Gospel great and six-time GRAMMY Award winner BeBe Winans will release his first new album of original music in ten years and his 9th solo studio album, Need You, (Malaco) today (8/30). The album features 11 tracks, a glorious mix of Gospel standards, his unique style of Gospel and R&B, some new sounds and a heartfelt cover of Luther Vandross’, “Power of Love/Love Power,” that caused Stevie Wonder to reach out during one of BeBe’s radio interviews to say, “well done!” Need You, is currently available on all streaming services including Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal, Google Play Music and more. Winans…
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LISTEN“REAL THING” RUEL is back today with “Real Thing,” yet another smooth sampling off his forthcoming sophomore EP, ‘Free Time,’ due for release on September 13 (RCA Records). The new track, produced by long-time collaborator, GRAMMY® Award-winning M-Phazes, follows the EP’s lead single, “Face To Face” (watch the Grey Ghost-directed video HERE) released earlier this month and earning acclaim from PAPER Magazine who praised the song for “capturing the anxieties in teen and Millennial hearts alike,” proclaiming that the 16 year-old Australian artist is “poised to melt hearts everywhere.” Listen to “Real Thing” HERE. His upcoming Free Time EP follows the release of his critically acclaimed debut READY EP, which earned him Multi-Platinum and Gold status with singles “Dazed…
Photo Credit: Jorde Diomande Ryahn – Sad Boy Twenty-one-year-old singer/guitarist Ryahn grew up listening to her parents records of Al Green, Minnnie Riperton, Deniece Williams, and The Delfonics, records that would inform her own soulful music. “I call it soulful music cause it comes from my soul,” Ryahn says. In middle school, Ryahn taught herself how to play the ukulele from watching videos on YouTube and from there she picked up the guitar and started writing songs in her bedroom. It was her father’s passing that would be the impetus for Ryahn to start sharing her music publicly and in 2015 she…
LISTEN HERE Nineteen-year-old hip-hop/rock newcomer Nick Thrice has just released his debut album Boy Simulation. The 10 track effort is a concept project based on the philosophies of Alan Watts, St. Thomas Aquinas, and the late great Stanley Kubrick. From the second the listener presses play, they are thrust into the ecosystem of “The Simulation,” a world that feigns unlimited possibility but ultimately manipulates its subjects into hellish situations as a new pedagogical method. Listen HERE. “Boy Simulation,” as Nick puts it, “took a year to conceptualize, and a year to execute.” In 2017, while studying at an acting conservatory in New Jersey,…
Stream on Spotify, Apple Music & SoundcloudBuy on iTunesWatch on YouTube “Mephistopheles,” one of the more somber tunes from Crywolf’s widow [OBLIVIØN pt. 1] album, sees an irresistibly dark recreation from New Zealand-based producer Ian Munro. Munro’s recreation is the eighth installment in Crywolf’s OBLIVIØN[Reimagined] series, a weekly string of remixes that has showcased some of electronic music’s top up-and-coming talent. Ian Munro’s reimagination to “Mephistopheles” sees a cascading enhancement of raw emotions, capitalizing on Crywolf’s melancholy vocals. When choosing which song to remix, Munro explains that “choosing only one track to work with was next to impossible.” After listening to the album on repeat for a few days, he felt that he most connected with “Mephistopheles” and it…