Dizmas will serve well as both an introduction to new fans and a pleaser for old ones: it features six re-mastered tracks from the Credential projects and four new songs written especially for this debut on Forefront Records.

Salvador?s sixth studio project, Aware, contains much of the sizzle that first brought them into favor back in 2000. Salvador isn't doing much that?s new here. But as the only Spanish jam band in the market, they probably don?t need to reinvent the wheel.