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HEADACHE Releases New Single and Video For “lifehaspassedmeby”
“lifehaspassedmeby” was the first track recorded from Get Off The Internet and is about “feeling like your best days are behind you,” reflects Duce, the former Lower Than Atlantis front man, a band proclaimed as the future of British alternative-rock. “I basically just wrote a song about how I felt that day.” Although the song sees Duce use his expressive lyrics to wonder “where did the years go” and ponder if he “peaked in the summer of ’09,” the track helped spark a journey towards creating change in himself and his outlook on his future. As a result, each song on the release leans into a more positive and imaginative aura, signaling a return of confident artistry. By taking a broader, more organic approach to songwriting, he found inspiration in his current music diet, using everything from boom bap to jazz to help curate his neo-soul sound which Mike describes as “a regurgitation of an amalgamation of music I’ve been into all my life.”
Sideline shows a different side with “Just A Guy In A Bar”
The scene is set: a crowded bar, a man sitting alone. While others engage, he’s bent over his phone, a somber face reflected in its dim blue light. It’s a scene we’ve all been witness to — and a feeling many have experienced — but even so, it’s one that’s been described in song more often than truly evoked. The new Mountain Home Music Company single from Sideline, “Just A Guy In A Bar” recalls a legion of country weepers, yet it is not only an especially compelling portrait of isolation and regret, but one that marks something of a musical departure for the award-winning sextet.
“When I think of Sideline,” says bassist and founding member Jason Moore, “I think of hard driving, in your face music. When I first heard ‘Just A Guy In A Bar,’ I knew it was a great song, but I didn’t know how we could make it into a Sideline song. After trying several different things with it, we decided on doing what we thought the song called for — as opposed to what the band would normally do — and it turned out better than I could have ever imagined.”
Ery, presenta su sencillo promocional “Baby Honey”
El cantante e intérprete del género urbano ERY, está más que listo para mostrar su gran talento ante el mundo, de la mano del sello discográfico Y Entertainment.
ERY es un joven soñador, quien además de destacarse como intérprete, inició su carrera artística componiendo para otros grandes artistas del género urbano. Entre ellos Cosculluela y Nicky Jam en el tema “Te busco” y fue uno de los colabores en la producción del álbum “Quien contra mí 2” de Yandel (ambos han sido certificados con sello multi-platino).
Steve Hackett launches video for ‘Sirocco’
Iconic guitarist Steve Hackett, releases his new acoustic album Under A Mediterranean Sky on 22ndJanuary 2021 as a Limited CD Digipak, Gatefold 2LP + CD + LP-booklet and Digital Album via InsideOut Music. Under A Mediterranean Sky is Steve Hackett’s first acoustic solo album since Tribute in 2008 and takes inspiration from Steve’s extensive travels around the Mediterranean with his wife Jo.
TEXAS-BRED RAPPER YUNG POODA DELIVERS “CHICKEN ‘N GRITS” VISUAL FEATURING DREAMDOLL
Today, Texan rapper, entertainer Yung Pooda debuts the official music video to his bold, certified-banger track “Chicken ‘N Grits” with a starring role and feature from the illustrious Dreamdoll. The Mokablu [YFN Lucci, Lil Durk, Lud Foe] directed visual finds Yung Pooda at the illest dine-in restaurant in the South—serving the best ‘Chicken ‘N Grits’ you could only imagine. The out-of-this-world visual made its official premiere on BET JAMS via It’s A 10 Records moments ago and is set to run continuously throughout the day [check local listings]. Watch it here.
Pooda recently connected with Dash Radio and had this to say referencing the inspiration behind the hit record and video: “Chicken and grits is me. I’m coming from the South—the dirty South—and I want people to know how we do it and bring that element of culture back to the way we do music and visuals.”
Smith & Burrows Share Video For “Parliament Hill”
Ten years after their first outing, Funny Looking Angels the pair have finally reunited to release the second collaborative collection of songs under the tongue-in-cheek Only Smith & Burrows Is Good Enough moniker.
