“Spiteful”, is the latest track from Effie, and is a journey of friendship and love turned sour with mistrust and mistakes. Effie’s lush vocals sonically lure you in, living in that moment where the cycle of closeness has turned from picking one another up and striving to do better together to being spiteful to one …
Month: March 2020
Little Dragon returns with their new studio album New Me, Same Us, available physically and digitally on March 27th on Ninja Tune. Entirely self-produced and recorded at the pioneering Swedish four-piece’s long-term home-built studio in Gothenburg, the album is another chapter in the continuing evolution of Little Dragon. Fronted by enigmatic and much-loved vocalist Yukimi Nagano, with multi-instrumentalists Håkan Wirenstarnd and Fredrik Wallin on keyboards …
Here’s a lovely and very relatable country song that has come through the ether. It’s about two grown adults who meet up years after high school. The boy was a jock, prom king and jerk. She was a shy, introverted geek. But today, life changed both their lives. http://www.stevezuwala.com/
View this post on Instagram Glad to see merch is shipping out. 🖤 stay safe everyone. Posted @withregram • @redxthirteen Reminder: your favorite alternative artists are not multimillionaires, and they’re facing hardships like us because they can’t tour, so you should buy their stuff and support them if you can spare it. This beauty is …
Prolific chamber-pop singer/songwriter Taali today shares a timely cover of Jackson Browne’s “These Days.” Debuted on Brightest Young Things, it features beautiful celestial vocals & live intertwined synthesizers à la Imogen Heap. Taali explains the track: “I tried to honor Jackson Browne’s spirit of repetition, resignation, and understanding in the hollow arrangement. ‘These Days’ is hallowed ground.” It follows soaring first single “What …
Soft Plastics, is the new music project of Carey Mercer, former songwriter and leader of the critically acclaimed, indie-mainstay, Frog Eyes. The songs on their forthcoming new album, 5 Dreams (Paper Bag Records) were written by Mercer in the fall and winter of 2018–2019, mere months after the dissolution of Frog Eyes — the band Mercer shared for eighteen years …
Out now is the new single “One in the Same” by Blume Hinges, the project name for Canadian (Saskatoon) based singer/songwriter Aaron Egeland with the backing of Scott Simon Haus and drummer Justin Hauck. “One in the Same” is the first single from Blume Hinges’ forthcoming sophomore album, due out this summer, that was written …
Zachery Allan Starkey has released “Force” with Bernard Sumner of New Order. Combining Starkey’s passionate songwriting/production with Sumner’s trademark synthesizer, guitar, sequencer, and programming work, “Force” is an uplifting anthem reminding us to remain strong and brave in these dark and frightening times. “Fear will not tear us apart!” sings Starkey at the climax of the track. “Force” also marks the …
Dminor and Falcon Chest, the two members of Sweden’s We Are Revolution, have dug into their parents record collections as well as exploring the record stores of their hometown to come up with an eclectic mix of the last 30 years of electronic pop music. Their debut single Saved By Animals speaks with its beautiful …
This 18 year old would seem to be too young for jazz, but she hears it and feels it every bit as much as Portland’s own Esperanza Spalding and that’s a great thing. Angela Muñoz just released “In My Mind,” the second single from her debut album Introspection, due June 19 via Linear Labs and produced by …
New York, NY March 25, 2020– Today, Pearl Jam have released a brand-new song “Quick Escape” in anticipation for their new album Gigaton out Friday, March 27th via Monkeywrench/Republic Records. In addition, the band have released the “Quick Escape” arcade game where fans can select a member of the band to play an intergalactic Space Invader battle set to Pearl Jam’s latest release. Check out “Quick Escape” …
Canadiana folk-rock aka comfort rock for the quarantine. Lead singer and generally cool dude, Peter Jarvis, wrote this song from such a deeply personal place that it felt like a moment of vulnerability on his part to make it the first song finished as a band. It was a gesture that said to the other …
View this post on Instagram if you had trouble finding the vid on premiere, it’s on YouTube now. Link in bio. + Bonus pic of me n my manager lookin like a cute couple. Love u guys and thank u so much for everything, final blocked post 👼 new music soon, goodbye 4 now💜 A …
Ellis – Hamilton, Ontario’s Linnea Siggelkow – will release her debut album Born Again next week on April 3rd, and today she shares the final single off of the record ahead of its release. Following the previously released tracks “Fall Apart,” “Embarrassing,” and “March 13,” the gloriously sprawling anthem “Saturn Return” is out today. Much of Born Again finds Ellis immersed in rigorous self-examination, but the album – …
