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CHEL: Vivacious Pop Artist and All-Around Inspiration Releases EPIC New Single
Ask Chel what she’s most proud of and she probably won’t even mention her massive following on social media or millions of views on YouTube. She won’t point to her features in Billboard, Ladygunn or Sports Illustrated either.
Napoleon Share New Single “I Better Run” feat. Silverstein’s Shane Told
Since forming in 2018, alt-punk four-piece Napoleon has been attracting attention from fans and media alike within their local Toronto scene. In early 2020, the band signed onto new management from now frequent producer Scott Middleton of Cancer Bats.
Today, Trick Gum shares their debut single, “Hot Rifle”. Trick Gum is the brand new project of legendary producer Justin Raisen (Charli XCX, Angel Olsen, Yves Tymor, Kim Gordon) & his long time soul mate collaborator and cousin Jordan Benik (of cult LA band Sweaters). Stereogum premiered the track, praising it as “a synth-powered track that reminds of playfully lackadaisical ’90s alternative radio hits from the likes of Beck and Cake as well as indie oddities like Enon and Tobacco..”
Doss’ 4 New Hit Songs out today, first release in seven years
“Putting this EP out is like meeting with an old friend you haven’t seen in a while. I needed to take a little time away to remember it’s the music. These songs are built from Self reflection, growing, empathy for yourself and the people around you, driving in cars, in between spaces where you have to make a choice.”
Rarin Releases New Single “SO WHAT!” ft. Brxkenbxy
“SO WHAT! is about brushing off minor issues,” says Rarin. “There are so many times that we miss out on big opportunities because we’re too busy worrying about the little things in life.”
Universally acclaimed singer/songwriters Michael McDonald and Willie Nelson are joining forces with David Hidalgo of Los Lobos for a rendition of “Dreams of the San Joaquin” to benefit RAICES, the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, and the United Farm Workers of America. The classic song, written by Randy Sharp and Jack Wesley Routh and made famous by both Kenny Rogers and Linda Ronstadt, tells the story of a worker in the fields of San Joaquin Valley during the Dust Bowl and Great Depression in the ’30s and ’40s. The single, due May 7 exclusively via Bandcamp, will be accompanied by a forthcoming video directed by Micah Nelson.
Set Into Motion Drop New EP “Something Exciting”
This whole EP is really a journey from the beginning to the end of a struggling relationship. Starting off with being super happy and head over heels with your significant other, then over the course of it the two just can’t help but stray apart for whatever reasons, but one person ends up in a much better place than the other.
Augie – ‘LowFi’
LowFi was written by Augie. Produced by ‘Beats by Con’. Filmed by Ben Kornegay featuring Leslie Rodriguez and Isaac Miller in Mesa Arizona.
DODIE RELEASES DEBUT ALBUM BUILD A PROBLEM + ANNOUNCES NORTH AMERICAN TOUR
UK singer-songwriter dodie today shares her eagerly anticipated and already acclaimed debut album Build A Problem via her label doddleoddle. The album includes the singles “I Kissed Someone (It Wasn’t You)”, “Hate Myself” and “Cool Girl” and is available for purchase in CD, vinyl, deluxe CD, deluxe vinyl and cassette formats.
RISING GUYANESE POP PRINCESS JOURDIN PAULINE SHARES NEW SINGLE “LUSTFUL DESIRES”
After independently amassing over 3 million total streams and garnering acclaim from The Source, Billboard Sound, and many more, dancer, actress, singer-songwriter, and “Guyanese Pop Princess” Jourdin Pauline unveils a new single entitled “Lustful Desires” today.
FARGO Releases New Single and Video!
German Hard Rock band FARGO releases with “Gimme That Bone” their new single and video out of their new studio album “Strangers D’Amour” today. The video features two special guests: ex FARGO guitar player Hanno Grossmann and Torsten Lüderwaldt on keyboards, well known for his work for the band Fair Warning.
JP Saxe Releases “Like That” From Forthcoming Debut Album “Dangerous Levels of Introspection”
Of “Like That,” Saxe says: “I learned love in all kinds of new ways over the last year. Terrifying ways for the most part but good terrifying. I didn’t realize it when Julia [Michaels] and I wrote ‘Like That,’ but I think it’s unintentionally very connected to the first song we ever wrote, ‘If The World Was Ending.’ That song is about who you would want to be with if everything went to shit. This song is about who was with you when everything did go to shit.”
SUZI MOON RELEASES NEW SINGLE “I’M NOT A MAN!”
