This deathless video below is ten years old, yet it grows more needful and beautiful with every passing year. The Swedish singer’s name, Kersti Esselwall Smårs, is pronounced “Chair-shtee Essel-Voll Shmorsh.” And here’s Kersti contributing her voice to a haunting new composition in the Swedish language. In English, the title means, “In Motion”:
Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham has just released an awesome new single called, “I Don’t Mind.” His upcoming album will be self-titled. For the last 21 years, he’s been married to Kristen Messner. She filed divorce papers recently. Bummer. Dig all the drama here. Here’s his latest and freshest. I like this one too: And “Scream…”
Here’s a rich, pensive, jazzy, new version– out less than a week– of the beloved Swedish hymn, “Blott en Dag” (English title, “Day By Day”) written by Carolina Sandell-Berg (or, as we used to call her in the old country of Chicago, where she has her own statue: Lina Sandell). The recording artist is Sven …
This is a beautiful song from Sarah Kroger which I discovered this morning in an East Portland Church Service. Below is the smart and lovely version sung at Sunnyside SDA Church on Market Street in East Portland on this morning, 5/29/2021. When you click on the video is should start at the beginning of the …
Be Nice To Yourself, the new single from Jason Matu, is a guitar-driven pep talk acting as an act of aggression against Jason’s feelings of infinite loneliness and self-loathing following his longtime partner’s death. Recorded remotely in conjunction with producer, frequent collaborator, and Grammy-nominee Justin Craig (Hedwig and the Angry Inch), Be Nice To Yourself focuses …
Joker’s Hand is confirmed to perform at Beachlife Festival in Southern California this fall alongside such artists as Jane’s Addiction, Cage The Elephant, Counting Crows and many more. Joker’s Hand is also featured in Atwood Magazine’s recent article celebrating AAPI Heritage Month. Check it out here: https://atwoodmagazine.com/aapi2104-asian-american-pacific-islander-month-2021-feature-part-4/ Hailing from Torrance, CA. Joker’s Hand founding members Kevin Kawano and Matthew Lau met while attending film school at …
This is a lovely arrangement. Please give it a listen. https://www.facebook.com/Jehovahshalomaccapella
Here’s the amazing breakthrough single for fiercest Abigail, and it’s coming out just as her acting career (as Abigail Killmeier) has taken off with Hulu original Love, Victor. This ballad is a classic heartsy-pop funtime song. The delightful video features The Divine Ms. Fierce in a Hallmark Autumn Romance knockoff. She’s a tomboy who pines …
Sandra Entermann is an Australian singer of Christian music, contemporary and otherwise. She has become a global phenomenon in the last year as she has been organizing these weekly “Sabbath Singalongs with Sandra” where she joins a rotating cast of choristers and musicians who get together and sing every Friday night hoping their listeners join …
“Don’t go chasin’ waterfalls. You know where the water falls…” This is a great song by the very cool V. Rose. She reads the Word, and lives it. Just listen. https://www.facebook.com/vrosemusic
It’s David Byrne’s birthday, so a fitting time to celebrate the deliciously paradoxical “Listening Wind,” one of Talking Heads’ lesser known gems on Remain in Light. Of all the polyrhythms and African incantations on that record, “Wind” is the most hypnotic. “The wind in my heart, the wind in my heartThe dust in my hair, …
Melbourne’s Ryan Downey‘s luminous art-rock album A TON OF COLOURS is about humanness – its beauty, its contradictions, and our desire for connection. It is a love letter to the beauty of emotional expression and communication, with love being the conduit for this joy of self-expression. There’s a soul-sharing vulnerability throughout, found in the aching longing of ‘Contact’ (“If I …
“…Y’all don’t see me on SundaysYou don’t think that’s rightI see most of you wastedwhere I play on Saturday night. Y’all stumble to the stage, shout ‘Livin on a Prayer’and all those drinks you’re poundin’got you more than halfway there…” – Givin’ a Damn (Don’t Go with My Outfit) “Some of these things I’ve wanted …
This project was a collaboration between Gina Powers (songwriter), Trever Nelson (producer) and Kyle Medenwald (film maker) along with Mitchell Rittenbach (bass) and Russell Pfaff (percussion), members of The GPB, who appear in the video. A special thanks to First Congregational United Church of Christ in Moorhead, MN, Cheryl Carlton Powers (Gina’s daughter who appears …
