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SYML to share new EP DIM April 16, new single “STAY CLOSE” + video out today
“This is a personal song,” says SYML about “STAY CLOSE.” “My father has been slowly dying of pancreatic cancer for almost two years. It’s certainly about grief, but it’s also about a love so deep, it runs from our first breath until our last. It covers every experience we’ll ever have, and it goes beyond us when we leave this place. It’s almost supernatural but I know it to be real because I can sense it fully.” The track’s accompanying video captures SYML at his most vulnerable, singing alone as he experiences the varied emotions contained within the process of grief.
GENRE-LEADING BASS MUSIC ARTIST SNAILS RETURNS WITH NEWEST SINGLE “FROGKIND”Li
Renowned bass music artist and Montreal native, SNAILS, has returned back to the roots of his own sub-genre, Vomitstep, with the highly-anticipated release of his newest single FROGKIND. As his first original release in more than one year, FROGKIND embodies the exploration of SNAILS’ artistic journey and creative processes throughout the global pandemic. Textured, organic sounds and deep drops characterizes the track from beginning to end, leaving listeners dreaming of the day the international producer is able to debut the track live in real life for the first time to a packed festival crowd.
TAMPA RAPPER LATHEGOAT RELEASES OFFICIAL “8 BANDS” REMIX VIDEO FEATURING RICK ROSS & JERMAINE DUPRI VIA SO SO DEF/DEF JAM RECORDINGS
Omaha Alt-Rock Power Trio THE PARTY AFTER Release New Single “GROUNDHOGS”
Groundhog Day 2021, Midwestern power trio The Party After has released their newest single, aptly named “Groundhogs”, now available on all digital outlets, with an accompanying animated video, featuring psychedelic, over-the-top visuals created by Ellefson Films and Johnny’s Bros Creative Studios.
The video, directed by Thom Hazaert for Ellefson Films and Ismar Rodriguez for Johnny’s Bros, Animated by Ismar Rodriguez, and Produced by Ewar Acosta and Thom Hazaert, documents the transformation of a single groundhog’s normal day, into a mind-bending trip through a wild evening in the deep, dark woods.
YNW BSLIME RELEASES NEW TRACK AND VIDEO “OTW”
Today, 13 year-old rap phenomenon YNW BSlime releases his catchy new track and video “OTW,” an acronym meaning “on the way.” This is the latest offering from his forthcoming album Slime Fever coming soon. In the Nathan Smith-directed video, BSlime is a superhero that uses his powers for good – saving his town and his girl – from the local villains. If you’re in any trouble, superhero BSlime is OTW to you.
Young Dolph and Key Glock are All Systems Go in “Green Light”
Crashing charts and cashing checks, Young Dolph and Key Glock are Southern rap’s most dynamic duo. Connecting over a hypnotic Bandplay beat, Dolph and Glock share “Green Light,” a new music video. An addition from the Deluxe Edition of Dolph’s album Rich Slave, “Green Light” is an ultra-smooth smack talker, offering both emcees the opportunity to sneer at the opposition with boss-life bars and witty punchlines: “It’s a bird, it’s a plane, nah, that’s Glock with your main b*tch/I be makin’ plays on top of plays like I ain’t rich,” spits Glock. In the video, directed by Dolph himself under his Paper Route Pictures moniker, Dolph and Glock rock designer on a Memphis city bus, as they hand out wads of cash to their fellow passengers before getting off at a corner to greet some adoring fans. “Green Light” follows Dolph’s video for “To Be Honest,” which features cameo appearances from NFL legend Deion Sanders and his son Shadeur.
Hot Tub shares new single “This Feeling”
Vancouver-based producer Hot Tub shares his latest single “This Feeling” on Casablanca Sunset Records.
Hot Tub is the moniker of Canadian multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and producer Ryan Krumins. By utilizing his indie-rock background, Krumins crafts a unique blend of house music that showcases his powerful songwriting abilities and knack for creating dance music.
“This Feeling” is highlighted by an energetic bassline, majestic glistening synths, melodic piano chords, up tempo rhythm and emotive uplifting vocals. All of which have become staples in Hot Tub’s music.
KSR Records Recording Artist, HoodCelebrityy, Returns With The Visuals To The Viral Self-Love Anthem, “UNGRATEFUL”
Fans all around the world can be at ease as Hoodcelebrityy’s highly anticipated video for her single “Ungrateful” is out today February 3, 2021, with a BET premiere on BET Jams & BET Soul. From collaborations with multi-Grammy winners and top billboard charting rapper Kash Doll, Jamaican-born dancehall singer-songwriter Hoodcelebrityy embodies female empowerment through her music with subjects that reflect real life. From celebrating women, to sexy party anthem, to the reality of heedless people, the talented artist says it like it is, and pulls no punches like with her latest “UNGRATEFUL” track!
