Fuelled by self-belief and a passion that itself is fuelled by talent and hard work, Perth’s Morgan Joanel is steadily building a creative empire that spans beyond her native art-form of music into visual and wearable art. An unbridled spirit, Morgan has been a creative force for the last decade Australia-wide and beyond, recently returning to her hometown …
This nifty video came out last fall, but I didn’t discover it until today and with a rebirth of interest in Bob Dylan as a result of “Murder Most Foul,” the time is perfect to remember the great historical moment when Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan got together for a few songs. Enjoy!
Take off your shoes, the bloody muck you’re mired in is Holy Ground… At last you’ve found the record that understands your pain, your pride, your honesty, your disenchantment, your inchoate feels and roiling fears. This is the soundtrack to your life and times and it is very, very good. You will want to keep …
“What Do You Want” the video above, has an insane amount of live energy and sex appeal and therefore must be seen by everyone. The band’s cheeky new single, “Sweatshop,” is is likewise included for your rock’n roll enjoyment below. Yur Mum, a London-based rock duo formed of Anelise Kunz (Vocals/Bass) and Fabio Couto (Drums/Vocals), …
The Gulps, a London-based group of young provocateurs famed for fusing furious indie rock with catchy power pop, hail from three corners of Europe and the Middle East and they are Harry All (Vocals), Charlie Green (Guitar), Franco Buffone (Guitar), Simon Mouchard (Bass) & Raoul Khayat (drums). About the song: The song is an ode to …
“We locked ourselves away for 36 hours, and took a trip into the darker, heavier side of our sound.” About the track: PHANTOM is about making do with what you have, getting kicked the f’ck out of by a gang in the estate you live on, being forced to relocate, entertaining post-traumatic stress disorder for a …
“Nevermind the Garbage” is the first single from Reliant Tom’s forthcoming sophomore album Play & Rewind. The song encapsulates the theme of the album: a documentation of singer Claire Cuny’s decent into grief after her father passed away, unexpectedly, on the day of the release of their last album, Bad Orange. “The song is about …
This is highwire melodic rock with great vocals and great playing. Just take a listen and drink it in. These are the good old days. This Kentish band was made to tour the East Coast of the US. It may be awhile before any band tours anywhere, but when the world starts over, I hope …
It seems like every day I find a new favorite band and a new favorite song and today’s new fave is “Ride In” by New York duo baby chemist. Their disarmingly hilarious DIY video is above. This song thrills and chills big time. It is a high-spirited stallion-bouncing country and soul encounter. Please give it …
I never met Dr. Wouter Nolet. The 90 minute drive into the African bush, to visit Masanga Hospital, was not pleasant. My colleague, a plastic surgeon from Ireland, had arranged for the four of us to make the journey in the back of a small ambulance, as the Land Rover, owned by the Holy Spirit …
Just finished my first week of working from home, and I can report a few developments from my tiny corner of the world. First of all, as you can see from my pictures, my pets are not at all perturbed by this recent course of events. There is something to be said of the bliss …
I knew they’d been intermittently reunited as ROIR had released a cassette-only live album in 1985 entitled 96 TEARS FOREVER—THE DALLAS REUNION TAPES ’84. (Dave Marsh even penned liner notes, as did Rudy Martinez (aka ?) himself! That gig was apparently the first that the original lineup had played since 1966.) Still, I was stunned …
Bob Dylan’s first new song in 8 years is about the JFK Assassination and it’s’ cultural aftermath. If anyone should know how to recreate a diaphanous poetry-slam vibe of art, politics and loss beginning at 12:30 pm on November 22, 1963 and continuing to the present, it’s Bob Dylan. He does so with pastoral delicacy …
Damn. I once wrote that when I was a kid, I was convinced that the Harlem Globetrotters were comprised of players too talented for pro basketball. Supermen. Superheroes; their colorful uniforms a costume. No joke. I don’t think I was the only young person who considered the pre-Jordan, pre-Bird NBA to be boring B-league stuff …
Nadia Vaeh, Los Angeles’ most promising new artist, has released an empowering new single, “Monroe.” A true pop anthem that will resonate with women around the world, “Monroe” pays homage to the female icons such as Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Taylor Swift, Britney Spears, Meryl Streep, Celine Dion and more. The single is available for …
The newest single by Singer-Songwriter Serena Foster takes a playful spin on relationships coming to an end. With quirky vocals and an anthem-infused electronic-pop production, “Game Over” compares the ending of a relationship to completing a video game’s final level. It’s bittersweet and sometimes you just don’t really see it coming – even when you …
Reminding women everywhere to be completely unapologetic in their confidence, and that every woman is “That Girl” even when their confidence may be low on a certain day, there’s women everywhere doing amazing and inspiring things, day in and day out. ZALI wanted to give girls, like herself, a relatable, audacious self-affirmative anthem to feel …
Formed in 2018, Tropic has been taking the world by storm in the two short years the duo has been together. Composed of Hong Kong-born Filipino Singer-Songwriter Jo-B Sebastian and California-born producer/DJ Phuse and now based in Brooklyn, NY, Tropic’s music is as eclectic as its roots. Their latest single, ‘Alive’, has received immense support …
Hello East Portland, I am submitting my latest record New World Order for you to groove on. We released it this week as a response to the current social and political climate we have been forced into. This sonic manifesto has been added to playlists and mix shows and we are looking forward to adding …
On Visalia, the third studio album from Tobias the Owl, Elijah Dhavvan wraps his most confessional, vulnerable lyricism to date in shimmering, ethereal indie rock. A somber reflection on his journey from homeless dropout to physician, cancer survivor, and professor of medicine at the University of Washington, the record is marked by a dramatically different …
This is GRACEY – an effusive, preternaturally talented songwriter and future pop dream queen. GRACEY was recruited at 16 as a top-line writer for Xenomania and now at still only 22, she’s stepping into her own, dazzling limelight as an artist in her own right. With that comes its own pressure, and her brilliant songs tell the …
The video above for MOI is fun and playful, but the real star is below. Her video for Desert Rose was filmed in Morocco, near her native Algeria and dramatizes the cultural and generational frictions she experiences on a daily basis in the most bittersweet, gripping and beautiful way. Nothing like this has been done …
“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 …
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 …