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Award-winning interdisciplinary musician and vocalist Candice Hoyes announces her debut solo album Expecting, arriving August 28 via LaReserve Records, alongside new single Pink Clouds. The track moves between jazz, soul, classical detail, and modern art-song atmosphere, pairing funk-touched rhythms and playful instrumentation with Hoyes’ clear, unaffected vocal.Directed by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Simone Holland, the video extends that world into surreal, quietly cinematic visual space.Hoyes explains:Writing this album was like painting a story for one listener at a time, constantly mixing new colors. I chose to illuminate active compassion in response to everyday cruelty and to radiate this intention as the…
Adrielle Bow Belle, the New York, United States-based independent singer-songwriter, has delivered her very soulful new-old-pop tune, “Icey Roads”…. acinematic neo-soul gem packed with swagger, soul, and stunning vocal power.It’s one thing for an artist on Insta to strike you from the get-go, and that’s exactly what happens here because of how powerful her vocals are. They’re perfect for the instruments featured on the track. It’s got a swagger-filled bassline with a delicious guitar hook that is sure to grip you.The sprinkling of strings and piano keys throughout the song is also a delight, and, especially on the first listen,…
SUNSTROKE RAIN, the Malmö, Sweden-based project of Karin Turesson, has dropped quite an infectious, electronically charged pop tune…. an expansive, ethereal electro-pop journey that blends dreamy vocals with addictive house-infused textures.The sounds on this are rather ethereal, with a futuristic sheen to them, and all the while you’ve got these plinky-plonky sounds that just give it that extra edge to anything else I’ve heard recently within this genre. Her vocals are rather dreamy too, but not in the sense that it’ll send you to sleep, more in the sense that this feels atmospherically charged.Those house grooves mixed with dream-pop textures,…
Film: A Unicorn Director: Karl Howman Writer: Karl Howman Starring: Graham Cole, Chloe Howman, Katy-Jo Howman, Brian Robinson, Gary Webster, Ray Winstone The plight of a journeyman fighter whose life comes crashing down on being diagnosed with dementia and how the Ringside Charitable Trust can, will and has helped many warriors over the years and still does.. You can watch the World Premiere of ‘A Unicorn‘ at the Southend Film Festival as part of the Opening Gala on Thursday 4th June at 20:00hrs. Q. Your film ‘A Unicorn’ has been selected to play at the Southend Film Festival. Can you…
I first discovered Belgian psychedelic post-metal band Psychonaut when I was walking through the woods from my AirBNB to get to the ArcTanGent festival site back in 2023 and heard their music wafting through the trees. When I returned to the festival the following year I made sure I was in the tent to actually see them properly, and they were superb. Most recently I saw them play a very intimate show at The Lexington last November, at which I was right at the front and so full of cold that it was almost like an out-of-body experience. When they…
Film Name: Debt Meat Director: Benji Edward Writers: Benji Edward Starring: Laya Lewis, Keegan Carr, Jane McDowell, Paul Tonkin, Alex McKeown In a nation where human flesh is the only accepted currency, the economy is sacred and mercy is obsolete. When her sister is absorbed into the state’s system, one woman refuses to accept the arithmetic of sacrifice and sets out to confront the immaculate couple who profit from a machine that never makes mistakes. What unfolds is a dangerous game played over candlelit drinks, where paperwork can kill and power hides behind procedure. Darkly comic and unsettlingly plausible,Debt Meatis…
Wale surprises his fans with the release of the music video for his vibey song “YSF”. Teni and Seyi Vibez are featured on the track. “YSF” is taken from Wale’s latest album, everything is a lot. Watch the visuals below: Share on Social Mediaxfacebooklinkedinemailwhatsapp View Original Article Here
Mike WiLL Made-It and Young Thug have premiered the official music video for their catchy collaboration, titled “RUSSIAN ROULETT3”. This track is taken from the producer’s latest album, R3SET. Watch the visuals below: Share on Social Mediaxfacebooklinkedinemailwhatsapp View Original Article Here
After All Festival16 May 2026 – Northern Quarter ManchesterStart 12:00 Noon – Tickets: FatsomaOne of Manchester most authentic grass roots festivals – After All, takes place this Saturday the 16th of May across multiple venues, including The Band on The Wall, Gullivers and The Rose and Monkey.The yearly festival curated by Owen Miekle-Williams and sponsored by RGM and Bury’s Wax & Beans, has gone from strength to strength over the years, with 2026 being the biggest yet. Headlined by one of the city’s legendary bands Dirty Laces, other artists appearing are Cobain Jones, Concrete Club, The Falls, Frankie Dobson, Freight,…
Abyssal Festival has announced another wave of its 2026 line-up, with Ahab confirmed to be headlining as a UK exclusive. The festival, which celebrates the heaviest, weirdest and wildest the stoner/doom underground has to offer, returns to Southampton’s Papillon on September 26. Alongside Ahab bringing their “nautik funeral doom” to the south coast, the latest line-up also boasts the additions of Codespeaker, Noisepicker, Battalions and Boa Resa. They join previously announced acts Witchsorrow, Five The Hierophant, Psychlona, Moloch and Grim Harvest. Tickets are still available for this year’s event – after all, who said festival season has to end when…
Americana legends celebrate 21st-century releases on latest career retrospective.Forty years in, the Cowboy Junkies remain one of the great under-the-surface bands in Americana: despite having a million-selling classic to their name, they rarely make best-of lists, rarely get listed as influences, and yet possess a catalogue so consistently rich that they can assemble a compilation like Open to Beauty purely from the second half of their career and still make it feel essential. Even more remarkable, this could easily be a conventional double album, rather than a compilation, such is the consistency of tone and material.Drawing from every studio album…
Patrick Joseph O’Connor’s Wichita Blues: Music in the African American Community reclaims an overlooked part in American musicology. While places like Chicago, Memphis, and the Mississippi Delta often dominate the story of Blues, O’Connor suggests that Wichita served as an important crossroads for the genre. By documenting the oral histories of nineteen musicians, he has merged a study of migration and identity into the story of the music itself.The book is structured chronologically, beginning with the early African American migration to Kansas. O’Connor establishes that the Black settlers were in pursuit of freedom and economic opportunity. This historical context is…