View this post on Instagram i just found a video journal i made after first semester last year where i talked to myself for just under two hours on photo booth and these are from that lol A post shared by gracie abrams (@gracieabrams) on Mar 16, 2020 at 12:29pm PDT Tweets by gracieabrams
She is AMAZING! She hears the music of the spheres. This is from last fall but needed now more than ever. View this post on Instagram #morningimpro #pianomusic #grandpiano #keyboarder #piano #pianoplayer #jazzmusic #filmmusic #kidbekid #calmdown #slowdown #pianoimprovisation #chords #pianochords A post shared by KID BE KID (@kidbekid) on Mar 21, 2020 at 4:49am PDT …
Let’s pick a day for Grandparents Day and found it on the fact that many of us stood up for the idea of not killing Grandpa and Grandma. …and some of we’re all for it, on the outside chance it might improve our 401k situation and there was some inheritance involved. Lets pick a day …
Onion chives are one of my top five herbs. Both the leaves and flowers are edible. The flowers especially have a subtle onion flavor making them both visually and pallet pleasing. My friend Chong Knievel said that in Korea they eat chives in the spring to clean their blood. With that in mind first thing …
“Houses” is the tender and poignant new single from singer-songwriter Nick Byrne. it features fingerpicked guitar with hushed, emotive vocals – and just a dash of electric guitar. The song explores themes of nostalgia and seizing the moment, and considers the sentimental significance of a house beyond its four literal walls. To Nick, a house …
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Lilly Hiatt is set to release Walking Proof this Friday, March 27th via New West Records. The 11-song set was produced by former Cage The Elephant member Lincoln Parish (Lucinda Williams, Lissie) and features guest appearances by Amanda Shires, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Luke Schneider, and Lilly’s father, the legendary singer-songwriter John Hiatt. John’s appearance on “Some Kind …
Arche unveils a new intimate live session directed by Les Capsules. When the sound of the sea mixes with the synth, it makes a awesome live session with summery delights to be watched over and over again! The Lyon-based band present two tracks from their debut EP “Le A”. View this post on Instagram Live …
IOA carries Koloto’s signature sound as she manipulates and processes sound in increasingly intricate ways. Opening with bold and cheerful percussive rhythms, the EP radiates organic electronica. While a high energy is maintained during the first two tracks, part 3 brings a groundedness to IOA, providing a balance that is sorely needed. Carrying a wealth …
Sørgekåpe is Kari Rueslåtten’s first album in Norwegian since her debut-solo album Spindelsinn in 1997, a work which reached across borders despite delivery in a language spoken by only 5 million people worldwide. Listeners from all linguistic backgrounds embraced the album, finding beauty in carefully crafted songs and deftly delivered vocals which expressed emotions beyond …
Taking his own classical training in percussionism and putting it to work, OBu provides techno rhythms, house grooves and soaring melodies all brought together in an organic composition. Removing the soulless associations that can be found within electronic music, ‘Coastal Blur’ sets a warm and comfortable tone, folding the listener into its “pilllowy” embrace. All …
Bordeaux’s Uppermost embraces the cheerful start of spring with ‘When The Birds Start Singing’ as he provides emotional atmospheres and big bold sounds. With searing electronics matched to intimate melodic touch, the producer explores the joy that is felt as the seasons move towards the warmer months. Using hypnotic melodies and buoyant beats, Uppermost provides …
Leaving the island of Jamaica at age 12, Hood Celebrityy never lost touch with her roots and it is evident in her new release, ‘Run Di Road’, which pays homage to Jamaican duo Chaka Demus & Pliers ‘Murder She Wrote’. “The first time I heard the rhythm was a long time ago. I was very young, …
Prolific punk icon, singer/songwriter, musician, author and feminist, Alice Bag will release her new album Sister Dynamite, May 8 on In The Red Records. Throughout the album, Bag reveals her incredible ability to turn nuanced political statement into impossibly catchy punk songs. Sister Dynamite takes its title from a sublimely epic tribute to women fighting for equality everywhere. Released today alongside a supercharged music video starring Kristine Nevrose in …
Today, viral queer punk duo GRLwood premiered a video for top track I’m Yer Dad, via WFPK. “I’m Yer Dad” was first released in May of 2018 as a single from the band’s debut album Daddy which followed in June. It recently went viral on TikTok and has been used in over 90,000 videos leading to over 2M streams on Spotify. The song is …
The following communique landed near Davin Michael Stedman during our modern equivalent of a V2 blackout of London, the Coronavirus Quarantine of 2020. These words are reposted here with permission: Hey Davin, did you know that I grew up with German Rocket engineers in Huntsville, Alabama? As a kid I used to play monkey bars …