The indie music duo known as Desert Sparrow have released their debut EP record, “Leave This Town.” The record comprises four original tracks for an approximate total listening time of 18 minutes. It has been proudly published as an independent release entirely without support of the corporate music infrastructure. A seamless blend of contemporary folk and old-fashioned, bluesy rock 'n' roll, “Leave This Town” is a raw and unadulterated serving of sound any music fan can get behind.
LOS ANGELES - As Top 40 stations around the country start adding their infectious debut single“Another Heartbreak” to their playlists, Hobart Ocean (www.hobartocean.com) is staying connected with their burgeoning fan base with the release of dynamic, multi-faceted new iPhoneand Google Play Apps.
The highly functional, sleekly designed free apps feature the latest news, audio music tracks (including “Another Heartbreak”), performance and personal band photos, videos, schedule of upcoming live performances, a “Fan Wall” for fan postings and interaction and links to all of Hobart Ocean’s social media sites.
Fans who subscribe to the mailer’s list in the app will receive details about Hobart Ocean’sMonthly App Rewards Program, in which the top three monthly App users determined by points earned will have the opportunity to win a prize. An App user is only allowed to win a first place prize once every twelve months. The App Rewards Program will officially begin November 1, 2014 and the prizes will be awarded in the first week of December 2014.
Currently, the band’s charismatic frontman Travis Leonard is headlining an exciting U.S. based promotional campaign for Yeo’s, a globally renowned multi-national corporation and drink manufacturer based in Singapore and Malaysia.
Leonard’s image is prominently featured on the company’s drinks in stores across North Americaand Asia, as well as on the U.S. Facebook page.
The four L.A. transplants that joined forces as Hobart Ocean have shared their infectious energy with thousands of fans this past year with regular performances at Universal CityWalk, one of L.A.’s premier entertainment and retail venues.
The high-energy band beat out more than 150 other acts to secure a regular performance slot, and at times have played for 5-10,000 people a night for over four hours. One of their performances caught the attention of Jay Hu, a onetime marketing manager at Jive Recordswho is now Managing Director of Swift Endeavor. He signed them as the upstart label’s flagship artist.
Music lovers who thrive off of organic beats, soulful stratospheric vocals and a mellow poolside vibe will gravitate towards the new EGH Project's album. Titled “Life Song,” the album provides music with the benefits of experienced musical viewpoints and blends remarkable musical talents from across the globe.
(Port Neches, TX) - The members of Texas metalcore band Invent, Animate will need to apply for passports and brush up on the words to "O Canada" for their upcoming tour with Betraying The Martyrs and Reflections. The group will start the tour on 11/9 and will see five Canadian dates as well as a few US stops.
Before its official UK release on September 28th through Epic Records, Meghan Trainor’s international hit single ‘All About That Bass’ has been given the remix treatment by London production duo Tough Love.
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN - Sweden's master of horror, Bloodbath, set to release its fourth album of supreme death metal, Grand Morbid Funeral, on November 18 through Peaceville Records, has unveiled a new track, "Unite in Pain," featuring new vocalist Nick Holmes. Stream "Unite in Pain" on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/peaceville/bloodbath-unite-in-pain-from-bloodbath-grand-morbid-funeral/s-NcU88. Pre-order Grand Morbid Funeral through the Peaceville Bloodbath store at: http://bit.ly/1sXvCBQ.
The singer and songwriter known as Stan Swanson has released his latest EP record, “Driving Down to Eden.” The EP is composed of four original tracks for an approximate total listening time of 14 minutes. It has been proudly published as an independent release on the Stony Meadow Records music label. Generally found online listed in the contemporary folk category, Swanson's “Driving Down to Eden” is a purely American record colored brightly with earnest storytelling and a dash of rock 'n' roll.
The composer and producer of electronic dance music known as Jeff Gray has released his latest single, “The Stories,” featuring Corey Friesenhan. The track has been proudly published as an independent release entirely without financial backing from the corporate music industry. Spacious and ethereal, rhythmic and buoyant, vivifying and full of drum 'n' bass, “The Stories” is a single which helps define the signature Australian EDM sound called Melbourne bounce.
The DJ from southeastern Australia cites as main artistic influences many of the world's most respected contemporary digital musicians, such as Avicci, Will Sparks, Calvin Harris, Joel Fletcher, SWM, TJR, and Reece Low. Gray's own style, however, is only tinted by such inspirations, having an overall color which takes its hue from the sonic culture of his locale.
After leaving the New South Wales Police Force, Gray began performing as a DJ all around the area's best dance clubs. His official bio states that “Jeff Gray earned his stripes at venues such as the Goulburn Workers Club, the Burns Club in Canberra, the Mittagong RSL Club and various other venues in Goulburn, the Southern Highlands, and the Australian Capital Territory.”
Gray picked up music at the age of seven, beginning with guitar. When the rest of his life got in the way of his music, it would take many years before working as a disc jockey for parties and clubs started his creative machinery whirling again.
“I enjoy playing and making music that makes me feel good,” he writes. “If I can replicate that feeling in others, then that's a bonus. Music should always be a visceral experience and I hope to invoke many different emotions with music I play and produce.”
Jeff Gray has been producing music now since 2011. His featured musician on “The Stories,” Corey Friesenhan, is a seasoned producer in his own right and will release the second volume of his popular vocal sessions collection, “Banshee,” in October of 2014.
“The Stories” by Jeff Gray featuring Corey Friesenhan is available online worldwide.
