Written By Kelly Holm Despite what you might think based on her stage name, BROOKLNN does not hail from Brooklyn. Brooke Toia, as her birth certificate says, comes from Brisbane, Australia, and you can also often catch her in her newfound second home: Stockholm, Sweden. “It’s been hard getting pop music heard in Australia without… a bunch of money thrown at your project,” she rationalized. In order to find worldwide success, after all, you’ve got to be willing to travel worldwide. “[When I first moved to Sweden] this old lady walked past me, stopped and said, ‘Such cool hair! You’re…
Author: Elicit Magazine
“The end of the year brings a time of great reflection. You mull over the highs and the lows and the in-betweens. Indie-rock singer-songwriter Nick Aranda, guitarist of Paper Route (currently on hiatus) and now known professionally as Vacay Nick, steps back to consider what 2019 has wrought,” American Songwriter’s Jason Scott wrote. “His new song and video, ‘Good Riddance,’ is a mellow, easy listening guitar jam that celebrates the good as much as the bad… An overcast mood stands in stark contrast to the colorful chorus of inflatable arm flailing tube men, a playful way of finding a silver lining. Aranda’s voice rises somber…
SASCHA is a Swedish multi talented artist that currently lives in Michigan (USA) where she goes to College. Besides that she works full time on her very popular Youtube channel with over 400 000 followers and her Instagram account with 250 000 + followers. SASCHA got famous in Sweden in early age and have since then built her brand even bigger for every year, and have now fans all over the world. This year SASCHA also took the opportunity to do what she always dreamed of, to be a singing artist. On the edm/pop track ”Weightless” with house artist Vinil, Sascha did a feature. After…
Criteria just announced their first new album in nearly a decade and a half, aptly titled Years. The new album will be released on January 17, 2020 via 15 Passenger, a label owned and operated by singer, Stephen Pedersen’s old bandmates in Cursive. Yesterday they premiered explosive anthemic lead single “Agitate Resuscitate” as well as a comical short film featuring a dual over the album’s release between singer Stephen Pedersen and Tim Kasher. The song’s syncopated post-hardcore groove and shout along lyrics set the perfect tone for the rest of the record melding their hallmark anthemic sound with new hints of prog, post-punk and just a…
The Head and the Heart have released the song and Kevin Gray directed video for “Honeybee (Live Acoustic),” a stripped down version of the song “Honeybee,” a front runner from the band’s fourth full-length album, Living Mirage, released on Warner Records / Reprise Records to critical praise earlier this year. Generating more than 14,000,000 listens, “Honeybee” is outpacing daily streams of ultimate fan favorite “Rivers and Roads” from their self-titled debut. The Head and The Heart had this to say about the release: “We wanted to give you all a version of ‘Honeybee’ stripped of everything but vocals, acoustic guitar and piano, the way…