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Lennon Stella Releases “Bubble” – Song & Video Out Now
Today, platinum-selling singer, songwriter, actress, and multi-instrumentalist, Lennon Stella releases her latest song “Bubble” via RECORDS/Columbia. “Bubble” was co-written with GRAMMY Award-winner Malay (Lorde, Frank Ocean, Zayn) – who also produced the track – and longtime collaborator Simon Wilcox.
“The process of writing this song inspired me greatly, so I hope it translates in some way and inspires others out the other end. This one is for everyone who stays up high, and in their bubble that can’t be broken :,)” – Lennon Stella
JASMINE THOMPSON TEAMS WITH CALUM SCOTT FOR “love is just a word”
Åskväder Release New Single “When We Fall” – New Album ‘Fenix’ Coming In 2022
Martin Gut from the band comments:
The lyrics of the song are describing the inevitable ruin of mankind. To be stuck in apathy facing the abyss. The song was named after a band that our old bass player Staffan Persson had in his 20’s as a tribute to him. The awesome riff that gets the song started is something we are especially proud of.
SHIP WREK’S NEW SINGLE, “STIMULATE,” IS OUT TODAY VIA ASTRALWERKS
“We made ‘Stimulate’ during quarantine,” says Ship Wrek. “We were itching to get back on the road and knew we had to make something fresh for when shows came back. There was a lot of nonsense going on in the world in the last few years and this song is dedicated to opening your eyes to the truth. For the artwork, we teamed up with our boy Zachokami to create something to emphasize the message of mass awakening.”
iann dior UNLEASHES NEW SINGLE AND VIDEO “LET YOU”
The track forays dior into a more alt-pop space with the guitar-forward production that Omer Fedi is best known for. The accompanying video directed by Sebastian Sdaigui (Ariana Grande, 2Chainz, Gunna) features a cinematic freak-show, circus with dior as the ringleader alongside artistic muse and seasoned professional dancer Lexee Smith, whose recent works include Oculus with Billie Eilish, a Grammy performance with Ariana Grande, Rihanna’s Savage Fenty Show, and FKA TWIGS.
WHY DON’T WE COVER JUSTIN BIEBER’S “MISTLETOE”
“We’ve always loved Bieber, and when it was time to get in the studio to make a holiday song we thought, ‘why not do our own version of one of the most catchy and fun ones we grew up with.’ This song could make anyone want to fall in love around the holidays.” – WHY DON’T WE
Summer Walker’s New Artist NO1-NOAH Releases Single Today
Singer/Songwriter NO-1 NOAH (Ghetto Earth Records/Interscope Records) isn’t ready to close the doors shut on his 2021. Today, the R&B polymath bounces back with his melodic banger, “Thank God.” Director Patricio Mosquera delivers an anime thriller for NOAH’s visualizer, where an all-out melee occurs. Though NOAH escapes unscathed from the battle, all doesn’t end well for the rising star. As for the song itself, it finds a confident NOAH stiff-arming detractors with his bruising wordplay and buttery delivery.
MADDOX JONES Returns With Dance-Pop Exuberance “Make Me Yours”
Northampton, UK’s very own claim to fame Maddox Jones rounds off an impressive 2021 with his third solo single of the year – the dance-pop joy of “Make Me Yours” releases today (November 12, 2021) via Radikal Records.
Today, Philippine-born, LA-based, singer/songwriter Kajo releases his new single “In A Week” via Logic’s Bobby Boy Records/Def Jam Recordings.
Kajo came to fame as a producer/pianist with the rapper Logic, where Kajo has quickly proven to be a visionary songwriter in his own right, obliterating boundaries between sounds and styles as a means of undertaking some rich, textured worldbuilding.
GRAMMY® Award-Winning Singer-Songwriter Joss Stone Returns with “Never Forget My Love” (Audio + Video)
Produced by Bay Street Records founder, award-winning musician, songwriter, producer, innovator, and Eurythmics co-founder Dave Stewart, and co-written by Stewart and Stone, “Never Forget My Love” is the title track from Stone’s new album, due early 2022. The duo wrote every song for the new record on acoustic guitar at Bay Street Studios in the Bahamas and then recorded all the tracks at Nashville’s famed Blackbird Studio. The project marks Stone’s first full-length LP in more than five years as well as her first new music with Stewart in over a decade. As on their previous collaboration, 2011’s critically acclaimed LP1, backing comes from a top tier band of session all-stars including drummer Chad Cromwell, bassist Michael Rhodes, and guitarist Tom Bukovac.
The new EP is prismatic as the Canadian artist dives fearlessly into her own psyche with acute self-awareness. Betta Lemme surges with intimate and expansive ballads that ebb, flow, and burst with lyrical wit that hits all the emotional pressure points. A maverick at heart, Betta tackles themes of mental health, identity, love, and loneliness with both playful curiosity and pensive finesse as she reminds us of the fleeting ever-flowing nature of the human condition. Just by its title it may seem like another bubblegum pop record, but within seconds listeners will realize Ready For The Weekend is a masquerade for the hidden angst and uncertainty many wrestle with when they’re trying to believe in something so fragile and impermanent.
