Author Archives: Mike
Author Archives: Mike
OShauN, (now known as EverythingOShauN) is an emerging artist from the talent hot-bed of Toronto Canada. In 2014 OShauN steadily released music online and consistently worked on his new project, he also was on the road performing in New York, Manhattan, and industry festivals in Toronto.
Continue readingNPR’s First Listen series is premiering the new POPS STAPLES album Don’t Lose This this week. This anticipated posthumous recording by the iconic singer- guitarist arrives in stores February 17th via dBpm/Anti-.
Continue readingRosanne Cash won three GRAMMY Awards today to become one of the top winning artists at the 57th Annual GRAMMY Awards. Her acclaimed album The River & The Thread won for Best Americana Album while the song “A Feather’s Not A Bird,” which she co-wrote with John Leventhal, won for both Best American Roots Performance and Best American Roots Song.
Continue readingChicago’s The Kickback spent most of 2014 on the road, touring the country and playing festivals such as Warmfest, Mile of Music, NXNE, AudioTree, CMJ and more. Next month they head back out with Born Cages & Dreamers for a month-long run that takes them down south to Savannah Stopover, through Nashville, Tulsa, Houston and San Antonio, before bringing them back up north through Omaha and Minneapolis, back through Chicago and heading east to Pittsburgh. A full list of tour dates can be found below with more to be added.
Continue readingThe first disc contains the original album remastered at Abbey Road, overseen by the band. Disc 2 contains a selection of b-sides and alternative mixes that have previously only been available on vinyl. As well as overseeing the remastering, Andy and Paul pulled 3 unreleased demos from the archive and 2 never heard before tracks ’10 To 1’ and ‘All Or Nothing’.
Continue reading24 year-old singer / songwriter Emily Hearn will release Hourglass on March 10, 2015. The album was produced by Chad Copelin (Christina Perri, Green River Ordinance, Ben Rector), and written in her native Athens, GA as well as Michigan, Tennessee and North Carolina with her bassist husband, Michael Harrison as well as collaborations with Ben Rector (“Please, Don’t Take My Love Away” and “Save Me”) and Emily Lynch (“Volcano”), is an assortment of twelve beautifully poignant and effervescent songs that came together from one inspiration: time and how it affects us.
Continue readingKeath Mead recently released the first single, “Polite Refusal,” from his forthcoming debut LP, Sunday Dinner. Now, you can hear a new song, “Grow Up,” over at Consequence of Sound.
Continue readingOne Billion Rising, a global campaign to end violence against women that has become the largest mass action of its kind in human history, is kicking off its third year with the theme One Billion Rising: Revolution, a new escalation that calls for a definitive end to the global epidemic of abuse against women and girls.
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