CBE/Atlantic recording artist Sevyn Streeter’s new EP “Call Me Crazy, But…” will be available via all DSP’s and retailers on December 3rd. “CALL ME CRAZY, BUT…” is highlighted by the new single, “It Won’t Stop” featuring Chris Brown, which has climbed to #1 on the iTunes R&B songs chart, marking Sevyn’s first time at…
Month: November 2013
WIRE: NEW SINGLE FROM MARISSA NADLER
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Boston-based singer Marissa Nadler has shared the first track, Dead City Emily, off her forthcoming sixth full-length album, July, coming out on February 4th on Sacred Bones (US) and February 11th on Bella Union (ROW). July is the kind of release that reminds you why NPR counts Nadler’s songwriting as so “revered among an assortment…
JESSICA HERNANDEZ & THE DELTAS NEW SINGLE “CAUGHT UP”
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Comprised of five charismatic tracks that highlight the raw talent of this Detroit act, Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas’ Demons EP is out today via Instant Records. Showcasing influences as diverse as the gypsy punk outfit Gogol Bordello and pensive singer/songwriter Tom Waits, Jessica brings a soulful attitude that is far beyond her years to…
M83 NEW SINGLE “ALI & MATTHIAS”
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M83 is excited to announce their latest collaboration: the soundtrack to Yann Gonzalez’s first feature film, You And The Night. Mute will be releasing You And The Nightvia digital download on November 19th, 2013. Anthony warns that You And The Night is not a typical M83 release. “People who only like “Midnight City” are going…
NETTWERK MUSIC GROUP SIGNS ALTERNATIVE R&B/SOUL ARTIST CHRIS BATSON
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Nettwerk Music Group is excited to announce the signing of the multi-talented producer and Alternative R&B/Soul artist Chris Batson to its worldwide label roster. At only 22-years of age, Los Angeles-based Batson writes the most poignant and deeply personal lyrics, matched with a vocal soulfulness beyond his years. Drawing from relationships with friends…
STORE N FORWARD NEW “SAUERKRAUT” VIDEO
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German trance duo Store N Forward have been back in the kitchen cooking up another trance anthem with their humorous signature flavor. Already seeing radio support from Armin van Buuren on A State of Trance, their newest creation ‘Sauerkraut,’ a tasty progressive track, is out now on Afterglow Records with an official music video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quCIYPSiiZ8…
LEILAH NEW ALBUM + VIDEO POSTED
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Nashville-based vocalist LEILAH is the daughter of Woodstock hit singer/songwriter Melanie (‘I’ve Got A Brand New Pair of Rollerskates’, ‘Look What They’ve Done To My Song’) but is claiming 2014 as her year to breakout on her own as a solo artist. LEILAH’s new album Make Believe is out now and can be streamed is…
Dugway, The Up and Up
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Based in Lenox MA, the band Dugway is a duo consisting of Chris Considine and Blake Poore. They used to perform as ‘Chris & Blake’ but scrapped that name for something a bit more cryptic. Drawing on their large repertoire of songs (as well as a few Beatles covers), they’ve entertained at a number of…
JAZMIN SISTERS’ VIDEO “YOU”
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90’s Baby production re-interprets the sisters’ favorite classic R&B jams. The project’s first single, “You”, flips SWV’s “Weak,” into a danceable ode to new love layered with the group’s signature four-part harmonies. The video for “You” is a nod to both 90’s hip-hop and girl groups of the past made fresh by the producers’ modern…
GOIN’ BAZERK!
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Bazerk is an L.A. rock band led by the charismatic antics of ZU [OnPlanetZu], the unstoppable force of nature that defies you not to get sucked into this powerhouse wall of sound. With a new album coming out “American Made Monster” featuring guests George Clinton and Angelo Moore from Fishbone. The album comes out 1/4/14…
BORGORE & VICTOR NIGLIO SINGLE “BOOTY MONSTA”
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“Booty Monsta” is a featured track on Borgore’s upcoming Wild Out EP, which features a collection of diverse tracks that showcase him as a songwriter and his ability to move between genres. On title track “Wild Out,” Borgore meshes his bass-heavy antics with hip-hop-influenced sounds coupled with rap heavyweight Waka Flocka Flame’s furious raps and…
DJ GREEN LANTERN POSTS “SHOW ME (bootleg)”
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In case you’ve been living under a rock, Green has seamlessly added “electronic artist/producer” to his laundry list of accomplishments that includes tour DJ for Em, Nas, and Jay, billboard charting producer, mixtape king, and one of hip hop’s most consistent/creative talents over the last 15 years. In this new landscape of EDM, Green has…
A$AP ROCKY SCORES RIAA DOUBLE PLATINUM STATUS AND GOLD STATUS
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Hot off the heels of winning the 2013 BET Hip Hop Perfect Combo Award for “F**kin’ Problems,” A$AP Rocky’s chart-topping single featuring Drake, 2 Chainz and Kendrick Lamar, has been certified Double Platinum by the RIAA in the U.S., Platinum in Canada and Gold in both Australia and New Zealand. Additionally, “Wild For The Night”…
CRACKER BARREL OLD COUNTRY STORE AND SINGER MANDY BARNETT FULFILL PROMISE
