ORG Music recently released a vinyl reissue of David Hillyard & The Rocksteady Seven’s debut album, Playtime, in celebration of its 20th anniversary. Available on vinyl for the very first time and originally released via Hellcat Records / Epitaph Records in 1999, Playtime is a mostly instrumental affair that highlights Hillyard’s deft compositional and saxophone skills with a blend of rootsy …
Month: June 2019
After many years living in Japan and working as a songwriter for the charts Joakim Björnberg (lodet) has now moved back to Stockholm. During his later years in Japan another type of songwriting took place, that of his own. With an outstanding sense of pop melodies and turns, lodet offers songs that fly over the …
“This classic has been ‘in my backpack’ for a decade or so,” says Johno. “I must have about twenty different sketches of it, each with different musicians I met on the road – one with Persian tar, another with Arabic saz, another with Balkan fiddle, and yet another with Moroccan gambri. I even have one …
Behold a testosterone trio of veteran Detroit songwriters and self-annointed Bus Stop Poets. They’re like the brawny lovechild of Peter Green-era Fleetwood Mac and The Raconteurs, with a super tightass blend of harmonies and neon pop melodic proclivities. They’ve driven their tunes into big time Chevy commercials. You can take the musician out of Detroit, …
We need to talk about mangoes. All we are eating in this Country is mangos. Here we are at famed reggae singer Mark Wonders house and he takes us to the Mango tree and says, “Take all you like.” Isachar changed the game and told me to just not even bother peeling eat the skin, …
Sunday night June 2, CJ Ramone headlined a night of three punk bands at Seattle’s Funhouse. CJ replaced Dee Dee, the Ramones original bass player and played with them until the band retired. He had a stellar band of three other musicians playing with him (Steve Soto-guitar-vocals, Dan Root-guitar-vocals Pete Sosa-drums). They hit the stage with a vengeance opening …
I wrote some more cool songs with Ras Isachar this morning. Writing with a Selecta is like having a library of vibrations at your disposal. Isachar claims he’s not a singer, but that’s a pretty incredible vibrato you have there, Sir. If you dig that African medallion, Mamadou Diakite is your MAN in West Seattle. If you …
This was crazy to put together… 8 Elton John songs in under 1 minute pic.twitter.com/SMB1mLvkyx — Ali Spagnola (@alispagnola) June 3, 2019
Channeling Nina Simone and Sade, ya gotta love Zsela… In early 2019, NYC-based singer-songwriter Zsela quietly and independently released her first song “Noise”, a somber and sparse jazz-influenced ballad produced by Daniel Aged (Inc. No World) that captures an intimate moment in the early hours of solitude and longing. Today Zsela shares the official video for the song, capturing that …
This is very strong, a rock solid tune with a powerful message. Listen well! ‘Rabbit Hole’ is the first single from SERA’s collection of songs for 2019 and from her new collaboration with producer Andi Bonsai. SERA played a mellow acoustic ‘Rabbit Hole’ on her guitar to Andi one wet and windy October morning and by the …
This song is a cautionary tale, written in the international language of romantic disappointment. Listen, learn, repeat. Gionathan would be happy to introduce his new single “Friendzone”… …he would be happy if the song wasn’t taken from a true story: his own! As if writing about friendzoning wasn’t masochistic enough, the artist chose to embellish …
My view this morning as I drink my smoothie 6 miles from Kingston. Italee Watson is taking me to the beach for the first time in all of my adventures here. We’re going to run a few miles, write some new songs, and hang with her kids. The youngest probably has the cutest damn accent …
These are both Golden Five Star songs. Arrangements and performances cry out for your sympathetic ears. Arpeggiated string runs chime chords that mean business. The rhythm section vibrates to life as if drum and bass have hacked the computers of a top-line, ultra-secret, Swiss medical instrument manufacturer and stolen the launch codes from God’s own …
“We really loved what Mink Slide was doing,” Says Dee Rhodes of The APX, “and since we’re part of the same funk movement, it’s only right that we kept it going.” Official Link: smarturl.it/yourtouchsong Connect with The APX: Spotify: tinyurl.com/knunhzs Soundcloud: @theapxmusic Website: theapxmusic.com/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/theapxmusic/ Instagram: instagram.com/theapxmusic/ Twitter: twitter.com/theapxmusic Youtube: www.youtube.com/RadioMotionPicture
Good news, a new song from Sleater-Kinney! Note well the playing of Janet Weiss, long unrecognized but certainly one of the top five drummers of her generation, at least as ascertained by critics with spine enough to count.
