RadioU Music News

Last year Lecrae had a special show right after an Atlanta Hawks game. This year, he’s just watching the game with someone special: YOU. (Maybe.) Catching a 2015 Atlanta Hawks game with Lecrae is the prize in a contest you can enter from his Facebook page. [...]

A lot of bands like to post when they are just starting to write new music. Fit For A King is posting the progress of building the building where they will record their next record. The home studio is nearly half way done, sooo… no word on when their next record will be done. [...]

Trip Lee was featured in an article for The Atlantic magazine. He spoke about using his voice to change the perception of hip hop music, as well as the effect he and other Reach Records artists are having on the industry. [...]

Fusion artist Bryson Price has posted new music. The song is a remix of Trip Lee’s “Lights On.” You’ll find it on his SoundCloud page. [...]

Fireflight is back with their first new video in three years! The video is for the song “We Are Alive,” which is on the forthcoming album Innova, due out May 5th. Summer touring plans are in the works for the band as well, with a few festivals now confirmed. [...]

With a super-successful Kickstarter behind them, it’s time for Come Wind to get to work. The band has been posting pics of them in studio working on pre-production for their as-yet-unnamed release. This will be their first full-length release, after having released 3 EPs. [...]

Silent Planet is preparing for their three-week tour next month. The tour starts April 17 in San Diego and hits dates up the coast and then going east, ending on May 4th in Indianapolis. Each show will be especially awesome as the band has announced that on each performance they will be playing their album, [...]

Plus Mat Kearney’s sold out show, Versus Angels needs your votes, and Family Force 5 cleans out their closet… The South By So What fest just happened and you missed a lot of RadioU bands on stage. The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Wolves at the Gate, Norma Jean, Beartooth, and Fit for a King all had great sets [...]

Plus Switchfoot on Noisetrade sampler, twenty one pilots at Lollapalooza, Children 18:3’s fourth and final, and War Of Ages’ new video. Hidden Hospitals released their new album Surface Tension yesterday, and you can also pick it up on vinyl. They have a bundle with the transparent vinyl, t-shirt and patch which you can pick up online here. [...]

Plus, Twenty One Pilots post behind the scenes pics, Artifex Pereo and The Orphan The Poet join forces, Jon Foreman posts solo playlist, and more. Red’s album Of Beauty And Rage has hit #1 on Billboard’s Hard Rock Album chart. Skillet’s album Rise also hit #1 on that chart last year, and it’s still sitting [...]