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Melody Federer shares emotional new song “Deep Blue”
Today, Melody Federer has released “Deep Blue” (Feat. Bensbeendead). “Deep Blue,” Federer’s first fully self-produced track, follows February’s release “I Hate Love,” produced by Absofacto. Both song offerings from Federer are raw, cutting, honest and emotional. Federer puts it all out there, traversing themes from heartbreak, to hate. She puts depression and darkness at the forefront of her newest song, opening the track with the line “I struggle with the deepest blue sometimes.” The song goes on to warn “don’t go swimming and think that that water is clean no matter how deep.”
Colin Miller’s new EP ‘Hook’ is out today on Oof Records!
Colin Miller’s earliest memories are of growing up in rural Virginia, where his parents were inn-keepers at a converted turn-of-the-century mansion. This experience instilled a sense of small town hospitality—that is, to Miller, the idea of expending energy as a means of being good to people, caring for them like you would yourself. This impulse has made its way into his music: his lyrics are tuned to allow empathy, commiseration, shared emotion and feeling. Hospitality doesn’t just mean making someone feel at home, but at home with you, which is different, and more meaningful.
THE ATTIRE RELEASE NEW SINGLE AND VIDEO “NAKED”
The band teased “Naked” on their TikTok account last Friday evening, calling it “the perfect song to post on your [Instagram] story about your ex.” Over the weekend, it had already amassed over 1.5 million views and thousands of comments from excited fans highly anticipating the full song’s release.
@theattire Our new song drops Friday 3/19! #naked #fyp #newmusic #producertok
Ashley Monroe Releases Official Video For “‘Til It Breaks” From New Album ‘Rosegold’ out April 30
Today, The GRAMMY-nominated Nashville star Ashley Monroe released the official video for “‘Til It Breaks,” the second song to be released from her forthcoming fifth studio album Rosegold. Monroe spoke with Garden & Gun about the new album who said, “Monroe’s vocals shine through powerful harmonies, soaring choruses, and lyrics that blend vulnerability with vivid imagery and wordplay.”
AESOP ROCK AND JEREMY FISH PRESENT… “LONG LEGGED LARRY”
Longtime artistic allies Aesop Rock and Jeremy Fish have teamed up to share their latest collaboration: “Long Legged Larry.” Larry is a particularly altruistic and well-abled frog, who hops from place to place looking to help ease folks’ troubles. Fresh off his acclaimed album Spirit World Field Guide, rap’s most verbose MC/producer Aesop Rock has documented three instances of Larry’s valiance in a brand new song, brought to life through the magic of stop-motion animation in a music video by Rob Shaw. Larry’s visual realization was conceived by draftsman and renowned amphibian consultant Jeremy Fish, who created the song’s artwork, and also granted Larry a material world counterpoint in the form of a beautiful beanbag toy with sick shorts and a big beard. The toy is available to order now, amongst other merch and a physical release of the new song on 7” vinyl format.
Betta Lemme empowers you to find strength in your tears in “Cry”
The wide release follows the exclusive premiere with PAPER, alongside a guest playlist curated by Betta Lemme herself with all the hits you can dance and cry your eyes out to from ABBA and SOPHIE, to Ariana Grande to My Chemical Romance. In addition, Betta Lemme is featured on the cover of Spotify’s Bangers playlist in the US and “Cry” has landed on Spotify’s New Music Friday (Canada) as well as Apple’s New Music Daily (Canada), among many others.
PIANIST/COMPOSER BEN COSGROVE RELEASES PERCUSSIVE NEW SINGLE “OVERPASS”
Pianist/composer Ben Cosgrove has released “Overpass,” the newest single from his forthcoming LP The Trouble With Wilderness, set for release on April 23rd. Each track on the album is about finding beauty in everyday spaces – not just places “set aside” for their scenic attributes, like natural parks, but in the cracks of sidewalks and rusted building structures and anywhere else our eyes land.
BALMORHEA SHARE NEW SINGLE “LA VAGABONDE” TODAY
“Thunberg very much embodies the thinking and energy that I eventually came to associate with much of the music on this album,” says composer and multi-instrumentalist Robert Lowe, one-half of the duo that also includes Michael A. Muller. He remembers telling a friend that he was working on a piece for piano, French horn and a trio of double basses and being called “insane.”
Peaches shares new single/video “Pussy Mask” via Third Man Records
Peaches says, “Because of the pandemic, our collective anxieties unite us more than ever. Even though it may not affect each one of us the same way, we all have similar base concerns. A serious reminder that we are all in this together. I wanted the song to be absurd and fun but also a reflection of our concerns. The humor shines some light into our dark, confusing, and frustrating reality.”
Acclaimed Artist Jesse Marchant Releases Timeless Lead Single From Forthcoming Album
“I had the piano part for quite some time but struggled to find the vocal melody, imagery and words. The falsetto notes that open the song came to me one morning when I was playing the chords, but I lacked confidence in that range for my voice, as it was somewhat new to me. Over time my confidence with it deepened and the song began to bloom, later to become one of the pillar tracks of the record. I am proud of how it moves through different sections seamlessly, like a stream that flows and forms into pools before continuing on to do so again and again.”
Jesse Marchant Premieres “Go Lightly” Ahead of New Album ‘Antelope Running’
JAMES TW RELEASES NEW TRACK “BUTTERFLIES”
Today, platinum-selling British singer-songwriter James TW has released a brand-new track “Butterflies” via Island Records, his first release of much more to come this year. After generating over 2 billion streams, selling out headline shows on multiple continents, and receiving acclaim from Billboard, Atwood Magazine, Huffington Post, Teen Vogue, and many others, James TW has quietly emerged as the biggest artist you’ve never heard of. Now, you’ll hear him open-up like never before on a series of singles and more music in 2021.
