Singer, songwriter and brand-new Immersive/Geffen Records signing LILHUDDY (aka Chase Hudson) releases his first official single entitled “21st Century Vampire,” which is out now along with the music video. Fresh off the heels of starring in Machine Gun Kelly’s first-of-its-kind musical film experience Downfalls High, LILHUDDY is making his musical introduction with a signature style cultivated by the raw and restless angst of post-internet era adolescence. His music is a …
Weezer will release their fourteenth studio album, entitled OK Human, on Friday, January 29th on Crush Music/Atlantic. The album’s first single, “All My Favorite Songs,” can be heard and seen now. 2020 was going to be the year of Van Weezer — the big riffs rock album Weezer made as an homage to the metal bands they loved growing up — until, thanks to …
I love this “In Our Time” tune more than life itself. I hear the three B’s: Beatles, Byrds and Bach. Abbey Road Studios called, they want John and Paul back. Also, I’m serious about the Bach. They’ve got a beautiful, layered, joyful church music thing going on with amazing guitar sounds, beautiful vocal arrangements and …
Preeminent Los Angeles band Bad Religion have just released “Emancipation Of The Mind,” an outtake from the band’s critically acclaimed 2019 album Age Of Unreason. The track’s upbeat messaging calls for reason and open-mindedness as a new administration is welcomed into the White House today. Bad Religion have always advocated for humanism, reason, and individualism, which has never …
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Texas-bred & Nashville-based country artist and guitar virtuoso Billy Dawson has an important message to share as the USA factionalizes deeply. Dawson wrote “UNITE” with Eric Varnell in 2015 and felt he should release it in 2020 as a deeply divided United States descended into chaos. Billy decided the moment was right to share …
Selena Gomez has released her first Spanish language single in nearly a decade,“De Una Vez” (“At Once”). The song, released stateside via Interscope Records and UMG worldwide, is available HERE via digital platforms. Embracing her heritage as a proud Latina, Gomez wanted to immerse herself in the culture and it was important to her to join forces with some of …
Today, JUNO 2020 Award winner Dominique Fils-Aimé released “While We Wait,” the latest single ahead of her upcoming album Three Little Words. Out February 12 via Ensoul Records, the album serves as the final chapter in Fils-Aimé’s trilogy of albums exploring the roots of African American musical culture — from blues confronting historical silences & sorrows on Nameless (2018) to jazz exploring …
“Some of the biggest songs of all time have lasted for many generations and continue to be iconic, so I love the idea of creating something with enough magic to withstand time. Making music brings me so much joy, and there’s nothing like that feeling when someone sings your song or tells you how a …
Behold the world premiere of Brooklyn artist Ray Swamp’s debut single “GROUND”. The track is a bedroom pop gem full of Casio Sax and dreamy vocals with a heavy backstory involving a friend’s death. Here’s how Swamp describes how the song came into being: “I should’ve known something was up when I invited him to …
This came out on January 2. I love Fiona Apple’s raspy, almost Bonnie Tyler-esque vocal intensity, the jazzy production touches and the nervous post song dance. She puts it all into this version of the song. There was nothing left, hence the collapse in the final seconds of the video. Of course, I always liked Mandy …
The lovely video below “NTADE,” loosely follows the denouement of The Graduate in an African context. The song lays bare some deep and long-buried feelings. Enjoy!
