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New > Jonah Yano Shares Single ‘shoes’
Today, Jonah Yano announces his debut album ‘souvenir’ and shares its first single ‘shoes’ featuring his father Tatsuya Muraoka. ‘souvenir’, out June 19th via Innovative Leisure, is the follow up to his critically lauded 2019 debut EP ‘nervous.’ With collaborations from talents like producers Monsune, Leland Whitty & Alexander Sowinski of BADBADNOTGOOD, and Jacques Greene, the 11-song collection touches on themes of family separation, healing, and reconciling with the past.
Jodi Essex – “Stand Up”
“Stand Up” acknowledges & empathizes that life is full of immeasurable disappointments. Yet, the song affirms that somehow in the midst of it all, we have something valuable planted by God inside ourselves to reach for. When we call on Him to lift us up & out of our worst despair + take ownership of where we are, there will be salvation & the most amazing grace, even in rough-and-tumble times. Be moved to “get up, stand up, & RISE.”
Bertt Que estrena el single y videoclip de ‘Balada de domingo’
‘Balada de domingo’ es una vivencia, una historia, un tema donde el folk pop y la particular voz de Bertt nos llegan acompañados por vez primera en toda su trayectoria musical de toques jazzísticos y unos arreglos que mantienen el tono íntimo y personal del tema. Un tema delicado y poético …… que refleja la necesidad de un mundo con reglas propias. Un universo personal y auténtico donde “las huellas siempre son un reflejo del directo y mis canciones son el rastro de una realidad constante”.
CALVIN HARRIS HEADLINES DEFECTED VIRTUAL FESTIVAL 3.0
On what is traditionally one of clubland’s busiest weekends, Defected Records will continue their Virtual Residency this Good Friday with an all-star line-up of international talent, including Calvin Harris’ debut appearance for the house music institution as Love Regenerator. Defected are encouraging music fans to stay inside to enjoy world-class DJ’s streaming direct from their own homes and studios, alongside exclusive never-before-heard sets from previous Defected events.
Marin Patenaude Signs to Dallas Green’s Still Records for ‘Sight Unseen’ LP
I came home to my cabin one night and the window above the kitchen sink was broken. I was freaked out and didn’t understand why, expecting there to be a wild animal hiding in my house somewhere, until I shone a flashlight on the dead grouse in the sink. The wind was howling through my kitchen, I had a broken heart, and felt alone in the world. I fixed the window with a clip-in storm panel and sat in the candlelight with my guitar and tried to calm my nerves. We’ve all had moments of feeling alone, wondering if a small change of action could’ve changed everything. I think allowing yourself to sit with those feelings, not try and fix them or pretend they don’t exist, but actually allow them, is a healthy way to move through painful experiences.
– Marin Patenaude on “Cold Front”
Jackboy’s “Cleaning Crew” Comes Equipped With Sticks Not Mops
Armed with a quick wit and a quicker trigger finger, Jackboy is fiercely protective of his Sniper Gang brethren. Flashing the unique sense of rhythm that makes him one of the game’s most chaotic and polished young rappers, the Pompano Beach, FL native shares “Cleaning Crew,” his latest single. Fitting his rapidfire rhymes between the notes of a snaking guitar melody, Jackboy compares his associates to a cleaning crew–but they’re armed with mopsticks, not mops, and they’ll mobilize at Jackboy’s command. Dripping with the taunting, confrontational demeanor that he exhibited in his recent social media back-and-forth with NBA YoungBoy, “Cleaning Crew” is Jackboy’s first new song since “Murda,” the sinister Casanova collab, and it will appear on Jackboy, the rapper’s new project coming later this month.
The Lazy Eyes share second single “Tangerine”
Balancing the band’s breezy, vintage pop-inspired melodies with a blistering guitar solo climax worthy of Unknown Mortal Orchestra, the track covers a wealth of musical ground across its 3-minute runtime in a kaleidoscopic blur.
BENIGHTED Live Stream New Album ‘Obscene Repressed’ in Full
Drummer Kevin Paradis comments on the stream: “It’s with a lot of pride and excitement that we share this album with you! We can’t wait to have some feedback on our work, and I hope our music will bring you some brutal hours during these difficult times! As drummer of the band since their last EP, I have tried to bring some lightening fast blast beat and double bass drum, some groovy beats, intricate fills and polyrythms, but all of this with a punk spirit mandatory to Benighted Brutal Death Metal/Grindcore spirit!
