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Summer is winding down, but your music doesn’t have to! In our August new release roundup, you’ll find pop and hip hop for your last minute road trips, restful worship to unwind from back to school shopping, debut artists, and longtime favorites! Have a look, and let us know in the comments which one you’re most excited to hear!

Phil Wickham talks to CCM Magazine about the story behind his hit song ' Living Hope.'

by Matt Conner When the Newsboys released an album titled Born Again back in 2010, it was more than the adoption of a common Christian phrase. It was an apt descriptor of a band that had decided on a fair bi...

Pat Barrett, a vocalist for the popular worship collective Housefires and songwriter of the certified Platinum “Good, Good Father,” is on the verge of releasing his first solo album and once again he finds himself feeling like a teenager. It’s the excitement and the fear. A “good scared.”

Kevin Max is well aware of the cost of his chosen artistic path. Since his days as one third of Christian music's biggest band ever in dc Talk, Max has watched his former band mates continue to climb Christian charts either as solo artists (TobyMac) or frontmen for other bands (Michael Tait). All the while, Max has charted his own course, planting solo seeds for a blossoming catalog that shows off an impressive array of influences and command of material.

Few artists can musically mine his or her own emotional and spiritual depths in such splendid ways like Plumb. On her eighth studio album, Beautifully Broken, Plumb is once again vulnerably detailing her own struggles and victories inside propulsive pop/rock melodies—a joy to the ear, a salve for the heart.

Taking the new music on the road, Trinity embarked on a radio promotional tour beginning in Dallas, before traveling to Los Angeles, Nashville, Seattle, Portland, Las Vegas and more radio markets across the U.S.

Guitarist Barry Blair tells the story of how the 90's CCM classic song 'Big House' by Audio Adrenaline came together - and then shows you how to play it just like the record.

So when writing “You Say,” I just remember feeling for the first time pretty conflicted. It was definitely the first moment in just being an artist that I was like Okay, where is all this going excactly?

Matthew West stops by the CCM Magazine studio and plays 'All In' or 'All Out' with us.  Find out if Matthew likes roller coasters, Nashville hot chicken, water sports and more!