Emm & May is a rambunctious folk-bump about summer romances — past summer loves, and the ones about to happen. First kisses, bonfires, handholding, leaning into one another, looking up at the stars, wondering together at the meteor showers; all told through the eyes of the guy in the corner with a guitar, with an unexpected …
Acclaimed singer-songwriter Meg Myers has announced today’s premiere of her powerful new single. “Any Way You Wanna Love” is available now at all DSPs and streaming services. LISTEN TO “ANY WAY YOU WANNA LOVE” “My song ‘Any Way You Wanna Love’ is about waking up to the divinity within each and every one of us and …
“”Let Me Go Now’ is about – letting go of someone you love because you love them,” says Luna Keller. And indeed it is. Keller’s latest opus is a true blue relationship requiem, the lasting echo of a once sweet love poem now fading. The singer still cares, but hurts, and knows the ending time …
Take a look at “Home,” Makeout‘s first song with new frontman Kyle Dee (formerly a Season 11 American Idol contestant, and lead singer of Chicago mainstays, The Frantic) and bassist AJ Khah (who was previously a member of Sleep On It). Dee and Khah join founding members Tyler Young (Lead Guitar) and Scott Eckel (Drums) for a more mature sounding yet still super melodic new version of …
Here’s a beautiful, spot on, seventies nostalgia video from Scottish singer-songwriter Amy Macdonald whose next album, The Human Demands, will be released Oct. 30. “We were running riot,we were playing the game…” “True love is only something you hear in songs,It doesn’t really last that long…” View this post on Instagram A post shared by …
Supreme electronic duo Kaleida’s eagerly anticipated second album, Odyssey, is now on the market, and quite awesome. These three songs are the first three singles from the work. Last year, Kaleida’s vocalist, Christine Wood, released Instar, a monumentally great work of ultracool Americana under the name of her alter ego, Vesper Wood. She also agreed …
Kima Otung describes herself in this way: “I grew up with my 4 brothers and sisters in the Pontypridd, in the valleys of South Wales. My parents are Nigerian and the sounds of gospel music and Motown defined my childhood. When I was 14 years old I got accepted as the youngest member of the Welsh National …
Two nifty Bruce Springsteen covers from a few years back. MacDonald’s new album, The Human Demands, will be released on October 30.
Gabriela Michele Milkova fuses poetry, music, the visual arts and performance to create spellbinding audio and visual delights. Her latest single ‘Healing’ is part of a larger project Do You Know The Sea?, a series of five poems all of which will coincide with the release of a book by Metanoja Publishing House, an album and, finally, …
“Sometimes I feel like we’re just sleepwalking through our lives. We’re not really present.” Hazel English wants us to open our eyes. Through her shimmering, daydream-pop, the California based singer-songwriter is on a mission to rattle the cages of our very existence, asking us to dig deep and ask challenging questions of ourselves. ‘Wake UP!’, …
Here’s some global recombinant ultra-cool that I’ve just discovered. With new wave/reggae sounds reminiscent of Elvis Costello’s “Watching the Detectives,” this is Norwegian Rockabilly artist Vidar Busk’s take on the tender old Swedish hymn “Han har öppnat pärleporten” which I became aware of via Artur Erikson’s version. There is at least one other Norwegian rockabilly …
Driving for Peaches formed in late 2019 in Portland, Oregon, when three new friends from faraway places started jamming together. When jams became songs, the trio – Ditte Kuijpers from the Netherlands on vocals, and guitarists Alex Whitcher from New Zealand and Pete Harrington from the UK – turned their thoughts towards gigs, and started …
Exile And Redemption is a fitting description for a time of social distance, but have you ever attended a Neo-Hasidic Rock Opera? Enter Philadelphia-based songwriter Aryeh Shalom, a man of shattered dreams and transformation, who draws from Hasidic legend and existential family struggle to create an album that is Broadway meets Baal Shem Tov (the founder of the Hasidic movement). As Ringo Starr once said, “Got …
Fantastic Negrito, the Oakland blues howler who’s already scored two Grammys in the last five years, mixes in a healthy dose of retro soul on his third album, Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? All that groovin’ sweetens his gritty street tales. “How Long,” already released as a single for the record set to drop …
Twin Cities-based trio Semisonic released a new song “All It Would Take” from their forthcoming EP You’re Not Alone out September 18 via Pleasuresonic Recordings/Megaforce Records. The song follows “You’re Not Alone,” the title track to the forthcoming EP and the band’s first single in nearly 20 years, which just debuted at #40 on Billboard’s …
– 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 …
‘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 …
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 …
This is an incredibly good ’87-’96 tribute: Pixies, Posies, Replacements, Nirvana, Weezer, Matthew Sweet, the theme to “That 70s Show,” and (my favorite Seattle band of the era) Flake, all in a single song. What’s more, the official music video, below, is packed with dozens of smile-inducing visual homages to ’90s slacker film and TV. …
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 …
From her Wikipedia page: “Amy Elizabeth Macdonald (born 25 August 1987) is a Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and musician. She has sold over 12 million records worldwide.[1] Macdonald released her debut album This Is the Life in 2007. The singles “Mr. Rock & Roll” and “This Is the Life” from it were chart hits. The latter charted at number one in …
““Pitch Dark” is a chill song about falling in love in a coffee shop during a thunderstorm,” says Abigail Fierce. “I wrote this song alone in a thunderstorm, in the dark…so some of the inspiration was quite literal. It’s a hopeful, feel good song, but it still has a melancholy edge, so as not to …
Images of Light I Will Go Where You Go A few years back, Dr Shines and Gene Lazerine sat down over another pint, discussing their latest musical ideas with which to impress their unaware public. They reviewed the great music they would have made if only they’d gotten around to it and found it conceptually …
Hi East Portland, Well, what can I say? Been making music as long as I can remember. Mostly old school blues-rock, but I have influences in all kinds of music. And it’s all done with the guitar. “No Reason” describes the condition/state you can come across, maybe more often now, these days. Hope …
BLACKPINK’S “HOW YOU LIKE THAT” SHATTERS YOUTUBE RECORD FOR THE BIGGEST 24-HOUR MUSIC VIDEO DEBUT OF ALL TIME VIDEO ALSO BREAKS YOUTUBE RECORD FOR MOST VIEWS IN 24 HOURS “HOW YOU LIKE THAT” HITS #2 ON SPOTIFY’S GLOBAL TOP 50 DEBUT PERFORMANCE LAST WEEK ON THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON June 29th, 2020 …
Most remixes are awful. Not this one. This one finds and enhances melodic parts in the original while prolonging the occasional understated dance kick. When Youtube says this is the “Berlin 12 Inch Remix” are they referring to the city or the nightclub under the EL stop on Belmont in Chicago, also called “Berlin”? If …
Grammy-nominated, Twin Cities-based, trio Semisonic has just released a video for “You’re Not Alone,” the group’s first new song in nearly 20 years. The single is the opening track from their forthcoming five-song EP You’re Not Alone out on September 18 via Pleasuresonic Recordings/Megaforce Records. The video for “You’re Not Alone” was directed by Minneapolis-based …
Here’s Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder joining Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on stage in 2006 and singing “The Waiting,” to our eternal gratitude. Tom Petty died like Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Elvis and Prince– of an opioid overdose– in 2017. Heartbreaker guitarist Mike Campbell was named number 79 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of 100 …