From the quiet mountains of the California high-desert, this 4-piece assembly of artists known as Illumination Road is indeed, a rock band but also a collective of successful, dynamic creatives with their very own production world on a 140 acre ranch in historic Pioneertown. Consisting of established songwriters, producers, multi-instrumentalists, filmmakers and engineers, the group is a …
Month: March 2021
Post-riot grrrl trio Blood Lemon — feat. bassist & 1st female member of Built to Spill, Melanie Radford — is back today with a headbanging love letter to ’90s alternative in a defiant new single + video “Whistleblower.” Off the band’s self-titled debut album (out April 23), Melanie says the song reflects on “the inner dialogue that occurs when a person is debating …
Tucker Wetmore and “Kiss My A$$” is country porn that’ll moisten your boogie loins. He’s got a band that’s AAA and captures the reckless spirit of the redneck. “We’ve got a little bit of love, a little bit of God, a little bit of honky-tonk, and a little bit of alcohol,” Wetmore says of this …
Proposal are a fast emerging melodic hardcore band from Wollongong, Australia. If songs are like clay that show the evolving work of the Potter, “Clarity” reflects the highest form shaped thus far for this gifted and gut-blasting band of rockers. After listening to five tracks on their new EP, KINGDOM, it’s pretty clear what this …
Have you ever wondered what it would sound like if Eminem got saved? Well, now you know… https://www.facebook.com/camo.kin.5 I said this about a different song two years ago, but it applies to “Pitch Black” as well: “This is a song which even “the gates of Hell shall not prevail against.” This is a song which …
(Photo above is of nettles emerging in the spring.) You would be hard-pressed to come up with a plant with as much medicinal and nutritional power– as well as being a stellar textile– as Stinging Nettles. This is the time of year to harvest the leaves of these natural wonders because they are best while …
Dear Listeners, Lazerine is a London based song recording project based around some ideas of mine that have been coalescing for awhile. Our new single, “I Felt Fine Today,” is out now via FUGA. Our previous releases are available on all Major Platforms. Sean Dempsey Vocals, KeyboardsDavid Kraft …
Bandicoot’s description of their new single FUZZY perfectly encapsulates its timeless, joyful energy … “FUZZY is a deranged attempt at seduction which draws on 70s ‘Top of the Pops’, glam rock and memories of misguided adolescence.” Following hot on the heels of the bands successful debut single on Libertino ‘Dark Too Long’, FUZZY shares DTL …
Photo Credit: Brian Fox “It doesn’t matter what year this music was recorded cause it is undeniable …. but the fact that Duff, Greg, Todd and John created these fully realized songs in 1982 gives credence to the idea that this band, The Living, are ground zero for the Seattle sound.” – Stone Gossard (Pearl Jam, …
In the official video for her new single, “Pasado” featuring Cali y El Dandee, Carmen DeLeon finds herself on a road trip with the Colombian pop-urban brother duo (comprising Alejandro Rengifo and Mauricio Rengifo) – but still haunted by memories of her ex-boyfriend. DeLeon did a live chat on YouTube and an Instagram Live with Cali y El Dandee prior to today’s YouTube Premiere of the …
“100 Rips is just the beginning of a new sound for us. As a band we have always been in the reggae scene as outsiders holding a strong influence of funk, alternative rock, and hip hop at the forefront. Our goal every time we get together is to write something different and pull new inspiration …
DALLAS, Texas – GRAMMY, CMA, and Dove award-winning pop, country, and gospel singer B.J. Thomas revealed today that his doctors have diagnosed him as having stage four lung cancer. Thomas is receiving treatment in a local health care facility in Texas, and is hopeful for a complete recovery. “I just wanted to take this unique …
Early in this trailer, Sam Bush‘s spoken voice comes over a loudspeaker. It rang a special ping of good nostalgia. I hadn’t heard that voice since Holstein’s 35 years ago. In those days I, and my music-obsessed fanboy cohort, knew that whenever we heard Sam Bush’s cool guy stage voice, it was about to be …
Vodka isn’t Russian Vodka was first created in the Middle Ages in what is now Poland, and the first written mention of it is from 1405. It didn’t enter modern day Russia for almost a century, and like all alcohol of the day was used primarily as medicine. Polish physician Stefan Falimierz wrote in his 1534 book on herbs that vodka should be “used to …
April March and Olivia Jean have released the music video for “Allons-y” from their split 7″ Palladium EP (out now via Third Man Records). The video was shot in Third Man Nashville’s famed Blue Room and features the duo performing the ESG-influenced tune with their band. The pair recorded three renditions each of the same tune for the EP, with April March singing “Allons-y” …
