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Amber Mark Finds Bliss On Disco-Powered New Single 'Won't Cry'
by Josh Sharpe - September 27, 2024 Critically adored singer, songwriter, and producer Amber Mark shares 3 minutes and 40 seconds of soul-healing, electrified disco bliss called “Won’t Cry.” The new single was written, produced, and performed entirely by Mark and is set to appear on her upcoming mini project Loosies. ...
DIIV Release 'Raining On Your Pillow,' Final Single From New Album
by Josh Sharpe - May 21, 2024 DIIV release “Raining On Your Pillow,” the final single from their forthcoming new album, Frog in Boiling Water, out this Friday. Of the song, the band says “‘Raining on your Pillow’ is a song which brings to mind the shameful past (and present) of American imperialism. Lost in a terrifying landscap...
Terrace Martin Releases New Album 'Her Thoughts'
by Michael Major - February 12, 2024 Renowned as one of the world's leading jazz musicians and hip-hop producers, Martin's newest offering includes flavorful renditions of songs including SZA's “Snooze” (Winner, 2024 GRAMMY Best R&B song), “Kill Bill,” and “I Hate U,” to Coco Jones' “ICU” (Winner, 2024 GRAMMY Best R&B Performance), Sno...
G.R. Gritt Shares 'Prism Ft. Rosina Kazi'
by Michael Major - October 16, 2023 G.R. Gritt shares 'Prism Ft. Rosina Kazi' from their upcoming album 'Prisms' - a collection of queer love songs. Watch the lyric video and stream the track now. The track is a tribute to everyone who stands tall, supports one another, and consistently shows up in solidarity....
Saleka Unveils Debut Album 'Séance'
by Michael Major - May 19, 2023 Séance writers and composers include Saleka, Krispy, Ezemdi Akalonu, and Warner Meadows, all of whom met while studying at Brown University. Producers include Saleka, Krispy, Akalonu, and Meadows, with “Mama Jan” Smith on additional vocal productions. Séance was engineered by Joel Metzler and mixed ...
Lyr Reveal 'Presidentially Yours' Ahead of New Album & UK Tour
by Michael Major - April 27, 2023 For a second, compelling time, the band concocts ethereal, pulse-altering, extraordinary sounds by combining the creative powers of British poet, Simon Armitage, singer-songwriter Richard Walters and multi-instrumentalist and producer Patrick J Pearson....
P!NK Releases New Single 'Irrelevant'
by Michael Major - July 14, 2022 P!NK has dropped a brand-new track and accompanying music video titled, “Irrelevant.” Out via RCA Records, the protest anthem was written by P!NK and Ian Fitchuk, marking the first collaboration between the artist and the Grammy-Award winning producer and songwriter. Watch the music video for the ne...
VIDEO: Gwenno Shares Video For 'N.Y.C.A.W.' From New Album 'Tresor'
by Michael Major - July 05, 2022 Tresor (Treasure) is Gwenno Saunders’ third full length solo album and the second almost entirely in Cornish (Kernewek). Written in St. Ives, Cornwall, just prior to the Covid lockdowns of 2020 and completed at home in Cardiff during the pandemic along with her co-producer and musical collaborator, ...
Peter Mulvey & SistaStrings Announce New Studio Album 'Love Is The Only Thing'
by Michael Major - June 14, 2022 A self-proclaimed anti-fascist record, Love Is The Only Thing keeps kindness and compassion in the foreground, following a similar musical path to Mulvey and SistaStrings’ Live at the Café Carpe, which was released in late 2020 and, like the new album, includes drummer Nathan Kilen rounding out the ...
Dara Tucker Announces The Release Of New Album DREAMS OF WAKING: MUSIC FOR A BETTER WORLD
by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 25, 2021 Green Hill Music has announced the May 28th, 2021 release of Dreams of Waking: Music For a Better World, the new album by consummate vocalist, songwriter and bandleader Dara Tucker. Tucker's powerful new release gives voice to the cry for social justice and change that has swept across the United St...
Gaidaa & COLORS Unveil Live EP from National Sawdust
by Sarah Jae Leiber - December 11, 2020 Today, fast rising R&B star Gaidaa has unveiled COLORS Live in NYC, a special live EP in collaboration with global creative platform COLORSxSTUDIOS available now....
Gaidaa And COLORS Announce New Live EP
by A.A. Cristi - December 04, 2020 Today, fast rising R&B star Gaidaa announced the release of COLORS Live in NYC, a special live EP in collaboration with global creative platform COLORSxSTUDIOS, due out on Friday, December 11th via COLORSxSTUDIOS label. Pre-save HERE....
Casey Abrams Joins Voices with Cyndi Lauper on 'Eve of Destruction'
by Sarah Jae Leiber - October 09, 2020 Today, singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Casey Abrams shares his new single, a cover of P.F. Sloan’s impassioned “Eve of Destruction.”...