Filmed in December under socially distanced restrictions, the video features the pair wandering through the song’s location on Hampstead Heath, sympathetically embraced by director Mat Whitecross (Coldplay, Liam Gallagher). The bittersweet-ness that encapsulates the track is transformed with the addition of magical puppeteering courtesy of the local Little Angel Theatre Players that alludes to past romance and the spaces and places it plays out. All the more pertinent following both writers vacating the capital last year and as Smith says; “That’s my favorite song on the album and it’s a beautiful song for now, when we’re all craving connection to people and places. It captures a real, still moment.”
Steve Aoki Joins K-Pop “Fav Boyz” A.C.E on “Gold Star Remix” Featuring Thutmose
Dim Mak bossman Steve Aoki teams up with rising K-pop group A.C.E for their first globally-focused single to begin a breakout year. Aoki blends dark melodies with electro stylings on back-to-back reworks of A.C.E’s original “Goblin (Favorite Boys).” Taking the collaboration fully global, Nigerian-American rapper Thutmose drops bars on the track, while driving kicks and riveting synths lay the groundwork for a dance-inducing revamp of the boy band’s original anthem that honors traditional Korean folklore.
ZAYDE WØLF RELEASES HIS FIRST SINGLE OF 2021 “BACK AT IT”
Nashville based writer and producer Zayde Wølf is storming into 2021 with a tour de force and fist-pumping powerful new song “Back At It.” This powerhouse of a song sets the tone for what is bound to be a huge year for Dustin Burnett the mastermind behind Zayde Wølf. ”Back at It” is the first single from Wølf’s third full-length album due out this spring. The album follows the 2018 release of Modern Alchemy, Wølf’s sophomore full-length album, which charted in over 25 countries on the iTunes charts and debuted in the top ten on the iTunes Alternative chart in the U.S. within hours of its release. Unintimidated by his past successes, Burnett has always been solely focused on making music that helps listeners to push through and overcome life’s challenges, trust that broken hearts eventually heal, and to remember that music is one of our most powerful tools for connecting us to one another. Burnett has experienced the power of music firsthand, and he’s made it his mission to share it with the rest of the world. “These songs are helping me in all these different ways,” says Burnett. “For a song to start in one place and then move all over the world to people who speak very little English is wild. These people reach out to me daily and say they are impacted by these songs in ways that turn their week around for better, or that the songs lead them to rethink a hard situation… and that’s powerful and humbling to me.”
WIZKID RELEASES VIDEO FOR “GINGER” FEATURING BURNA BOY
Today, Nigerian singer/songwriter Wizkid releases the video for “Ginger” featuring Burna Boy, one of the standout tracks off his latest project Made In Lagos, out now via Starboy/ Sony Music International/RCA Records. Shot in London, the video was directed by Meji Alabi (Skepta, Davido, Popcaan, Burna Boy).
New Book by Concert Promoter Danny Zelisko
When concert promoter Danny Zelisko says, “I’ve got some stories to tell,” he isn’t kidding. In His remarkable new book, ALL EXCE$$ Occupation: Concert Promoter, takes you both backstage and on stage with music’s top stars, recounting his incredible five-decade career in which he has produced over 10,000 concert events throughout the country.
“I say that the book took me four years to write, but it’s really 60 years in the making,” Zelisko says. “Since all this stuff actually happened, the story wrote itself. I just had to be there to decipher it, which was the hard part!”
PASSENGER ‘Songs For The Drunk And Broken Hearted’ Out Today
Passenger recently released a trilogy of songs and accompanying videos introducing his audience to different characters in his drunk and broken-hearted universe. The series began with title track “A Song for the Drunk and Broken Hearted,” which set the scene in a half empty dive bar with patrons drowning their sorrows, followed by “Suzanne,” which turned the viewers’ attention to an older woman sitting alone reflecting on days gone by, and ended with “Remember To Forget,” about the irritating guy who’s had one too many and refuses to call it a night.
Singer/Songwriter Wreckless Eric’s “Whole Wide World”
When singer/songwriter Wreckless Eric (a.k.a. Eric Goulden) recorded “Whole Wide World” in 1976 little did he know 45 years later the song would resonate with a national television audience on an upcoming episode of the ABC-TV hit comedy The Goldbergs
“‘Whole Wide World’ is and was always about escape,” admits Wreckless Eric. “The Goldbergs offers a brief escape from the horrors of our time.”
