SKOPE NEWS FOR JUNE 14, 2018 @ 2 PM EST

BIG CITY Release ‘Running For Your Life’ Music Video

Norwegian melodic heavy rock/metal band, BIG CITY, have released a music video for ‘Running For Your Life’, the track is taken of their second album ‘Big City Life’, due out as a double CD digipack including their 2013 debut album ‘Wintersleep’ on June 22nd, 2018 via ROAR! Rock Of Angels Records. BIG CITY features members of Scariot, Blood Red Throne, Withem, Maraton and Memoria Avenue.

AyOwA unveil alluring video for ‘Alt Det Du Ku’

There’s a balanced power pulsing alongside, driven by moody synths and vocals that are so alluring it becomes easy to forget they’re not in English. Video director James McCarty employs plenty of unexpected eeriness, but it all fits together in a dream universe both dark and truly delightful.

Belfast songwriter Gareth Dunlop deals with unrequited love on ‘Can’t Stand Myself’

Belfast born Gareth Dunlop is a multi-instrumentalist, engineer and producer. His poetic voice can be heard on numerous TV shows, commercials and films including Suits, Lucifer, Bones, Nashville and One Tree Hill to name a few.

Nao Yoshioka new single I Love When

New York-based Japanese songstress​ Nao Yoshioka is thrilled to debut her sensual ​lead single “I Love When” from her forthcoming​ third album The Truth (YAMAHA MUSIC COMMUNICATIONS/SWEET SOUL RECORDS) available this Fall. The ​soul bearing​ R&B ballad ​was produced by Swizz Beatz protégé​ Tyrone “Musicman Ty” Johnson (Alicia Keys, Snoop Dogg).

Eliza Shaddad explores vivid temptation in new single ‘My Body’

Eliza Shaddad’s singular artistry is the product of an incredibly diverse and borderless upbringing. Born to Sudanese and Scottish parents and raised across seven countries, she is the descendent of a long line of progressive artists and academics dating back to the 1800s. She holds an MPhil in Philosophy, speaks four languages and is a graduate in Jazz from the Guildhall School. Every facet of her music, from vocals to lyricism to performance and production, is the purest distillation of a self that has been emotionally and intellectually schooled by constantly shifting and widening perspectives. This is a sound honed by a woman who has striven to reassert herself through multiple national identities, academic fields, and musical cultures.

Low Cut Connie Share Video for “Hey! Little Child”

Last month, Low Cut Connie released their critically-acclaimed fifth studio album Dirty Pictures (Part 2) that was just named one of Rolling Stone’s 50 Best Albums of 2018 so far. In his four-star review, David Fricke called the record “a stand-alone triumph of missionary zeal.”

Garage rockers Calva Louise share deafening anthem ‘Outrageous’

Raucous garage rockers Calva Louise share their latest deafening anthem Outrageous, further reiterating their unbridled potential ahead of a series of eagerly anticipated dates on the festival circuit throughout the summer.

Snap Launches Snap Kit with Pandora as Music Streaming Launch Partner

Pandora (NYSE:P), the largest music streaming service in the U.S., today announced that it will team up with Snap Inc. as the music streaming launch partner for Snap Kit, Snap’s new platform for developers. Soon, Pandora listeners will be able to send their favorite songs to friends and family through unique song cards that celebrate album art on top of an animated background, and receivers will be able to swipe up to listen directly on Pandora. This integration will expand Pandora’s social sharing capabilities by reaching Snapchat’s massive audience while enhancing music discovery across both platforms.

Circles Around The Sun New Album Let It Wander Available August 17 From Rhino

Circles Around The Sun explore new horizons on the band’s upcoming double album, Let It Wander. It’s the first new music from the quartet since their acclaimed 2015 debut, Interludes For The Dead.

LET IT WANDER will be available August 17 on CD for $24.98. A limited-edition vinyl version of the double album will be released the same day for $39.98. All of the music will be available via digital download and streaming services. Hear the new track “Immovable Object” HERE.

