alongside the release of a new music video for single “Some Other Dude,” Brik.Liam announces What’s the Matter, Brik?, his debut EP for Morton Records out October 18th. Known to his earliest SoundCloud supporters as the boy with the red balloon, Brik.Liam’s sense of place has always been as floating as that cardinal-colored motif. A military child subject to the impermanence of his stepfather’s Army postings, he grew up between Virginia, Texas, Germany, and his mother’s church choir, but has since toured Russia, broken the Top 10 on iTunes’ R&B Charts, and shared stages with Lalah Hathaway. Now, his “colorful bars,…
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neo dream-pop duo slenderbodies are kicking off a headlining North American Fall tour with a sold-out set at San Francisco’s Rickshaw Stop. The tour, in support of their debut LP ‘komorebi’ (out via Avant Garden Records), will run through October. Playing at their biggest venues to date, slenderbodies will finish with a victory lap in California with another sold-out gig on October 23rd at The Troubadour in Los Angeles. The tour boasts additional sold-out stops in Seattle, Denver, Salt Lake City, Portland and Rough Trade NYC in Brooklyn and follows a celebrated Lollapalooza debut earlier this year. LISTEN TO “KOMOREBI” slenderbodies debut record, ‘komorebi’ was largely recorded and conceptualized in the natural oasis of an isolated cabin.…
Billboard charting ska-punk trio Sublime With Rome have just dropped the music video for “Blackout” Watch the fun video, directed by Andreas Ramirez and filmed entirely in front of a green screen, HERE. “Blackout” is off the band’s most recent full-length album Blessings, which came out this past summer via RED MUSIC/5 Music. Blessings debuted at #2 on the Current Alternative Album Chart, #10 on the Current Digital AlbumsChart, and #26 on the Billboard Top Albums Chart. Blessings, was produced by Rob Cavallo (Green Day, Paramore, Linkin Park), and “Wicked Heart” was co-produced by Rob Cavallo and Andrew Goldstein (Robert DeLong, Blackbear, Lauv). Listen to “Light On”, “Spiderweb”, “Blackout”, “Wicked Heart”, and most recently “Thank U”, a tribute video to…
Layton Greene – an iHeartRadio On The Verge Artist – released her debut EP, Tell Ya Story, today via Quality Control Music/Level’D Up/Motown Records. Available HERE, the seven-song collection includes her powerful new single, “Blame On Me,” plus “I Love You” and five brand new songs. Download / stream Tell Ya Story HERE. The 20-year-old vocalist is the first R&B artist signed to Quality Control, a move that HotNewHipHop hailed as “historic.” Greene tells her story on the gripping “Blame On Me.” The handwritten lyrics – seen in the background on the EP’s cover – vividly summon painful childhood memories and explain how Greene blamed herself for the chaos around her: a missing father, a…
Rising 20-year-old mercurial singer/songwriter The Lost Hours (Callum James Hamilton), is poised to announce his debut release with the arrival of ‘Lonely Love’ through new indie label High Tribe Records this summer. A breathtakingly emotive record, sees Callum effortlessly drawing on indie, folk and pop influences resulting in a truly immersive soundscape. LISTEN TO CONFESSIONAL REMIX OF “LONELY LOVE” He says: “‘Lonely Love’ is a bittersweet cocktail of emotions. Moving from the introverted intro and verses, into a bubblegum call and response chorus. It is the culmination of months of personal lyrical writing and reflection met with raw nervous performances. I…