Wikipedia says it best: Soccer Mommy “was born in Switzerland and grew up in Nashville, Tennessee. She attended Nashville School of the Arts, a speciality high school where she studied guitar and played in the swing band.”
Simultaneously heart-wrenching and infectious, this single captures the post-breakup yearning for a do-over – and the realization that “Some things you can’t undo / and one of them’s you.” FLETCHER co-wrote “Undrunk,” which was produced by Malay (Frank Ocean, Lorde, Sam Smith). A retrospective of emotions from FLETCHER’s NYU college days, “Undrunk” is an honest …
Time to try to level up once more. My friend and fitness trainer Corey Galusha was always trying to get me to write down what I eat and keep track of it. I saw this last night for under $10, and it’s a small investment if I can fill it up. It tried to write it …
I love this. Destined to be a classic. Mike Hughes said he was obsessed with this, and for good reason. Give it a watch and you’ll understand. http://www.flowermoonrecords.com/azureray/
Los Campesinos formed at Cardiff University (Still Counts).
Entrancing the listener from the very beat, “We Own This” is an infectious tune that evokes an uplifting sensation that builds to a blend of tropical and nu-disco chorus and drop. Teaming up with French Producer and DJ L.B. One, “We Own This” blends multiple house, tropical and nu-disco genres to deliver a compelling single …
If you listen closely, you can hear that this song was recorded on a Selectric typewriter and not on the slicker Kaypro word processors that came along only months later. It’s a great album made with rudimentary technology. Yet neither Alison Moyet nor Vince Clarke were ever to be quite this thrilling again, despite many …
The dancer’s name is Autumn Miller. Given the memorably macabre mood of this unusual video, I will probably remember her name for a long time. Once you see this, you can never unsee it. Oy gevalt. As someone who confronts suicidality on a daily basis I can’t see much upside in this. It seems like …
The music of Abigail Lapell has beauty, optimism, texture, subtlety, power and gently humming overtones of transcendence. As soon as you hear her songs you will love her music. “Down By The Water,” (above) a lovely work of hopeful springtime chamber folk, evokes the fantasy of escaping to somewhere isolated and hiding from the world …
Quincy Jones once said that it’s hard to know what the future held for Tupac, because if you killed Malcolm X at 25, you killed a Pimp named Red. Well the same can be said for the weirdest muthaf☆cka in history, Rasputin. You kill Rasputin at 28, you killed a slutty farmer named Randy. No …
Singin’, thinking…trying not to write a hook a day. There are few things better to fail at that, than not songwriting. I can’t help it. I programmed my mind at the tail end of college to make playing my upside down guitar like a diary. A way to think outloud and collect my thoughts. To …
Well this is quite epic for me. This my dear grandmother Audi with her beloved Grandfather that raised her. She tears up every time she talks about this wonderful man. This is man is my strongest link to Africa, Jose Rosario. There is legend of his father being referred to as “The Frenchman,” which is …
Fyre Festival was our generation’s Woodstock. Our culture is dominated by Rich thieves selling fake things that are doomed to fail, because they are built on big lies. We create billion dollar companies that are built on nothing but disruption, in a less than zero sum game that is pushing the middle class out of …
Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was a leader of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. He would have turned 90 years ago the other day had he not been assassinated. A Baptist minister, Dr. King championed nonviolence and civil disobedience as means to make society welcome …
This is fantastic. It’s short, just the promo, but you can get the point. There’s something solid here. This trio of hip-hop greats representing the east, midwest and west coast have united for the single, “Yesterday.” “Yesterday” is a nostalgic melodic song that speaks to the hearts and ears of hip-hop yesteryear and simpler times …
“I’ve stretched out—I’m singing songs that rock stars have written for me,” explained Mavis Staples, “but they know me and the kind of songs I want to sing.” This includes “Love and Trust,” composed by Ben Harper, which is also the opening song on Live in London. L“I love that song, it’s a beauty,” she …
