Author Archives: Mike
Author Archives: Mike
On January 7th, 2015 lifelong musician and Morrison Hotel Gallery co-founder Peter Blachley, will issue his debut record Nevada Sky. The masterful Americana album-which will be available as a vinyl LP with a download card-features a vibrant Henry Diltz photographed cover image of a trusty old cherry red 1949 GMC pickup cruising down a rustic stretch of highway in anytown USA.
Continue readingKat Edmonson performs “Rainy Day Woman” and “All The Way,” two tracks from her critically acclaimed album The Big Picture, on “CBS This Morning: Saturday” January 3. The Big Picture, available now on Sony Music Masterworks, debuted at #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers Albums Chart, #1 on Contemporary Jazz Chart, and #2 on the Total Jazz Chart.
Continue readingSan Francisco’s the Stone Foxes rang in 2015 with the release of their new song “Jericho” as part of their ongoing music release series “Foxes First Fridays.”
Continue readingJD McPherson’s new song, “Let The Good Times Roll,” premiered today at The Wall Street Journal and can now be heard/shared via SoundCloud.
Continue readingCraig Market and Thomm Jutz will release their duo project, Nowhere to Hide on January 29. This record was recorded over a span of twelve days (one song per day) at Jutz’s log cabin studio outside of Nashville. It’s fitting that the music recorded in a log cabin would be simple and free of clutter-this record is just that: two writers, two voices and two guitars, namely a 1937 Martin D18 played by Market and a 1948 Martin D18 played by Jutz.
Continue readingIn 2015, UME returns for its fifth year, and the DDP crew is gearing up for their biggest year yet. Anticipating 50,000+ attendees, DDP has already recruited DJ Mag’s polled #1 DJ Hardwell, David Guetta, and Tiësto for another massive outing.
Continue readingGhana. A proud kingdom that became a British colony, it’s flourished in the decades since independence. It’s the home of highlife, the musical style that spread all across Anglophone West Africa before taking a turn for the global. And highlife, sweetly blended with reggae and soul, is the root of Time for Peace (release: February 2nd , 2015), the new album by Selasee & Fafa Family.
Continue readingAcclaimed hip hop trio N.E.R.D., featuring Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo, and Shae Haley, has reunited for the sake of Bikini Bottom, delivering their first new music in nearly five years for the new SpongeBob SquarePants theatrical release, “The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water,” from Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies, which hits theaters February 6, 2015.
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