Leyla McCalla is sharing the final track in a series of singles that reflect upon the struggle for freedom in our society today. Originally recorded by Haitian political protest singer and folk musician Manno Charlemagne, “Zanj” is originally sung in Haitian Kreyol. ““Zanj” always caught my ear and brought a lump to my throat,” McCalla explains. “The poetry of …
Month: October 2023
MUSICALLY INTERPRETING POEMS FROM GINSBERG’S THE FALL OF AMERICA: POEMS OF THESE STATES 1965-1971 FEATURING: AI WEIWEI, PHILIP GLASS, ANNE WALDMAN, THURSTON MOORE WITH SAUL WILLIAMS, DEVENDRA BANHART, MIHO HATORI, JACK DANGERS, YONI WOLF, FENNESZ & TAYLOR DEUPREE, STEPHEN HILLAGE & MIQUETTE GIRAUDY, KAI CAMPOS & CJ MIRRA, AND DJ SPOOKY / AKA THAT SUBLIMINAL …
Indie roots duo Viv & Riley have a hometown CD release show coming up November 8 in PDX at show bar! Vivian Leva of the duo graduated a few years ago from Lewis & Clark, so it’ll be great to have them back in town! Their new album, Imaginary People, just dropped on Free Dirt Records last month so it’s real …
From the author of Listen Whitey! The sounds of Black Power 1965-1975 and Did It! Jerry Rubin: An American Revolutionary comes the next installment in Pat Thomas’ chronicling of the counterculture. Material Wealth: Mining the Personal Archive of Allen Ginsberg will be published by Powerhouse Books (distributed by Simon & Schuster) on December 1, 2023. The book is a visual treasure trove of previously unpublished …
Songwriter & songstress Debbie has been singing since her earliest years. Now 23, the fact she was raised in the church comes as no surprise. Raised on a restricted musical diet of Mary Mary and Kirk Franklin, the way the music flows out of her makes her seem like a seasoned veteran: from her reflective but effortlessly …
October 10, 2023: Iowa-born, Nashville-based country star Hailey Whitters is most-added at country radio this week with “I’m In Love,” her first single to impact country radio since RIAA Platinum-certified smash hit “Everything She Ain’t.” With 58 first week stations on the board, “I’m In Love” is “an eminently charming pop-country song” where “every little corner of the arrangement shines” (Stereogum). Whitters …
Photo Credit: Maisy Banks October 11th– Today KAETO announces the release her new single ‘No Body’ via Lava/Republic Records. ‘No Body’ is Kaeto’s first release with Lava/Republic and follows last year’s astonishing debut ‘Good Morning’. It comes with production by Brendan Grieve and a stunning video directed by German filmmaker Paula Romy. Stream “No Body” HERE and watch the official music video HERE. Built around a …
Today, San Francisco based indie pop duo corner club share their self-produced dreamy, intimate second EP in the rearview mirror out everywhere now. Alongside with the release, the nostalgic track “funny colors” is out now with an official lyric video. The single allows the duo to process the passage of time and look back on fond memories over layered vocals, synth and field recordings. The …
Austin, TX party-punks A Giant Dog are headed to Portland soon. Their latest record, a narrative concept album called Bite, came out earlier this year on Merge Records. Audiences love their onstage anarchy and white-knuckle recordings, but Bite is a different beast altogether — the band went to rural France (where there was plenty of room to run off-leash) at …
On Friday October 6 I ventured again to Seattle’s foremost punk club, El Corazon. This time it was to see one of my favorite ska bands Big D & the Kids Table. Hailing from Boston, Big D is fronted by the dynamic David McWane. They opened their set with LAX and a circle pit immediately …
SoCal’s Nervous Kids have announced their signing to LA based punk rock powerhouse indie Wiretap Records, which will release their new EP in Spring of 2024. Today, the band is sharing their new music video for the song “Anyone But You.” Watch the “Anyone But You” video HERE. Stream on DSPs HERE. Of the new clip, Idobi Radio writes, “The video itself …
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Credit Tessa Espinoza Micah Willis son of Kenny Neal, winner of four Downbeat Music awards and past actor of The Disney Channel has recently signed to Verdict Music records. Micah has teamed with roster mate Bruce Marshall (former Toy Caldwell Band) to reinvigorate a timeless work of Bruce’s “If Dreams Were Money”. Their recording work together …
