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Say, "Hello!" to "Hello Hurricane" this November

Switchfoot it set to release their 7th full-length album, "Hello Hurricane" on November 10th. It's the first studio album since 2006's "Oh! Gravity". Frontman Jon Foreman views the album as 'a new beginning', allowing the band to depart from the past and build on Switchfoot's foundation puctuated by hard-hitting instrumentation and soaring choruses, elevating the music to a new level.

"Hello Hurricane acknowledges the storms that tear through our lives," said Foreman. "This album is an attempt to respond to those storms with an element of hope, trying to understand what it means to be hopeful in a world that keeps on spinning."

Side note: Switchfood will be opening for my all time favorite band, Dave Matthews Band, this Saturday and Sunday in Southern California.

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Top 5 Albums of the Week:

1. Skillet - "Awake"
2. NeedtoBreathe - "The Outsiders"
3. Mark Schultz - "Come Alive"
4. Selah - "You Deliver Me"
5. Leeland - "Love is on the Move"

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Vote for your Favorite Music Video

The nomination section (phase 1) for the 2009 Gospel Music Channel Video Awards is already underway, and continues through Thursday, October 8th. Visit GMC's website: GospelMusicChannel.com/gmcva and select your Top 6 videos per category from a list of eligible nominees. The six videos that receive the most votes in each category will then become the 2009 GMCVA nominees and will air on the Gospel Music Channel periodically.

Phase 2 voting, where viewers choose the winning videos in each of the seven genre categories, will begin on Monday, October 19th and will continue through Friday, November 13th. So hurry and pick your favorites!

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New Christmas song debuting in Video

It's not too early to talk Christmas Music right? Well...The upcoming holiday release of "VeggieTales: Saint Nicholas - A Story of Joyful Giving" will exclusively feature "Give This Christmas Away", a song written by Matthew West and sung by Amy Grant.

The song is actually already available online at BigIdea.com or SamaritansPurse.org/OCC

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That's the news.

~j