Directed by Dream Digital, “UNGRATEFUL” video taps into the reason behind Hoodcelebrityy’s vision for recording this single. Dream Digital, captures a candid one on one with Hoddcelebrityy, right before transitioning into the energetic, eclectic visuals highlighting the signature, now viral ‘ungrateful’ ‘Try Try’ dance move.
DREAMER BOY SHARES HAZY-SWEET SONG and VIDEO and ANNOUNCES ALBUM COMING EARTH DAY!
Wide-eyed Nashville singer-songwriter Dreamer Boy returns today with a single and video, “Easier Said Than Done,” as well as news of his second full-length album All The Ways We Are Together, out on Earth Day, April 22, via slowplay/Harvest.
Death From Above 1979 Return With New Single “One + One”
Death From Above 1979 (DFA), the boundary-pushing musical alliance of Sebastien Grainger and Jesse F. Keeler, have released their new single, “One + One.”
Moist are Back with New Single + Video for “Tarantino”
Recorded remotely in lockdown by band members in their homes in Toronto, Kingston and Montreal and produced by Moist guitarist, Mark Makoway, “Tarantino” came out of a dream sparked by images where we have lost all sense of ourselves – where there are no limits on our consumption and all we want is more.
UK’s genre-defying LOSERS return with “Shout”
Sometimes it takes a dark period in a band’s career to emerge triumphant and refreshed. For UK’s genre-defying band LOSERS who have weathered a difficult period as a band in 2016, 2021 is already rising to phoenix-like heights. Their brand new single – a reworking of Tears for Fears’ 1985 smash “Shout” – has been prominently featured in the hit show A Discovery of Witches (S2: Ep 4) on Amazon Prime, AMC+, Sundance Now, and Shudder and is not only rejuvenating their loyal fanbase but also winning over new fans who heard their dark cover and fell in love.
UK Avant-Pop outfit Modesty Blaise present ‘Girls Just Wanna Dance’ single, announce new LP
Bristol-based avant indiepop outfit Modesty Blaise has announced that the impending release of a new album via German label From Lo-Fi to Disco! A baroque pop collection titled ‘The Modesty Blaise’, this is the band’s third studio album and their first LP in 20 years since releasing their head-turning ‘Melancholia’ LP (2001), featuring hit single ‘Carol Mountain’.
Ahead of this, they present the lead single ‘Girls Just Wanna Dance’, a perfect orchestral pop song and live favourite singalong that is more Music Hall than Dance Hall. A longtime set closer, ‘Blaise fans have been crying out for it to be recorded and here it finally is. You can bounce around your own kitchen to it and rip your own sink out just for fun.
MOAT presents HELPLESS YOU [Video]
Judy Whitmore Releases New Single “Moonlight In Vermont”
“When I was ten years old, my mother was driving me to my piano lesson. She turned on the radio, and that’s when I heard ‘Moonlight in Vermont’ for the very first time. I told her it was the most beautiful song I’d ever heard,” shares Whitmore. I kept going on and on about it. Unexpectedly, she parked the car in front of some stores and told me to stay in the car. In a couple minutes, she was back. She handed me a slim paper bag. Inside was the sheet music for ‘Moonlight in Vermont.’ I was ecstatic! This song reminds me what a wonderful mother she was.”
Singer Songwriter Eric Bazilian Shares Power Pop Gem–“Sarah When She’s Sleeping” Available Now
Singer songwriter Eric Bazilian shares a striking new song, “Sarah When She’s Sleeping,” taken from his forthcoming full album.Bazilian, the co-founder of the chart-topping band The Hooters now living in both the U.S. and Sweden, jettisons his frustrations and anxieties he’s expressed in his past work and has created a song that’s purely about the love of a good woman. The song is the latest in his string of power pop gems.
COP International Records is pleased to announce the indie label’s first release of the new year: the anticipated debut album from Chiasm And John Fryer. Called Missed The Noise, the full-length LP will arrive March 5 and includes 11 bold tracks including the previously released singles “Away” and “Are You Okay?”—the latter playing directly into the current landscape amidst COVID-19, racial tensions and economic distress with a poignant “check-in” for listeners, and to let them know they are not alone.
