CLICK IMAGE FOR VIDEO I've been posting about Idris Goodwin for a while now but it seems he's still flying under a lot of people's radar. The award winning playwright, poet, essayist and performer just released this video for the track "Brainstorm" from his EP Break Beat Bars which came out last summer. You can grab it in full below; do the right thing and share it amongst your peers! DOWNLOAD "Break Beat Bars" HERE Previous posts [...]
Like a lot of artists, Teddy Geiger has seen his fair share of major label highs - a "next big thing" Top 10 album Underage Thinking when he was all of 16 -- and lows -- shelved follow ups, getting dropped as quickly as he was signed. And like many, he's now on the D.I.Y. path, reaching out to fans to help fund a new album, his first new music since the 2010 EP Living Alone , and give him control over his music. His dollar goal now achieved, Geiger will [...]
Simone Felice has been many things -- songwriter, drummer and vocalist of The Felice Brothers, founder of The Duke and the King for starters -- but with his self-titled debut album due April 3, he can now officially add "solo artist" to his bio. Mumford and Sons' Ben Lovett helped out with the largely self-produced album, a collection of tracks with a "ghostly and gospel-like feel", according to the press release -- and you can sense that atmosphere on the austere and rustic lead single "New York Times" (acoustic video after the jump). Members of [...]
Singer/ frontwoman Mela Lee and keyboardist /bandleader Alexander Burke are the founders and dual creative forces behind Magnolia Memoir , a genre-jumping ( sm )art/pop band that's been a mainstay at L.A. folk/pop clubs like Largo and King King over the past couple of years. In possession of a voice that's part Billie Holiday smoky seduction and part Gwen Stefani coy pop vixen, Lee and her band swing, shake and strut their way through an evershifting melange of styles on their new [...]
You don't have to grow up on a farm in some place like North Dakota to have an innate feel and love for authentic folk and Americana, but it certainly doesn't hurt. To wit: Minnesota- based singer/songwriter Andra Suchy who has named her new album Little Heart , arriving on Valentines Day via Red House, after a creek near her family's spread in Mandan, ND. Elements of country, folk/blues and modern bluegrass permeate Suchy's music which, thanks to Suchy's lilting vocals, has been a consistent presence on the popular weekly radio show [...]
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Songwriters and sweet harmonizers Ben Braden and Sarah Parson along with percussionist Nicholas Sadler, all Minneapolis natives who migrated west to Portland, form the budding alt/folk triumverate The Lower 48 . Their new debut album Where All Maps End is delightfully all over the, err, map, as 60's styled twee folk/pop melodies and intertwined vocal interplay bump up against the random odd instrumental detour -- witness the impeccable and totally unpredictable "Into the Woods" or the wonderful "Interlude 1". Not everything works quite at that level, but there's enough promise here -- particularly [...]
Clare Bowditch 's 2011 EP Are You Ready Yet has served as something of a career placeholder, putting the Aussie singer/songwriter back in solo mode again after 2010's electro-poppy Modern Day Addiction with her band The New Slang. Ready boasted a couple new songs, reworkings of older titles and a pair of a capella renderings, but it was the seven-minute title track that really turned heads, a sprawling prog-pop masterpiece of epic proportions that recently premiered as an interesting new video (watch below). Bowditch, who won an Aria in 2008 for Best [...]
Back On The Map LP by Antagonist Dragonspit There's really no gimmick here. It's just raw lyricism from the gut. It's not just putting together a bunch of words that rhyme. It's an effort to spread a message of progress to counterbalance the ignorance that dominates the airwaves. With that said, I beseech each and everyone of you to share this album on your social networks, rock it in ya ipods and media players, etc. Hopefully you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed creating it. PEACE! [...]
New York downtown singer/songwriter/actress Heather Christian has one of those special, utterly unique voices. Whether or not you're taken with it probably depends on your particular state of mind and whether or not you want to push your boundaries just a bit. We love it, actually. We love the fluid warble, the expressive quiver that brings to mind a combination of Cyndi Lauper and Carol Channing, the oddly figured timbre that seems tailor-made for Christian's sweeping, theatrical music. And we especially love her piano ballads, the melodies that you savor like sweet, pungent tea [...]
I Am Not From Here , the successor to East Village-based singer/songwriter Chris Riffle 's exceptional, quietly elegant 2010 debut EP Introducing , arrived with a minimum of fanfare this past summer -- a move that seems completely in step with Riffle's own subdued folk and chamber/pop songs. Last year we heralded Riffle as "a writer and performer of uncommon depth and intimacy -- Nick-Drake-meets-Eliot-Smith" and with his latest five-song EP he's continued to bolster that particular penchant for sublime understatement. With a delicate, boyish voice that is equal parts [...]
Forever & A Day Instrumentals by Panama Red Brooklyn Composer "Panama Red" has been featured on WIB..Now he's back with more of that unique style of craft a soulful strut type of pattern... He had hit us before with the beat tape entitled "Unlimited" in which you shoulda copped already!...but now he slipped under the radar and has more material now for yall to vibe out too.. and nothing but quality after quality... Forever & A Day Instrumentals from 2009. IThis was my first work with my man Jay (Abyss Da Dark) and I put my [...]
Nashville's Amelia White returns with her fifth album of alt-country and Americana songcraft with her new Beautiful and Wild set to street February 28. Collaborating with noted drummer-turned-producer Marco Giovino (Robert Plant, Buddy Miller), White says that her new songs were written "in that nether light between dark and dawn, when the ghosts watch you from the window" as the songs touch on "everything from losing a close friend to an untimely death, to being [...]
The five handsome boys from London Citizens! present their brand new video "True Romance" directed by the ingenious High 5 Collective. A deep, mysterious and disturbing diving in human feelings! Also, great news! NME.COM has just picked them up for their Radar Tip of The Day. Their debut single "True Romance" will be released on [...]
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