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Acclaimed vocalist Mandy Barnett’s CD, I Can’t Stop Loving You: The Songs of Don Gibson, is now available exclusively at all Cracker Barrel Old Country Store ® locations, digitally on http://crackerbarrel.com and with select online retailers. The Cracker Barrel Old Country Store ® exclusive album release, featuring 12 classic songs, fulfills a promise…
BRITNEY SPEARS HELPS TO SAVE MUSIC EDUCATION
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The VH1 Save The Music Foundation is proud to announce that pop superstar Britney Spears will headline the 2014 Ambassador class, a collection of celebrities dedicated to showcasing the importance of music education and raising awareness about the work the Foundation is doing to keep music in our schools. Joining Spears are a group of…
WAYNE STATIC X-MAS TOUR DATES
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Industrial metal legend Wayne Static of Static-X has announced the dates of his 2013 X-Mas Tour. The Defiled and Madlife offer support on the tour which kicks off on December 3rd in Tempe, Arizona and works it way across the U.S. and back wrapping up on December 14th in West Hollywood, California. Tour Dates: 12/3…
WIRE: NEW VIDEO BY ALVVAYS VIA NYLON
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Alvvays (ȯl-wÄ“z) can be found under the overpass, jingle-jangling sun-splashed fuzz pop. Molly Rankin (lead vocals/guitar) and Kerri Maclellan (keyboards) grew up as next-door neighbours in Cape Breton, lifting fiddles and singing folk-songs. Different kinds of heartbreaks soon came calling: as teens they discovered Teenage Fanclub and the Jesus & Mary Chain, Dolly Mixture and…
RYAN VAN DORDRECHT SINGLE “GREAT AMERICAN LIFE”
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Portland musician, Ryan VanDordrecht, took time to reconnect with the music that had inspired him as a kid after writing a record full of songs which attracted producer Joe Chiccarelli (The Shins, Counting Crows) to work with him on his former band, Castella’s album. With the maturity brought on by that experience, VanDordrecht set out…
CHIILDREN RELEASE SHOCKING NEW VIDEO
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The highly controversial, Synthetic-Metal duo Chiildren have released yet another SHOCKING music video entitled “Apocalypse Prologue.” The video, originally premiering on Bloody Disgusting, features remixes from the duo’s upcoming physical release of “The Other People EP” though Bit Riot Records on November 12th. You can pre order “The Other People EP” through FiXT at this…
CHOX-MAK VIDEO “NO WEAPONS”
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One of the fastest rising recording artists has to be none other than Jacksonville, North Carolina’s own Chox-Mak. He has been making his rounds in the media for a while now and is now starting to get the attention he well deserves. With his mixtape “Cross Colours And Starter Jackets” in the works he has…
THE JOURNEY OF THE “SWEET BLESSINGS” RMX
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When asked what inspired Thulani to produce the track, Sweet Blessings Remix her response was moving. “When I first heard the tune from Jerome Brailey I got chills up and down my spine because it was a diamond in the rough. I immediately got his permission to do something with it for I knew…
STOLI IS CELEBRATING VETERANS DAY WITH GREEN CORN REVIVAL ‘BOUND FOR GLORY’
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Hello to all on this Veteran’s Day. Before we begin, I want to say a thank you to all military past & present. We appreciate all you do plus we love that you read Skope. I also want to send prayers to victims of Typhoon Hayain. It brings me to tears to think 10K+ lives…
Danielle Bloom, “Meet me in the Middleâ€
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Most fans of the country music that comes out of Nashville are real people looking for sound and words that relate. When you think about it that’s pretty much everybody, but sometimes the music is so bad, so abnormally atrocious that your disappointment seems to surround everything but you at once. Ultimately you get the…
4 COOL ACCESSORIES TO PROMOTE YOUR BAND’S BRAND
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You did it! You’ve got more than ten people showing up to your gigs! They love you. They love you so much that they’ve bought your available merchandise: T-shirts, stickers, demo disks… the works! Wait a minute, though. What if their band shirts get dirty? They sure can’t run around, day in and day out,…
RICHARD BUCKNER BOOKING SHOWS IN YOUR HOME
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Richard Buckner will be heading to the west coast early next year in support of Surrounded, and he wants to play at your house! From RichardBuckner.com: So, beginning in late January 2014, I’ll be traveling throughout Washington, Oregon, California and Arizona with my acoustic guitar, hollering & strumming into thin air to audiences weary of…
WIRE: SNOWBIRD SINGLE “PORCELAIN”
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Born from love, musical empathy, a baby grand piano discovered on Gumtree and an expired visa, Snowbird duo Stephanie Dosen and Simon Raymonde have crafted an album of exquisite melody and mood that radiates the uncanny mystery of the object it’s named after: moon. Released early next year on Bella Union, the label that Raymonde…
WIRE: TENNIS SYSTEM PREMIERE “CALL IT HOME” VIA SPIN
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Los Angeles’s Tennis System announced their new EP, Part Time Punks Session, the other week and today premiered a second track off the five-song record, “Call It Home” via SPIN . Part Time Punks Session will be released on PaperCup Music, November 19. http://www.spin.com/articles/tennis-system-call-it-home-stream/