THE HATE CLUB Premieres Animated Video for Single “MY NAME IS LEGION”
Heavy Metal / Industrial artist THE HATE CLUB released their animated video for “MY NAME IS LEGION.”
“This music video was created by 2 psychopath – The Hate Club (artist) and Evan Streb (animator). After 4 months of tireless work, we’re finally ready to release this ambitious music video. And we couldn’t be more proud with the result! Get ready to join the adventure and The Legion on this epic quest” says Alex Poe.
An artist needs room for growth and the ability to live on the edge. Unwilling to be defined by merely one element or another, Alex Poe is a one-man band quenching his creative thirst with The Hate Club.
Like a trusted friend, contemporary jazz guitarist Les Sabler finds that playing guitar brings him tranquility, especially when the noise of the world becomes too much. He can disappear by slipping into an electric guitar groove and find calmness while exploring a nylon string guitar riff. While sheltering in place in his Nashville home during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic and as civil unrest erupted, Sabler quieted his mind while getting to know the vintage Gibson Johnny Smith guitar model recommended by his producer, two-time GRAMMY winner Paul Brown. The resulting album, “Tranquility,” a soothing cocktail of cosmopolitan jazz, soul-powered R&B grooves and mellifluous pop instrumentals, dropped last Friday on the New Vista label.
Monitors release “Previously…” out now on Analogue Trash
Born out of three cultures, Monitors are a group based on friendship. Formed in Paris in 2017, the group consists of Emil Balic (composer / bassist) and Chris Remick (lyricist / singer). In 2019 Feodor Trotta (drums) joined the group, providing electrifying percussive power to an already powerful live act. Although an optimistic group, Monitors do not shy away from writing about modern social concerns, which are both troubling yet hopeful. The lyrics are inspired by William Burroughs, JG Ballard and Edgar Allan Poe.
METALLICA & FORD TEAM UP FOR 2021 FORD F-150 RAPTOR REVEAL
When Ford began planning a reveal for its all-new 2021 Ford F-150 Raptor – a desert-racing inspired version of its best-selling F-150 pickup – it wanted to push the envelope. Having owned this niche category since 2009, competitors were lining up to play in Ford’s sandbox. But with an all-new model chock full of technical innovations like a five-link rear suspension, next-gen shocks and new 37-inch tires, Ford wanted to show why it had been the leader in off-road trucks for 12 years, why it still is the leader, and give a nod to how it will continue to lead in the future.
LILSPIRIT RELEASES NEW MUSIC VIDEO FOR “SERPENT”
Today, Bay area-born lilspirit releases the music video for single “serpent,” out now via 10K Projects/Internet Money Records. In the single, released in December 2020, lilspirit describes a relationship he can no longer trust over a bouncing electronic beat. Its music video was directed by Trey Lyons and shows the artist growing more and more distrustful of his lover. Finally, he watches while she laughs and kisses someone else as if he has become merely a spectator in his own relationship.
CATHAL COUGHLAN (MICRODISNEY, THE FATIMA MANSIONS) presents ‘Owl In The Parlour’ single
Irish indie music legend Cathal Coughlan presents ‘Owl In The Parlour’, the second track from his forthcoming album ‘Song of Co-Aklan’, his first new music in ten years, to be released via London label Dimple Discs. The accompanying video was created by Andy Golding (The Wolfhounds, Dragon Welding), presenting Co-Aklan in an infomercial of the most hallucinatory and lurid kind, which is nonetheless friendly and persuasive in tone.
“This song is, in part, a survey of the options in personal couture, animal husbandry and ‘inexpensive’ domestic staffing, which are now available to the spry middle-aged man in this era of global communication. In this gilded age, we are simultaneously interlinked and mutually repelled as never before, whether we live in remote settlements in war-torn parts of the world, or in the mosaic of postage-stamp-sized semi-detached fortresses and gargantuan fulfilment hubs that is the English Hinterland in 2021,” says Cathal Coughlan.
Jetty Bones Performs an Acoustic Version of “That’s All” | Debut LP ‘Push Back’ Out 2/26
Push Back is the debut album from Ohio singer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Jetty Bones (aka Kelc Galluzzo). With songs that dart between alt-pop confection, indie rock jolt, acoustic melancholy, and even a stomp-and-clap bluegrass romp, Galluzzo worked alongside producer and mixer John Fields (Jonas Brothers, Demi Lovato, Miley Cyrus) to fully realize a set of bedroom recordings she had mapped out in 2019.
