Pittsburgh rock veteran John Vento has released a new single + video “Well Yeah Maybe” from his IMEA Award-winning album, Love, Lust & Other Wreckage. “Well Yeah Maybe” was written by Vento with Bert Lauble and David Granati, and produced by Granati (with assistance from Vento and Cherylann Hawk) at his Maplewood Studios in Ambridge, PA. Granati also plays bass and guitar on the song, which features Vento and Hawk on vocals and Joffo Simmons on drums. The track was mastered by Brian Foraker in Nashville. “’Well Yeah Maybe’ was probably the most difficult song on the album to finish,”…
Author: Elicit Magazine
Over the past decade Canadian music artists have become regular on the Billboard charts. Skye Holland, 25 and Steve Kroeger, 26 are no exception and are celebrated across the globe reaching chart status with every release. Their latest, “KIDS” is a remix of its original released in 2008 by American pop/rock band MGMT and is produced by Prodigy Records. This release is expected to exceed their current hit “So Close” which has held steady on the Top 10 US Billboard Dance/Mix Show National Airplay Chart. It demonstrates how a song can transform and morph into something different with great writers…
Olivia Anna Livki (aka LiVKI) releases her new album Digital Dissidents. The latest music from Livki revolves around freedom, power and the revolutionary way the internet has impacted the relation to them, both in terrifying and empowering ways. Influenced by art-pop giants like Talking Heads and Kate Bush, Livki shares their no-limits attitude towards musical fusion; indie pop, electronic hip-hop, kuduro, orchestral pop and raw blues with the unity of voice and bass at the core. Her hands-on DIY-approach started out of necessity, yet she turned it into a philosophy of empowerment. Livki literally creates and owns herself, her narrative, music and…
LA based artist Julian Bell has been making waves across the R&B scene. Touring with the likes of Smino, Lucie Silvas and Roy English, he’s now ready to establish himself as a unique, rising talent with the release of new single “Translation”. Rhyming over pillows of soft electronics and warm synthesisers, “Translation” (produced and co-written by Dee Lilly) is a soulful slow jam showcasing Julian’s woozy vocal harmonies. Growing up in a culturally diverse household, he regularly listened to a steady stream of R&B, jazz, gospel, pop, and reggae tones – pulling threads from these array of influences to create…
Former Sony/BMG artist Tom Tikka of Carmen Gray and Antti Autio have released their latest single produced by Janne Saksa, “Cloud Nine.” “Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.” – Oscar Wilde Having previously been signed to Sony/BMG with Carmen Gray, one of Finland’s finest rock bands, Tom Tikka has formed The Impersonators, a two-man project born out of their ashes and designed to cut out the politics and strife which come from the rock & roll carnival of band life. Resolutely studio-based, The Impersonators channel the bejeweled power-pop of The Go-Betweens and the immediacy/worldliness of early R.E.M.…