SUZI MOON, the newest member of the Pirates Press Records family, has just released her second single for “I’m Not A Man.” The song comes from Moon’s upcoming Call The Shots 3 song EP, the debut solo release for the former CIVET member and TURBULENT HEARTS frontwoman.
Hear The High Hawks’ Shuffling Ode To The Road In “Heroes & Highways” From Debut, Self-Titled Album
In the first few seconds of The High Hawks’ debut single, a flurry of pulsing electric piano, kick drum, and Townshend-esque guitar strums give way to a flat out J.J. Cale groove just in time for the first line to be sung: “If we could just find a highway…might even find a way to make it home.” And thus, The High Hawks take flight. That tune, “Heroes & Highways,” is an appropriate first taste of music from the long-time-coming, feel-good Americana cooperative, naturally expressing the range of which the bands’ members can reach. With close to 150 years of collective experience as professional touring musicians, The High Hawks—Vince Herman (Leftover Salmon), Tim Carbone (Railroad Earth), Chad Staehly (Hard Working Americans), Adam Greuel (Horseshoes & Hand Grenades), Brian Adams (DeadPhish Orchestra) and Will Trask (Great American Taxi)—have maintained a generation-spanning presence at the forefront of the roots music scene for over two decades. On June 11th, their debut album The High Hawks will be released via LoHi Records.
PREMIERE: The High Hawks Hit The Road For “Heroes & Highways” Ahead Of Debut Album [Video]
Michael Ray Releases Family-Inspired Track “Picture” + Official Music Video
“This past year I was able to go home and reconnect with what made me want to move to Nashville, what made me fall in love with music, the people who made me who I am, the people who believed in me from day one,” the singer / songwriter said. “I think it helped me re-find myself and re-discover the kind of music I want to make. That’s where a song like ‘Picture’ comes from. After my Uncle Terry passed last June, I wanted to write an autobiographical song about my family and the memories we all have to look back on – but its not a sad song. It’s a song of celebration. I hope it reminds people, like it does for me, to capture moments with their loved ones.”
Michael Ray to release autobiographical track ‘Picture’ on Friday
PABLLO VITTAR RELEASES NEW BALLAD ‘AMA SOFRE CHORA’
As a follow up to ‘Amor De Que,’ her massive 2020 Carnival anthem, singer-songwriter and drag queen Pabllo Vittar is releasing her first offering of 2021, ‘Ama Sofre Chora’ from her forthcoming album. After being grounded with the rest of the world by the COVID-19 pandemic in her hometown of Uberlândia, Vittar became deeply immersed at home in the sounds of her rich Brazilian heritage. The love-soaked ballad pulls sonic inspiration from her cultural past but with an aim to usher the influences into her meteoric rise across international borders to the global pop stratosphere.
DAGR, the LA production duo of Ceci G and Veronica Jane, returns with “Fuck Knots” featuring Uffie!
The single comes off their self-titled debut album, DAGR, out June 18th, 2021 on OneRPM. The album blurs & breaks apart around pop and features contributions from Bali Baby, Warhol SS, Uffie, Dizzy Fae, Jerome Farah, Prison Religion, Suzi Wu, Hawa, & Cecile Believe.
“Day one of the DAGR x Uffie collab, the ‘Fuck Knots’ banger was born. Inspired by a tangle of unbrushed hair and unrequited love, the video takes viewers on a frenzied journey through a distorted celebrity mugshot. Led by hallucinations of solo cups and iPhone paparazzi, “Fuck Knots” captures the surreal spiral of 2020 via punch-drunk frames & thumping 808s. She is a hard, club-ready slap that is rough around the edges in all the right ways.” – DAGR
John Lennon Estate Shares Meditative New Video For “Hold On,” Inviting Everyone To Relax, Breathe And Remember To “Hold On World”
The video showcases the new Elements Mix of the song which highlights John’s vocals by including two previously unused vocal overdubs along with guitar while muting the bass and drums for a more subdued version.
BREAKOUT COUNTRY STAR KIDD G DECLARES “LAST CALL”
The song, which arrives following yesterday’s announcement of the partnership with Big Machine Label Group imprint The Valory Music Co., is an honest showcase of the raw talent and supreme lyrical skills that Kidd G boasts throughout his music.
P!NK RELEASES NEW SINGLE AND MUSIC VIDEO FOR “ALL I KNOW SO FAR”
“Dave Meyers and I are back together again,” says P!NK. “Since this song is sort of the story of my life and a letter to my daughter, making this video with Dave after we did our first video together 22 years ago is a really special full circle moment. He’s truly a genius and I am full of gratitude for our friendship and to experience all the times we’ve been able to work together.”
