This fun and minimalist cover (above) of Fleetwood Mac’s “Everywhere” came out three years ago and is still worthy of excessive celebration. And below is her most recent video which soared past 100,000 in two weeks or so. https://www.instagram.com/orlagartland/
Legendary rock musician Ann Wilson has returned with her first release in two years. “The Revolution Starts Now” is available now on Ann’s official YouTube Channel and for digital download on AnnWilson.com. “The Revolution Starts Now” was originally recorded by Steve Earle and first appeared as the title track of his GRAMMY nominated 2004 album The Revolution Starts Now. “This is …
Carley Arrowood has released a video for her latest single, “Goin’ Home, Comin’ On.” “This music video is the first one I’ve ever done as a solo artist, and I couldn’t be happier with the way it turned out. It is absolutely stunning thanks to Bob Peck of Mountainwater Films; he made it such a fun and easy experience! Man what …
Arden, North Carolina (October 19, 2020) — No matter how widely eclectic roots music duo Zoe & Cloyd ventures, they always have a place on their setlist for bluegrass, and a deep familiarity with the form that guarantees their bluegrass efforts are authentic in every respect — musically, lyrically and emotionally. So it’s no surprise that their latest …
Love this tune. It is, of course, essentially the Thin Lizzy version of a folk standard properly produced and done at a less codeine-induced pace. James Hetfield’s resemblance to Michael McKean gives the whole thing a Spinal Tap vibe, especially at the Slane Castle setting. Tom Fredrickson
Popular touring vocalist Jessie Wagner (Lenny Kravitz, Chic, Duran Duran, Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul) and frontwoman for NYC rock/soul band Army of the Underdog has dropped “End of Time,” a new single and video off of her debut solo album, ‘Shoes Droppin,’ which was released October 9th via Wicked Cool Records. Stream “Shoes Droppin” on all digital platforms. Of …
Behold Amritha Shakti, a singer-songwriter born in Chennai, India and raised in Sydney, Australia. She has just released a new soul/gospel track called ‘Take Me Home,’, This glorious track combines gospel music with Indian/ Tamil instrumentation and vocals. Shakti worked with a team of killer jazz musicians in Sydney and everything was recorded live. “This song represents …
Written, performed and produced by her, “In the Breeze” is Jade’s manifesto, marking the debut of a new chapter in her artistry, one where she has taken full control. Recorded over the past two years in Brussels, NYC, Japan and Berlin, the song is a collection of moments experienced and lessons learned. Describing an imaginary …
Jesus, Eddie Van Halen is dead. The wind’s been knocked out of me. What? Eddie Van Halen is gone, and with him, one of the last crouton-crumbs of my salad days has been swept away. Arguably the most influential rock musician of my generation, definitely the most influential rock guitarist since Hendrix. As with Hendrix, …
This is lovely. Please listen immediately. And yes, this is the song used in the AirBnB commercial. What started as a solo project is now the joint creative project of artists, multi-instrumentalists and songwriters Stian Vedøy and Abi Eleri. Hailing from a windswept west coast island of Norway, Stian met Abi after moving to Cardiff, …
Following on from September’s release of their debut tune, “Salt,” Portland’s newest band, Driving for Peaches today digitally-released “Head Straight.” The second of three songs recorded earlier this year while under COVID restrictions, Head Straight offers a counterpoint to the alt-pop vibes of Salt, and sees the band exploring a more hard-hitting sound, with forceful, overdriven …
October 2ND, 2020 — Santa Monica, CA — One of the year’s most wildly anticipated releases, THE ALBUM by BLACKPINK is out today via YG Entertainment/Interscope Records. With guest spots from Selena Gomez and Cardi B, THE ALBUM is the first full-length studio effort from the powerhouse K-pop quartet. Go HERE to listen to THE ALBUM by BLACKPINK now. Also today, BLACKPINK have premiered the mind-blowing visual for “Lovesick Girls,” the third single …
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 …