LITTLE MIX RETURN WITH NEW SINGLE “NO”
SEBASTIAN JAVIER RELEASES FIRST HOLIDAY SINGLE “CHRISTMAS TIME”
About “Christmas Time,” Sebastian shared, “This song centers on the concept of COVID and how hard it’s been to get together with family. Presents are irrelevant this year, and the true gift is to be with the ones we love. ‘Christmas Time’ touches on the ‘finish line’ subject as a means of finally getting to a place where we can be with family as COVID slowly begins to go away. We made it!”
Jamestown Revival Reflect on Recent Times On New Single “These Days”
With a swaggering waltz, close harmonies, and a wealth of slide guitars, Jamestown Revival has perfectly encapsulated the dog days of feeling stranded by the events of the last two years in their brand new single, “These Days.” Straddling the line of good-time music and down-and-out feelings, “These Days” feels universal; a blurry memory of a worldwide shared experience, albeit a little closer to home for those who found themselves out of work for months on end. “‘These Days’ is about being down in the dumps, hamstrung, and unable to work,” say Jamestown Revival bandmates Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance.
NOTD & THE BAND CAMINO SHINE TOGETHER ON NEW SINGLE “NEVER A GOOD TIME”
This record kicks off a new era for NOTD as the lead single from their highly anticipated forthcoming debut EP, due out in the Spring of 2022. The track effortlessly bridges the gap between Nashville and Stockholm, blending glossy dancefloor-ready soundscapes with shimmering pop melodies as it dips in and out of neon keys and airy guitars. Meanwhile, The Band CAMINO serve up soaring harmonies and a hypnotic hook with eighties spirit, “I don’t wanna wait, never a good time to say goodbye, yeah!”
RAIBARD Stream New Single “Eternal Rise”
Progressive trio RAIBARD are streaming their new single “Eternal Rise” via Prog Radar.
The band comments:
“Hidden in our unstable and chaotic and random experience of the world is the utter stability of the deeply and ever unfolding human mind. If you learn to quiet yourself, to quiet your mind – you will find this path”
Boston, Massachusetts Trio, Raibard, Exclusive Single Premiere And New Album Details
Lilac Kings Release Dreamy New EP ‘I’m Only Dreaming’
Today, Oklahoma-based quartet, Lilac Kings, has released their brand new EP I’m Only Dreaming via Revival Recordings. The EP features previous singles “A Touch to Lose” and “Fever Dream” both released earlier this year. Listen to I’m Only Dreaming here.
The Willie Nelson Family “I Saw The Light” Cover of Hank Williams Standard Available Now
A centerpiece track from The Willie Nelson Family album (available Friday, November 19), “I Saw the Light” features Willie Nelson (Trigger, lead vocals), Lukas Nelson (acoustic guitar, lead vocals, background vocals), Micah Nelson (bass, drums, background vocals), Bobbie Nelson (piano), Paula Nelson (background vocals), Amy Nelson (background vocals) and Mickey Raphael (harmonica).
Born in Niger, adopted by Canadian and Mozambican/Belgian parents, Noel spent his youth moving around the globe with his multi-racial family, eventually landing in Fredericton, Canada for university. While studying, Noel embedded himself in a predominantly white indie rock community that left him feeling, as a Black man, both seen and unseen in complicated ways; both welcome and not. This strain would follow Noel through a move to Montreal in 2016, where he found himself again moving within predominantly white music communities. Such (dis)placement encouraged Noel to find respite in Ottawa, holed up temporarily in a family home, studying the various pieces of himself and putting them to place in his mercurial, reflective, expressive and captivating music.
3BREEZY RELEASES NEW PROJECT CATCH A BREEZE TODAY!
Inciting critical acclaim right out of the gate and called “technically elegant and sonically moving” and “Your new favorite R&B/hip-hop artist.” Catch A Breeze caps off an incredible journey from Breezy who changed to plans from being a veterinary technician to producing and creating and releasing his own songs.
MS BANKS RELEASES LATEST SINGLE AND MUSIC VIDEO PARTY FT NAIRA MARLEY
The Rexxie produced track comes after the huge success of Stefflon Don’s DIP ft Ms Banks and well received single Go Low. Directed by Dalia Dias, the sultry video follows Bank as she parties through Nigeria. Speaking on the track Ms Banks states “Party is just a feel good track, you know when you step in looking like a ‘snack’ and the mandem are just on you… yeah that!”
