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@skopemag APP – Apple iTunes – @skopemag APP – Google / Android – “DIY queen” Vanessa Silberman releases new single via Parade Magazine Staying true to her DIY roots, “Who We Are” is produced, engineered, recorded, programmed, performed, mixed and mastered by Silberman herself. In addition to being a prolific songwriter, Silberman is also a…
@skopemag APP – Apple iTunes – @skopemag APP – Google / Android – Erin Lunsford Releases New Single “Virginia Brother” “‘Virginia Brother’ is about my little brother, Ryan, who’s a Firefighter and EMS worker in Roanoke, Virginia,” explains Lunsford. “He’s selfless and works hard for his community and I’m constantly inspired to write songs about…
@skopemag APP – Apple iTunes – @skopemag APP – Google / Android – CHRISTIAN PAUL RELEASES “HERE TONIGHT” Growing up in the south, young Christian was musical from the start. At four years old, he learned to play the drums, followed by the piano, bass, and guitar. His father, a former hip-hop dancer, taught Christian…
@skopemag APP – Apple iTunes – @skopemag APP – Google / Android – Brazil/NYC-based electro/indie-pop duo, B.A.D.A – ‘Exile’ Aiming for conceptual depth while standing out in the overpopulated electronic-indie-pop scene, is B.A.D.A. ‘s ambitious mission. Brazilian artist/producer Pedro Cesario and Brooklynite multi-instrumentalist/producer Carey Clayton devoted the whole of 2019 to this mission after the…
@skopemag APP – Apple iTunes – @skopemag APP – Google / Android – AUSTRALIAN PRODUCER, KITO TEAMS UP WITH ALUNAGEORGE ON EXPLOSIVE NEW SINGLE “ALONE WITH YOU” This is Kito’s second single since the release of her widely acclaimed debut track on Astralwerks, “Wild Girl” (currently #10 & climbing on US Dance Radio). “Alone With…
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@skopemag APP – Apple iTunes – @skopemag APP – Google / Android – Dark post-punk breakouts Secret Shame + Skope Magazine Secret Shame is composed of their fierce, captivating vocalist Lena (she/her, synths), Billie (they/she, guitar/synth), Matthew (he/him, bass/synth) and drummer Nathan (he/him). Dark Synthetics also resurrects the moody deathrock style that swept through the…
@skopemag APP – Apple iTunes – @skopemag APP – Google / Android – Porches Releases New Track & Video “Patience” From his forthcoming new album Ricky Music, due out March 13, Porches a.k.a. Aaron Maine has shared a new track, album opener “Patience”. It comes alongside a video directed by frequent Porches collaborator Nick Harwood,…
@skopemag APP – Apple iTunes – @skopemag APP – Google / Android – SXSW 2020 canceled due to coronavirus SXSW, the annual tech, music, and film meetup held in downtown Austin, is the latest major conference to be canceled due to the coronavirus outbreak, and just one week before it was slated to start. It…
@skopemag APP – Apple iTunes – @skopemag APP – Google / Android – Toronto sextet JAUNT share new BADBADNOTGOOD produced single ‘Delighted To Be Spoken To’ Toronto-based six-piece Jaunt are set to release their debut album All In One on April 16th. The band formed in 2016 as a casual recording project that, upon the…
@skopemag APP – Apple iTunes – @skopemag APP – Google / Android – LIL BABY + LIL WAYNE: “FOREVER” video out today! Today Lil Baby releases the video for his song “Forever” featuring Lil Wayne. Directed by Jon J, the record is off Lil Baby’s newly-released album, My Turn (Quality Control Music / Wolfpack Global…
@skopemag APP – Apple iTunes – @skopemag APP – Google / Android – “Monkeys” is the newly released track from NYC act Half Hadley Half Hadley are an independent American rock band from New York City, featuring Scott Rainaud (Lead Vocals), Benji Arnold (Guitar, Vocals), Troy Johnson (Guitar), Forrest Klawunn (Bass) and Winston Vargo (Drums).…
@skopemag APP – Apple iTunes – @skopemag APP – Google / Android – “Mind and Soul” – Chynna Lewis’ New Single Born in Taiwan, Chynna Lewis moved to Canada at the age of ten. Growing up in a musical family, her mother sang, her father taught her guitar, and she and her brothers played music…
@skopemag APP – Apple iTunes – @skopemag APP – Google / Android – MOLASSESS Sign to Season of Mist Season of Mist are proud to announce the signing of Dutch psychedelic rock formation MOLASSESS. A new full length will be released in the fall of 2020. Featuring four musicians from THE DEVIL’S BLOOD, MOLASSESS was…
@skopemag APP – Apple iTunes – @skopemag APP – Google / Android – BUSH TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM THE KINGDOM MAY 2020 “We are really proud of The Kingdom,” says BUSH vocalist, songwriter and guitarist Gavin Rossdale. “It’s as if all roads traveled over the last few years have gotten us to this point. We…
