Category: FEATURES

San Francisco based pop prodigy Jhameel has continued to wow the music world with his catchy hooks and unique vocals for his latest music series “Waves”. Releasing a track a week for 5 weeks in late 2011, the series created serious buzz taking the blog world by storm. Hitting #2 on the Hype Machine charts,…

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Introspectively speaking, I sometimes ponder over some of the occurrences that have transpired musically in my life, like attending grade school in Brooklyn with a music group called The Amplifiers–they were later lodged “in the place to be” as Full Force. There’s now a SPOTLIGHT on them courtesy of TV One’s hit music biography series…

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The UK band’s Rise Records debut album, No Gods, will be released on March 20th. Produced by Brian McTernan (The Explosion, Hot Water Music, Cave In), No Gods swims between the rules and regulations of the iconoclastic chaos of punk rock and British indie music.  

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“And Everything Slips Away”, the new masterpiece from Italians Living Corpse, will be released on March 12, 2012 via Coroner Records.

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Moscow based indie rock band, Man Bites Dog have just released their newest single, “Whispers in My Mind,” the group’s first track to hit U.S. soil. The infectious piece is filled with catchy melodies, and blazing guitars as singer Cyrill Mukhin, takes you on a musical journey.

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If you’re not familiar with Andre Nickatina’s young protege, MUMBLS, his new single “Parachute,” pulled from his forthcoming Hella Novellas mixtape, is a good place to start. The 22-year old Berkeley, California-bred rapper enjoys substance abuse almost as much as he enjoys the off-kilter story raps of Dana Dane and Ghostface Killah, and both of…

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A few weeks ago, Cam’Ron released a controversial promo taking iTunes to task. The young unfortunate “victim”? That’s Justina, one of music’s best kept secrets.

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On Thursday night at 6 pm EST Skope TV got another shot @ talking with Emaximus. Emax has come a long way since we last spoke as he is doing shows all over the Bay Area and just dropped his new mixtape/album that is distributed thru Def Jam Digital. His new album was a project…

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At only 19 years of age, Aleesia is a young woman who knows what she wants; and what she wants is to live her passion… to sing, to dance, to write songs… to become the consummate entertainer.

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Planetary Nights is back and better than ever with their second studio album titled ‘Today Ain’t Too Late’.     The brand new CD was just released on February 7th and can be purchased on CDBaby, iTunes and Amazon. Following up their successful 2009 release of ‘Elliptical Motion’ and their equally impressive 2010 ‘Live ‘n’…

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Fiercely Gifted better known as F.G., is a 24 year old, female rapper, from Brooklyn,NY. She has been featured on several internet hip hop sites (Vladtv, Toronto Rappers.com,etc), and has been making her mark on Youtube, since the release of her first official music video “Standby” (Dir. Donald Robinson Cole & Olise Forel). “Standby” has…

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The official video for “Talk” is out today and it’s stunning! The video was directed by the talented, Brooklyn director Yoonha Park (Washed Out, Deerhoof and Beach House).   Watch Alice sew up bandmate Kacey in an industrial London flat.   On the subject of the prosthetic wound used in the video, Alice tells Rolling…

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Skope & Van Halen are super excited to be launching a Van Halen syndicated contest encouraging fans to submit a cover video of the band’s new single, “Tattoo,” for a chance to win a custom guitar from Van Halen. We are also giving away some VH merch for the fans who aren’t guitar players.

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NTRLR, the psychedelic/electronic rock duo, reminiscent of fellow bands such as Yeasayer, Panda Bear, & Fuck Buttons have burst out from the black hole of creative collaboration with their first single “Kursk”. Available now for free download, the buoyant guitar heavy track coupled with haunting vocals and pulsating drums is guaranteed to get a foot…

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Acclaimed alternative rock band Arkells are proud to announce the international release of MICHIGAN LEFT, the follow up to their Juno award-winning debut. Set for an April 10th release, MICHIGAN LEFT is an undeniable collection of songs that combine the bombast of Bruce Springsteen, the melodies and warmth of Fleetwood Mac and the delicate studio…

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Being that Skope started in Boston over 12 years ago, we have seen many artists come & go. My guest today has been around for most the time and that has placed him in high ranks in the New England music scene. Matt Cahoon’s band Everpresent have been making music for years and you know…

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Feeling reflective as Valentine’s Day approaches? Guy Capecelatro III has the perfect song for your playlist. “Girlfriends,” with echoing vocals provided by both Capecelatro and Unbunny’s Jarid del Deo and almost reverent organ, is a song that looks back with 20/20 hindsight.