CAVE OF SWIMMERS Takes Prog-Rock to New Level with Long-Awaited Sophomore Album, “Aurora,” Out February 23
Just when listeners thought they had Miami-based CAVE OF SWIMMERS pegged as a doom-prog band with an appreciation for a razor sharp Malmsteen-esque guitar leads, the duo is throwing a curveball with their new album, Aurora, scheduled for release on February 23 via BroomTune Records.
Take a listen to the album’s first single and video – available today – “Double Rainbow,” a track that improbably sounds like System of a Down commandeering the dance floor at Studio 54. Meanwhile, “Dirt” is a throbbing salvo of thrash fandango that will have listeners digging out their old Megadeth LPs.
Don McLean & Home Free Release “American Pie” Official Video
All-vocal Country entertainers Home Free and the legendary Don McLean are bringing their special rendition of “American Pie” to life with the brand-new video for their collaboration on the time-tested anthem – out now.
First premiering exclusively on The Tennessean earlier today, the clip visually enhances the making of this all-vocal rendition of “American Pie” – spotlighting each Home Free member and their individual parts as they come together with McLean to sing the story of the rise and fall of Rock & Roll in the 1960s.
KOTA returns with introspective new song + video for ‘WASTED’
Perth Burmese rapper, DJ and audio engineer KOTA shares his new release ‘WASTED’, with heavy hip-hop roots and strong spitfire energy, premiered via Milky yesterday.
Releasing alongside a video clip, ‘WASTED’ is a free-flowing and introspective track that explores the themes of new beginnings. “This new track was influenced by a short break I had with my music where I wasn’t being focused and going out too much, but I stopped all that and I’m now ready to work – which is talked about in the hook,” says KOTA.
FREDO BANG DROPS NEW VIDEO FOR STAND OUT TRACK “SOUL CRY” FROM RECENT ALBUM IN THE NAME OF GEE (STILL MOST HATED) VIA DEF JAM RECORDINGS
April 2020 brought the back-to-back releases of the single + video “Trust Issues,” and Fredo’s fourth mixtape, Most Hated. His next string of new tracks, “Receipts,” “Top,” “Monsters” “Clock Out” (#4 trending on YouTube), “Second Line,” and “No Security” featuring Kevin Gates pointed the way to In The Name Of Gee (September 2020). Four months later, Still Most Hated, including “Big Steppa” and “Loose Screws (Blues Clues),” arrived as Fredo’s sixth mixtape in less than two and a half years.
Megan Thee Stallion Releases “Cry Baby” Video Ft. DaBaby
Megan Thee Stallion has released a fun and freaky video for smash-hit ‘Cry Baby’, featuring DaBaby. Directed by frequent collaborator Colin Tilley (Body, WAP, Don’t Stop), the ‘Cry Baby’ video is a wild and imaginative exploration into what toys get up to when nobody’s around. Opening with none other than the hilarious BlameitonKWay, who sets the scene as a toy shop employee, Megan and DaBaby take us on an unruly ride as they get up to no good. Since its release, ‘Cry Baby’ has garnered over 120 million streams globally, also sparking the viral #CryBabyChallenge which has seen the likes of City Girls’ Yung Miami, Mulatto, and more, take part.
Low Hummer share new single & Video for ‘Never Enough’
Offering a first glimpse at the debut album the band are currently working on, Low Hummer have shared ‘Never Enough’, a driving new single that highlight the bands gift for classic indie songwriting with loving nods to bands like The Cure and LCD Soundsystem. Truly coming together in the studio, while the band poured over Joy Division and Cocteau Twins songs, singer Aimee Duncan could deliver her vocals with the cool understatement she does best, free from the noise of the rehearsal room.
Listen: Asher Monroe releases new album ‘Talk With God’ – OUT NOW!
Following his 2017 album “Inner Warrior”, multi-faceted US singer songwriter Asher Monroe is kicking off 2021 with his new album ‘Talk With God’, which is released globally and available to stream now.
This dreamy mix of pop perfection allows listeners the escapism they desire and deserve, with tracks such as ‘Hollow”’ and ‘Good vs Evil’ emulating on the light and dark sides of fame. Asher delivers an honest and passionate performance throughout the album. Thematic elements include Fame , Corruption , Conspiracy and Coming of Age. Soulful vocal melodies soar over dark and elusive beats creating the ultimate pop elixir. ‘Talk With God’ is an album close to Asher’s heart that he’s longed to share with the world.