Chinese-Canadian, LA-Based Electro-House DJ/Producer, CHYL Teams Up with Georgi on New Track Premiered via Celebmix
Electro-house DJ/Producer, CHYL,announces her new single “Bitch Mode,” featuring Georgi, out November 12, 2021. A Chinese-Canadian producer and DJ who let her passion for music production take her from an investment banker’s desk on Wall Street to a recording studio in Los Angeles, CHYL blends bass house, electro, and new age tech house into and states, ” There are many feminist songs in the pop world, but not enough in the electronic music realm.”Georgi is a New York based vocalist, DJ, songwriter, and producer. She has risen quickly in the New York nightlife scene mixing various genres of house music. She has performed with several talented artists such as What so not, SNBRN, Dombresky, and others. Georgi released her first collaboration with CHYL called “Bitch Mode” November 2021. There are many original releases coming in 2022 under her sub genre Bitch House.
ericdoa Returns With Sickening New Track “strangers” Today
Of the song the rising Connecticut-raised Latinx artist shares “My new single is the first mark in our journey through our experimentation with this ‘warped’ pop inspired sound. I remember being on the train on the way to New York City listening to ‘Locked out of Heaven’ by Bruno Mars and becoming extremely inspired. It was also my first session with my good friend and collaborator, Zetra. It was such an amazing sight to see a hook and melody I wrote singing in the shower, turned into what the single is now.”
NYC’s Dropper shares debut single “Don’t Worry,” via AudioFemme, announces debut LP
Dropper is the brain/lovechild of Andrea Scanniello, a multi-instrumentalist who performs with the likes of Shannon Shaw of Shannon & The Clams, Saara Untracht-Oakner (Boytoy, SUO), and more. Their debut album, Don’t Talk to Me, was written by Scanniello behind the desk of a bowling alley where she sprayed sweaty bowling shoes in exchange for a little bit of money and quite a bit of beer. Don’t Talk to Me was produced by Andrija Tokic at Nashville’s renowned Bomb Shelter studio and mastered by engineer Heba Kadry. It’s out on Feb. 11, 2022 on the band’s own Dirt Dog label.
KARLIE BARTHOLOMEW RELEASES NEW SINGLE “BACK BAY”
With relatable lyrics like I used to take it for granted, like it would always be that way, until my bags sat waiting to leave on graduation day, “Back Bay” mirrors the feeling of homesickness most listeners can identify with.
Bri Fletcher Releases Debut Original Holiday Song, “Whiskey Weather”
Rising singer-songwriter Bri Fletcher has released her first original holiday song, “Whiskey Weather.” The dreamy, pop-country track features Fletcher’s distinct and unparalleled vocals while she reminisces on a lost love and turns to whiskey as her vice. Written by Fletcher and Kylie Hughes and produced by Elysse Yulo, “Whiskey Weather” is available now on your preferred digital platform.
Gov’t Mule release new album ‘Heavy Load Blues’
POWER PALADIN Signs To Atomic Fire Records And Announces Debut Album, With The Magic Of Windfyre Steel; Band Playthrough Video Now Playing + Preorders Available
Imagine deserted volcanic wasteland, freezing winds, and the all-embracing darkness of the longest winters on this planet: the obvious inspiration for rather vicious and somber tunes for lonely evening hours that the biggest part of Iceland’s heavy music scene is known for. Who would dare to think of tales about brave warriors and mystical creatures coming from such an island? Power metal seemed like a fairytale until 2017 when a Reykjavík-based sextet rose in quest of carrying out their uplifting tunes and finally proving everyone wrong. On an island known for its musical doom and gloom, they are the midnight sun.
Acclaimed Funk/ Disco-Indie Duo Rush Midnight Return With ‘Last Call’
LA’s Rush Midnight are back once again with new single ‘Last Call’. Having previously picked up acclaim across top music press including Earmilk, Pitchfork and The Guardian, Russell Manning and songwriting partner Rico Martinez (the duo behind Rush Midnight) have become well renowned for their distinctive Disco tinted Indie-Pop sound. Self-producing before mixing and mastering with drummer Jim Orso (Holy Ghost, Escort), the duo have found a winning formula that sees them continuously create creative and highly enjoyable music.
ROYAL BLU MEETS THE AUTOS FOR A “DANCEHALL SESSION”
Alt Pop/Rock Artist JARED ANTHONY Releases New Single “Over My Head” via UnitedMasters; Premiere Official Music Video on Alternative Press!
Windsor’s Alt Pop/Rock artist JARED ANTHONY released his new single “Over My Head” via UnitedMasters today along with a premiere of his official music video on Alternative Press.
“Over My Head” features Evan Stanley (son of Paul Stanley) on lead guitar, Matt Noveskey (Blue October) on bass and Will Knaak (Blue October) is on rhythm guitar.
Jared Anthony taps Blue October and Evan Stanley for “Over My Head”—watch
Nina June Shares “The Great Reveal (feat. Jon Bryant)” From ‘Meet Me on the Edge of Our Ruin’ (Nov 26)
“Those ruins represent things we’ve lost,” she explains. “It could be friendships I’ve lost or people who I’ve truly loved in my life and moved on from. At the same time, we leave behind so many ruins as human beings. I’ve been a vegetarian since the age of six and a vegan for three years. I don’t understand why we as a species destroy our planet, leaving behind so much beauty. A ruin is anything I look back on and think, ‘That was once undamaged, now it’s broken and abandoned. Somewhere in there hides beauty. What direction am I going to take from here?'”
