“Stars” is a feel-good record about when love truly feels special. “We had this very 90/00s hip-hop beat that Georgie (Christer George) originally produced for another song of mine, but after listening to the track a few times it inspired me to write something completely different. I was so in love at the time and I wanted the song to reflect what I was feeling in that exact moment. 30 minutes later it was finished. It was meant to be,” says Wilhelmina. Together with the upbeat song, a 15-second long animation is released. The Swedish/ Norwegian singer/songwriter partnered up with…
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Photo Credit: Matt Berinato Written By Kelly Holm For fans of NBC’s Songland Sam DeRosa’s name is a familiar one. Although her original track “Pill for This” wasn’t picked by Charlie Puth last Fall, it won the heart of producer Shane McAnally, who soon signed DeRosa to his label, Monument Records. Now, “Pill for This” is just one of several tracks on DeRosa’s upcoming EP. “I truly thought that song was going to be given to somebody else,” DeRosa says of its release. “The day we wrote it we pitched it like crazy. Nobody bit. Then ‘Songland happened… it’s the…
Written By Kelly Holm We all know Halsey’s “Eastside,” but now it’s time to give Nirob Islam’s “Westside” a listen too. With a music video shot in his father’s home village in Bangladesh, the track, which dropped earlier this year, reflects on fame and “the view from the top.” “No, you ain’t gotta stress, it’s true/You’ve been overthinking every move/Late nights, pour your heart out in the booth,” Islam croons. “I roll it up and I take it in/I don’t know if I deserve all this.” As a Bengali Muslim who grew up in Sweden, Islam’s family and heritage has…
The award-winning Ohio-based country chart-topper and founder of the Love Tattoo Foundation has released his latest radio single, “Starting Now.” In his new single release, the self-penned “Starting Now,” Lynch tells the true-to-life story of a person’s road to recovery and redemption through Jesus Christ. The single officially hit radio airwaves this week! “The song tells the story of someone overcoming addiction and homelessness by turning his life over to the Lord,” says Lynch. “A lot of us know or are related, to someone in that situation. I know someone who had been an alcoholic from a very young age.…
New York underground punk rock band ALIENS released a new single entitled “Enjoy Killing Time,” officially unveiled Friday, 5/15. “Enjoy Killing Time,” features ALIENS frontman Blake Sandberg on guitar and vocals and special guest drummer Hunt Sales. The two recorded this song at the end of the sessions for ALIENS debut album, Head First – recorded by Mark Younger-Smith in Austin, Texas. Blake decided to hold off the release of this song because it felt different. “Now the timing seems right in this moment to release it today. With everyone wondering what will happen, and with so much uncertainty,” Blake…