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While her roots lie in the U.S., Kuney has been getting a lot of love north of the border. Her song Gasoline Rainbows hit #1 on the Canadian Rock charts after it?s release as the title track of a benefit album for the Gulf oil spill of 2010. This album featured Kuney alongside Phoenix, The…

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Time to “Get Up” and find out more about this Vermont-based band called Indecent Exposure.   The group is made up of three members: father-son duo of Jim Tye Sr. aka DJTJ on  bass &  vocals  & Jimmy Tye Jr. on guitar along with Ben Abbott on drums.   This trio incorporates elements of metal,…

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Are you ready to find out more about the “dopest group in the game today”?   I hope so because Sab-rey Smith, who is ½ of the rap duo GooD HooD, wants people to know that they’re all about “awesome music”.   According to Smith he wants “awesome music” to be GooD HooD’s ultimate legacy…

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The socially conscious, multicultural trio BALKAN BEAT BOX has debuted the official music video for their celebratory dance track “Part Of The Glory,” from the forthcoming album GIVE. The critically acclaimed group’s first release in nearly two years, GIVE will be released Tuesday, March 6 on Nat Geo Music. They’ve also announced U.S. tour dates…

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Handling the roles of songwriter and producer, frontman Jim Carroll has dug even further into his Sebadoh/Guided By Voices-influenced home-recording roots for Unicycle Loves You’s latest record, Failure. Due for release on February 14, 2012, their Mecca Lecca debut contains all of the pop sensibility of earlier favorites but with a rawer, more focused sonic…

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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…

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The War On Drugs are excited to share the brand new video for “Brothers,” one of the many highlights off their stellar Slave Ambient. Following the more kaleidoscopic videos for “Baby Missiles” and “Come to the City,” the “Brothers” video, which premiered this morning via New York Magazine’s Vulture, definitely takes a different approach with…

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People are always asking me why a certain band is not big yet, but they are so talented. Well I am here to say that we can no longer sit around and hope for stardom we shoudl all support & get involved. With technology, social media, Internet, we finally have the tools to spread the…

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October Dawn have released their self titled EP. The EP is fore sale now on their Reverbnation page. To help announce this exciting release the guys are offering the “Good Bye To Love” MP3. The EP includes 5 tracks such as “Intruding Silence” & “Wind Of Change” and it ROCKS HARD!

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The state of New Jersey has been home to many talented recording artists like Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Frank Sinatra, Richie Sambora and many others. Their music has touched many worldwide and has influenced up and coming artist. One such up and coming artist had the pleasure of meeting one of her inspirations. Lisa Coppola…

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San Francisco-based singer-songwriters Jeff Campbell and Megan Slankard have a unique way of going on tour. First of all, they are musicians with separate sets and separate albums (though they are known to accompany each other on stage), but they are also a couple. What’s it like to tour with a significant other?

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Here are the visuals accompaniments for the new Peter Broderick song ‘It Starts Hear’ taken from the album http://www.itstarthear.com which will be released on Bella Union on Monday 20th February.

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We’re originators over here; they’re followers!” exclaims Tajai at the beginning of the video for Pep Love’s “Can’t Nobody Do It Like Us,” the latest single from his forthcoming album Rigmarole, which will be released March 6th.

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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 .  

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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).  

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Is it really 51 degrees out there in late January? Wow, and I thought that global warming was a bad thing, just kidding! Anyway lets get to my guest today who is heating up the music scene with hsi hit single “Solar Winds.” Tryezz is an overall creative type that dips into music, design, tee…

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Avant-garde pop provocateurs XIU XIU have just unveiled the video to new single “Hi.” Directed by David Horvitz and Jamie Stewart, the video features footage shot on a crazed road trip through upstate New York and photos taken throughout 2010 – 2011 Xiu Xiu world tours, including sneaking out during the wee hours to burn…

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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…

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New York-based singer/songwriter Jay Brannan returns with sophomore full-length album Rob Me Blind on March 27, 2012.   Jay released his critically lauded debut album goddamned in 2008, but first gained attention with his role in John Cameron Mitchell’s 2006 indie film Shortbus, where he performed his original song, “Soda Shop.”

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  We have made it to another Friday and I am ready for the weeekend and the Patriots vs Ravens game. In order to not offend readers in the DC area I will not mention my love for the Pats. Instead I will get into my guest for today by the name of Ro Gizz…

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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…

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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.

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Jill Criscuolo may not be a household name, yet, but with a few radio hits under her belt, an upcoming reality show   and a summer 2012 tour, you might not be able to get her out of your head. And that’s precisely the idea.

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