-S. McCauley
Lead Press Release Writer
www.MondoTunes.com
“The Stories” by Jeff Gray featuring Corey Friesenhan –
The veterans of R 'n' B music known as La'Que have released their latest LP record album, “Who's Backstabbing Who?” The album is composed of nine original songs for an approximate total listening time of 40 minutes. It has been released on the Walking Tall Records independent music label. Slick, sonorous, and irresistibly debonaire, “Who's Backstabbing Who?” is an album which can't help but revive the fire in the hearts of all who hear it.
La'Que cite as main artistic influences such notable performers as Anthony Hamilton, Paul McCartney, Maxwell, and the Temptations. Their signature, inimitable style is gilt with common qualities of all these, but retains that attribute which is perhaps most important to the groove and timbre of an R 'n' B record: that unmistakable Chicago sound.
With tracks written by longtime La'Que members Jimmy Lloyd and Terry Snodgrass, “Who's Backstabbing Who?” is a reminder of what made R 'n' B unforgettable in its golden era of the 1970s. Bedecked with strings, bass, three-part harmonies and impeccable lead vocals, La'Que's new album is easily superior to most of the rhythm and blues played regularly on today's public radio stations.
Speaking of the themes of their new LP, La'Que write that it is, “Very direct to its listeners. We make our music believable and to the point. Our titles of our songs are self-explanatory and very heartfelt and soulful.”
More than merely meaningful, however, “Who's Backstabbing Who?” has more boogie in its heels than James Brown at a Sunday service. Music fans who enjoy records by artists like the Four Tops, the Spinners, and Gladys Knight and the Pips are sure to be enthusiastic about this new LP from one of mid-western Chicago's most striking and unstoppable R 'n' B groups.
“Who's Backstabbing Who?” by La'Que is available online worldwide. Get in early.
The composer and producer of electronic music known as Frank Arnold has released his latest official single, “World In Between.” It has been published on the Galileo Dreams Recordings independent music label and is available at iTunes, Beatport, and everywhere good digital music is sold. Mellow, spacious, and populated with several undeniable melodic phrases, “World In Between” is a reminder of just how good modern electronic music can be.
Grand Rapids-based producer Joel Paul Reisig brings his passion for horses to the big screen
Grand Rapids, MI – “Rodeo Girl,” set to begin shooting October 5, is an exciting family film starring Kevin Sorbo, TV’s “Hercules” and star of box office smash, “God’s Not Dead.” The film also stars Grand Rapids’ own Sophie Bolen and Derek Brandon.
Bringing a refreshing level of sophistication onto the radar this week is the new single from Modul Kollektiv, a deep house producer hailing from Germany. If you’re familiar with Dutch label Be Yourself Music (Sensation’s 2014 compilation was released through them), then it’s time to discover Dirty Soul Recordings, one of their sub labels. For their newest release, which dropped on Monday, they have recruited the talented Modul, who has in turn produced “Farbenfroh.”
Acclaimed opera singers who also perform jazz, Broadway and gospel, Beth Donnelly and Doug Feller have dedicated their lives and careers to transforming both minds and voices through concerts, events, private training, classes and online media.
Out to show the world that “music sounds better when it’s Enhanced,” Dutch rising stars Estiva and Juventa have been granted the helm for Volume 4 of the acclaimed Enhanced Sessions series and have delivered a sensational 2-disc, 38-track compilation featuring 20 unreleased productions, and tracks and remixes from the likes of Estiva and Juventa, plus Tritonal, BT, Dyro, Myon & Shane 54, LTN and more.
Tune in live Wednesday, September 24 at 10:00 a.m. PDT / 1:00 p.m. EDT to join the conversation
LOS ANGELES - Renman Music & Business, the music industry mentoring website founded by longtime industry veteran Steve Rennie (aka "Renman"), will broadcast another episode of its Renman Live web show this Wednesday, September 24 with special guest Richard Gottehrer, American songwriter, record producer, record label executive and co-founder of the independent music and video distribution company, The Orchard. Tune in live on Renmanmb.com here: http://www.renmanmb.com/live/renman-live-with-richard-gottehrer at 10:00 a.m. PDT / 1:00 p.m. EDT to join the conversation.
The singer and songwriter known as Vermin and the Beachrat has released his latest EP record album, “My Fantasy.” The album is comprised of seven original tracks for an approximate total listening time of 25 minutes. It has been published as an independent release and is listed variously online under the country, alt-country, and Americana music genres. Stylish, eclectic, creative and rocking, “My Fantasy” by Vermin and the Beachrat is a new sound for the modern age with echoes of classic rock in its bones.
This fall, as Hobart Ocean (www.hobartocean.com) celebrates the release of its debut single “Another Heartbreak” to Top 40 radio, the L.A. based band’s charismatic frontman Travis Leonard is headlining an exciting U.S. based promotional campaign for Yeo’s, a globally renowned multi-national corporation and drink manufacturer based in Singapore and Malaysia.
Rapper Lamar Cole, aka Mrtoolegit, has been spending the week promoting the release of his new single, “Red Carpet n the Country” with back to back dates in two states! The Alabama artist is zigzagging from Georgia to Tennessee and back to Atlanta for an array of appearances during BET hip Hop Awards week.
Nick Oliveri's debut solo album, Leave Me Alone, is having its U.S. release moved from September to late October. The album gives powerfully captivating proof of his mastery of multiple instruments while boasting some of the most intensely visceral, hard-rocking music he's made - no small achievement for someone who's served time in the ranks of Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age, and The Dwarves, not to mention his own band Mondo Generator...among others.. Produced by Oliveri himself, recorded by Harper Hug and Trevor Whatever, and mixed by Mathias Schneeberger Leave Me Alonewill be released on Schnitzel Records October 28.
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