Charged with a desire to make epic and melody driven songs Andy Vaughan (Boy Girl Soup) formed Victory Through Sound with Spencer Parker during the winter of 2015 in Brighton. With a vision to craft wide-open and expansive, heroic sounding songs, Vaughan and Parker spent 2016 writing and recording demos and piecing together the remainder of …
Artikal Sound System releases their new single “Batshit Crazy” with special guest Little Stranger today on Silverback Music’s Controlled Substance Sound Labs. The Delray Beach, FL based band showcases their unique blend of reggae + rock with a powerful female pop vocal on their new offering. “This is just a fun tune about being fickle …
“Sam Cooke singin’ on the AM radio…Ice cold blood and Coast To Coast…”
“It’s a Trap” is an impressive display of Sonic Beast’s ability to fuse the intensity of punk-rock melodies with blunt lyrics that embolden us to look for the solution to our problems by ourselves. The band -composed by Alfred (Illinoise), Chris (Bad Mongos), Roger (No More Lies) and Xavi (Bullitt)- with reminiscences of Hot Snakes, Leatherface or Hot Water …
Moe Joe, now respectfully referred to as “the first ever electric blues band in Turkey” was founded by Feramerz Ayadi, İzi Ergil and Vefa Karatay in Istanbul in 1994. Instead of mimicking other contemporary blues-rock bands which were then keen to cover the more familiar, perhaps more hackneyed, repertoire of 60’s and 70’s bands, Moe …
The Dolenz family home movies included in the video are lovely and precious in the extreme. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micky_Dolenz
NEW YORK, NY (October 6, 2023) – Following massive global success as one of the year’s hottest hits, multi-platinum recording artist Coi Leray unveils the anxiously awaited Official Music Video for her platinum mega-smash “Players” today. Watch HERE. The visual gives complete girl boss vibes at the highest level possible. Coi cruises at night in the back of a stretch and in various sports cars as she …
When your name is Angello, you have no choice but to make Holy music. And six years ago, Steve did… with the help of TD Jakes.
Kate Bush is Cool. Middle English is Cool. How could this song be any less than SUPERCOOL??? And it is!!!
Hailing from a small town in the Philippines, HAIDEE‘s passion for music started in karaoke, singing contests, and Sunday worship services. At 16, she moved across the world to reunite with her mom, who had immigrated seven years before. Now based in Edmonton, music remained the only thing familiar to her. The first three years of HAIDEE’s …
Steve Angello, co-founder of Swedish House Mafia, and the mysterious music duo Wh0 have linked with director Amedeo Zancanella for a surprisingly emotional and bittersweet video for their recent house anthem “What You Need,” initially released this past July via Angello’s SIZE Records / Wh0 Plays / Astralwerks. Zancanella was given complete artistic freedom, with Angello simply prompting that he wanted …
Forthcoming Solo Album Debut Eulogy: Volume I Out November 17 Credit: Eli Greiss Oct. 6, 2023 – Today, singer-songwriter, actor, writer and director Josh Radnor shares his new single “NYC,” a wistful, deconstructed love song backed by dreamy harmonies. The new single will appear on Eulogy: Volume I, which is due out November 17 as the first installment in his double-album solo …
This upbeat and empowering synth pop song, which was produced by legendary producer Mark J. Feist and released by Hitmakers Entertainment, is about confidence, about how drawing attention to yourself and knowing your worth is a positive thing that everybody should be doing. “I wrote it wanting to make everyone who listened to it feel …
Mike Savino, the multi-instrumentalist and songwriter behind Tall Tall Trees, had big plans for getting through the pandemic with his sanity intact. He built a recording studio in the basement of his home in Asheville, North Carolina, setting himself up to lay down the tracks for a new album. To help see them across the finish …
Pexels – CCO Licence If you are a music lover and you are also a keen player of sports, you might be interested to know that each of your hobbies feed into the other, and that music and sports, whether it be football, hockey or golf, really are a match made in heaven Here’s why: …
Who was it that said music has more power than any other form of creative expression to transport us to a moment or place in time? Van the Man takes me back to the carefree, exhilarating days of utter freedom known as youth, to the days of cheddar cheese omelets, biscuits and fried potatoes at Ann …
“San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run… but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of …