Archive for February 2021

Today, Toronto-based contemporary folk artist Ten Kills The Pack (aka Sean Sroka) releases his new EP, Life, Death, & Afterwards. Recorded in Los Angeles with producer Dave Cerminara (Father John Misty, Weyes Blood, Cold War Kids) and mastered by Greg Calbi (The National, Taylor Swift, Bon Iver), Life, Death, & Afterwards is a document of a unique time in Sroka’s life that showcases a…

Today, Fremantle trio Jordi Davieson, Scarlett Stevens, and Josh Biondillo, aka San Cisco, share a remix of their single “Reasons” by fellow Australian band The Jungle Giants. “Reasons” is off their fall 2020 album, Between You And Me. The dancefloor-ready rework came about organically. The band explains, “The year was 2010. We were young, naive, wide-eyed, about to embark on our first ever co-headlining tour with…

Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Dylan Dunlap announces the release of his EP Soldier On today, via Nettwerk Records. Leading up to the EP release, Dylan dropped his single “Follow My Echo” and it wasted no time skyrocketing to over 172K streams (adding to his already existing 20+ million streams), landing placements on over 28 New Music Friday Playlists across…

darkDARK – the producer-performer duo of Chris James and Genevieve Vincent – shares their full-length debut album Feel So Much (out today via Nettwerk Records). There is an uncanny futurism beating inside DarkDARK, the synth-pop act that pairs cinematic synths with modern pop. The 14 tracks feature ethereal, glitched-out singles like “No Symmetry,” “Watercolors,” and “Tell Them You’re Here,” as well as guest…

Jaguar Jonze makes music for the moment of implosion. There’s no delay, there’s no need for it. Her music constantly occupies two spaces: one calling us in, lulling with its majestic, eternally frank beauty, the second unafraid to cut us right down to the quick, harshly slicing into our most vulnerable thoughts and feelings. The Asian-Australian…

This week, Passenger (Mike Rosenberg) appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! from London’s famed Royal Albert Hall performing an intimate, acoustic rendition of his latest breakout single “Sword from the Stone” for the first time on national television. The song is from his latest acclaimed album, Songs for the Drunk and Broken Hearted, out now. “Sword…

Internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter Joshua Radin announces his ninth full-length album, The Ghost and the Wall, out July 23rd via Nettwerk. Produced by Jonathan Wilson [Father John Misty, Conor Oberst, Dawes], The Ghost and the Wall sees the troubadour continue a cycle of catharsis meant to be shared among any and all receptive hearts. “I see where…

“Boy & Bear’s Tim Hart left no stone unturned on his third solo album, and the result is a majestic burst of folk rock charm that fills the room: ‘Winning Hand’ is an aptly titled record of raw emotion, movement, change, and our never-ending journeys.” — Atwood “raw and powerful” — Tone Deaf “cathartic escapism…

“Freyr’s delivery has the intimacy of Sufjan Stevens and Sigur Ros, which in itself is enough to take your breath away… one of those voices that sets your soul at ease” – The Revue “a folk song that taps into a majestic feeling, full of beautiful vocal moments and atmospheric tenderness that you just can’t…

  Over the course of his career, William Fitzsimmons has made his living writing a specific brand of honest and inward-looking folk songs that fearlessly and candidly examine the evolving self while dexterously communicating his talent for robust melodies and catchy instrumentation. That the subject matter tends to dwell on the darker parts of human…