Category: FEATURES

          Former Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore and wife Candice Night are releasing new music this month with their traditional folk rock duo, Blackmore’s Night. The band’s third live album, A Knight In York, spans their 15 year career and takes their devoted audience on a musical journey through the ages.…

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            Dublin, Ireland trio Autumn Owls have premiered a new video for the song “Byways Of The Lifeless” via Impose Magazine – repost via YouTube here. The video coincides with the band’s return to New York for the CMJ Music Marathon on Thursday, October 18, and leads them in to…

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            Hello to all Skope readers all over the world, how do you like the new Skopemag.com? I think its pretty awesome if I may so myself. I just read this great article on VentureBeat.com that states, digital music sales are expected to reach record-breaking numbers in 2012, according to…

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                  The stunning New York City-based electro-pop singer Alex Kelly releases her new music video for “Catalyst,” the second single off her first full-length CD Orange Circle, which she released in June 2012.

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                  With a commanding presence, uncompromising style and powerful harmonies, Dinah Thorpe makes electro-folk-pop that is not afraid to be smart. Tackle her bluesy, alternative country single “Song for Dolly”; a bouncing banjo hymn about daydreaming which name checks Dolly Pardon and Robert Johnson.

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            Luke Gartner-Brereton hails from Brisbane, Australia and he has been into music since he was a little kid.   All along he has played “anything he could get his hands on” and as a classically-trained guitarist Luke blends together Folk, World music and Latin rhythms.   When he’s not…

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            With the spacious songs of her fifth album, Beating of the Sun, Lisa Richards explores the tough subjects of grief and loss with both strength and fragility. Richards’ nuanced voice, surrounded by cello, accordion and melodica augmenting the guitars, bass and organ, which, though rich, give the songs openness,…

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          Hailing from the UK, Maxdmyz harkens back to the days when metal was the prime British export, when ‘Maiden and ‘Priest ruled the airwaves, before Britpop took down the 90’s and boybands ruled the lands. Maxdmyz is a testament to the infinite appeal of heavy metal throughout the years, despite…

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            UK band Sharks today revealed a new music video for “Luck” from their debut   full length album, No Gods, which was released last March via Rise Records. The video was shot in Northampton and directed by Ryan Macktfall.

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          O’Grime drops their new video “JUICE” from their upcoming LP “FUR COATS AND UZIS.” Directed by Giancarlo Loffredo, this video captures an escapade of sexual eeriness that transcends perfectly into O’Grime’s neo gothic trap sounds. From what O’Grime told me, the director did the video first before hearing the song,…

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            So, Chris, tell us a bit about the origins Bleed Electric: where are you from and how did you start? Bleed Electric started as a solo side project of mine during studio down days. At the time I owned and ran Screamadelica Studios in Cardiff Bay and before I…

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“Famous” is the new track from the UK’s Katy Tiz and it is also your new favorite song. Tiz, who has already been co-signed by the influential ArjanWrites.com describes the song as a “tongue-incheek, ironic song…I’m almost making this song to prove I’m not one of those fake people.”

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From a broken home in a small town outside of Philadelphia to CEO of Revel Music Group, Coley is on a mission to inspire the undaunted pursuit of your dreams while not taking yourself so seriously. Perseverance has driven Coley through years of personal and professional struggles, all the way to co-owner of Revel Music,…

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Newcomer Blizz and his homies, including Trademark Da Skydiver & Young Roddy of Jet Life and a bevy of other ladies, smoke out their car and a house party in the Official music video for “Cheechn.” Taken from the album “A3C Volume 2” available on iTunes now. Directed by The Gravitational Pull. Track Produced by…

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Clementine & The Galaxy has released a new video for their version of “Heart-Shaped Box”, bringing a gritty pop sensibility to the Nirvana classic. Producer/Guitarist Mike Macallister says of the video, “We sat around brainstorming a direction one afternoon and wound up settling on the idea of the whole thing taking place in a tunnel.

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Hello again folks and welcome to another Skoped Out. Before we begin I need to address an issue I just cannot hold in. Mitt Romney vowed to cut funding for WGBH. For those without kids, WGBH introduces toddlers to music with educational & wonderful programming. So if he is to cut funding for them, how…

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  Swedish heavy metal band SISTER SIN has released a brand new music video for their hit single “End Of The Line” from their forthcoming album Now and Forever, out next Monday, October 22nd! Watch the video here and download the track on iTunes /Amazon.

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Early 2012 saw Canadian trio Elliott BROOD’s widely successful release of “Days Into Years” through Paper Bag Records. Receiving accolades for the album’s lush, energetic instrumentation and the raspy croon of front man Mark Sasso’s vocals, the band sold out shows and gained multitudes of new fans across the nation.

