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Thousand Foot Krutch returns with their latest album The Flame In All Of Us (Tooth and Nail Records 2007), their forth major label release since the bands inception in 1997. Like past albums, Thousand Foot Krutch brings a passion and excitement to each and every song. The CD contains twelve tracks (track listing below). The DVD that comes with the special edition contains a of couple videos, the making of The Flame In All Of Us, as well as, a look into TFK touring. It’s pretty interesting stuff but rather short lived.

Thousand Foot Krutch is Trevor Mcnevan (vocals), Joel Bruyere (bass) and Steve Augustine (drums)

Its going to Happen Switchfoot and Relient K will be touring together for the first time since 2001. The 30-city, co-headlining tour launches in Charleston, WV on October 16th. In the past four years, the two bands have collectively scored five albums in the Top 20 of the Billboard 200 and five #1 albums on Billboard’s Christian music chart and have spent the better part of each year on the road, much to the delight of their massive fanbases. While sorting out details for the upcoming tour, Switchfoot and Relient K discovered they shared a mutual respect for Habitat for Humanity. So they’ve made arrangements for one dollar from each ticket sold to be donated to the non-profit organization, which seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.
For the past three years the Bro-am has been an amazing chance to give back to our local community," says Switchfoot lead vocalist Jon Foreman of the annual surfing/music event the band founded to benefit San Diego’s Care House. "We wanted our next tour to be built the same way: giving directly to local communities around the country. Habitat for Humanity was an obvious fit; we’re honored to be partnering with such a great organization."

"We’ve been trying to get back on the road with Switchfoot ever since the first time we toured together," says Relient K lead singer Matt Thiessen. "The two of our bands combine for a really diverse show that seems to flow together in a very natural way. We’re also big fans, so we get to ask for their autographs and take pictures with them every night."

Recognized as one of the hardest touring bands in rock, San Diego based Switchfoot has sold more than one million concert tickets worldwide since the 2003 release of its double-Platinum breakthrough album The Beautiful Letdown. Following the massive success of this album was an ever-growing fanbase and continuous international touring in support of the their next two critically-acclaimed albums, Nothing Is Sound and Oh Gravity.

Recorded at Big Fish Recording in Encinitas, California Oh! Gravity showcases a harder rock direction for Switchfoot The album has received stellar reviews with Billboard magazine calling it "the best of the San Diego group’s nearly 10-year recording career." Spin exclaims this album is "their liveliest record, full of dive-bombing guitar fuzz, juicy arena-alt choruses." "This is an outstanding record in every sense" raved Associated Press. Alternative Press found that "Oh! Gravity [is a] sparkling, focused album bursting at the seams with giant hooks and even bigger ideas. In fact, Oh! Gravity is Switchfoot’s most diverse disc to date." Switchfoot’s live performance is an unparalleled combination of great rock music and raw emotion that is not to be missed.

In 2005, with the group’s love of music and surfing, they announced the First Annual Switchfoot Bro-Am, a surfing and music benefit-event raising money and awareness for Care House, a non-profit organization dedicated to serving homeless teens, teens in crisis and young mother in crisis throughout San Diego County. This year’s Bro-Am festival drew a record 6000 supporters who spent the day watching some of their favorite surfers and musicians compete in various competitions. The evening was rounded out with a concert by Switchfoot where they were joined by Jason Mraz and members of Nickel Creek as well as a number of other local artists. The band’s ongoing charitable work in Africa, India and on homeland continue to keep people in awe of their sincerity, passion and commitment to dealing with globally important issues.

Our Heart’s Hero, who released their self-titled debut album on September 18th, will join Stellar Kart, Nevertheless, and Eleventyseven for this holiday season’s 25-city Punk The Halls Tour. The band is also planning a special street week concert event in their hometown of Huntington, WV on September 22^nd.

The Punk The Halls Tour is set to kick off November 24^th in Bartlesville, OK and go onto subsequent dates in Texas, Kansas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, California, Oregon, Washington and Idaho, as well as Montana, Wyoming, Minnesota, Illinois, and Ohio. A full touring itinerary will be announced in the upcoming weeks. Our Heart’s Hero, who average 150 shows a year, has toured most recently as part of this summer’s Rock, Paper, Scissors Tour and the Revolution Calling Tour and have shared the stage with the likes of The Afters, GRITS, and Red.

With a strong grassroots following, Our Heart’s Hero will also perform a street week concert in their hometown of Huntington, WV on September 22^nd. The event will take place at the Huntington Mall at 3:00pm with a meet-and-greet/autograph signing immediately following the show. The event is sponsored by the Family Christian Store located at the mall.

“We are extremely excited to return to our home area to celebrate the release of our debut album,” says OHH frontman Nick Joyce. “We can’t think of a better place than Huntington to share this exciting time in our lives with all of our family and friends and fans who have supported and pushed us since the beginning. The opportunity to come back and perform in the same mall that we all hung out at as kids is so cool! Our Heart’s Hero definitely bleeds green!”

Prior to signing to Gotee Records in 2006, Our Heart’s Hero saw an amazing response to their music with over 20,000 units of their independent album sold. The band has also amassed over 20,000 friends on their myspace.com site to date. The band also has endorsement deals with both LIVE WIRES In-Ear monitors and C28 Clothing. Our Heart’s Hero is Nick Joyce (front man/lead guitar), Jason Nattier (guitar), Jeremy McKnight (bass guitars), and Tyler Markham(drums).

For more information on Our Heart’s Hero, check out www.gotee.com or their official artist website at www.ourheartshero.com as well as www.myspace.com/ourheartshero