“I grew up afraid and ashamed all of the time,” says Russell. “I learned to make myself very small and very quiet in order to survive. My adoptive father – my primary abuser – was intensely controlling of all aspects of my life and of our constantly shifting households. He was particularly tyrannical about what we were allowed …
The Last few weeks have had some great Sabbath singalongs for Sandra Entermann and her talented crews. https://www.facebook.com/sandra.entermann https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC93PH44H9nJwZE8EX-auUaQ 0:00:41 Blessed be the Lord, God Almighty 0:04:39 He is Exalted 0:08:03 Butterfly Song 0:11:42 My Lighthouse 0:17:05 A Quiet Place 0:24:25 Through it All 0:29:28 The Revelation Song 0:35:02 Go Light Your World 0:40:35 Worthy …
Seemingly influenced by the likes of Vangelis and Tangerine Dream, deep-steeped in Bryan Ferry’s uber-sexy atmospherics… Ferry/Roxy Music saxophonist/keyboardist Jorja Chalmers has forged an impressive and distinct solo career while she’s not stealing spotlights from her employer. “I’ll Be Waiting” – the second video/single from her second album on the Italians Do It Better label …
This is a beautiful song from Sarah Kroger which I discovered this morning in an East Portland Church Service. Below is the smart and lovely version sung at Sunnyside SDA Church on Market Street in East Portland on this morning, 5/29/2021. When you click on the video is should start at the beginning of the …
Be Nice To Yourself, the new single from Jason Matu, is a guitar-driven pep talk acting as an act of aggression against Jason’s feelings of infinite loneliness and self-loathing following his longtime partner’s death. Recorded remotely in conjunction with producer, frequent collaborator, and Grammy-nominee Justin Craig (Hedwig and the Angry Inch), Be Nice To Yourself focuses …
Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned; – William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming Sweden’s perfectly violent garage rock outfit, The Hawkins, are set to exploit their murderous …
Photo by Jess Cowan Epitaph Records is thrilled to announce the signing of The Linda Lindas. The label approached the Los Angeles-based, all-female punk band behind the viral smash hit “Racist, Sexist Boy” several months prior to their now-legendary set at the L.A. Public Library. With their explosive and authentic collision of garage-punk, power-pop, and new …
With World Whiskey Day occurring last week, this seems like a good time to look at a (very) abbreviated history of the spirit. Residue from a beer-like fermented drink was recently found in stone vessels in Raqefet Cave in Israel that is thought to be 13,000 years old. Remnants of seven different plant types, including wheat/barley, oat, legumes, and …
Q: In your estimation, did The Jam or The Style Council or any Paul Weller enterprise produce a great album? A: Near-great, perhaps, if one is especially disposed toward the decidedly Brit-centric, Who/Kinks/Small Faces-derived pleasures of the Jam albums IN THE CITY (1977), ALL MOD CONS (1979), or SETTING SONS (1980), although the narrow, immediately-anachronistic …
Lyn Lapid returns with a cover of Sarah McLachlan’s critically acclaimed and widely adored “When She Loved Me”—listen HERE. Lyn originally released a cover of “When She Loved Me” on her TikTok earlier this year, which has over 13 million views and 2 million likes to date and resulted in over 420 thousand video creates using the sound from her video—watch the original TikTok HERE. Sarah McLachlan’s …
Joker’s Hand is confirmed to perform at Beachlife Festival in Southern California this fall alongside such artists as Jane’s Addiction, Cage The Elephant, Counting Crows and many more. Joker’s Hand is also featured in Atwood Magazine’s recent article celebrating AAPI Heritage Month. Check it out here: https://atwoodmagazine.com/aapi2104-asian-american-pacific-islander-month-2021-feature-part-4/ Hailing from Torrance, CA. Joker’s Hand founding members Kevin Kawano and Matthew Lau met while attending film school at …
NEW YORK, NY (May 24, 2021) – Award-winning global superstar Marshmello and GRAMMY® Award-nominated powerhouse trio Jonas Brothers release the official video for their new song “Leave Before You Love Me.” The release follows last night’s incredible Billboard Music Awards performance that saw the band close out the show, which was hosted by Nick Jonas, with a special medley including the new song with …
Anyone familiar with country music in the Pacific Northwest knows that the biggest, strongest, wildest and best country band in the region and perhaps the entire West Coast, is Gary Bennett and the Coattail Riders. You can get a load of their gigantic talents in the two Americana classics that I’ve included here. These songs …
My brain popped this semi-obscure-but-a-personal-fave 80s nugget into my head this morning, so now I'm passing it onto you. The album it's from is very fine as well.https://t.co/4SHPrZrCBA — John Scalzi (@scalzi) May 23, 2021
This is actual footage of my AAPI inner child screaming. I swear If I can get one of their T-shirts in my size I will wear it onstage at an arena show, because currently there is no cooler band. #TheLindaLindas #youhadmeatbikinikill https://t.co/EQi0GHAUoy — Celia Chavez (@celiachavez) May 22, 2021 THE LINDA LINDAS SIGN TO EPITAPH …
Don’t judge a book by its cover! Even in the world of pop music, there can be multiple rhythms, harmonies and complex arrangements beneath sweet accessible melodies. La Battue is all of this: a trio that’s all about experimentation, hidden inside sunny, easy-listening songs. Their second EP, Get Set, Go! is the next step in …
Niall Horan & Anne-Marie team up for nostalgic new single “Our Song”. Directed by Michael Holyk, the video is loosely inspired by Bonnie & Clyde as it trails friends, Anne-Marie and Niall, as they hastily flee their town in search for new beginnings.
