Music

Tony Molina – Songs From San Mateo County

West Bay native Tony Molina announces the release of SONGS FROM SAN MATEO COUNTY, a rarities collection, due July 19 on the Smoking Room label. You can pre-order it now and stream two songs from it here.  Tony will also be touring this summer with his pals Culture Abuse. You might be able to snag an early test pressing of SAN MATEO on these dates if …

Plague Vendor – New Comedown, Locomotive

Today, Southern California’s Plague Vendor release their new studio album By Night, viaEpitaph Records. The 10-song LP was produced by John Congleton (St Vincent, Sharon Van Etten, Chelsea Wolfe) and perfectly captures the feeling of ruin and regeneration, of charisma and catastrophe and of slashing at-the-night with nothing but pure electricity. With Congleton’s precision production, Plague Vendor have found their …

Mark J Gidden – Catch Me Out

Mark Gidden’s new single “Catch Me Out” explores looking back to your youth and wondering if you managed to keep your feelings hidden.. Sounding like a particularly English mix of Suede and The Feeling – Catch Me Out encapsulates all that is best in British Indie – beautiful guitar melodies added to Mark’s distinctive vocal …

Kate Tempest – Holy Elixir, Firesmoke

Kate Tempest is at the front door and there’s nothing you can do to stop her from kicking it down. Critically acclaimed British spoken word artist, rapper, poet, novelist and playwright KateTempestunveils her new track “Holy Elixir” today—listen HERE! “Holy Elixir” is taken from her highly anticipated third studio album, The Book of Traps and Lessons, out June 14thvia American …

Matthew Sweet – We’re the Same

The aptly named Matthew Sweet has hit La Dolce spot on several re-memberable and re-lovable singles. Underrated most of his career, a song like “We’re the Same” was certainly crushed at time of release by whatever Pearl Jam elegy ruled the airwaves. Eddie Vedder’s stentorian voicebox captured the concurrent dolour of those years and vibed …

Serena Foster – “I <3 CA”

Based in Los Angeles, California, Serena Foster was born into a musical dynasty, where she started singing in the womb and later penning songs in the cradle with a crayon. Originally writing and performing pure Americana, Serena recently reinvented herself and her music by diving into an inward soul-search for her voice and identity. This …

Tee Grizzley – God’s Warrior

Tee Grizzley has released his sophomore album, Scriptures, out today via 300 Entertainment. The album was executive produced by Timbaland and during a recent interview with Zane Lowe, Tee called Scriptures his words of wisdom to live by and talked about how him and Timbaland came together to work on it. During a studio session with Kanye West in Miami the two connected and decided to work …

a. harlana – “Chicago”

Take note, kids (and MacArthur Fellowship committee members), this is what a GENIUS looks like… Juno Roome, the ace honcho of a. harlana, recently got some of his many, many talented friends together and filmed several live video with loop oriented versions of his songs. This is similar to the way that Juno performs for …

Dave Hillyard and the Rocksteady Seven – Playtime

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 …

lodet – Calling

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 …

Johno – Country Roads

“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 …

Bus Stop Poets – Blow

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, …

CJ Ramone Headlines A Night of Raucous Punk Rock at Seattle’s Funhouse, by Holly Homan

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 …

Zsela – Noise

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 …

SERA – Rabbit Hole

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 …

Gionathan – Friendzone

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 …