Month: July 2020

Mont Duamel – Find Myself

Mont Duamel is the debut artist project of grammy-nominated producer Mathieu Jomphe Lepine. With a deep interest in the way artistic mediums trigger an emotional response, the songwriter and producer analyses visual arts, human interaction, travel and sensory reactions in his glittering new project.  Building a name for himself as a renowned producer in the …

Olivia Henry drops sultry, “Beautiful” video

– Olivia Henry just dropped her debut music video and it’s pulsing with intimacy and magnetic attraction.  Here’s how the mighty East Portland Blog reviewed her recent album Expectations: “Behold sleek, chic LA songstress Olivia Henry, whose impeccably tight new album, Expectations, is loaded with racy, noir-ish, power-femme, alterna-soul and has drawn comparisons to original torchlighters …

Watch the Late 1940’s Brooklyn Jewish Community Celebrate Love in Mima Good’s “Granddaddy” Music Video

Brooklyn based soulful pop artist Mima Good has just released “Granddaddy”, the third single off her upcoming album. “Granddaddy”  is a dreamlike, jazz inspired ballad featuring New York legend Christopher McBride on saxophone. The singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist has been working on an exploratory, genre-bending collection of songs for the past year in her …

SERA announces brand new album & shares dynamic new ‘Switch’ single

‘SWITCH’ is a bolt out of the dark, a harsh awakening. Empowerment. Sera’s album songs are all drawn from folklore and SWITCH is no different, drawing inspiration from Steam-punk, Frankenstein and the ‘Freak Lab-accident’ trope of the comic superhero. SERA’s music is rooted in folk, Americana, singer-songwriter, with this track taking a further leap into …

JHENÉ AIKO’S CHILOMBO RECLAIMS BILLBOARD #1 R&B ALBUM, RE-ENTERS THE TOP 10 ON BILLBOARD 200: POWERED BY NEW DELUXE EDITION, CHILOMBO RE-ASSERTS ITS CLAIM AS THE R&B ALBUM OF THE YEAR

LISTEN HERE Jhené Aiko’s blockbuster album CHILOMBO re-asserts its claim to the title of R&B album of the year this week, as the deluxe addition powers the album to over 46,000 new units. CHILOMBO re-enters the Top 10 on the Billboard 200 at #6, and reclaims the #1 spot on the Billboard R&B albums chart.  CHILOMBO DELUXE adds nine previously unreleased bonus tracks and …

SOUTH KOREAN SUPERSTAR QUARTET BLACKPINK TO RELEASE NEW SINGLE WITH SELENA GOMEZ ON 8/28, DEBUT STUDIO ALBUM ON 10/2

August 11th, 2020 — Santa Monica, CA — Global pop sensations BLACKPINK have announced that multi-platinum singer/songwriter Selena Gomez will appear on their forthcoming single. Due out on August 28th, the new single will serve as the second single from BLACKPINK’s highly anticipated debut album, set for release via YG Entertainment/Interscope Records on October 2nd. Merch bundles for the album …

Architecture of the Cocktail: Where does the term cocktail come from? by Bill Stott

There is a long and somewhat intellectual debate as to who (which country) gets to lay claim the title of creator of the cocktail (hint: its America). The British play a large part in the effort, but from the beginning it was considered an American creation and recent research seems to place it squarely in the front yard of the upstarts across the pond …

TAYLOR SWIFT RELEASES folklore ALBUM TODAY AND “cardigan” SINGLE WITH ACCOMPANYING MUSIC VIDEO

LISTEN TO folklore HERE WATCH/ SHARE THE MUSIC VIDEO FOR “cardigan” HERE Friday 24th July, 2020 – Most of the things Taylor Swift had planned for the summer of 2020 didn’t end up happening but…there was something magical that did happen, the surprise release of her 8th studio album, folklore. “Before this year I probably would’ve overthought when to release this music at the …

Broken Baby Debuts Disco-Punk “Manic Panic” Single

Photo: Eric Cacioppo “Cracking, punk-edged rock & roll from L.A. group Broken Baby that kicks, hisses, and snarls.” – Bandcamp  “Broken Baby’s music is sonic lightning, full of confrontational excitement that gets the listener riled up and agitated, even if they don’t know exactly by what.” – Kerrang! “It’s enough to rile up a listener and become embedded in their brain without …

SOMI (전소미) – ‘What You Waiting For’: KOREAN POP STAR, SOMI, SIGNS WITH INTERSCOPE RECORDS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THEBLACKLABEL

Santa Monica, California, July 22, 2020 – Canadian-Dutch-Korean singer-songwriter SOMI has signed to Interscope Recordsas part of the label’s partnership with THEBLACKLABEL. After winning first place on Korean reality singing competition Produce 101, SOMI emerged as a solo artist in June 2019 with her single “BIRTHDAY,” which has since amassed over 53M streams worldwide on Spotify and 78M views on YouTube to date. The …

Architecture of the Cocktail: What makes a cocktail, a cocktail? by Bill Stott

I have been doing cocktail research for over a year now for a book I am writing – which is probably the lie that many drinkers tell themselves. As an architect, and not a bartender, I have always been fascinated with the making of the drink – ingredients, glassware, history, etc. The stuff you don’t necessarily think about when sipping a cold one, but affects the overall experience …

Bluegrass: Mark Stoffel – Shadowbands [Official Video]

“Shadowbands,” a contemplative, atmospheric composition inspired by 2017’s solar eclipse, features Stoffel accompanied by Gina Furtado (banjo), acclaimed Irish fiddler/violinist Niall Murphy, co-producer Josh Morrison on guitar, and longtime colleague Ross Sermons (upright bass), “The musicians, whom I am honored to call very close friends of mine, all live scattered around the world, so we produced this video in an extreme socially-distanced fashion: Ross Sermons shot his …

See You Tomorrow: Innocence Mission’s latest is soundtrack for love in time of coronavirus, by Claude Iosso

Listening to the Innocence Mission’s latest album – See You Tomorrow – is like waking from a delicious dream. You feel profound joy and sorrow, but can’t explain why. The Lancaster, Pennsylvania folk trio, which has now released 12 studio albums over a 30-year career, doesn’t vary from their distinctive, low-key sound, but the songs …