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Credit: Mila AustinWell that’s it from us for this week, and we leave you dear reader with a new song from Passenger out today called It Was Gonna Be You which doesn’t really have a whole lot of other information around it at the moment but presumably a new album is on the way which can only be a good thing. Mike Rosenberg says of the song: “I wrote it on holiday last year and it was one of those songs that came incredibly quickly and naturally…. Once I had the melody and idea of what it was about the…
A broad-spectrum listening experience packed with vibrant, timeless songs.Aaron Lee Tasjan sought counsel from his longstanding friend and mentor, the late great Todd Snider, to help loosen the shackles of imposter syndrome that were tying him down after his 2024 album, Stellar Evolution. Under Snider’s tutelage, Tasjan found his true path and located the “emotional rock” within each of his new songs. The resulting Get Over It, Underdog, his seventh studio album, is a broad-spectrum listening experience full of vibrant, timeless songs whose narrators include a well-shuffled pack of underdogs. Between them, they deliver the strongest hand Tasjan has played…
George Takei’s 1994 autobiography, To the Stars, is rather more than a standard Hollywood memoir. Whilst it does cover his years on the USS Enterprise in detail, the more interesting aspects lie in the exploration of his early trauma and later civic engagement. Takei frames his journey not just as an individual success story, but as a personal testament to the fragility and potential of the American way of life.The core themes of his life, his childhood internment, his political service under Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, and his path to becoming an LGBTQ+ icon, reveal a consistent undercurrent: turning…
Big Stir Records has announced the upcoming release of Stars, a career-encompassing yet completely new collection from acclaimed San Francisco Bay Area band The Morning Line (and they’re not horse racing pundits). A 21-track ‘bonanza’ featuring the singles 90s Pickup, This Lens, and Anhedonia, plus completely remixed versions of the band’s personal picks from a back catalogue spanning over 20 years. The album is to be released on CD and streaming worldwide on September 18th and is available for pre-order here.The band is new to the Big Stir Records roster, and they are in many ways a quintessentially Northern California…
During his 17 months on Sun Records, Elvis Presley changed himself and the whole world utterly. He entered the studio in 1954 as a withdrawn teenager with blonde hair, pimples, and an almost debilitating shyness. When he signed with RCA in 1956, he was a seasoned live act renowned for his energetic performances and a recording artist who confidently blurred the lines between country and r&b. His skin had cleared up, he started dying his hair jet-black, and he talked a lot more. Throughout the next 20 years — until his death in 1977 — Elvis never stopped changing and…
Originally published in Take 244 (September 2017 issue…) What does ELVIS PRESLEY mean in 2017? Forty years after his death, we investigate the current cultural status of the man who was King. Does that charisma translate 60 years after his rise? Why do new generations worship The Beatles, but rarely Elvis? How’s business for the World’s Greatest Elvis Impersonator? And why are those treasured old records diminishing in value? “When you go through Graceland, it’s the weirdest vibe you’re ever going to feel in your life…” When Shawn Klush was in LA filming episodes of Martin Scorsese’s HBO series Vinyl,…
JUNO Award winning, multi platinum Canadian pop artist Preston Pablo returns with upbeat new single ‘Don’t Wanna Know’, out now via 31 East and Universal Music Canada.Written alongside Soran, who also handles production, and singer songwriter Zach Zoya, the track pairs bright, energetic production with a more complicated emotional core. ‘Don’t Wanna Know’ captures the uncomfortable thought of someone you love, or once loved, moving on with somebody else, but Pablo keeps things light and infectious, with punchy drums, synth stabs and an effortless summer feel.Despite arriving now, the song has actually been sitting with Pablo for around four years.…
The title track began life as a DJ tool before Godwin realised God Knows would be the perfect voice for it. Taking inspiration from D Double E’s ‘Street Fighter Riddim’, the pair switched their attention to Tekken, with God Knows weaving characters including Heihachi, Kazuya, Anna and Yoshimitsu into his bars.Speaking on the collaboration, God Knows says the music came from a desire to rediscover the “fun, exploration, discovery and childlike wonder” that first attracted the pair to creating. Godwin describes the process as equally organic, with the track eventually recorded at Dry Lane Studios in a session lasting less…
Quavo drops off a brand new single, which is titled “Trance (Walk It Down)”. The track is produced by Pharrell. Hopefully, we can expect a new project from the rapper to drop soon. Listenbelow: Share on Social Mediaxfacebooklinkedinemailwhatsapp View Original Article Here
One day before the late Nipsey Hussle would have turned 41, his estate releases a new joint album with his protégé Bino Rideaux.PROLIFIC contains 15 songs and features from Ty Dolla $ign, Cardi B and more. Listen to the full project below: Share on Social Mediaxfacebooklinkedinemailwhatsapp View Original Article Here
Busta Rhymes enlists Lil Wayne for his new J Dilla produced single, which is titled “Talk Ya Shit”. The rapper will release his new joint album with the late producer – titled DILLAGENCE 2– on August 25th. Listen below: Share on Social Mediaxfacebooklinkedinemailwhatsapp View Original Article Here
Based out of Los Angeles, “FAKE SUEDE” – the brainchild of Nashville-to-LA singer-songwriter Jeffrey James – has released the new cut, “Speak Up”…. awarm, soulful blend of bedroom pop and neo-soul made for sunny days and road trips.The brand new song is a great example of everything he is about. It’s got gorgeous vocal hooks with plenty of warmth surrounding it, thanks to the keyboard tones and the smooth basslines. I really enjoyed the chorus, and during that point it felt like a proper summer anthem that you could play whenever the sun is shining on a hot summer’s day.…