AS EVERYTHING UNFOLDS Share New Single “Wallow”
Melodic post-hardcore sextet AS EVERYTHING UNFOLDS have released their new single “Wallow”. The track is the fourth single taken from the band’s upcoming debut album ‘Within Each Lies The Other’, which is set for a March 26th release via Long Branch Records.
BUDDERSIDE Share New Single/Video “Pardon Me”
The animated video for “Pardon Me”—seen featured below—was, as STONE reveals, “inspired by my experience of meeting, being taken in by, working for and ultimately BUDDERSIDE being signed to Motörhead Music by Lemmy Kilmister.”
STONE explains that “’Pardon Me’ is an oath. A look at life from the perspective that only our hero Lemmy had. It’s a promise to live up to, declared to the greatest man that ever lived.”
BLEACH EVERYTHING To Release “Bound/Cured” X-Ray Flexi On January 29th
BLEACH EVERYTHING kicks 2021 off with a rampant new two-song release, now set for late January release via Dark Operative. Preorders for “Bound/Cured” on digital and limited X-Ray flexi disc formats have been issued along with a brief teaser.
“Bound” and “Cured” are two brand new songs from the Richmond, Virginia/Asheville, North Carolina/San Diego, California-based hardcore punk quartet BLEACH EVERYTHING. Their first new recordings since 2019’s RFTCC split LP with Integrity, “Bound/Cured” goes even further into both the pure violence put forth on 2018’s So We Gnaw LP and the melodic components introduced on the RFTCC LP.
Body Count Announces Fan Contest To Create Next Music Video For “The Hate Is Real”
BODY COUNT released their new and highly acclaimed full-length album Carnivore on March 6th, 2020. The album was produced by Will Putney (Thy Art Is Murder, Knocked Loose and features standout tracks such as: “Another Level (feat. Jamey Jasta)”, “When I’m Gone (feat. Amy Lee)”, “Point The Finger (feat. Riley Gale)”, and Grammy nominated track”Bum-Rush”.Carnivore is available to purchase and stream HERE.
Pianist and composer Chad Lawson covers Billie Eilish’s “when the party’s over”
“A great song is a great song no matter the genre or instrument,” says Lawson. “When I first heard this track, I was geeking how FINNEAS crafted such a unique melody based on his chordal theme; so creative. Add Billie’s unabashed vulnerability to the mix and you have the artistic marriage of head & heart. I knew this song would resonate with just a piano.”
FROM SONGLAND TO 12TONE: JACK NEWSOME RELEASES “THE YEAR THE WORLD STOOD STILL”
Like most people, 24-year-old singer/songwriter/producer Jack Newsome spent the greater part of the world’s pandemic figuring things out. The New Jersey native lived in an air of uncertainty in his new home of Studio City, CA, trying to understand what was happening around him. So, being the artist that he is, Jack penned “The Year The World Stood Still”, a track fitting for the times, while simultaneously allowing for the rising star to vent out his own feelings on what was going on around him. It’s become his superpower of sorts: creating songs that not only speak to him, but speak to the rest of the world around him.
Disciples drop official video for ‘I Got You’
Platinum-selling dance music favourites Disciples have unveiled the official video for their latest single ‘I Got You’, out today alongside an incredible remix of the track delivered by Ben Hemsley.
A captivating modern love story, ‘I Got You’ tells the tale of two colleagues-cum-lovers as they navigate the honeymoon period of their relationship – a perfect visual accompaniment to the track’s lyrical content. When describing the video, Disciples said:
“We don’t like dance videos. They normally feel generic and played out but when the director came up with this idea of a movie trailer for a coming-of-age story set in LA, we thought it was genius. We want the viewer to escape from what’s going on in the world just for a moment. Watching the trailer unfold makes you want to see the full movie”
Matthew Alec and The Soul Electric Share Single “Cleveland Time”
azz fusion ensemble Matthew Alec and The Soul Electric has shared a new single off their upcoming debut album Cleveland Time, due to be released February 19, 2020 on Cleveland Time Records. The single, also titled “Cleveland Time”, and accompanying video are premiering now exclusively with Jazziz. The new track conjures up images of a bustling downtown Cleveland, complete with a horn section feature courtesy of multitalented jazz musician Tom ‘Bones’ Malone and vocalist Minus the Alien.
