“My influences are John Mayer, The Ramones, and Elvis,” says the fun-loving, talented, and sexy Pauly Chance. He says he loves East Portland Blog. (But does he really? How honest are artists when they say they love the blog?) He is currently trying very hard to grow his fan base and up the numbers on …
Because of Covid 19, it is not possible for Boo Boo Davis and the ElectroBluesSociety to be in the same country at the moment. To work around that, the Dutch masters started to exchange ideas and demo tapes with Boo Boo in East St Louis. That way they were able to create new music together despite …
Our greatest artistic conduits transmit signals through sound and words, emitting iridescent beams of light to help guide the collective drift into the unknown. On his latest opus, “2121”, Michigan composer and multi-instrumentalist, The Lasso, creates a thermonuclear rocket ship glide of astral funk: a floating house party that exists at that eternal crossroads, suspended …
UPDATE: DMX, Rapper and Actor Dead at 50 Here’s UPROXX breaking the story: DMX Says U2’s Bono Features On His New Album And Explains How The Unexpected Collab Happened. DMX described the collaboration in this way, “Sh*t’s crazy. It got a Miami feel to it. I feel like I want to shoot the video here!” …
Belgo-Congolese Singer-Songwriter Syssi Mananga’s new album “Mopepe Mama” will be released in April 2021. Until then, she’ll drop a single every month. The first release is a contemporary afro-folk ballad called “Mopepe”. Mopepe means “the wind” in Lingala and celebrates women whose spirit is as free and untamable as the wind. The music video above was shot …
Reclaiming for a new generation the poetry of Dylan, the stark beauty and unhinged Rock and Roll of mid-70s John Cale, and Badfinger’s melancholic timeless songcraft, this is Bandicoot. Their sound flows like post-industrial blues through Swansea’s rain-soaked concrete streets. Named for a small but charming Australian mammal, Bandicoot have earned a ferocious reputation, thanks …
The Legends are back with a fuzzy, jangly and, yes, even powerful new single called “What’s Going On?”. Featuring critically acclaimed 27 year old folk singer Vilma Flood on vocals. Swedish mastermind Johan Angergård (Club 8, Acid House Kings, Djustin, Pallers) has released seven albums under his The Legends moniker and is working on a number of new …
Singer-songwriter Joe Pug has announced a new album, The Diving Sun, which brings together lost gems from his various studio sessions with producers Duane Lundy (Jim James, Ben Sollee) and Kenneth Pattengale (The Milk Carton Kids, Joy Williams) along with new songs recorded in quarantine. What began as a process of collecting archived session files for a B-sides album morphed into an …
All-vocal Country entertainers Home Free and the legendary Don McLean are bringing their special rendition of “American Pie” to life with the brand-new video for their collaboration on the time-tested anthem – out now. The clip visually enhances the making of this all-vocal rendition of “American Pie” – spotlighting each Home Free member and their individual parts as they come together …
Overpowering roots rockers Heavy Feather are back with new music. Their upcoming sophomore album Mountain of Sugar is to be released by The Sign Records in spring 2021. The third single leading up to the album is entitled “Love Will Come Easy” and is out now on all streaming platforms. When Heavy Feather’s first album Débris …
Lushlife has shared the music video for “Hessdalen Lights“, the lead single of his upcoming EP Redamancy on Fortune Tellers, out March 12th. Under The Radar premiered the video, praising “Lushlife’s echoing production giving Douglass an ethereal, otherworldly element and his own vocals an emphatic intensity. The track is an artful introduction to Halder’s sound on Redamancy, as Halder draws fascinating …
s https://hypeddit.com/link/wdmkcv Jason Matu, Brooklyn’s favorite songwriter, has released an awesomely honest, intensely personal new album called Dumb Ecstatic Bliss. Matu describes the evolution of this important work of art in this heartrending way: “Babe, no more songs about death, please,” said my now departed beloved as she poked her head into our bedroom, while …
Brandon Mills has released a poignant, touching, muscular, squared away love song to humanity called, “Don’t Mistake.” Listen up! Brandon Mills has experienced more than most as a warrior, a poet, a servant, and an artist. After serving in the Marine Corps as a Recon Marine and Scout Sniper with tours to Iraq and Afghanistan, …
Powerhouse vocalist and Grammy-winning artist Judith Hill has released “Baby, I’m Hollywood!”, the electrifying title track of her upcoming studio album Baby I’m Hollywood! available via The Regime on March 5, 2021. In the powerful visual, Judith catapults between the highs and lows of life in the spotlight, showing off both the glamour and the struggles in …
Los Angeles, CA – Winter, Spring, Summer, and Autumn each bring their own unique vocals and styles that blend together to create the vibrant SZNS sound. The pop-quartet aims to create a fresh new take on the classic 90’s girl group music we all know and love- blending EDM, latin-synth, and house inspired beats. Their conversational lyricism stems …
Dregen (The Hellacopters, Backyard Babies) has joined forces with Grande Royale for the release of the single and music video “Just as Bad as You”. The single is released on Friday, January 22 on The Sign Records, and is the third single leading up to Grande Royale’s upcoming album “Carry On”. With special guest Dregen …
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 …
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 …
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!
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
The long wait is over! At last the truly rockin’ video for “Fire” is here. Scotswoman Amy Macdonald has a serious thing for Springsteen. She’s covered a few of his tunes and written at least one of her own set in the Springsteen 1970s New York-New Jersey multiverse, “The Hudson.” This time she gives one …
This is intense. Listen well! Cindy’s original music is a blend of Soul, R&B, and Jazz. She is strongly influenced by Jazz harmony while admiring R&B singers and writers. She writes, performs, arranges, and produces. Her musical influences range from Stevie Wonder to Frank Ocean to Tori Kelly to John Coltrane. https://www.cindylatinmusic.com/ View this post on Instagram A post shared …