For Skope: Teamworx & Paul Aiden’s dark progressive “Actions” asks us to “stop talking and just do it”
The new track combines Teamworx’s signature progressive style with the darker side of their dynamic sound, which works perfectly with Paul Aiden’s voice.
CARMEN DELEON SHARES NEW SINGLE, “PASADO” (FEAT. CALI Y EL DANDEE)
Rising Latin pop sensation Carmen DeLeon teams up with Colombian pop-urban brother duo Cali y El Dandee on her new single, “Pasado.” Released today by Capitol Music Group and Universal Music Latin Entertainment, “Pasado” (which means “past”) sets DeLeon’s gorgeously raw vocals to a powerfully swinging beat. Cali y El Dandee add a poignant, soulful verse. To date, Cali y El Dandee – comprising Alejandro Rengifo and Mauricio Rengifo – have amassed more than five billion combined streams and exceeded 10.7 million monthly listeners on Spotify. Their YouTube channel has generated more than 2.4 billion views.
LA-Based Turkish Guitarist & Composer Deniz Cuylan Shares Video for “She Was Always Here”
The memory is distant but distinct: Deniz Cuylan, five years old, early 1980s, at home in Istanbul, Turkey, listening to Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony on his parents’ turntable. Those regal opening notes arise from nowhere and the music is instantly as real as daylight, refracting his imagination into a spectrum of unfamiliar sensations: grandeur, urgency, beauty, sorrow. Communion.
LA Based CHILLEMI shares sophisticated new music video for “Neon Bride,” a swirl of dark country and alternative rock
CHILLEMI shares, “‘Neon Bride’ came out of me mishearing a Lee Hazlewood line… when I realized he was not actually saying neon bride I figured that sounded like a good starting point for a song. Who doesn’t like neon? I got home and wrote the song in about 20 minutes straight through. It doesn’t always happen like that but when it does it feels like a gift so I always try to stay open to receive.”
Paula Cole Announces New Album American Quilt
Today, Grammy-winning songwriter and producer Paula Cole has announced her upcoming album American Quilt. “I wanted this album to reflect a patchwork of music from the cities and the mountains, the fields and the rivers,” writes Cole. “From movies, to melodies that traversed oceans, centuries, cultures, and continents – sewn together with our collective heartstrings.” American Quilt will be released on May 21st through Renew Records / BMG.
Claptone Shares New Track “Zero” || Out Now On Different Recordings
”Zero’s” illuminating crescendo and playful-yet-commanding vocal is as evocative as it is affecting. It underpins the beginning of one of Claptone’s most transparent musical moments without compromising what made his earlier work so special, channeling deep grooves (and in “Zero’s” case dizzying euphoria) into an unyielding dancefloor anthem.
Alice Phoebe Lou releases new album, ‘Glow,’ out today
Glow follows Alice’s adored 2019 Paper Castles album and is a display of her most personal and raw music to date. Delivered in crooning tones against a backdrop of scuzzy guitars, sauntering bass grooves and mesmeric piano sequences, the 12-song collection sees Alice unafraid to be vulnerable and embracing songwriting as her truest outlet of expression.
Gemini Syndrome Releases New Track And Music Video For “Die With Me” Today
“23, Shakespeare, The divine wedding of yin and yang… ‘Die With Me’ is an invitation for the listener to come along on the journey of self-discovery with us, which ultimately leads to the death of the lower self and the resurrection of the higher self. Lao Tzu said, ‘The one created the two, the two created the three, and then came the 10,000 things.’ 2 and 3 respectively correspond to the male and female energies. 2 being a single line and 3 being a triangle or vessel. Therefore 23 signifies the merging of the seemingly opposite energies of male and female,” states Gemini Syndrome vocalist Aaron Nordstrom about the newest release.
New single out now: The Ferocious Few – “My Love” (US/LUX, americana vintage rock)
Breezy, summery, infectious, passionate, “My Love” sounds like a classic banger from r’n’r golden-era, set for these new modern times. The man behind it is American legend Francisco Fernandez, best known as The Ferocious Few.
MACHINIST! // DEAD HAND Split 10” EP Out Today On Nefarious Industries
MACHINIST! is an explosively unforgiving dynamic heavy band hailing from across the Southeastern United States, known for chaotic and cathartic live sets all over the continent for nearly the past decade. The band burst onto the scene in 2013 with back-to-back 7” EPs via Speedowax Records, then delivering their Pronegative debut album via Eulogy Recordings in 2015. Their latest full-length Closer To Death, was released in 2018 through Innerstrength Records.
MACHINIST! // DEAD HAND – Split
Zack Joseph Announces New Album ‘Keeping Me Sane’
Keeping Me Sane marks the first release from Zack Joseph after a three-year musical hiatus where the Americana artist took much-needed time to soul search. Joseph returned to his musical roots with a stronger sense of self-identity within the queer community and channeled these revelations into his forthcoming album, Keeping Me Sane. The resulting collection of songs is a reflection on life, love, and the never-ending search for self.
Hail The Sun share new single “Made Your Mark”
Today, Hail The Sun has shared “Made Your Mark”, the third single from their upcoming album New Age Filth, out April 16th on Equal Vision Records. The song shows a softer, yet familiar side of the band, floating through dreamy melodies before kicking into the memorable chorus driven by guitars and an emotional vocal delivery.