Switchfoot has posted their new song titled “Rebuild” that features Matt from Relient K and Dustin from Ruth. Pick up the song on the bands website.

AT&T and Live Nation are giving fans a chance to win free concert tickets for an entire year. The AT&T blue room will also give away weekly prizes including ringtone downloads, iPod Shuffles, CDs and iPhones.

You have a chance to win season passes – courtesy of AT&T blue room and Live Nation. The two entertainment powerhouses are giving five lucky winners a pair of 2008 season passes to a Live Nation venue. Fans will have the opportunity to see a ton of concerts featuring their favorite artists performing live - Click here for details.

Switchfoot will be heading out on the Appetite for Construction Tour with Relient K and Ruth this fall. Presale tickets for most of the show are available now. Check out the tour dates below.

Switchfoot have decided to part ways with Columbia Records. You can read a message from Jon Foreman below.

greetings everybody!

I’ve got some exciting news: after several years of trying to make things work over at Columbia we have officially severed our ties with sony to pursue making music independently. We are thankful for the incredible success that our partnership has produced over the years, yet within this ever changing business there can arise differences in vision and goals. These differences have now come to a point where we feel like parting ways would be best for us, and best for sony.

Tyler Hayes
Switchfoot: “Oh Gravity” will be one of my favorites of 2007 even though it technically came out in 2006 (by a few days)

Bryce Jacobson
Take a listen to Motion City Soundtrack’s back catalogue as they prepare to release their new single next week.

Also if you have some extra cash on hand this week pick up The International Drive’s new album, Finish What You Started, out this Tuesday.

Adam Weidman
Give Weatherbox and their new record American Art a spin.

The 2007 Cornerstone festival schedule has been posted. This years lineup includes everyone from Underoath, Copeland, The Chariot, Sherwood, Switchfoot, Anberlin and more. The festival takes place June 25-30 in Bushnell, Illinois.

Switchfoot at the Avalon Theatre
March 30th, 2007
Hollywood, CA

The Foreman brothers, Jon and Tim, and good friend Chad Butler started the band Switchfoot in 1996 in San Diego. Now six albums and countless world tours later, the band has been nominated for a grammy, and won several Dove awards. With the release of Oh! Gravity, the band has begun to regain the commercial success that was somewhat lost with the harsh reception of their last album, Nothing Is Sound.

Switchfoot’s new self-funded video for “Awakening” can be seen below. You can also read about the making of the video below.

We had a lot of fun making this video. We actually made this video on our own dime, with our talented good friend Brandon Dickerson, who made two of our earlier videos. We also had the incredible opportunity of working with three extremely talented and funny actors: Tony Hale (Stranger than Fiction, Arrested Development), Adam Campbell (Epic Movie), and Jayma Mays (Heroes). The most challenging and time-consuming portion of the video was the creating of the “animated” television. To create this effect, we printed out each individual frame (24 frames per second — that’s a lot of frames!), and then hand-ripped each person from each frame, placing each frame sequentially after the other to re-create the action (think claymation with photos!). This technique has actually never been done before, and took a total of 8 days, with 10 to 20 people working around the clock (some of you even stopped by to help out!).

I have posted some new pictures of Switchfoot and Copeland in the photos section. Head there to check them out.

Its time to start featuring bands again. Check out this weeks featured bands Switchfoot and Self Against City.