Author Archives: Mike
Author Archives: Mike
In a message to fans, Avicii has unveiled an interactive 360-degree video for his new single, “Waiting For Love,” just a week after releasing the heartwarming animated lyric video for the same track. Directed by Kurt Hugo Schneider, the video features Avicii joined by a troupe of incredible dancers who jump in and out of doors in the warehouse constructed on the YouTube campus earlier this month. Fans can maneuver around the set with a toggle set into the screen – but prepare to get dizzy as the dancers and the jump cameras work their magic.
Continue readingThe spotlight exhibit devoted to multi-talented legend Kenny Rogers will end its run at the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum on June 15, 2015 giving CMA Music Fest fans one last opportunity to see the exhibit before it closes. Incorporating awards, costumes, sheet music, memorabilia, and more from Rogers’s personal vault as well as from the collections of frequent collaborators, Kenny Rogers: Through the Years provides a comprehensive look at Rogers’s acclaimed musical phases and other artistic outlets.
Continue readingEagerly defying genre boundaries with a fresh, inventive electro-acoustic sound, trioKAIT is a piano trio for a random-access generation. On their self-titled debut, (available on July 31), the funky and eclectic Los Angeles-based trio – pianist Kait Dunton, electric bassist Cooper Appelt, and drummer Jake Reed – shuffles wide-ranging influences and Dunton’s unconventional compositions into a refreshingly modern take on instrumental music that is as uncategorizable as it is infectious.
Continue readingAustralian vocal powerhouse, Grace, has announced the premiere of the music video for “You Don’t Own Me” Ft. G-Eazy, the debut single off her recently release EP, Memo. The video premiered exclusively via VEVO TODAY. It was directed by Taylor Cohen (Nicki Minaj, Little Dragon) at Westlake Studios in Los Angeles, CA.
Continue readingNewcomer Leslie Cours Mather’s “Countrified” video will make its world premiere today on Country Fix. The Singapore-born siren kicks it up on “the story of her life” in a voice that Music News Los Angeles describes as “shades of Shania Twain combined with the mountain sweetness of the young Dolly Parton, the energy of Miranda Lambert, and the pitch-perfectness of Barbara Mandrell.”
Continue readingViolinist Taylor Davis has announced a U.S. tour in support of her recently released, self-titled debut of original material. The fall tour will kick off in Northampton on September 29 and will take Davis down the east coast hitting Boston and New York where she will play the Highline Ballroom on October 2. She’ll continue through DC, Chicago, Nashville and more before making her way out west in mid-October. After two shows at Los Angeles’ Hotel Cafe on October 16 and 17, Davis travels through Phoenix and into Texas where she will wrap her 19-city tour in Austin on October 28. Tickets are available on pre-sale at Patreon.com/TaylorDavis and will go on-sale to the general public on Friday, June 5 at 10am local time.
Continue readingPandora (NYSE: P), the leading internet radio service, has partnered with Mumford & Sons and Glassnote Records to livestream the band’s sold out Merriweather Post Pavilion show on Wednesday, June 10 at 9 PM EST.
Continue readingCardiff noise pop group Joanna Gruesome announces a full U.S. tour in support of their recently released sophomore album Peanut Butter, out now via Slumberland (US) [digital / CD+LP], Fortuna POP! (UK) and Turnstile (ROW). Among the dates is an appearance at this year’s Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, whose lineup also includes D’Angelo, Jane’s Addiction, Grimes, RIDE, Future Islands, and more. Full lineup and tickets available here.
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