CHILDISH MAJOR INTRODUCES FIRST MUSICAL OFFERING OF 2021, “DISRESPECTFUL”
After most recently being seen in IBM’s Superbowl commercial alongside Timbaland, CHILDISH MAJOR has made his return with his newest musical offering, “Disrespectful,” which also arrives with a companion visual available now. This track serves as just a taste of what’s to come from the Grammy-nominated artist/producer later this summer.
Oceanhoarse Premieres Brand New Lyric Video for “Reaching Skywards”!; New Album, Dead Reckoning, to be Released August 20th on Noble Demon
Helsinki-based Heavy Fucking Metal (patent pending!) group Oceanhoarse have released their new single “Reaching Skywards” today. With its in-your-face metal riffing, 90’s style psychedelia and astral beauty of the chorus, this is quite possibly the most versatile Oceanhoarse song to date.
Amsterdam alt. soul/pop duo Feng Suave share charming “Tomb For Rockets” video
Feng Suave are an Alternative/Soul duo from Amsterdam, Netherlands. Adding in 70’s-remnant pop grooves, members Daniël Schoemaker and Daniël de Jong write and produce a delicate output of contemporary yet timeliness music. Today they share their new single “Tombs For Rockets” along with a video with Clash.
CHLOE MORIONDO DEBUTS NEW ALBUM BLOOD BUNNY
18-year-old artist Chloe Moriondo has shared her major-label debut album Blood Bunny (album art/tracklisting attached). The release is accompanied by an official video for track “Bodybag,” which is streaming now on Moriondo’s official YouTube channel. Blood Bunny is available now on all streaming platforms via Public Consumption Recording Co./Fueled By Ramen.
Rhonda Vincent Releases Latest Single “What Ain’t To Be Just Might Happen”
Multi-award-winning bluegrass artist and Grand Ole Opry Inductee Rhonda Vincent has released the single,”What Ain’t To Be Just Might Happen.” Building anticipation for a summer album release, this single, written by Porter Wagoner, is just the upbeat light hearted tune that the world needs. Delivered with a hard driving punch in only a way the Queen of Bluegrass herself can deliver, “What Ain’t To Be Just Might Happen” draws on the idea that whatever comes your way will be, so instead of letting it bring you down, revel in the optimism of life.
The Ruddy Ruckus Share the Vibrant “Hold On My Love”
Produced by The Dirty Nil’s Luke Bentham, new single, “Hold On My Love,” is baked in a certain brand of folky nostalgia that revisits more innocent times. As the message of the song is to hunker down and wait out the storms that life throws at us, there is a certain romanticism in the idea that things were better or easier in the past.
BOWLING FOR SOUP PRESENT NEW SINGLE “GETTING OLD SUCKS (BUT EVERYBODY’S DOING IT)”
Getting older is a part of life that no-one can escape, as much as we might want to sometimes. A sentiment that is expressed perfectly in Bowling For Soup’s brand new single Getting Old Sucks (But Everybody’s Doing It). 2021 is the year where pop punk has burst back into the mainstream consciousness in a big way; Getting Old Sucks shows exactly why Bowling For Soup are still at the top of their game two decades after they first hit the big time.
POP ARTIST CASSANDRA RELEASES NEW SINGLE “21 RAGIN”
With exciting and celebratory lyrics like got my fresh ID and my wallet, find a way to forget last year, champagne in the fridge let’s pop it, Uber’s here, “21 Ragin” is here just in time for listeners to finally break free from the gloominess of 2020.
Will Stratton Shares Video For “Fate’s Ghost”
Of the track Stratton says: “More than any other song on this album, Fate’s Ghost is composed of feelings rather than thoughts. I had woken up from an odd dream one morning in 2016 and sat down and wrote it quickly. The imagery is all from that dream I had–deserted nighttime streets, racing horses, and huge, overwhelming storms. The arrangement was trickier to nail down than any other song on the album. The drumming and bass playing of Sean Mullins and Carmen Rothwell helped me finally figure it out. My friend Ben Seretan creates a perfect atmosphere with his nimple electric guitar playing. The great Eamon Fogarty sings backup on this one, and he has a beautiful voice. And my neighbor Justin Keller plays some lovely saxophone on the choruses.”
Indie Newcomers McLeish & Spencer Share Debut Single ‘I Remember’ Via Novium Records
Chichester and London based duo McLeish & Spencer have announced their debut single ‘I Remember’ released via Novium Records. Recording their first tracks at Old Blacksmiths Studios in Portsmouth, Ewan McLeish (lead vocals, guitar) and Matt Spencer (lead guitar, backing vocals) have set the scene with their first release for an exciting year.
