Bad blood between Stellar Kart & Word?

Changes galore for pop-rock group Stellar Kart.

CMDish.com has learned that they are no longer working under a recording deal with Word Records.  Instead, they just announced a new new label home in Music City-based (Brentwood, TN) INO Records.  A new cd is in the can, available for purchase at tour stops, and will be hitting store shelves March 2010.

One would think that “life is good” for the multi-Gospel Music Award winning group, but a statement posted on http://www.stellarkart.com/ makes one wonder what all went down between the group and their former record label, Word Records:

Just as a side note, many of you have heard of the Stellar Kart Greatest Hits record that came out several months ago. Word Records was completely within their rights to release this album. That said, we had zero input in the release, packaging – anything regarding this record. We feel that it is far to early in our band’s story to release this record. We wanted to address this here since so many of you have asked about it.

Bad blood between Steller Kart and Word Records?  We’ll let you be the judge!

In other Stellar Kart news, founding member and guitarist Cody Pellerin has resigned from the band to devote more time to family.  Replacing Pellerin is Jon Howard, from the group Dizmas.

Stellar Kart’s new album, “Everything Is Different Now” hits store shelves this spring, but their first radio single “We Shine,” will be available for purchase on iTunes on November 3rd.