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith shares warm hued album cut “The Steady Heart”
“The inspiration for this album came to me as a sudden burst of joy, a mixture of sound that I heard internally and shapes that I saw internally. Each shape represented a word. I created the album artwork by using my body to form these shapes. Together with the album cover and back shapes, they create a poem intended to be shared through images.” – Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Washed Out releases “Too Late” single + official video
Washed Out’s Ernest Greene was one of many artists who found themselves in a state of limbo last month after the widespread cancellations of live performances and unexpected travel restrictions. In Greene’s case, the first effect was canceling a long-planned music video shoot in Italy, where he was set to collaborate with an international team of filmmakers.
Public Body share jagged new post-punk single “Naughty On My Bike”
Over the last 12 months, Brighton’s Public Body have been steadily building themselves a reputation as an intriguing post-punk prospect, with a keen eye for detail. Putting modern life under their microscope, they pick over the minutiae of the day to day, and find a world that is either a) not paying attention or b) not listening to those that are. In their own mission statement, the band say they aim to “write the perfect soundtrack to whatever you do whilst procrastinating at your day job.” but it is their own sense of focus and direction that propels them into vivid new territory on new single “Naughty On My Bike”.
Houses of Heaven shares new single “In Soft Confusion” via CVLT Nation
Layering synths, guitars, electronic percussion, and live drums, Houses of Heaven fuses early industrial and techno rhythms with the melodicism of shoegaze and a heavy dose of dub-influenced effects. Formed in Oakland, California by Keven Tecon, Adam Beck, and Nick Ott, the band follows up the Remnant EP with their first full-length album titled Silent Places. Written against the backdrop of the Northern California wildfires, ever-growing tent cities and the continued rise of empty luxury housing in the Bay Area, the album explores the intimate experiences that transpire within the chaotic confines of modern living.
Hear this Techno Shoegaze Lullaby from HOUSES OF HEAVEN “In Soft Confusion”
GRAVE DIGGER Releases New Single and Video for “Thousand Tears”
This year marks 40 years of one of the most influential and pioneering bands of the German heavy metal scene! May 29, 2020 will see metal titans GRAVE DIGGER release their 20th studio album via Napalm Records, and their 40th band anniversary will be celebrated in the most glorious way. With their brand new album, Fields Of Blood, the band around charismatic frontman Chris Boltendahl continues their iconic Scottish Highlands story!
Jess Jocoy (Americana singer-songwriter) “Such a Long Way”
Nashville-based Americana singer-songwriter Jess Jocoy is set to release her debut full-length album, Such a Long Way, on April 10, 2020. The album was produced by Michael Rinne (Miranda Lambert) and Dylan Alldredge (Mary Gauthier, Joy Williams, Leon Bridges) and recorded at Skinny Elephant Recording in Nashville. With a crystalline veracity in her uniquely authentic songs, Jocoy constructs eloquent narratives that drift between the poetic and the conversational, which some have called “Jason Isbell meets Emmylou Harris.”
Love Mansuy shares “Count On You” remix feat. Lil Wayne | ‘Of Age’ EP out now
Thursday, April 9, 2020: Today, Montreal-born, New Jersey-raised artist Love Mansuy released a brand-new remix of his song “Count On You” featuring Lil Wayne. A song taken from his 2019 EP Of Age, “Count On You” is an examination of Mansuy’s relationships with his family as he contemplates whether he can count on his family to support him as he pursues his dreams, and the remix finds Wayne adding a new verse that builds on Mansuy’s smooth R&B number. An Amazon Original track, the song is available exclusively on R&B Rotation, Amazon Music’s home for R&B in heavy rotation.
BANISHER: Metal Injection Premieres “Extradition” Video
BANISHER’spowerful lineup includes current and former members of Decapitated, Belphegor, Vital Remains, Hate, Redemptor, and Shodan. Degrees Of Isolation delivers eight new songs recorded at Invent-Sound Studio. The album’s cover art was created by Łukasz Jaszak, who also filmed and produced the new video for “Extradition.”
BANISHER (DECAPITATED) Details Prisoner Transport In New Song “Extradition”
Alexander 23 debuts new track “IDK You Yet”
“This song is about feeling a void in your heart,” Alexander says. “I think especially with everything that’s going on in the world right now, people are feeling incomplete. I know I am.”
Multi-award winning rap-singer Cameron Sanderson shares ‘Grey’
Starting out by posting original content and covers on Youtube, Cameron Sanderson has gone on to make a name for himself with over 126 thousand subscribers. Growing up in Enfield with the likes of Kerrang! on the playlist and surrounded with family members playing musical instruments, Cameron Sanderson’s life path as a musician was set from an early stage. Asking for Linkin Park’s Hybrid Theory for his fourth birthday raised no eyebrows, instead being further rewarded a few years later with the attendance to a festival at Reading in which Linkin Park was headlining. In Cameron Sanderson’s own words, “I’ve been singing ever since”.
