Category: FEATURES

Washington is ready to take over America with her incredible music, witty personality and now THIS…the video for her new single Holy Moses. Think Chicago meets Tim Burton and you’ll get the gist of what this fantastic video is all about!

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Finnish Electro-Grindcore maven HUORATRON is back with an intense new single, “Cryptocracy” this is an early taste of his forthcoming full-length that will see release in 2012 on Last Gang Records.

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THREE METRE DAY is an acoustic modern roots trio created by players Hugh Marsh, Don Rooke and Michelle Willis. The sound of the band features original songs sung in combination with old instruments, forming a strong, intimate and identifiable texture. The parts are so interwoven it’s hard to distinguish one instrument from another. Michelle sings…

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Back from summer vacation and the beautiful Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire. There is nothing more relaxing than Bud LIght, Evan Williams, and live music on the lake. But now back to work so I had to have an emcee that would get us all excited & hot. BrookerT is riding high with the release…

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With a vibe somewhere between early 60s Hollywood and a hip-hop torch singer from the future, Lana Del Rey’s self-made videos have already caused a major stir. Just as her D.I.Y video for “Video Games” hit 500,000 views on YouTube, it was promptly banned.

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Eve to Adam will be releasing their new album Banquet for a Starving Dog on September 13th and to celebrate they are giving you the chance to win a Fender American Deluxe Stratocaster guitar!

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Ben Fagan formed his Holy City Hooligans band in early 2011, driven by the vision to “spread positivity to the masses!” He started laying the foundation for this as lead singer for his college rock band. Just about to graduate, he was spotted at a gig by a reality show recruiter who invited him to…

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Like the onset of a buzz, Bear and Moose’s “Wear the Wolf” begins floaty and hypnotic, weaving honest lyrics with 12-string guitar and zither (played by Simon Lucas with a pint glass). Soon the peacefulness starts to give way to chaos as Eric Mueller switches to face-melting electric guitar with analog delay, bone-filled rain stick…

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Says She’s Ms. Blat announces the release of a digital 45 and music video for the “A and B” side songs, “Violent Nudity” and “Ha Ha Ha”. The two tracks were written and recorded by Lottie Leymarie (piano, vocals) and Bret Puchir (drums, vocals, production) in the band’s Greenpoint, Brooklyn studio. The five-minute audio diptych…

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“I grew up in your prototypical American suburb. The manicured lawns, strip mall parking lots, chain stores, and massive expanses of cement and housing developments depressed me. I chose the moniker Anomie Belle to speak to the decadent alienation of the American dream,” states Anomie Belle.

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Louisiana songwriter Marc Broussard has released a new music video for his latest single “Cruel,” which is featured on his brand new self-titled album, available here.  

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Oy Vey is a rock/pop duet of gutarist/vocalist Bryce Aubrey and keyboard player/vocalist Kevin Corcoran.   Although they live in different cities, they managed to come up with a very dynamic sound.

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The follow-up to the duo’s critically acclaimed debut One Day In A Life, which hit #1 on FM new age music radio stations around the US in 2010, and was picked up by Sirius XM satellite radio.

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Jackson Guthy is a 15 year old sensation, who unlike most at his young age has already earned the title ‘singer / songwriter’, with more than 50 songs to his credit for which he composed both the music and the lyrics. He started playing the piano at the age of 5 and has created a…

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The Sister Ruby Band is premiering the video for “Graceland Smile” from their upcoming debut CD “In Cold Blood”. The video was filmed by London based film artist Richard Nicholson, using a 1981 JVC KY-1900 3-Tube Color Video Camera. The footage was shot on location at the Barbican Estate, one of the most iconic examples…

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25 year-old Malaysian singer-songwriter Zee Avi just released a new video for her song “The Book of Morris Johnson” from her upcoming sophomore album ghostbird.   This is the first video released from ghostbird, which is due out August 23rd on Brushfire and Monotone Records. Zee will be supporting the release with select tour dates,…

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Geri X is voted “THE BEST OF INDIE 2011” musician in the Bulgaria edition of Rolling Stone Magazine in July. This is a remarkable and well deserved mark of distinction for the Tampa Bay resident, who was previously named Best Singer-Songwriter by Creative Loafing two years in a row.

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Ledfurd Recurds/Average Joes Entertainment releases Sunny Ledfurd’s “Place To Stay” video.   Sunny shot the video at friend and neighbor’s, Dale Earnhardt Jr’s Hammerhead Studio in Mooresville, NC.   Fans can sign-up for the video at his website at www.sunnyledfurd.com. “Place To Stay” is the second music video from his Greatest Hits 2004-2009 album which…

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Singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer Butch Walker will release The Spade, his debut album for Dangerbird Records on August 30, 2011. Butch Walker started out as a member of acclaimed band Marvelous 3 and has since embarked on a solo career, with equal successes as both artist and producer. An adrenaline-pumping blast of hook-fueled rock…

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BrookerT has released a new video for her first single, “Swallow Hard.” Produced by Chicago natives, Christian Rich, this raunchy track is definitely not for the kiddies. The new video, directed by Joey Pleasants, is full of bikini clad woman and sexually suggestive imagery. Enjoy!

