Since their inception in early 2013, VALKYRIES (formally Rachel Cearns & The Valkyries) have been very busy working the Adelaide music scene. VALKYRIES were nominated for a Music SA Award in 2013 and Rachel was nominated SA Voice of The Year in the AU Awards in 2014. VALKYRIES won The A & R Department’s Indie…
Month: April 2015
TEMPLE INVISIBLE “ANIMA”
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Romanian sensation Temple Invisible have announced details of a very special release, Enter_ (Expanded Edition), featuring previously unreleased material including one brand new track plus 3 remixes, it will be released digitally on 30th March 2015. The EP comprises the 2014 version plus the 4 new jams, which include lead single, ‘Anima’ and three remixes…
PAPER CRANES RELEASE DEBUT ALBUM
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New Zealand folk/pop band Paper Cranes are set to release their debut album The Road Home on March 20th 2015. Intertwine Fraser Browne’s love of lyrical poetry and Naomi Browne’s Japanese heritage with some great backing musicians and you have a band that weaves beautifully crafted stories into captivating, dynamic performances using diverse instrumentation (shakuhachi,…
DeDe – “The Fairy Tale Song”
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DeDe’s “The Fairy Tale Song” is a song that bursts at the seams with optimism. With a comforting sense of purpose DeDe references a wide variety of different fairy tales applying them to the inevitable ascent into adulthood. How one’s own life goals changes as they grow older is the focal point of the song.…
Vince Grant – “My Depression Is Always Trying To Kill Me”
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Vince Grant’s darkly titled “My Depression Is Always Trying to Kill Me” is music for cloudy days. The songs explore the loneliness that comes with depression and how isolating it can be. Lyrically the songs express a yearning for others. With a dreamy sound that seems to rise above the ground like fog the work…
STEVE GRAND VIDEO “TIME”
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On March 23rd, Chicago-based songwriter Steve Grand independently released his debut album All American Boy. This morning, the album debuted at #3 on the Billboard Independent Albums Chart and #27 on the Billboard Top 200 Charts ahead of other new releases by Smallpools, Big Data, Laura Marling, and Odesza – a massive achievement for an…
MUSICIANS STAND AGAINST FRACKING
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John Butler Trio, Bonnie Raitt, Michael Franti, Indigo Girls, and many more are lending their voices in an effort to shed light on the dangers of hydro-fracking – a method of extracting natural gas from the earth’s shale that also jeopardizes and contaminates the water table – on a 24 track, two disc benefit compilation,…
SKOPE NEWS FOR APRIL 1, 2015
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SUNEATERS SHARE “HEY BROS!” VIDEO ON ENTERNTAINMENT WEEKLY Kansas City’s genre-bending Suneaters are pleased to share the video for “Hey Bros!,” the first single on their upcoming full-length, Suneaters II: Loving Relationship. Featuring Michael McMillian, best known for his role as preacher Steven Newlen on True Blood, the video explores a bromance with a healthy…
BMB SPACEKID SINGLE “DEMURE”
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Sometimes the new In Sound comes from Way Out! And in the case of Saint Petersburg, Russian native BMB Spacekid AKA Dmitry Semenov, Way Out means the Northern-most city in the world. But in these broadband days, hip hop is played on a global field and we’re used to names emerging out of the Soundcloud(s)…
Rock Masters Band “Hit The City/Diamonds” (Double Single)
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Rock Masters Band needs no warm up. They start right at maximum volume and maximum onslaught. With “Diamonds” they prove exactly how much energy they have. For the flipside, on “Hit The City” they opt for a casual summery groove. Put together they are able to show off their considerable range. Although the two songs…
7 MUSICIANS WHO WERE INJURED ON STAGE
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Artists are believed to give everything they have for their art: blood, sweat, and tears. For most musicians there’s nothing better than taking to the stage and there’s nothing fans love better than being dazzled by their favorite bands. Sometimes, however, things don’t go exactly as planned. By pure accident or happenstance, or poor execution,…
Pyramids On Mars – “Battle For Rome” – Single Review
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Well…I mean all I’m saying is you just go ahead and TRY to find me music that sounds more like pyramids on Mars than Pyramids On Mars do! I’m also fully willing to admit I’ve never really heard the sounds of ANY pyramid before…or seen one for that matter…but I’ve got an overactive imagination that…
Jonathan Bannon Maher – “The Fallout of Love”
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Software author, former candidate for the United States Senate, published self-help author. These are a few of the many pies thirty-one year old Jonathan Bannon Maher has his fingers deep in, but it doesn’t indicate a lack of focus. Instead. Maher is a multi-faceted thinker and artist, a quasi-Renaissance man in distinctly un-Renaissance world. A…