RG Lowe (Strand of Oaks, Western Vinyl) – Shares New Single, ‘Sendai, Unknown’
Rob says: This song intermingles historical and personal events of March 11th, 2011 as a metaphor for the distances between people. The Tōhoku earthquake of the coast of Japan near the city of Sendai was the 4th most powerful ever recorded; literally moving the planet of its axis and increasing its rotational speed. The Tsunami from the event reined havoc on Japan killing thousands and causing the meltdown of three reactors in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The following morning I was with a friend in Portland Oregon waiting as the waves from the Tsunami would hit the Pacific Coast of the United States, but they came in as little more than a set of small ripples. Looking back on this event from almost a decade ago I was struck with its illustrative significance for myself and my life.
Radio One Hosts a COVID-19 National Day of Prayer on Good Friday, April 10
RADIO ONE today announced a national day of prayer campaign to be held on Good Friday, April 10, 2020. The Radio One COVID-19 National Day of Prayer, #OneinPrayer, will feature syndicated radio personalities, Erica Campbell, host of Get Up! Mornings with Erica Campbell, Willie Moore, Jr. of the Willie Moore, Jr. Show and Darlene McCoy, host of the Nightly Spirit with Darlene McCoy, joined by gospel music artists, pastors and special guests to pray for the country and world as it confronts the effects of the global pandemic.
“I’m beyond stoked to let this track into the wild. With the help of my über-talented co-writers, I squeezed sass, self-love and eff-yes-energy into “Bite.”
I’m in a place in my life where I want to enjoy my body and feel empowered to connect in a meaningful and fabulous way. I wrote this song to celebrate lovin’ and help you feel sexy.”
New Music: Harrison – ‘Touch Me’
“When I was younger this track absolutely dominated MTV,” Harrison recalls. “I always loved dance music from such a young age and I met Rui da Silva in a bar with my manager. I told him how I would love to re-work the track – seven months later it’s my first single on Virgin.”
GORILLAZ: Song Machine ‘Aries’ ft Peter Hook and Georgia Out Now
We last saw 2D, Noodle and Russel when they visited Lake Como, via a Kong Studios portal, while accidentally (or not) leaving bandmate Murdoc behind. Aries now picks up with Murdoc inviting longtime bandmate and rival 2D on a trip for some quality frenemy time, with a little truth serum on hand for the ride…
SILVER TALON’S DEBUT FULL-LENGTH ALBUM, “DECADENCE AND DECAY,” DUE THIS FALL
Heavy metal warriors SILVER TALON – whose classic-minded blend of speed, power, thrash and progressive metal was praised by Dead Rhetoric as “sharp, sophisticated and awe-inspiring” – have set “Decadence and Decay” as the title of their forthcoming full-length debut, due to be released this fall via M-Theory Audio. More information about the album will be revealed in the coming weeks.
Nike™ Endorse Electronic Dance Pop Collective ‘Tears of Happiness’ On Single ‘Close To You’
Tears of Happiness officially relaunch their high-energy single ‘Close To You’ on Friday 3rd April after much anticipation. Due to the song being picked up by Nike™ and playlisted throughout their London stores, which is a huge stamp of approval by one of the world’s leading brands. Although this isn’t their only accolade, with their last single ‘Lift Me Up’ reaching number 12 in Luxembourg’s Official Spotify charts gaining over 100,000 streams in just a few weeks. Not to mention, two top 10 hits in Music Week’s Commercial Pop Club charts. It is evident that Tears Of Happiness are making waves across London’s electronic dance-pop community. They have been described by Paul Moody as “the beautiful bast**d child of Calvin Harris and Depeche Mode”
T9INE TAPS LIL DURK FOR “MIND OF A REAL” REMIX
Today, T9ine releases “Mind of a Real” remix featuring Lil Durk. Returning to his Tampa roots, T9ine serves up his slick signature sound around the hypnotic hook and wordplay while Lil Durk lays down the code of the streets. Listen to the new track HERE.
MAD MAX & Detlev Jöcker – New Single “Ladies And Gentlemen” Out Today!
French director Sarah Al Atassi’s official video features Rone’s “Ginkgo Biloba,” an absurd banquet orchestrated by a mysterious blind master of ceremonies. There, in the middle of the forest, a woman and two men indulge in a gargantuan feast of colourful and sugar-rich pastries in front of a little girl.
