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PETER KELLY RELEASES DEBUT EP

“It all starts with the song,” says singer/songwriter/guitarist Peter Kelly, “an acoustic guitar (or piano if you’ve got one), your voice, and whatever idea that is trying to come out.” All the songs on Peter’s debut solo EP, Forever, Again, go through the same process. “There is that flash of inspiration, the race to get…

Matthew Nimegeers, Mystery Man

Over the years we’ve seen rock, pop and even modern folk music slowly erode into over-commercialized, corporate puppet shows providing music that is extremely sing songy, predictable, popish and highly corporate. I hereby call this new breed of music “Poser Rock” or “Power Pop.” I want to personally thank all the corporate giants for successfully…

YANN TIERSEN VIDEO FOR “MONUMENTS”

Yann Tiersen will release his seventh studio album, Skyline, on April 17, 2012 via Anti- Records. Skyline finds Tiersen taking a confident step forward, cementing the sound of its darker sister, the critically acclaimed Dust Lane.   Says Tiersen, “Strangely while Skyline musically comes across as lighter and happier than Dust Lane the subject matter…

AMY DALLEY TO RELEASE ALBUM ON MARCH 27, 2012

Nashville-based country singer/songwriter Amy Dalley is set to release her new album, Coming Out Of The Pain, via Rock Ridge Music on March 27, 2012.   Coming Out Of The Pain is Dalley’s second full-length and combines classic pop-country with the edge of heartland rock, as well as Dalley’s intimate lyrics and dulcet vocals.  …

BRIANNA PERRY PREMIERES “MARILYN MONROE” VIDEO

The smash track “Marilyn Monroe” is from her recently released mixtape “Face Off” which features the likes of Wale, Trina & Future. The 20 year-old Miami native debuted the video on BET’s 106th & Park yesterday, January 31st. “Marilyn Monroe” is currently available at iTunes! [youtube 4BzOBxQjSLM nolink] www.BriannaTheYRB.com

JULIE CLARK SHUBERT HAS A STORY & MUSIC YOU MUST HEAR

Natural musicians and songwriters are just that, they were born with the gift. What if however you were that musician, but you never knew you were. Then one day all the stars align and that part of you just appears, opens up with the natural gift that was always been there, but added to that…

MATT TOKA NEW VIDEO “COURTNEY”

When producer Rob Cavallo (Green Day, My Chemical Romance) agreed to produce Matt’s first album, he cried like a fucking baby.Here is a Kurt Cobain tribute to what Matt considers the greatest love story of all time, called “Courtney”. [youtube swVjv89VRHE nolink]

Rivethead, Doomsday For Optimism

Get ready for a petal-to-the-metal, head-on assault that is Rivethead and their mission is ‘Doomsday For Optimism’.   From the moment you push play all the way through to the end, Rivethead and their latest effort never let up on the gas.   Aggressive, in-your-face music that will energize your senses and ring loud in…

NOTTZ AND NEFEW PRESENT VIDEO FOR THE FAN

Starting 2012 off on the right foot, Hip-Hop duo, Nefew, present to the masses   their video for The Fan. This hard-hitting single, which was produced and features Norfolk Beach production mastermind, Nottz featured on their DJ Green Lantern hosted Man VS Many Project. Intent on doing this highly charged track justice, the concept behind…

MARTHA’S TROUBLE TO RECORD ALBUM OF LULLABIES

Americana folk/pop duo Martha’s Trouble has announced its plan to record an album of lullabies for children.   The still-untitled project will be funded via a Kickstarter campaign, which kicked off last week and will run through Friday, February 17, 2012.   (Bitly link to Kickstarter campaign:   http://kck.st/y5HDNG.)   Current plans for the album…

CHICAGO RAPPER ROCKIE FRESH RELEASES NEW MIXTAPE

Chicago native Rockie Fresh is starting off 2012 right with the release of his brand new mixtape ‘Driving 88’. This new project takes listeners on an audible journey as Rockie proves his diversity as a lyricist exposing a more luminous and confident sound with this current release. “I’m in a different space than I was…

BALKAN BEAT BOX ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM

The socially conscious, multicultural trio BALKAN BEAT BOX has announced they’ll return with a new full-length album entitled GIVE, to be released Tuesday, March 6 on Nat Geo Music. It marks the critically acclaimed group’s first release in nearly two years. BALKAN BEAT BOX has also revealed new tour dates in the U.S. and U.K.…

L’ARC-EN-CIEL MAKE NEW YORK CITY DEBUT

L’Arc-en-Ciel, one of Japan’s most celebrated rock bands, will make their long overdue U.S. return on March 25th with a performance at New York’s legendary Madison Square Garden. Originally scheduled for March 23rd at The Theater at Madison Square Garden, the show has been moved to the world famous arena due to the overwhelming demand…

LEEMA MOUNTAIN OFFER MP3 “YOU”

Today, Harmony Township, NJ’s one-and-only one man band Leema Mountain is releasing the second in a series of free tracks that will be coming out in the next few months.   The new track, entitled “You,” is yet another example of Leema’s ability to craft perfect kitchen pop jingles .  

