@skopemag news for – wednesday – december 4, 2019 @ 11 am est

The National Board of Review Names 2019 Honorees

The National Board of Review today announced their 2019 honorees, with top awards including The Irishman for Best Film, Quentin Tarantino for Best Director for Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, Renée Zellweger for Best Actress for Judy, and Adam Sandler for Best Actor for Uncut Gems. The organization has also unveiled the NBR Icon Award, an honor that celebrates the work of leading cinematic artists who have contributed meaningfully to the history, culture, and excellence of motion pictures.

NBR President Annie Schulhof said, “We are thrilled to award The Irishman as our Best Film – Martin Scorsese’s masterful mob epic is a rich, moving, beautifully textured movie that represents the best in what cinema can be. We are also excited to be presenting Scorsese, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino with our inaugural Icon Award – they are the true definition of cinematic icons, each with their own exceptional body of work, and all in top form in The Irishman.”

EAGLES and The Doobie Brothers in Cabo – Memorial Day Weekend

Cabo en Vivo presents the EAGLES and The Doobie Brothers in an exclusive luxury concert experience in Cabo San Lucas over Memorial Day Weekend:

•Saturday May 23, 2020: An evening with The Doobie Brothers – Tom Johnston, Michael McDonald, Pat Simmons and John McFee

•Sunday May 24, 2020: An evening with EAGLES – Don Henley, Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit, with Deacon Frey and Vince Gill – performing their iconic greatest hits

The high-end destination getaway is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience two nights of unforgettable beachfront performances in the beautiful Cabo Corridor, to a select crowd in an intimate setting.

Mighty Oaks share “Forget Tomorrow,” the second single off their forthcoming third album, ‘All Things Go’

Touring musicians know it all too well: Packed bags and long goodbyes, exchanging the comforts of home for a rumbling tour bus or solitary hotel room, often for months at a time. This is reality for Mighty Oaks as well, and since all the band members of the Berlin-based trio have become fathers they find it especially tough to leave home. Playing live is definitely something we thrive on as a band. The energy of a live show, the immediate feedback from the crowd: those things made us the band that we are today, and are the reason why we play music”, says singer Ian Hooper. “But leaving the family isn’t easy for anyone, especially when you mix in different time zones and crazy schedules. I met my wife right before the band found success. Ever since she’s known me, she’s known me as a touring musician. No matter how many times I’ve left to go on tour, it’s always like the first time for her, and it never gets easier for her to watch me walk out the door.”

RENCE RELEASES OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR “I KNOW”

Sharing real life snapshots in song, Rence magnifies his personal perspective through a genre-less palette, bordering pop, alternative, electro, indie and hip-hop all at once, yet never dipping into one for too long. The Los Angeles-based artist, who was born in D.C., spent his formative teen years in Seattle and then moved to New York to attend NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, first allowed listeners to hear this irresistible inner monologue on his breakthrough independent project, Pink. The project’s lead single “Baby Blue” racked up over 4 million Spotify streams as his total tally approached 8 million. Along the way, peers such as Chelsea Cutler and FLETCHER lent support as critical acclaim came from Hilly Dilly, Lyrical Lemonade, Ones To Watch, Elevator Magazine, and more. Tastemaker Zane Lowe handpicked “Ways To Go” as his “World Record” on Apple Music’s Beats 1. Rence’s current EP, Fall 2019, is out now and features standout tracks “Darkside” and “I know.”

Slumberland announces deluxe vinyl-only reissue of East Village’s ‘Hotrod Hotel’ singles collection due Jan. 24

East Village are one of the great lost bands, a group whose music has only grown in stature since their premature demise in the spring of 1991. Along with other legendary bands like Big Star and The Action, who also failed to fully stamp their mark whilst active, East Village made pop music that was timeless, but out of step with the musical environment around them.

FEUDALE Release Official Lyric Video for “Teenager”

Matawan based Heavy, Alternative Rock Band FEUDALE has released the official lyric video for their new single, “Teenager,” which is out NOW via The Label Group / INgrooves.

RUNESCARRED Releases Official Lyric Video for “Mammoth”!

Progressive Metal / Heavy Rock Band RUNESCARRED has released the official lyric video for “Mammoth,” the second single off of their upcoming LP, The Distant Infinite.

The Darkness release ‘How Can I Lose Your Love’ video

The Darkness have released a spectacular lyric video for the new single ‘How Can I Lose Your Love’, taken from their critically acclaimed Top 10 album Easter Is Cancelled out now via Cooking Vinyl.

‘How Can I Lose Your Love’ is a huge rock anthem steeped in emotion, featuring space-age synths, a gigantic chorus with beautiful hands-in-the-air moments, and almighty guitar solos.

Kevin Krauter Announces New Album ‘Full Hand’ and Shares “Surprise” Single/Video

Indiana-based songwriter Kevin Krauter announces his second album, Full Hand, out February 28th on Bayonet Records, and presents the single/video, “Surprise.” Following his 2018 debut Toss Up, a quiet album that was built on intricate guitar riffs that looped back on themselves to create a feeling of sunlit calm, Full Hand dives further into the world he’s created. The songs are evocative of late afternoon light, or dust settling on a creaky floorboard, but with lyrics that probe Krauter’s personal life, grappling with sexuality and religion, while exploring what it means to grow up, grow more critical, and, in turn, more self-confident.

Lynyrd Skynyrd Announces 2020 Dates for “Last of the Street Survivors Farewell Tour”

In 2018 Southern Rock icons Lynyrd Skynyrd announced, after a career that has spanned more than 40 years and includes a catalog of more than 60 albums with more than 30 million units sold, they would embark on their Last of the Street Survivors Farewell Tour. Produced by Live Nation, the career-concluding farewell tour has logged over 100 stops in the U.S. and internationally over the last two years with Scotland’s The Herald calling the band, “still free as a bird, forty years later.”

“We’ve said we want to play every venue and market we’ve ever visited around the world one last time and even some places we haven’t, so we get to see all of Skynyrd Nation,” said the band’s lead singer Johnny Van Zant. “We are getting close!”

Lynyrd Skynyrd Plot 2020 Leg of Farewell Tour

ASHS – ‘Paranoid’

“I’m on a slow-burning, soul-searching mission.

“Paranoid,” my latest single, perfectly introduces the next phase of my project. I wanted to experiment with hitting a little harder both musically and lyrically.

“Paranoid” gives an audible sneak peek into my subconscious, encapsulating the feelings of anxiety and mistrust in the people around me. It’s both an exploration and a revelation.”

LORDI have released their new single & video ‘I Dug A Hole For You’

AFM Records are extremely excited to announce the new album ‘Killection’ from the acclaimed Finnish Hard Rock/Heavy Metal monsters LORDI! ‘Killection’ will hit the streets 31st January 2020 and this, the tenth album in the band’s history, has turned out to be the most extraordinary and varied album so far.