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StormKing is a whirlwind of sound, the name fittingly descriptive as the songs fluctuate between calm and chaos, capturing the spirit of Hendrix and more modern artists like Monster Magnet. Skope had the opportunity to discuss the band with leader and chief songwriter Duke Adkisson.

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It feels so good to sit down and write this new column. As many of you noticed over the past week, Skopemag.com went through a major theme redesign and server upgrade. After a few days of high anxiety we are back and I think better than before. Skope truly has an amazing & loyal global…

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Zack Knight, a singer/songwriter/producer of eastern descent has just released his new single “When I’m Gone”.

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New Animal’s brilliant visual compliment to the track “Falling Up” tells the story of friendship and love between the two main characters. Nikki of The Wild Honey Pie says, “Like a tap dripping steadily and slowly, this song and its accompanying video will find a way to captivate your mind for at least the next…

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Tweak Bird’s “Undercover Crops” EP will be out October 9th. The band is direct support for the Melvins on the ongoing Sept/Oct tour.

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Good morning to all Skope readers. I was reading about how much $$ Obama & Romney are spending on their marketing for President of the US. I thought what if we had that $$ and we used it to promote musicians that we love. What band would you want to invest in? My guest today…

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For someone who is just 23 years old, this young man from Vermont has seen and experienced so much in his life thus far. Good times balancing with the bad times, Adam seems to make it all flow so naturally.   Highly spiritual in nature, Ferguson studies life and all its wonders with the keenest…

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The swedish rockband GIRI are now releasing their second album Fidget. The first single Lost and found has already got rotation on radiostations in Europe. Fidget is a twelve track album and the songs are written, produced and mastered by GIRI. The Girisound is a perfect mix of analog synthezisers, distorted Fender jaguar and sitar.…

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  Columbia Records is pleased to announce the signing of Chicago-native sibling duo, Wild Belle.   Raised in a musical household replete with family sing-alongs and what the band describes as “old-timey songs, hymns and Dylan tunes,” Elliot and Natalie Bergman each pursued their passion of music at an early age.   Natalie made a…

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Hailing from Texas in the ‘Golden Triangle’ hiphop artist Supa knows a thing or two about the game. Poised to become the ‘fresh voice of hiphop’, this success story is 15 years in the making. Supa’s music and his life is about community and writing from the heart. He lives and breathes hiphop and his…

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Rush Midnight, the solo project of Russ Manning, former bass player for acclaimed new wave revivalist, Twin Shadow, has released a new video for ‘The Night Was Young Enough.’

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Today, FADER Label recording artist Yuna announces the premiere of her single “Live Your Life (Featuring Theophilus London)”. This alternative version of the first single from her self-titled US debut is available as a free download via her Facebook page – http://facebook.com/yunamusic.

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Hello to all Skope readers all over the world! I have to be honest that I am not feeling too hot today but I decided to take some Dayquil and suck it up. I am glad I did because my guest today, Ajay Mathur, has got me inspired by his new single/video “Taking The Night…

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  North American society has been designed to remove power from our grasp. We are taught to prove ourselves to others instead of following our own path. We are taught to be meek, polite, and soft-spoken… and to respect authority. We are lead to believe that if we are truly deserving of power and influence…

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‘Sunny’ is a track from Kelly Waters’s latest EP High & Dry, which was released last December. This hugely catchy, fun Summer anthem has had recognition from Kelly’s fans all over the world.

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“Spunky lyrical folky piano pop” artist Jana Fisher is set to release a new 3-song EP Ideals & Deals on October 2. The EP will be available on major digital outlets and will also be given away on Fisher’s website. “Building relationships with fans is much more important to me than earning a profit,” she…

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Douglas Garnett aka DiGDuGDisaster is a published singer, songwriter, musician, producer and media designer with a knack for being creatively unconventional. DiGDuGDisaster is the moniker which rings true for this artist, for out of chaos and madness, Douglas has cultivated a strange brew for the masses titled “Stars Burn”, a 5 song e.p. that showcases…

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Butterscotch Espinosa is the latest creation from rapper/producer Nicky Spesh, a veteran of the music scene who produced tracks for Est’elle many years ago. His debut album ‘The World I Know’ received critical acclaim getting 5 Stars in IDJ Magazine & DMC Magazine, and his follow up EP “Return to the concubine spaceship” was again…

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Continuing to bring Jamaican Hip Hop into the limelight, Nomad Carlos will be premiering a High Definition music video for his new single track exclusively through one of the leading print and digital music publications, SkopeMagazine.com.

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So here we are again, as the Skope site hit major technical difficulties yesterday and my post was lost in the black hole of the Internet. Well I was not going to allow that to stop me from posting one of my favorite bands of the year U.N.S.I.N. U.N.S.I.N is a band from Athens, Greece…

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  Big things are happening in Nova Scotia, from Juno sensation Ellen Page to hip hop entrepreneur Herb. You just never know what might come next from this wonderfully weird Ontario Island.

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