Category: FEATURES

Feature stories and artist interviews

ZANDER BLECK RELEASES VIDEO FOR DEBUT SINGLE “TEMPTATION”

by Skope • April 20, 2012

Zander Bleck has released the video for his debut single “Temptation”. The video was shot in New York City’s underground bar, Santos Party Room, reminiscent ofZander’s roots as a struggling musician. It’s a performance video to highlight Zander’s powerful voice, but of course no video about “temptation” would be complete without a beautiful woman.

by Admin • April 19, 2012

Having been one of the band’s early champions back in late 2009 when he produced the ‘Gastown’ / ‘River Song’ one-off single for his Third Man label, JACK WHITE has personally invited SMOKE FAIRIES to support him at his London and Paris shows next week. In celebration of Record Store Day, Smoke Fairies will also…

by Admin • April 18, 2012

Michigan rhymer, Prozak, has released his new video for the track “Until Then” online. The track is the latest single from Prozak’s new album, Paranormal, which hits streets on April 24th, 2012 via Tech N9ne’s label, Strange Music.

by Admin • April 18, 2012

Award-winning singer/songwriter Melissa Cox has released a cutting-edge “one-take” music video without camera cuts or edits for her song “To Carrie Fisher, with love.”

by Skope • April 18, 2012

Man am I tired today, after taking in The Dream tour last night in Boston @ Wilbur Theatre. Great show, that’s for sure. Another show you all must see is the performance by Snoop & Dr Dre @ Coachella where they used a 2Pac hologram. Go to Youtube and search “2pac hologram.” It is incredible,…

by Skope • April 17, 2012

“At the risk of sounding ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by feelings of Love.” – Ernesto “Che” Guevara

by Admin • April 17, 2012

It’s been four years since we last heard from our favorite fast-talking, electro-funk, party-jams beat-maker Adam Dorn a.k.a. Mocean Worker. Since then tough economics have turned tougher, smug indie bands have become smugger and raving mad religious fanatics have grown, well, raving madder.

by Admin • April 17, 2012

The Como Brothers are a rock band from Long Island, NY. Their rock songs are refreshingly modern, yet there is also an older influence in a variety of their songs. Their youth is deceiving when you listen to the depth of their lyrics and the richness in their vocals. Currently performing in the New…

by Skope • April 13, 2012

Bass-Metal producer Zardonic has released the official music video for the track “Revolution” from his new record “Vulgar Display Of Bass” which recently hit the #1 Drum & Bass Album on Beatport.com.

by Skope • April 12, 2012

Warm Weather came together much like kids on Christmas morning — they were so excited about making music that they couldn’t wait for a studio session or even proper equipment. While still en route to their new Hollywood home, the three recent college grads plugged in a Yamaha synthesizer into a cassette deck, whipped out…

by Skope • April 12, 2012

The-Dream stays busy. While working on his upcoming album, “Love IV MMXXII” and penning classics for various artists, the singer-songwriter is trekking the U.S. for his three-week tour, ‘Kill The Lights.’

by Skope • April 12, 2012

Big Gates/Slip-N-Slide/Atlantic recording artist Plies has joined the numerous public figures who have paid tribute to 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, with a YouTube video titled “We Are Trayvon.” The track, which was produced by Filthy Beatz, was released via the Miami-native’s YouTube page earlier this month, and is now available at all digital retailers.

by Skope • April 11, 2012

The Prep School Tragedy brings chaos to the digital realm in the official music video for the single, “Thought I Toldja”.

by Admin • April 11, 2012

There’s something fishy going on in the multi-coloured undersea world of card and random household objects. Will the little pink fish ever find his friend again? Watch and find out…

by Skope • April 10, 2012

It was just before 2011, a jazzy feel-time season. Michi wrote Alice a letter urging her to come to New York and collaborate on a musical project. Alice was driving around Los Angeles deep in her annual autumnal malaise. Skimming the message at a stoplight before stopping at her favorite Subway, she read the remainder…

by Admin • April 10, 2012

So this morning I am drinking my coffee watching Meek Mill’s video for “Imma Boss.” I am a fan of Meek Mill and it dawned on me how many hip hop artists like Rick Ross, Eminem, Jay-Z, Kanye West, just to name a few have helped bring up struggling emcees looking for that one shot.…

by Skope • April 9, 2012

Complete with a new outlook and a new son, Brooke Valentine releases this celebratory track about the joys of motherhood. Her forthcoming album hits stores this summer!

by Skope • April 5, 2012

Recording artist, songwriter, rapper and vocalist Justina debuts the new video for her single, Bubble Gum, this week on Idolator.com (one of the leading independent sites for pop music fans). The Bubble Gum single is off her forthcoming mix tape, Route 80, which is dropping this spring.

by Admin • April 5, 2012

Melody Thornton takes a Mob Wife approach in her latest video directed by Hyperballad (Dano Cerny and Marielle Tepper). Be sure to download her new mixtape, #POYBL and get more information at http://melodythornton.com

by Admin • April 5, 2012

Andy The Doorbum is the moniker of Andy Fenstermaker, who earned his handle as the 7-night-a-week bouncer at the famously seedy Milestone Club in Charlotte NC. And like the dirty, boarded-up, crack-addled population surrounding the Milestore Club, such is the imaginative landscape of Andy the Doorbum’s music. Tales of gravediggers, fratricide, and familial failings fill…

by Skope • April 4, 2012

When Streaker Records first approached Young Bloods they were at the beginning of starting their 2nd album yet to be titled. We expressed our marketing plan and how we felt Young Bloods would fit into it for the 2011 year. After some back and forth over the phone frontman Joey Arena and Streaker Co-Founder Rob…

by Skope • April 4, 2012

Post rock with progressive tendencies, drones, modern classical characteristics in our works. Deeply inspired from the arts, literature which interests us. The Hitchhiker from Seoul, Korea is currently seeking musical representation to expand globally.