Cooked up in the Blue Note Lab, GPP/RMX presents last year’s band-defining masterpiece, GoGo Penguin, re-imagined through the filter of some of the world’s finest producers and remixers. Cornelius’s mix (above) is both intelligent and beautiful. The way he’s sliced up and repositioned the piano melodies and combined them with synth lines makes it familiar but also gives it a new …
Her name is Sweetjane X. She’s a sexy singer, trenchant songwriter, caring music pedagogue and woke AF entrepreneur who is transforming New Orleans. She grinds on alternative pop that pulls hard on a panoply of cool-mongering influences, directions and sounds. Her upcoming album, Life On Venus is a sublime genre-crashing felony that savages (in the best possible ways) …
Photo by Ebru Yildiz Grammy-winning songwriter and producer Paula Cole shares her new song “Black Mountain Blues.” Recorded by Bessie Smith and covered by Janis Joplin, Cole’s version of the song is the second single from her upcoming album American Quilt. “It’s strong like black coffee and it’s warrior-esque”, says Cole. American Quilt will be released on May 21st through …
Kanyakla is a group of people that loves Christian Music and seeks to share the love of Christ through singing. They are from Uthiru, Central Province, Kenya. https://www.facebook.com/Kanyakla-107666274385255/
Country music singer/songwriter Ava Rowland turns up the heat just in time for summer with the release of “Run Like Hell.” Sounding off the season with this upbeat love ballad, “Run Like Hell” highlights Ava’s vocal ability while also telling a story that everyone can relate to. This single details an all too familiar feeling of …
Teen country sensation Bailey James has released “Over You” as her latest single. Arriving in the wake of “Swore I Was Over It” and “Bitter,” this uptempo rocker marks the prolific young songstress’ third single of 2021. With incredible guitar riffs accompanied by a rhythmic piano part, “Over You” is a true country rock hit. The …
Weezer has released a new video for the song “Grapes Of Wrath,” one of the standout tracks on the band’s most recent and much-loved album, OK Human. The video, which sees the band listening to audiobooks — among other things — while avoiding a group video meeting, was co-directed by frequent Weezer collaborator Brendan Walter …
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS – “The Second Coming” On a cold night, Alice Merton abruptly notices something is wrong while standing in line, …
Credit: Eszter+David [At approx. 00:15 in the video below, an image appears of Liz on Yamhill Street in downtown Portland standing near some streetcar tracks.] Liz Phair is pleased to announce details of, Soberish, her highly-anticipated new album, and first collection of original material in eleven years. Produced by Phair’s longtime collaborator Brad Wood – …
MOON is a duo made up of Chelsea Dawn on vocals and drums, and Dan Silver on guitars and synths. Dawn was born in a farming and mining town called Price; Silver was the son of British immigrants who landed in Cincinnati. They’ve been making their thunderous music since the release of debut The Heart, with a sound …
SENSES are: Callan, Kavvy, Finny and Ronan. They return with Drifting, the second track to be taken off their debut album, Little Pictures Without Sound (due 16th July). They combine arena ready hooks with evocative soundscapes to create their compelling sound. Equally influenced by shoegaze romanticism, alternative experimentation, and indie ambition. SENSES received support very …
Texas make a very welcome return with their exhilarating new album Hi, flexing their rock soul muscle with 14 tracks that easily rank amongst the best of their stellar career. Scotland’s finest, Texas, are a band in their prime, fuelled by the swagger of their recent acclaimed collaboration with the Wu-Tang Clan. Along with news of the new album …
Photo by Anna Azarov Arguably the only happy song on Sweetlove’s new EP, GOODNIGHT, LOVER, opening song “Devil on Your Shoulder,” urges self-acceptance with heartwarming confidence. “It was a crazy, rainy day, and my co-writer Jay Stolar and I decided that we wanted to attempt to write something about being brave in honor of someone’s …
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 …
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 …