Joshua Crumbly Releases New Single + Video “Reflection”
by Robert Diamond - August 18, 2020 Today, bassist, composer, and bandleader Joshua Crumbly released a new single and video titled “Reflection.” The video was directed and edited by Alan Be, and filmed by Drew Robinson. BuzzBandsLA described it as “a song whose warm keys (courtesy of David Cook) and restrained percussion glow with hop...
VIDEO: HAMILTON-inspired Rap Aims To Get Out The Vote
by Stephi Wild - August 15, 2020 A Grammy-winning musician and a constitutional law professor have teamed up to create a get-out-the-vote rap inspired by the musical Hamilton....
Daniela Cotton Brings 'A Different War' to ROCK FOR RELIEF Benefit
by A.A. Cristi - July 01, 2020 Riding a new wave of critical acclaim from A Different War, her incredibly timely and most politically charged album to date, widely heralded Biracial blues-rocker DANIELIA COTTON has risen again into the light, fiercely and defiantly, to join a star-studded lineup for “Rock for Relief,” the star-st...
Danielia Cotton Re-Emerges With 'A Different War' To Confront Race, Gender, And Wealth
by A.A. Cristi - May 13, 2020 Set for release May 29 on all major digital platforms through Cottontown Music, the six-song opus finds the “fiery rock vocalist” (American Songwriter), whose voice gives her songs “stunning power” (No Depression), speaking to these extraordinary times by unloading her sin while the world around her...
Jordan Mackampa Shares the Video for 'Magic'
by Kaitlin Milligan - February 05, 2020 British-Congolese singer Jordan Mackampa creates soul-soaked, indie-driven tracks that swim in the sounds and stories of the cities he's inhabited over the years. His searing songs are documents of his life as an outsider, and his sound is a melting pot of cultures that stretch from his birthplace i...
Luke Wallace Single 'Biosphere' Out Today
by Abigail Charpentier - January 31, 2020 Luke Wallace, acclaimed folk, Americana singer-song writer, embodies a new wave of politically charged folk music, writing the soundtrack for a movement of people rising up to meet the social and environmental challenges of our times. He is on a simple mission with this record, to help people find t...
Jordan Mackampa Shares New Single from Debut Album, Announces Headline Tour
by Abigail Charpentier - January 31, 2020 Jordan Mackampa just shared “Magic,” the latest single from his upcoming debut full length album Foreigner, out March 13 via AWAL. The album sees Jordan scaling fresh heights, adding sumptuous strings, gospel backing vocals and grime influences to his contemporary soul fused with his Congolese roots...
Luke Wallace Announces New Album 'What on Earth'
by Sarah Jae Leiber - January 21, 2020 Luke Wallace, acclaimed folk, Americana singer-song writer, embodies a new wave of politically charged folk music, writing the soundtrack for a movement of people rising up to meet the social and environmental challenges of our times. He is on a simple mission with this record, to help people find t...
Jordan Mackampa Announces 2020 Headline Tour
by Kaitlin Milligan - December 17, 2019 Jordan Mackampa announced his first headline North American tour in addition to performing during SXSW 2020. He will be touring in support of his recently announced debut full length album Foreigner, out March 13 via AWAL. The album sees Jordan scaling fresh heights, adding sumptuous strings, gospel...
G. Love Releases 'The Juice' ft. Marcus King
by Kaitlin Milligan - October 31, 2019 Today, G. Love released the title track off his new Keb' Mo'-produced album The Juice, which releases on January 17 via Philadelphonic/Thirty Tigers. Written by Keb' Mo' and G. Love, and also featuring rising star Marcus King, “The Juice” is a hopeful protest song that acts as a rallying cry for tho...
Jennifer Saran Issues a Heartfelt Plea to Voters with LET THE WAVES WASH OVER ME (SONG FOR CHRISTINE)
by Tori Hartshorn - October 23, 2018 When listeners first hear the new JENNIFER SARAN single “LET THE WAVES WASH OVER ME (SONG FOR CHRISTINE),” they will be transported by the singer's elegant and gorgeous phrasing over producer and co-writer Narada Michael Walden's impeccably lush bed of jazz-blues instrumentation. But as Saran points...
Maps & Atlases Share New Single RINGING BELL From New Album LIGHTLESSNESS IS NOTHING NEW Out June 1
by Macon Prickett - May 10, 2018 Chicago's Maps & Atlases are ending their six-year hiatus, returning with their third full-length Lightlessness Is Nothing New on June 1 on Barsuk Records, and today the band shared a new single, 'Ringing Bell.' Brooklyn Vegan premiered the track -- via a lyric video created by the band's drummer Ch... |