There’s a bit of the Irish traditional sound to the bluegrass song above, “Committed No Sins.” This band and this ditty provide the heretofore undiscovered missing link between the Louvin Brothers and the Pogues. Romen Buffalo and the Loyal Order are purveyors of Badass Bluegrass. They are the incorrigible bad boys of the Southwest US …
The bluegrass gospel tradition is as old as the music itself, and if you needed a reminder, the solemn Appalachian ring of the banjo on the latest single from Mountain Home Music Company’s award-winning Sideline furnishes one from the very first note. “When The Son Rose Up That Morning,” from the pen of acclaimed songwriters Rick Lang and Josh Shilling, brings the same devotion …
Imbued with morning sunshine, infused with mountain music, impressive in its range from indie folk to bluegrass, Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno’s new album is out now on Free Dirt Records! Leva’s from Lexington, VA, from a family of mountain musicians, raised in Appalachian stringband music. Calcagno’s from Seattle, his family also well known in the stringband …
In case you were wondering, this train wreck occurred at Paris’s Montparnasse train station on October 22, 1895. The sole casualty was the wife of a newspaper vendor, who was crushed by falling masonry. The accident was a combination of human error (the engineer cruised into the station at full speed because the passenger train …
MUNI LONG returns today with a steamy new single, “Bodies” – certain to be the rising star’s next talked about release. The new single, helmed by Grammy Award-Winning producer Tricky Stewart and Jeff “Gitty” Gitelman and video directed by Amalie Gassmann, find MUNI LONG transitioning through various whimsical scenes boasting a whispering of her inner consciousness as she sings about the …
[Editor’s note: Below you will find a review of Beck’s Midnight Vultures written by Tom Fredrickson on December 6, 1999 for Pandemonium Online. Upon recent listens, the author has found that Midnight Vultures “holds up and sounds better than ever on the sound system mine has grown into.” Thus, to celebrate one of Beck’s finer …
Roger Whittaker during a concert given at the Weser-Ems-Hall at Oldenburg (Lower Saxony, Germany) in 1976. Photo by Wilfried Wittkow. Hearing the opening 10 seconds of this several times a day as the station ID soundtrack on WGN-TV for months at time in my unguarded years has rendered me helpless before what my better self knows—I’m …
On making the video and working with her tarantula co-star Elenore, Lyn Lapid says, “Working with Elenore was very interesting. On set, I said I wasn’t afraid of tarantulas or spiders, but every time Elenore got within 10 inches of me, I’d freak out on the inside. She was placed on a table that I sat …
On such a winter’s day (or at least soggy chilly spring day)… Here’s a 1967 video from the Ed Sullivan show of The Mamas & The Papas of a song Rimkus has always liked, “California Dreaming”: Rimkus has also always enjoyed the lovely Michelle Phillips, the M&P’s slinky sweet hippie-girl singer. But having not paid …
Rosé of BLACKPINK shares her massively anticipated debut solo project, R. Released via YG Entertainment/Interscope Records, the single album consists of two unforgettably vulnerable tracks co-written by the K-pop icon: “On the Ground” and “Gone.” Produced by frequent BLACKPINK collaborator TEDDY, acclaimed songwriter/producer/artist Jon Bellion (Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus), Jorgen Odegard (Justin Bieber, P!nk), Ojivolta …
Imagine Dragons return with two new songs – “Follow You” and “Cutthroat” – and lyric videos to accompany each. Released today via KIDinaKORNER/Interscope, the tracks mark the first new music from the GRAMMY®-winning, multi-Platinum band since Origins, their 2018 album. Imagine Dragons are featured on New Music Daily on Apple Music. “Follow You,” which was produced by Joel Little, is a love …
“Our light and dark aspects fight for control of our decisions, and lead us to positive or negative realities.” – Meg Myers (Artist portrait above is by Haig Boyd) Acclaimed, supercool, multi-talented, singer-songwriter Meg Myers is inviting you to watch her darksome, energetic, awe-inspiring, animated music video for “The Underground.” Hailed by American Songwriter as a “tar-black confessional,” …
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic work The Great Gatsby came to represent the Roaring Twenties, an era of decadence and spiritual vacuousness, using the green light (“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.”) to represent longing and hope for the future. Nick Waterhouse (who was perhaps named for Gatsby narrator, …
Morgan Joanel may seem to some to be almost over-creative, but if you ask her; it’s all connected, flowing in one big artistic loop, with music at the heart of it. The new single, Looking To Be Found, co-produced with WAMI Award winning Dave Parkin (Abbe May, Tired Lion), highlights the smokey, honey-toned vocals she’s known for and mixes …