Smalltime, Smalltime (EP)

Over the years we’ve seen rock slowly erode into over-commercialized, corporate puppet shows providing music that is extremely sing songy, predictable, popish & highly corporate. I hereby call this new breed of music “Poser Rock” & I want to personally thank all the corporate giants for successfully transforming “Sex Drugs and Rock n’ Roll” into…

KENNY OLSON TO RELEASE DEBUT SOLO ALBUM

Multi-platinum guitarist Kenny Olson has announced the upcoming release of his long-awaited, debut solo album “Kenny Olson Cartel” on February 7th through Foxy Music/Firebird. While Olson may be best known as Kid Rock’s 11-year axeman and founding member of his Twisted Brown Trucker Band, music fans around the globe are soon going to know him…

NORAH JONES SET TO RELEASE NEW DANGER MOUSE PRODUCED ALBUM

Norah Jones is set to release a new album this spring entitled Little Broken Hearts (Blue Note/EMI), a collaboration with the producer and musician Danger Mouse. The two first worked together when Danger Mouse called upon Jones to contribute vocals to his acclaimed 2011 album ROME, and their connection proved deep enough that they decided…

THE CRANBERRIES RETURN

The Cranberries will return with Roses, their first studio album in over a decade via Cooking Vinyl for the world on February 27th, and on February 28th via Cooking Vinyl/Downtown Records in the U.S., and Gold Lake Records in Canada. The Cranberries: Dolores O’Riordan, Noel Hogan, Mike Hogan, and Fergal Lawler, began their career in…

STALLEY FEAT DJ KHALED ON NEW SINGLE

As a warm-up for his new release Savage Journey to the American Dream, Stalley offers a series of songs called “Songs by Me, Stalley.”   The first is “City of 30,000 Wolves,” a tribute to Stalley’s hometown of Massillon, Ohio over DJ Toomp production with DJ Khaled on the intro.   Savage Journey to the…

Y LA BAMBA OFFER MP3 “SQUAWK”

Y La Bamba’s forthcoming album is produced by Grammy-winning producer and Los Lobos member, Steve Berlin, and it is out Feb 28 on Tender Loving Empire (Typhoon, Loch Lomond, Jared Mees, Radiation City).  

UNSANE NEW ALBUM MARCH 20th

Legendary NYC rock powerhouse UNSANE has completed work on its long awaited new album, titled “WRECK”. The seventh full length recording of the band’s storied career will see a March 20, 2012 release date via Jello Biafra’s Alternative Tentacles label. Recorded by the band and producer Andrew Schneider at Brooklyn’s Translator Audio (Pelican, Keelhaul, etc.),…

THOUGHTFUL & TALENTED DONNIE DONKOV

From Sofia/Bulgaria comes Donnie Donkov a talented man who began writing songs since he was very young.   Over time he learned to play classical and electric guitar, piano, drums, bass and flute and studied at the University for three years.     He tried being in a band with some friends but prefers not…

THE LOVE LOAD: COMING @ YOU FULLY LOADED

Ted Watts is the front man for the band, The Love Load. He is currently promoting their latest release, “The Human Resourceful”. It is a concept album about human adaptation for survival and rebirth. Sounds pretty intense does it? Well it is a rocker and worthy of a listen.

