Combustion Music, along with their partner Atlas Music Publishing, is pleased to announce the signing of a long term publishing agreement with hit producer and songwriter Mickey Jack Cones.
Continue readingOne of the world’s best-selling female artist in history, Shania Twain, will be extending her ROCK THIS COUNTRY tour into the Fall of 2015, due to overwhelming fan demand. This will be her first North American tour in more than 11 years, and the now 67 date run comes hot on the heels of her hit two-year residency in Las Vegas at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace.
Continue readingOcean Carolina is what happens when a life-long musician stops questioning himself and lets the music unfold on its own. Michael Simone left an EDM career as a producer to become the songwriter, guitarist, and vocalist behind the band and Ocean Carolina will release Maudlin Days on June 30 via Old Hand Record Company.
Continue readingCarry The Ghost, the second full-length album from acclaimed singer/songwriter Noah Gundersen, is set for release via Dualtone Music on August 21. Gundersen has announced tour dates in support of the new album (See dates below). Gundersen, known for his thoughtful and introspective songs about love, loss, faith and longing, has written 13 new tracks with the underlying realization that we are all the sum of our experiences, whether by choice or by chance. Throughout the new offering, the Seattle native sings about how the acceptance of this as a positive can be liberating, not limiting, if you are looking deep enough.
Continue readingSeminal New Orleans band Galactic will release their new album, Into the Deep, on July 17 via Provogue Records—part of the Mascot Label Group. The album is produced and arranged by band members Ben Ellman and Robert Mercurio and features collaborations with artists they’ve made connections with over the last 20 years—including Macy Gray, Mavis Staples, JJ Grey, Ryan Montbleau, David Shaw of The Revivalists, Maggie Koerner, Brushy One String and Charm Taylor. Currently on tour, Galactic is playing festivals across the country including sold out shows in their hometown at 2015’s Jazz Fest, Hangout Music Festival, Electric Forest Festival, Wakarusa Music Festival, North Coast Music Festival, Jam Cruise and many more; a 4-night residency at Brooklyn Bowl in New York; and a performance at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. See here to pre-order the album and below for the full tour itinerary.
Continue readingNew York’s own Imaginary People will release their debut full-length album entitled Dead Letterbox on July 17th, 2015 via Five Five Diamonds Records, and today the band has revealed the record’s second single. “Summerstock” is another hearty slice of “Dance Americana,” Imaginary People’s trademarked sound where old-school rock & roll meets the dance floor. PRESS HERE to listen to the track via The Wild Honey Pie now and watch the music video which front man Dylan Von Wagner says depicts, “a man so miserable with winter he begins to hallucinate about the springtime during a cold walk in Brooklyn.”
Continue readingCircuit des Yeux is Haley Fohr, a young transplant to Chicago from Indiana who makes hauntingly beautiful music driven by her distinctive voice. Rarely do artistic and political intents coalesce so seamlessly as in Circuit des Yeux’s new video for “Do The Dishes,” which was premiered by Jezebel this morning. The clip, Fohr performs basic household chores before collapsing naked on a treadmill during a moment of musical upheaval. The video was directed by Chicago photographer and filmmaker Julia Dratel.
Continue readingOrange County/Los Angeles-based Americana string band Moonsville Collective, known for its traditional mix of old time, folk, country, bluegrass, and rhythm and blues, has announced tour dates this summer. The band will also be releasing a new album in 2015, with a street date to be announced soon. They recorded the forthcoming self-produced album at Ear Witness Studios in Whittier, CA, with Sam Knaak engineering it. Already, the band has been playing a number of the songs on the album live, with fan favorites “Blue Money Grove,” “End of the Line,” and “Rollin’ in Paradise” slated to be on the record.
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