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LIVE SHOW AT BIRMINGHAM’S SATURN ON JULY 11TH TO BENEFIT PLANNED PARENTHOOD AND YELLOWHAMMER FUND WATCH: “I MADE AN ABORTION” HERE (99 jakes track “225” + zeitguised’s textures + edited by nadya pussy riot) ALABAMA SHOW VIDEO FLYER HERE Photo credit: Andrew Boyle – hi-res HERE Pussy Riot announce that they’ll bring their digital protest punk to Birmingham, Alabama’s Saturn on July 11th to protest …
Internet is limited on this Jamaica adventure Stay tuned. I have much to say. A lot has happened since I woke up 38 hours ago. This island is most inspiring… We rolled through the Papine neighborhood of Kingston blasting Jerry Lee Lewis’ Great Balls of Fire on the radio, and it sounded fantastic with the …
Lead vocalist with The Kills and The Dead Weather, Alison Mosshart has spent the last 26 years on the road performing and living a predominantly transitory life. The daughter of a used car salesman, Mosshart grew up with a vivid appreciation for classic cars; for being behind the wheel and in the passenger seat. In …
City Girls continue to ride the streak as Billboard’s No. 1 Emerging Artists for 24 weeks in a row powered by the Miami-based hip-hop duo single “Act Up”
Skrillex and Boys Noize have returned as Dog Blood for their new EP,Turn Off The Lights, out now on OWSLA / Boysnoize Records. The EP marks their first full project since 2013’s Middle Finger Pt. 2 and brings the same high-energy experimentation that earned Dog Blood its cult following since their 2012 debut and acclaimed Coachella 2013 set. The duo has teased new music over …
“Best Game in Town” is a duet by Oliver Ray and Patti Smith which will appear Oliver Ray’s album, Out Passed Nowhere.
International lead vocal & multi-instrumental sensation Jordan John is a more powerful, polished and accomplished musician than many players twice his age. Adept on drums, keyboards, guitar and bass, he is a uniquely diverse & refined sonic embodiment of sheer talent & pure artistry. Be it performing in front of 20,000 + as a lead …
Watch Rob Jevons’ Dirty Electro Dub Rerub of Bo Diddley’s “Gunslinger” Covered by Reggae Legend Big Youth HERE Original version to appear on upcoming groundbreaking Red, Gold, Green & Blue LP, from Zak Starkey and Sharna”SSHH” Liguz’s Trojan Jamaica label Produced by Youth and Featuring Sly & Robbie STREAM: SPOTIFY | APPLE MUSIC PURCHASE ON ALL PLATFORMS HERE Big Youth by Jill Furmanovsky Zak Starkey and Sharna “Sshh” Liguz, recently announced the birth of Trojan Jamaica, a new frontline label, in …
Orange is the new hot, and Kiana Ledé rocks an orangeberry beret… As buzz reaches a boiling point, R&B starlet KIANA LEDÈ shares a new single and music video entitled “Can I?” Billboard named her among its coveted “Emerging Artists” spotlight and praised “her buttery vocals.” Vibe touted her as “NEXT” and she’s been featured on Refinery29, Complex and more. Simultaneously, her hit single“EX” just …
On their first full-length release, Heart Hunger, Oakland-based Meernaa–Carly Bond (vocals, guitar), Rob Shelton (keys), Doug Stuart (bass), and Andrew Maguire (drums, percussion)–plumbs the depths of indigo waters. Celestial and soulful, Meernaa’s songs manage to remain grounded in the natural world. Native Cat Recordings will release their highly-anticipated album on 6/14/2019. These songs are reckonings; they are revelations of secrets; they are …
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