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On Monday 22nd August I Break Horses will release ‘Hearts’ their much anticipated Bella Union debut album in to the World. But before all of this we would like to offer another visually stunning video to the hazy album opener ‘Winter Beats’.

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The confident and confrontational Art Brut return with their new studio album Brilliant! Tragic! on May 24rd. The first single “Lost Weekend” is released the week before on May 16th.

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For those in the know, I have been doing this column for many years now. I have grown to respect other creative types like myself that understand that it takes time & patience to get where you want to be. This next group today fits that mold and I am so excited to be able…

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At only 16 years old, Ria’s voice has been called, delicate, haunting, flawless and at times very powerful.   This is one young lady we will be hearing lots about in the near future.

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Crazy Al Cayne will be releasing a mixtape series called “The Sugar Cayne Experiment” and Volume #1 will feature Napoleon Da Legend. In Experiment #1 Crazy Al Cayne aka “Sugar Cayne” get’s some beats that he produced back in the 90’s and has Napoleon Da Legend spit fire over them. Authentic 90’s beats with one…

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Imagine a whole movie crammed into a three minute song, inspired by Syd Barrett and Quentin Tarantino and featuring a cross-dressing, bucket-carrying, howling maniac who collects peoples blood with a wooden spoon and puts sleeping pills in people’s burgers. Not where you thought this was going, eh? “Syd… Is A Serial Killer” is the latest…

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Frenchkiss Records will release Ideas of Distance, the debut full-length recording by multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and producer Young Man, aka Colin Caulfield, on September 27.

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It’s not an apology: the chorus of Tribes’ single “We Were Children” is a call to action, a celebration of influence, and an acknowledgement that we are what we love. “People have said that Tribes are nostalgic in sentiment, but you spend your whole life writing your first record,” Tribes frontman Johnny Lloyd says. “The…

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Cam writes his own lyrics and beats with a ‘storyteller mc’ approach and has a similar sound to Mac Miller, Mike Posner and B.o.B. Below is a link to check out his new music video “Rain” as well as a link to his mixtape “1993”, which is self-produced along with Matty Trump, Big Jerm, Ski…

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The group’s debut music video for their single “Get it Daddy” premiered on Spin.com yesterday. Early champions of the band, Spin.com, hailed back in March that the band “are about to be something massive” and that their “playful Southern-fried, boy-vs-girl power pop is instantly loveable.”

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Skope Entertainment is very excited to officially team up with Conquest LLC & Believe Digital (http://believedigital.com) to offer a one-stop for all your marketing & digital distribution needs. Your album or single will gain access to a direct and global network of digital music stores to distribute your music and effective marketing & promotion to…

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SoCal based FIDM fashion student, Giorgio Armani intern and indie alternative artist, Indigo Charlie, has partnered up with lyricists JusTT&GifTT on her most recent single, “Cool Love.” A video was shot for the song this month with director, Tyren Redd.

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Landing September 27 is Sooner or Later, the first-ever compilation from The V-Roys, the seminal roots rock band that influenced a generation of Alt-country revelry.

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The Cute Lepers are members of the Briefs (great NW new wave punk band – very much 77 type power pop pogo punk stuff).   The Cute Lepers are pretty similar, maybe even a bit more power pop (ala Stiff Records, etc), but also has a bit of a Motown/60s girl group thing going. They…

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August is here again, that means we better get outside as much as possible before the temps start dropping. I never want summer to end. My guests this week do not have that problem as Rose of Jericho is a rock band from San Antonio, TX, lead by singer Andrea Russie. I must admit that…

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Raised in NYC in the ’80s and L.A. in the ’90s, Dominican-American emcee Rheteric Ramirez has been making a home for himself at the sweet spot where brains meet fist for the last fifteen years. His unique brand of ‘intellectual mauling’ has made him one of underground hip-hop’s most most unique emcees much like Nocando,…

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HarvestBloom follows up the success of their 2010 EP Release DEVIL’S POISON with another EP entitled LET IT GO. The LET IT GO EP features 3 songs plus a remix of LET IT GO.   The EP is being released on August 2nd.

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Check out the new video for “Matador,” the first single off the happy problem’s full-length debut, Head Case, and enjoy watching glamorous, wrecked hipsters teeter towards destruction.

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Philadelphia soul meets the Memphis blues again when legendary Hammond B-3 keyboardist Booker T. Jones jams with Daryl Hall on the second half of a very special Live From Daryl’s House, premiering July 15 exclusively at www.lfdh.com. In June, Daryl and Booker T. were joined by R&B breakthrough artist Mayer Hawthorne, while this month’s 44th…

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