THE FRONT BOTTOMS HEAD ON TOUR
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Not too long after closing the books on their sold out inaugural headline tour, THE FRONT BOTTOMS announce their second headline tour Hot Chocolate Tour 2014 which will take them coast-to-coast in just over three weeks. The tour will kickoff at The Pyramid Scheme in Grand Rapids, MI on January 9 and conclude at Pawtucket’s…
NEW VIDEO BY AVENGED SEVENFOLD
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Avenged Sevenfold have today premiered the Wayne Isham directed video for “Shepherd of Fire.” Watch here: http://youtu.be/bT8FEOJEFcI Avenged Sevenfold just released their highly anticipated sixth studio album Hail To The King on Warner Bros. Records, which debuted at #1 in the US with over 159,000 sold first week. It topped the charts in the UK,…
ALEXI P POSTS “I LOVE YOU”
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One of Boston’s most prolific acoustic soul singers/ songwriters Alexi P make his mark with debut single “I Love You” off his sophomore release, “Something Greater,” to be released in February, 2014. “I wrote this song about the joy that comes not just from BEING loved, but from loving someone else.”, shares Alexi P.…
WIRE: JUAN WAUTERS SINGLE ON PITCHFORK
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Gaining notoriety as the incomparable frontman of The Beets, Wauters’ talent as a songwriter as been evident for sometime now. With N.A.P. he has honed those skills, and with earnest sincerity he’s delivered a collection of songs that are concurrently introspective and outward looking, thus presenting the most genuine picture of who he is as…
TORI KELLY RELEASES VIDEO FOR “DEAR NO ONEâ€
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Southern California native singer/songwriter/producer Tori Kelly has released the video for “Dear No One,” the first song from her recently released EP, FOREWORD. The video was directed by Jon Jon Augustavo (Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Mike Posner) and filmed on location in Brooklyn, New York. Tori released the 5 song EP, FOREWORD on October 22nd,…
GALANTIS “SMILE” SINGLE
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Galantis, the Swedish production duo of Christian “Bloodshy” Karlsson of Miike Snow and Linus Eklow aka Style of Eye, introduce their new project with a jubilant anthem called “Smile”, released today on Big Beat Records. With an instantly memorable hook, propulsive beat, and the custom “Galantis Filter” which blends male and female vocals into one,…
PHOENIX CALLING DEBUT SINGLE POSTED
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Only together for little over a year, Peterborough based UK rock quintet Phoenix Calling are ready to stride out of the shadows with their debut single ‘Bring The Roof Down’ boasting some pretty impressive collaborative credentials for newcomers, as it features backing vocals from none other than Deaf Havana. Stream and share ‘Bring The Roof…
N Wolex, Newness Of Life EP
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N Wolex is a London songwriter with a multidimensional background ranging from music engineering to fashion modeling. His latest endeavor is the refreshingly-titled EP Newness of Life. It’s a six-pack of songs involving devotion both romantic and spiritual. With the track “I’m Sorry,” there is scant ambiguity about the theme: “I’m sorry / Please please…
LILY VIDEO FOR “LIFE GOES ON”
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Lily released her debut album ‘Life of Lily’ and to celebrate she has made a video for her single “Life Goes On”, a tune Modern Visionaries has called “a sweet slice of Celtic pop punk rock that is as infectious as any Top 40’s pop song on the charts today. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uom6kMHTNxg Born in England,…
DAYTONA SINGLE “HONEY”
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The band is comprised of Hunter Simpson (guitar and vocals), Christopher Lauderdale (drums and vocals) and Jose Boyer (bass and vocals). The sounds of Daytona which vary from their other projects (Wild Yaks/Harlem) run the line between exuberant and melancholic. The sprawling harmonies and hypnotic beats nestled over looping finger-picked guitars hint at the band’s…
OWLS OF THE SWAMP RELEASE ‘GHOSTFLAKE’
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‘Ghostflake’ is the second (and last) in a small series of b-sides released this year from Owls of the Swamp (the indie folk project of Australian singer-songwriter, Pete Uhlenbruch), currently recording his third album in Iceland and UK (due for release in 2014). Recorded and mixed by Adam Casey at True Vine Studios in Melbourne,…
SKOPE GIVEAWAY: The Beatles “On-Air Live at the BBC volume 2”
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In 1994, The Beatles’ Live at the BBC was released to worldwide acclaim – hitting number one in the U.K., number three in the U.S. and selling more than five million copies within six weeks. The new companion to The Beatles’ first BBC collection, On Air – Live at the BBC Volume 2, is…
KOSHA DILLZ VIDEO “TUPAC GONE FISHIN'”
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“Hip-Hop used to be so classic, nowadays too many kids is not getting their ass kicked” says Jersey’s own Kosha Dillz, a rapper who’s never been afraid to speak his mind on a track. Whether you’re from the East or West Coast, you can’t deny the influence that Tupac Shakur had during his time on…