Young The Giant Share New Song “Simplify” & Announce Tour

“Simplify,” produced by Alex Salibian (Harry Styles), comes at a time when there’s so many points of conflict and scrutiny around us every day, yet Young the Giant have found some space to breathe with this song, focusing on the unequivocal power of some loving eye contact.

Active Bird Community share new single/video ‘Unwind With Me’

Filmed entirely in the back of a moving truck, director Henry Kinder explains, “We considered a few different options for how to pull this off, but at the end of the day, the only way to achieve the natural claustrophobia amidst the constructed world that we imagined was to practically build the apartment into the actual bed of a truck. This choice created tight parameters within which we had to work, but it felt like the only way to achieve exactly what we wanted: to visually represent this state of unsettled displacement that we were both feeling at the time and that we were hearing in the song.”

Meyhem Lauren & DJ Muggs share new video for “Northern Boulevard”

Following their Frozen Angels EP and video for the title track released last week on Soul Assassins Records, DJ Muggs and Meyhem Lauren drop a menacing new video for the stand out heater on the project “Northern Boulevard”. Directed by David Sakolsky and shot from the perspective of a cop on the famed strip in Queens, NY, the video for “Northern Boulevard” follows Meyhem and his brother Hologram while on the run from the long arm of the law. Check out the visual now, share and listen to the Frozen Angels EP.

Dawes Debut New Album, ‘Passwords,’ Via NPR First Listen

On June 22nd, Dawes will release Passwords, their sixth studio album, and it is now streaming in its entirety via NPR Music First Listen. NPR says “on Dawes’ sixth album, ‘Passwords,’ Taylor Goldsmith goes big again, never hiding its big, beating, bleeding heart.” Listen to Passwords, a full week before its release, here.

Bishop Gunn confirm new tour dates + shows with Lynyrd Skynyrd

Bishop Gunn is Travis McCready (vocals), Burne Sharp (drums), Drew Smithers (guitar) and Ben Lewis (bass). Following many years in steelwork in Natchez, McCready decided to go into music full time. After both playing music in various incarnations, McCready and Sharpe connected at the big annual festival in Natchez. A friendship and collaboration formed, rooted in the history and sounds of their home and the surrounding Delta. They added members and Bishop Gunn’s current lineup stuck shortly thereafter. Now, the band members live together, write and have set up a home studio in a farmhouse just outside Leiper’s Fork, TN. They rehearse at a repurposed grocery store in the area.

Have you seen Don Broco’s huge new video?

If you missed it, they released the video on Monday, along with announcing a huge arena tour for February next year, including a show at Wembley Arena, which is their biggest to date.

EVEN Takes on Headphone Industry Titans, Exposing Lack of Innovation and Quality

Don’t get beat by Beats! Americans spend billions on headphones every year, but they are getting beat by a system that mistakes brand names for quality. Today, EVEN, a personal audio company with breakthrough adaptive sound technology, is pulling back the curtain on the “one-sound-fits-all” proffered not just by major headphone brands, but across all of personal audio, that poses as “innovation” and charges consumers a hefty premium.

With EVEN’s Don’t get beat by Beats campaign, the company urges consumers to re-consider the sound quality of their current headphones or earbuds of choice and to better understand what’s missing. Just like eyesight, each person’s hearing is unique, yet headphones, from Beats and Apple to Bose and others, are still built in a one-sound-fits-all model. Consumers are missing out on hearing music, television, podcasts and everything else in tune with their own ears. The campaign will feature a pop up experience in New York City, the introduction of EVEN’s H3 Headphones and additional engaging consumer elements.

Alex Dingley Shares New Track

Libertino are proud to announce that they will soon be releasing Alex Dingley’s 3rd album for the first time in the UK.

‘Beat The Babble’ was first released in the US via Birth Records but will become available for the first time in the UK on limited blue vinyl with new art and digitally on June 15th.

Alex Dingley travelled from West Wales’ Llansteffan to California’s West Coast to make his forthcoming album, ‘Beat The Babble’, with Tim Presley, Cate Le Bon and Samur Khouja.