by Admin • April 3, 2012

New York City is filled with hundreds of bands, but it takes true talent for a group to stand out amongst the rest. Meet LETTERIST, the infectious trio hailing from the streets of Brooklyn, New York. Just debuting their first single titled, “100mph,” LETTERIST will quickly draw you in with their catchy brand of indie-meets…

by Skope • April 3, 2012

April is here finally. I filled up my tank today and paid $3.94 per gallon today. Can someone help me convert my tank to use vegetable oil? But I am not going to let it bother me as my guest today is a man and his band by the name Taylor Fredricks. These 4 guys…

by Admin • April 2, 2012

Arab Spring, the debut album from Austin-based Literature, is set for release on April 10. The band’s debut showcases a taut, novel sound; an assemblage of power-pop and jangling guitars that’ll prompt you to dance in your garage.

by Admin • March 29, 2012

Innovative Long Beach, Calif. based independent label 37 Records is set to showcase a few of its most popular artists–singer-songwriter Cathy-Anne McClintock and alternative rockers The Gromble–at “Kindness,” a community-based fundraiser for BKindLB, a project of Leadership Long Beach.

by Skope • March 28, 2012

Kal’L is an R&B/Soul artist with a pop sound & feel. He was born in Bronx, NY in 1986, but was raised mostly in Milwaukee, WI. Though writing since the age of 12, it wasn’t until 9 years later that he was inspired to take his passion for lyrics to the next level. He was…

by Admin • March 28, 2012

Beth Jeans Houghton & The Hooves Of Destiny are set to release “Atlas” as their next single on Mute on April 24TH 2012. The new single comes announced with a video for “Atlas” directed and produced by Beth’s friend Juan Iglesias in Los Angeles, where the singer has spent much of the year.…

by Skope • March 27, 2012

As my loyal readers know I am no fan of American Idol, The Voice, or any show that musicians are judged by singing cover songs. When the networks start playing original music, I will tune in. But before I get to my amazing guest today I want to say that how Jermaine Jones was kicked…

by Skope • March 26, 2012

Hailing from California’s Bay Area, Groundation will unleash their new studio album, entitled ‘Building An Ark,’ on April 24, 2012 via Dub Rockers/VP. This 10-track set will be the first release off the new imprint Dub Rockers from reggae giant VP Records.

by Admin • March 26, 2012

Plankton Wat is the solo sound world of Dewey Mahood. Beginning as a home recording project in 2001, Mahood has slowly built a collection of highly personal music that has filtered out into the underground via tape labels such as Stunned, Digitalis, and Sloow. 2009 saw the release of Dawn of the Golden Eternity, a…

by Admin • March 26, 2012

If you listened to the radio at all in the 90’s, you likely still remember the words to “I Believe,” “Hey Leonardo (She Likes Me For Me),” “Let Me Be the One,” “Standing at the Edge of the Earth,” or one of the other hit singles from Blessid Union of Souls.

by Admin • March 26, 2012

Robert Nix, composer/singer/songwriter, comes from Toronto. He finds his inspiration in simple everyday experiences and develops them into complex and unusual sounds that make him a unique and interesting listen. Robert plays all the instruments, sings, writes and produces all of his own music, pulling from his inner intellect, to create something powerful…

by Admin • March 22, 2012

Karmin have unveiled the music video for their infectious pop hit “Brokenhearted” while the song heats up the Top 20 at radio with over twenty-one million in audience this week.

by Admin • March 22, 2012

On June 26, Chris Price’s solo debut album, Homesick, will be released by PTB Music. The collection’s lead single, “That’s Your Boyfriend,” will go to radio in May. While it wasn’t his original intention, Price wound up creating each and every one of Homesick’s 12 tracks – plus the corresponding videos that will appear on…

by Skope • March 22, 2012

Dev is a jazz-rock fusion composer, singer, engineer and producer living and operating out of Bushwick, Brooklyn, and the front-man for the band he founded with brother and renowned pianist Ben Rosenblum, Wire Spoke Wheels. He regularly performs and records in the New York and Boston area, and has produced and engineered recordings for a…

by Admin • March 21, 2012

CAKE is pleased to release the music video for their song “The Winter.” The moving video was made entirely by CAKE’s ever-loyal fanbase, and includes over 171 participants (aged 5 to 55) from 165 different cities in 20 countries on 5 continents! Yesterday, CAKE premiered the video to their fans.

by Admin • March 21, 2012

As the day gets closer to the release of Take Me To Your Leader on March 26th, ¡MAYDAY! and Tech N9ne team up once again and leak another video off ¡MAYDAY!’s Strange Music debut for their song “Badlands.”

by Admin • March 20, 2012

The music scribes and bloggers that have already caught on to the band Conduits have all enjoyed bandying about the word “shoegaze” like a ball of yarn when talking about the band.

by Admin • March 20, 2012

Please allow me to be the first to welcome in the first day of spring today. I am breathing a sigh of relief after this pleasant winter in the US northeast! I am really excited to have my guest on this week for various reasons. The most obvious is she is very talented & beautiful.…