Fraud (Hot Docs Review)
The story behind Dean Fleischer-Camp’s documentary Fraud is an interesting one. The director is said to have stumbled upon footage on YouTube—over 100 hours worth—of a American middle-class family of four living out their lives in front of a video camera, but this isn’t just any wannabe reality story. Fleischer-Camp pared that footage down to a scant […]
The Human Experience – new album album “Broken Open”
The Human Experience – New Album Release The Human Experience released the album “Broken Open” which reached #2 on Bandcamp’s best-selling chart, remaining at the top for two weeks. Check out the title track’s chill vibes here: David Block is the mastermind behind The Human Experience, his principal project where he serves as the electronic composer, multi-instrumentalist […]
Nehedar – “The Story” 80’s Style Pop gem !!
New York City-based singer-songwriter Nehedar released a new album “Hello Abyss” last month. Check out a video for the album’s opener “The Story” here: Nehedar’s latest album “Hello Abyss” is the first work she has done since returning from a three year-hiatus to raise her son. The album is optimistic, consistent in style, and an […]
Our Souls at Night (2017)
So the story begins. Addie, a widow, has come to ask her widower neighbour if he’d consider coming over to her house sometimes to sleep with her. “What?” says Louis, naturally a bit taken aback. “How do you mean?” And she says: “I mean we’re both alone. We’ve been by ourselves for too long. For […]
Gayle Skidmore – The Golden West
Folk and indie singer-songwriter Gayle Skidmore recently released her 20th independent release, which also happens to be her first full length vinyl album. She described the album as “whimsical, melancholic music for the romantic intellectual.” After following trends and chasing after deals to be successful through the industry channels, she has moved on to find […]
ZOLA JESUS – SOAK
“What’s the point of trying to navigate life if you don’t even get to choose how it ends?” Nika Rosa Danilova asks in relation to her latest track ‘Soak’. Her upcoming album ‘Okovi’ is set to deal with these issues of existentialism and death in an incredibly personal and direct manner, drawing on a difficult […]
How-to cash in on music licensing
While today’s music industry climate maybe more favorable to an independent approach, artists need to be more diligent and look for alternative and innovative ways to succeed. With music piracy rampant on the internet, artists more than ever must take advantage of opportunity to profit from their music. One rapidly developing area of the music […]
Get your groove on with our list of summer music.
Get your groove on with our huge list of summer music. These are our favorite beach songs that will keep you moving all season long. We featured our summer music list with artists like Atlantic Starr, Terrel Carter, Bobby Ricketts, Lady Aneessa, Jason Derulo,…. . The list kept growing with other summer songs that took us […]
Hans Zimmer scores Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk with the intense “Supermarine”: Stream
The collaborative careers of filmmaker Christopher Nolan and composer Hans Zimmer have wrought some of the most memorable scores of the last decade and a half. Moving from the fantasy-driven worlds of The Dark Knight trilogy and Inception, the two now tackle World War II with the upcoming Dunkirk. Despite the shift towards true-life realism, it sounds as if Zimmer’s compositions will be […]
A fusion of smooth R&B, neo-soul, and gospel undertones, introducing Vocal IZ
Vocalz Iz, from New Orleans, La. and now based in Dallas, Tx. He was influenced by musical royalty like Donny Hathaway and his sound is a fusion of smooth R&B, the heart of neo-soul, and gospel undertones. It led him create the genre “Gumbo Soul”. Vocalz Iz’s voice possesses a tenderness and a sweetness that […]
Jim Session: “Storming” combines cinematic beauty and sleek synth tones
Sometimes a recording amazes you because you’ve never heard anything like it. But the opposite can also happen; a track blows you away because it seems to draw from lots of music you’ve heard and love, and combines the influences so perfectly it manages to transcend them altogether. Such is the case with Germany-based producer Jim […]
Illuid Haller: “Magic Theatre” – a reliance on imagery in sound!
Illuid Haller aka GwangHyeon shows a unique flexibility and verve, a glowing life that drips, melts, and molds around the original sounds to be found on the album, “Magic Theatre”. He never competes with his contemporaries for attention, but it is always clear that he absolutely could, no matter their standing or legacy. And yet, it seems, as if he had […]
HYUNDAI MERCURY PRIZE
LOCATION: LONDON VENUE: EVENTIM APOLLO, HAMMERSMITH WEBSITE: HTTPS://WWW.MERCURYPRIZE.COM EVENT DATE: SEPTEMBER 14, 2017 The annual Hyundai Mercury Prize award ceremony will reveal the Album of the Year in London on September 14th. The awards exist to honour the best new British music, celebrating artistic achievement across an eclectic range of contemporary music genres. A shortlist of twelve albums will be revealed […]
Interview | Kayo Bracey A Christian Hip Hop Artist
A native of Greensboro, NC, Dakota “Kayo” Bracey could always be found freestyling at the dinner table or making tackles on the football field. After locking down receivers at his cornerback position for four seasons at Morgan State and receiving a Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Kayo returned to his grass roots in North Carolina. Bracey […]
Toni Castells: 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal?
Toni Castells: 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal? – a spectacular integration of classical music and electronic elements Toni Castells is a Hispano-British composer currently based in London. A lecturer at Imperial College London and the London College of Music, his sonic worlds transpire an inherited precocious classical training with an inventive use of modern technologies […]