Australia’s The Vaudeville Smash continue their ongoing musical evolution, teaming up with Nashville’s Grammy Award winning producer, Bobby Holland. The result is ‘La Plume De Ma Tante’… a bass popping, tongue in cheek, funk, jammation of the nation and first single off their third studio album, set for release in late 2019. ‘La Plume De …
Harkening back to the golden oldies with an infusion of rock, pop and blues, Jess McAvoy delivers “Do What You Want” with an astute lyricism that is seldom heard in music today. Coming about in a playful way, McAvoy wrote the single when she was seeing someone even though her heart wasn’t quite open to …
Check out this song idea! Should I call it ‘Old Bold Pilots’ or ‘Young Man’s Game’? This hit me when this story about Sinatra arguably inventing the album said “Sinatra was on the wrong side of 30 in a young man’s game.” Then before I could pull over to write this song a train stopped …
Stories give our lives meaning in a universe where there may be no meaning, by Davin Michael Stedman
Stories give our lives meaning in a universe where there may be no meaning. I like stories. They sound good with music. We have only been able to record them for a little over a hundred years. We’ve been jotting them down for centuries, passing them from one singer to another for thousands more. When …
My buddy Jeremy From-Steel Beans is on a level and frequency that is so high Hipsters can’t even hear him. People are missing this guy completely but he is pretty much the only Rock star I actually know. He is talented AF. Good singer, good writer, good comedy, good producer, multi-instrumentalist that can do one man band …
I have been a little gun shy about covering certain reggae songs that might have me sound too PUT ON. That is until this music really seeps into my bones like the Wailers did, which I easily connected with Motown. The bread crumbs I found to Kingston with BJ DjSticky were no coincidence… Bob, Peter, and Bunny …
Luna Keller has just released what is certainly the best song of 2019 so far. Titled, “We Are All Mad Here,” it is a fun piece of Beatlesque cabaret pop with a stirring vocal, kind lyrics and a welcoming message. Luna’s trademark alto reassures us as we listen and she invites everyone to join in …
For this recording ElectroBluesSociety went back to basics and teamed up with Mississippi bluesman Boo Boo Davis. Together they revisited classic Chicago blues and recorded seven songs. These will all be released as singles during the coming months. Here is the fourth track from that very successful recording session. This time it’s a Howlin’ Wolf …
No one believes me when I tell them that the finest wines in all the world come from Wales. No one, that is, except the national tourism board of Wales. Apparently they and I have the same tastes when it comes to grapes. 15 Welsh vineyards you probably never even knew were there – Whether …
It was great to visit Conrad Denke and his Victory Studios open house. I was told this is his third annual. I am seeing Bad Animals and Studio X Seattle in the building. I am seeing sci fi thrillers made like Forbidden Power, singer songwriters like Reggie Garrett. There were so many post production, preproduction, production experts of all kinds under one roof. …and …
“Shot Clock” marks the third official single from her album, Ella Mai. The breakout 4X Platinum single, “Boo’d Up” has earned her nominations for Song of the Year and Best R&B Song at the 61st GRAMMY Awards which airs live on February 10th. She has been nominated under the category of British Breakthrough Act at …
At the not so tender age of 15, Bella Rios rocks the tools to be a multi-instrumentalist Singer and Songwriter residing in the insanely tough town of Chicago, Illinois. Having mastered the guitar, piano, bass and saxophone, all before lunch, Bella is no stranger to raw, open musical talent. Her newest superheated single, “Under The …
Here it is, the latest from Ariana Grande, released just minutes ago. Just 24 views when I first hit it on Youtube: Here are the lyrics: Breakfast and Tiffany’s And bottles of bubbles Girls with tattoos who like getting in trouble Lashes and diamonds ATM machines Buy myself all of my favorite things Been through …
As soon as I saw this video I knew I had to share it. It’s the coolest, most articulate movie I’ve seen in a while. This video goes right to the heart of so many unnecessary things that are stupid and that we just put up with because they’ve always been around. Tennis is stupid. …