@skopemag APP – Apple iTunes – @skopemag APP – Google / Android – NEWS: Austin trio Nobody’s Girl (BettySoo, Rebecca Loebe, Grace Pettis) release full-length album debut on July 10th “We always joke that it started out by accident,” offers singer-songwriter (and former Voice contestant) Rebecca Loebe when asked about the fortuitous aligning of stars…
@skopemag APP – Apple iTunes – @skopemag APP – Google / Android – DUTTY MOONSHINE BIG BAND – Release ‘Fever’ Single ‘City of Sin’, will be the second album from this 12-piece musical force of nature, and will be hitting the shelves on 17 April 2020 (via Universal Music Group). Hinting at what to expect…
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@skopemag APP – Apple iTunes – @skopemag APP – Google / Android – TOXIC HOLOCAUST: Revolver Premieres “New World Beyond” Video Crossover thrashers TOXIC HOLOCAUST are pleased to unveil the official video for “New World Beyond,” now playing at Revolver. The track comes by way of the band’s latest full-length, Primal Future: 2019, released last…
@skopemag APP – Apple iTunes – @skopemag APP – Google / Android – Broken Witt Rebels share gritty video for ‘Running With The Wolves’ Birmingham rockers Broken Witt Rebels have shared the video for the track ‘Running With the Wolves’, which features on their second studio album, OK Hotel, set for global release via Snakefarm…
@skopemag APP – Apple iTunes – @skopemag APP – Google / Android – New artist to check – Elah Hale (INTERSCOPE) 20 year old Elah Hale is an incredibly talented new artist we’re working with, set to release her debut EP on Interscope Records this spring, after she makes her SXSW live debut. She dropped…
@skopemag APP – Apple iTunes – @skopemag APP – Google / Android – MADISON Unveils Powerful New Single ‘The Wonder (We Are The Dreamers)’ – Out Today The reigning queen of New York indie pop, Madison, is back with her powerful new single “the wonder (we are the dreamers)”, an anthem to support immigrants with…
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@skopemag APP – Apple iTunes – @skopemag APP – Google / Android – MÖRK GRYNING Announce First Ever U.S. Tour Legendary Swedish black metal formation MÖRK GRYNING will be touring the U.S. for the first time ever! In the last years, the Swedes have returned to the stage triumphantly with live performances in Stockholm (Sweden),…
@skopemag APP – Apple iTunes – @skopemag APP – Google / Android – The Buttertones Announce ‘Jazzhound’ LP Out April 10th Via Innovative Leisure The Buttertones have announced their upcoming LP, Jazzhound will be released April 10th via Innovative Leisure. With this announcement, comes the release of the title track and first single “Jazzhound” premiered…
@skopemag APP – Apple iTunes – @skopemag APP – Google / Android – ICYMI: Land of Talk share new single “Weight Of That Weekend” Land of Talk—the Montreal-based band led by Elizabeth Powell—today announced its new album Indistinct Conversations will be released on May 15th, 2020, via Saddle Creek. The album’s first single “Weight of…
@skopemag APP – Apple iTunes – @skopemag APP – Google / Android – The Blinders release new single ‘Forty Days And Forty Nights’ The Blinders have shared their new single, ‘Forty Days And Forty Nights’, the latest track to be taken from their upcoming album Fantasies Of A Stay At Home Psychopath, out on May…
@skopemag APP – Apple iTunes – @skopemag APP – Google / Android – KOKOKO! Share Video For “Zala Mayele” The band comment: “Zala Mayele’s lyrics are about the dangers in Kinshasa’s street (thieves, sorcerers, gangs and more) and the importance of distinguishing what is what, what is hidden under what shape, in disguise around the…
@skopemag APP – Apple iTunes – @skopemag APP – Google / Android – INTRODUCING: Picture One (post-punk/new wave) announce new album Self-written and self-produced by frontman Thomas Barnwell, the motifs on Picture One’s new album navigate transcendence, resolve, magic, and creativity, as well as exploring the sometimes stormy waters of love and loss. The music…
@skopemag APP – Apple iTunes – @skopemag APP – Google / Android – NCT 127 ANNOUNCE ARENA TOUR, LAUNCHING JUNE 5 AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN Rolling Stone hailed NCT 127 as “a phenomenon-upon-arrival” in a review of the opening night of their 2019 tour and noted, “NCT 127 were given the Beatles’ welcome.” The New…
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