By: Andrew Shibuya For many, June is a month of celebration. Between Pride Month and the official start of summer, June’s thirty days are chock-full of various festivities and commemorations. And still, one of June’s national designations in the United States is almost wholly overlooked annually: African American Music Appreciation Month. Though this coining of June […]
Asserting himself as a force to watch in 2021, St. Petersburg, FL rapper Project Youngin unveils the music video for “Private” today. Watch it HERE via Motown Records. It remains a standout from his buzzing mixtape, Bigger Blessings. On the track, his smooth flow glides right over the beat as his raunchy and voyeuristic verses […]
Internationally renowned DJ and producer Duke Dumont has dropped the official video for his latest single, Alter Ego, featuring Channel Tres, out via Astralwerks. Directed by US director George Nienhuis, who has done work for 2 Chainz and Major Lazer, Alter Ego is taken from Duke Dumont’s latest installment of his ‘For Club Play Only’ […]
Metallica marks the 30th anniversary of its self-titled fifth album—a/k/a The Black Album—with two landmark releases, both out September 10th on the band’s own Blackened Recordings: The Black Album is one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed records of all time. Its 1991 release not only gave Metallica its first #1 album in […]
NICK RHODES AND WENDY BEVAN RELEASE SECOND ALBUM OF FOUR-PART SERIES, ASTRONOMIA II: THE RISE OF LYRA RELEASED JUNE 21 ON THE SUMMER SOLSTICE LISTEN ASTRONOMIA II: THE RISE OF LYRA Exquisitely atmospheric. – American Songwriter Transcendent Soundtrack for our Perilous Time. – VOGUE Duran Duran’s Nick Rhodes and British artist and singer/violinist Wendy Bevan […]
Katastro releases a new single, Droptop, as well as a new album, Sucker. As they gear up for the release of their new album Sucker next month, emerging alt-rock/hip-hop hybrid Katastro has released their new single, Droptop. The positive, floaty track features background vocals from longtime friend Micah Brown of Iration. Sucker, the Phoenix-based quartet’s sixth full-length […]
AMYTHYST KIAH JOINS MAGGIE ROSE FOR A CANDID CONVERSATION IN THE LATEST EPISODE OF SALUTE THE SONGBIRD PODCAST HIGHLIGHTING WOMEN IN MUSIC LISTEN HERE LISTEN TO SALUTE THE SONGBIRD WITH MAGGIE ROSE FEATURING AMYTHYST KIAH For the first 10 years I played music it was sort of like an escape for me. Music was one […]
BLACK-ISH STAR KATLYN NICHOL REVEALS MUSIC VIDEO FOR LIAR, WATCH HERE, LISTEN HERE Asserting herself as a dynamic presence beyond standout turns on television shows such as American Soul and Black-ish, North Carolina-born and Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter, actress, and performer Katlyn Nichol unveils the sultry music video for her debut single Liar today via […]
The powerhouse emo quintet Mayday Parade released their brand-new single, “Kids of Summer,” via Rise Records. Watch the music video HERE. The anthemic single is a nostalgic ode to the band’s carefree summers on the Vans Warped Tour, with a stadium-sized, hands-in-the-air chorus that fans have come to expect from Mayday Parade. Just in time […]
THE GO-GO’S ANNOUNCE 2021/2022 NORTH AMERICAN WEST COAST DATES IN CELEBRATION OF THEIR UPCOMING INDUCTION INTO THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME The multi-platinum selling Los Angeles rock band The Go-Go’s announce their 2021/2022 North American west coast dates to celebrate the band’s upcoming induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The new live dates include […]
