Passion and artistry is at the heart of this debut album featuring Chris Kuti and Conrad Johnson. From its opening track “You’re the One”, Chris and Conrad draw you into a world of rock and worship with a depth of lyrical intensity that will have you alternating between singing along and soul-searching introspection. This album engages you all the way with songs like “Buried Alive”: we’ve all broken ground/take one look around/we’re in over our heads/but we keep digging down. In the honesty of “Let It Out” we hear: how long can you keep building/those walls around your heart/how long can you keep running/from who you really are. Tight production, a bright guitar-driven sound, and perfectly blended vocals combine to make this an album well worth a listen. Oh, yeah –as an added bonus you’ll get the Chris and Conrad documentary DVD “We Want A Revolution” giving you a behind-the-scenes look at producing the album. Great music and a documentary – what else can you ask for?

The all-brother band from Nebraska is emerging from the Indie scene with the boost of the haunting power of the album’s title cut. Remedy Drive successfully integrates a unique keyboard sound with driving guitars for a successful blend that works from start to finish. Lyrically this band stays focused on a theme of hopeful expectation, typified in the anthem Hope: hope is with me in my time of trouble/when it all comes crashing down she will stay/by my side digging through the rubble/she’s not giving up – not giving up – not giving up. Look for Remedy Drive at most of the major U.S. Christian music festivals in the summer of ’09.

Don’t dismiss Group1Crew as lightweight because their lyrics carry a positive message instead of trash talk. This three-person group delivers a serious dose of funky rhythms, teeth-rattling bass, melodic vocals and a whole lot more in a new release that is climbing charts and firing up concert halls coast-to-coast. Ordinary Dreamers restores your faith in an urban sound that doesn’t need to descend to the gutter, focusing instead on calling on a generation to live life with a passion and thirst for changing the world for the better with lyrics like those in Critical Emergency: this is a critical emergency/get up/we’ve got to get together/brothers and sisters are in desperate need/so get up/shine the light and get up.