T.O.N.E-z TO BE FEATURED ON FX SERIES JUSTIFIED

Many musicians have it, but most don’t have “it”– that being the celebrity wow factor to leap from acclaimed musician to certified media star. That crossover appeal is driving the rapid rise of T.O.N.E-z, the Emmy-nominated rapper generating the sort of buzz that lifted the profiles of predecessors like ICE-T and Will Smith. And now…

Charlie Dane, Dreamland

Charlie Dane is a 13 year old singer & guitar player who has already accomplished a lot at her very young age, including, and this is the reason you’re reading this review, releasing a full length album called “Dreamland”. She played South by Southwest, a festival most bands dream of playing. She’s quite heavily trained…

NAT & ALEX NEW VIDEO “ILLUMINATED”

Nat & Alex are formerly of Nickelodeon fame and have shed their old clothes and recently released a killer indie rock album called Black Sheep. Their latest album release and music videos have recently been featured on Teen Vogue.com, Seventeen.com, MTV’s Buzzworthy Blog, EW.com, and Just Jared Jr. to name a few.   Nat is…

LUCERO ALBUM PREVIEW VIDEO

On March 13, Memphis’ own Lucero will release ‘Women & Work,’ their debut for ATO Records, and an album which establishes them as the 21st century voice of that great musical city. ‘Women and Work’ once again finds the core six-members of Lucero joined by Memphis horn legends Jim Spake (Solomon Burke, Ray Charles) and…

KOAN SOUND “FUNK BLASTER” VIDEO

Bristol-based Glitch duo KOAN Sound have posted the new video for their lead single off Funk Blaster, the EP released on Skrillex’s OWSLA earlier this year- the label is branching out into even more left-field territory, definitely not all Dubstep. [youtube mpokVJjCRfo nolink]

GEORGE HARRISON RELEASES NEW IPAD APP

BANDWDTH Publishing, in conjunction with the George Harrison Estate, announces the release of a special iPad app celebrating the guitarist and his historical guitar collection. The Guitar Collection: George Harrison iPad app will be released through iTunes on February 23, two days before Harrison’s birthdate.   The app brings George Harrison’s private guitar collection to…

JOISTARR READIES THE RELEASE OF HER NEW MUSIC

My Block Records’ newest R&B star, JoiStaRR, is set to release a new music project, Magic Monday, which is a compilation of original and cover tracks from her popular “Magic Monday” music release series. The mixtape of sort is a follow up to her critically acclaimed Broccoli & Noodles (2011) mixtape and is set for…

KEITH MODDY NEW VIDEO “ONE BIG ENDING”

Dreaming Out Loud   is dedicated to you. The album consists of 11 songs with 7 new songs and remastered versions of the four songs from the Lines EP. They say an artist has a work that he just knows needs to be heard. Well that is what Dreaming Out Loud is to me. It…

JANUARY 2012 SONICBIDS “ARTISTS 2 WATCH”

Welcome to another amazing month of music from the incredible musicians that make up the Sonicbids.com community. We have chose a select group of amazing musicians that will be speaking directly to the Skope readers. As always we encourage readers to dig deeper and check out their EPK’s.

FABIO TRENTINI RELEASES “MOONBOUND”

Capturing the essence of 80s pop rock without coming off derivative or passé is no mean feat, but Italian singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Fabio Trentini (Subway to Sally, Le Orme) has done just that. “Peak of Eternal Light,” the latest album from Trentini’s pet music project Moonbound, is a loving and often rocking tribute to a bygone era…

ALABAMA SHAKES RELEASE DEBUT ALBUM

Boys & Girls, the full-length debut album from Alabama Shakes, will be released in North America on April 10 by ATO Records. Rough Trade will release it internationally on April 9. See below for track listing. Beginning today, fans can stream the album’s first single, “Hold On,” at www.alabamashakes.com. Alabama Shakes will make its television…

THE MARS VOLTA: NOCTOURNIQUET

Known for such landmark releases as the gold-certified De-Loused In The Comatorium and Frances The Mute and 2008’s The Bedlam In Goliath which featured Best Hard Rock Performance Grammy winner “Wax Simulacra,”   The Mars Volta returns in epic and unexpected fashion with its sixth album: Noctourniquet which will be released March 27 by Warner…

MYLES NEW VIDEO “I CAN BE YOUR LOVER”

20-year-old West Coast rapper, Myles,   dropped his debut solo video today for the Adrian Trujillo produced “I Can Be Your Lover.”   The video was directed by an amazing film student, Melissa Raszick.

HELP STOP SOPA

There’s a bill that will be voted on tomorrow called SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) – Where the language is so broad, it will give the US Justice Department the power to shut down any websites that they feel is threatening the copyrights of one of the supporters of the bill. That essentially means that…

RHYTON VIDEO FOR “STONE COLORED”

Debut self-titled album due out on January 24th! Rhyton hails from New York City and features Dave Shuford (No Neck Blues Band, D. Charles Speer), Jimy SeiTang (Psychic Ills), and Spencer Herbst (Messages, Matta Llama) improvising their way through fields of psychedelic rock.   The album is available on LP and limited edition CD.