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Singer/songwriter and actress, Olivia Rodrigo, today released “drivers license” – her debut original single via Geffen Records – available to stream or download HERE. Penned by Rodrigo, she first shared a clip of the piano-driven, alt-pop song on Instagram in the summer of 2020 to incredible fan reaction, which inspired her to go into the studio with producer and …
Peace! The Survival Scroll, the latest project from Philmore Greene is now available. This is the beautiful poetry of Chicago dying. https://snd.click/ktbo The Gospel According to The Black Messiah: A Revolutionary Black Christmas
Santa Monica, California, January 1, 2021 – Today, global superstar Gwen Stefani returns with the video for her reggae-tinged new single “Let Me Reintroduce Myself.” Directed by Philip Andelman, the lighthearted clip revisits some of Stefani’s most iconic looks and moments from across her boundary-smashing career. The video finds present-day Gwen with dozens of her past selves. No Doubt fans will recognize different Gwens sporting an inspired “Just a …
Top SongCherry Blossom Promenade, Carwyn Ellis There’s no way to ignore the last 10 months of our existence. 2020 from February on was a steady stream of atrocities that seemingly had no end. For many, music has been a therapeutic outlet and a blessing. And in trying times, there has been a trove of new …
Ah, yes: the anticlimax to Xanadu. I saw it in the theater when it came out in 1980—as a joke, but still. What a tangled web of celluloid this clip weaves. The movie was a sour maraschino on the glittering career of Gene Kelly—though, to be fair, his veneers never looked better. I’d like to …
baby Chemist’s Katie Lee Hill plays the saddest cowgirl at Ben & Jerry’s in this tender ballad and melancho-untry video of separation and love deferred. Listen and enjoy the deep, dark feels of this song– and Travis Artz’s soulful guitar playing– because great things await us all in the future, like ice cream (in this …
Behold the first recordings from the brand new Swedish band, Fiends & Omen. Their music is seductively dark, extremely catchy and undeniably electronic. It is a mystery as to what the two lads look like as they have no photos of themselves since they are “still trying to figure out our image,” as they said …
Examining the emotional impact of Raymond Briggs’ “The Snowman” – and this song, in particular – could be an eternal endeavor. Like trying to decipher the magic of The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds. I mention the latter because the musical score is integral to “The Snowman,” which is otherwise a silent film. I can’t think …
Kima Otung describes herself as “a Nigeria-born, Wales-raised, East London-based contemporary R&B and Neo Soul” singer. “I pretty much write my music for women,” she says, “to help us level-up and demand more from the people around us and ourselves.” “I was reflecting on what home means to me when I wrote this song,” she …
Entitled The Black Messiah, this entire album is amazing. No matter what race you are you need to hear this great work of art. The vocals, the instrumentals, and the production all come together perfectly. The message hits hard and must be heard right here, right now. This project was written for a Christmas like …
This is hauntingly beautiful. Please listen and enjoy… – East Portland Blog “This is a cover of my friend NEA‘s song ‘Dedicated,’” says Paperwing, “with my own personal take on it. I got inspired when listening to her music and I thought it would be really cool to do this one in an acoustic epic-ballad kind …
Today, JUNO 2020 Award winner Dominique Fils-Aimé announces the release of her new album Three Little Words. The soulful “Love Take Over” is the first single to be taken from the album and is available now on all music services. Three Little Words concludes Dominique’s album trilogy exploring the roots of African American musical culture. Her 2018 blues-tinged acclaimed debut full length Nameless saw Dominique …
One traumatic moment can crack your foundation and change your outlook on life forever. The trauma runs deeper when tied to the betrayal and abuse from the one person you thought you could trust. There’s no way to fully come to terms with that moment, the one that shatters the very existence of a relationship, …
Behold the new Kit Major track, “Scene Queen.” It is an absolutely crazy track. It’s a high energy dark, dance, glitchy, almost pop metal hyperpop anthem that can make anyone’s confidence go up to 100. Think Poppy / Grimes / Rina Sawayama / Nine Inch Nails in a single rad, unapologetic powerhouse pop song (the last third of the …
Public Enemy’s single “GRID” featuring Cypress Hill and George Clinton is a post-apocalyptic view of the world after it collapses into a technological desert after the “grid goes down” and, today, the legendary group shares the official video for the track. Directed by David C. Snyder, the video for “GRID” is the latest to come from PE’s …
Behold the music video for “To You“, released today from Roots Radics feat. Toots & The Maytals. The video features never-before-seen footage of the late Reggae icon Toots Hibbert, documented during one of his last recording sessions prior to his tragic death on Sept. 11, 2020 from COVID-19. Today would have been Toots’ 78th birthday. …