This is a lovely arrangement. Please give it a listen. https://www.facebook.com/Jehovahshalomaccapella
Here’s the amazing breakthrough single for fiercest Abigail, and it’s coming out just as her acting career (as Abigail Killmeier) has taken off with Hulu original Love, Victor. This ballad is a classic heartsy-pop funtime song. The delightful video features The Divine Ms. Fierce in a Hallmark Autumn Romance knockoff. She’s a tomboy who pines …
Sandra Entermann is an Australian singer of Christian music, contemporary and otherwise. She has become a global phenomenon in the last year as she has been organizing these weekly “Sabbath Singalongs with Sandra” where she joins a rotating cast of choristers and musicians who get together and sing every Friday night hoping their listeners join …
“Don’t go chasin’ waterfalls. You know where the water falls…” This is a great song by the very cool V. Rose. She reads the Word, and lives it. Just listen. https://www.facebook.com/vrosemusic
It’s David Byrne’s birthday, so a fitting time to celebrate the deliciously paradoxical “Listening Wind,” one of Talking Heads’ lesser known gems on Remain in Light. Of all the polyrhythms and African incantations on that record, “Wind” is the most hypnotic. “The wind in my heart, the wind in my heartThe dust in my hair, …
Pokémon’s 25th-anniversary celebration continues with today’s release of iconic recording artist Katy Perry’s new single and video, “Electric.” Katy, whose love for all things Pokémon dates back to childhood, when she played the original video games on her Game Boy, created the track especially for “Pokémon 25: The Album,” which will be released this fall by Universal Music Group’s …
The newest music video from Maggie Rose is out everywhere now. The Nashville-based rock and soul singer-songwriter Maggie Rose exclusively premiered the music video for her recently released song, “Saint” on CMT, MTV, and MTVU earlier this week. “Saint” is the third track to be released in advance of Rose’s forthcoming studio album, Have A Seat, due out on August 20 via Starstruck Records. Have …
Melbourne’s Ryan Downey‘s luminous art-rock album A TON OF COLOURS is about humanness – its beauty, its contradictions, and our desire for connection. It is a love letter to the beauty of emotional expression and communication, with love being the conduit for this joy of self-expression. There’s a soul-sharing vulnerability throughout, found in the aching longing of ‘Contact’ (“If I …
“As a child I have a memory of being visited by an alien, and I’ve been searching for that being ever since…” – Milla Fay Sunde shares her thoughts on the single. Unique electro-pop duo TGC (The Green Children) has released their latest single, ‘Sophie.’ The single is taken from their upcoming LP, Parallels, which …
Credit: Eszter+David Liz Phair is thrilled to release a new song from her highly-anticipated album, Soberish, which is due for release on June 4th, 2021 via Chrysalis Records. The track, entitled “In There,” is a percolating, simmering song about vulnerability, with the sort of incredible wordplay and melodies that only Phair can create. “In There,” which follows the release of album single and …
LIZJE is a red hot Colombian/American performer, songwriter, and producer. Set musically en fuego by the powerful sounds of her active childhood, Lizje learned to love music from supreme voices like Lauryn Hill, Jill Scott and too many crazy-great, wild-awesome Latin American artists to mention. Her music fuses spicy modern pop with classic smoove soul …
“…Y’all don’t see me on SundaysYou don’t think that’s rightI see most of you wastedwhere I play on Saturday night. Y’all stumble to the stage, shout ‘Livin on a Prayer’and all those drinks you’re poundin’got you more than halfway there…” – Givin’ a Damn (Don’t Go with My Outfit) “Some of these things I’ve wanted …