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Yolanda Kondonassis has released her new album, Five Minutes for Earth. The project celebrates our planet and illuminates our challenge to preserve it. The composers featured were tasked with creating works or soundscapes of five minutes or less in length that express a powerful experience inspired by Earth in one of its many conditions or atmospheres. Earth at Heart is a non-profit organization with the mission of increasing earth conservation awareness through the portal of the arts. Climate change, air quality, water pollution, man-made disasters, and diminishing resources are all inconvenient topics that have become increasingly [...]
FLØRE is back with her second EP titled Rise of the Romaniac. The EP packs a punch with four songs, continues FLØRE’s journey of writing about broken love or dreaming of the universe, and addresses issues like mental health. FLØRE explains, “Depression is a serious disease which needs to be normalized and talked about cause nothing kills you like your own mind. And I’m so proud and feel so strong writing about mental health. For me, it feels like you will never get rid of a major depression. It’s about handling the demons and maybe even becoming friends with them.” She continues, “It’s okay to be not okay. It’s okay to be sad and to feel alone and [...]
Dana Fuchs is back with her latest effort called Borrowed Time, and it finds her revisiting her Southern Rock roots with a collection of her fantastic songs and lyrics. Borrowed Time is the rawest, most rocking musical offering of Fuchs career, released on Ruf Records and produced by Bobby Harlow (Detroit Cobras, Samantha Fish). The band is Dana Fuchs, lead vocals, tambourine; Jon Diamond, electric & acoustic guitar, backing vocals, harmonica; Kenny Tudrick, electric & acoustic guitar; Jordan Champion, keyboards; Jack Daley, bass; and Todd Glass, drums. The band recorded Borrowed Time over the course of eight inspired days. “We tracked [...]
Halestorm has released their album Back From The Dead, which is eleven songs produced by Nick Raskulinecz that takes the listener on a journey through navigating mental health, debauchery, survival, redemption, and rediscovery while still maintaining faith in humanity. Already the title track has earned the band their sixth #1 on Rock Radio. Halestorm has grown from a childhood dream of siblings Lzzy and Arejay Hale into one of the most celebrated rock bands of the last two decades as their music has surpassed a billion streams worldwide. Halestorm is Lzzy Hale on guitar and vocals, with drummer Arejay Hale, guitarist Joe Hottinger, and bass [...]
Uri Gincel is a vital pianist in the Berlin jazz scene and is releasing his second album as a leader with bassist Paul Kleber, and drummer Tobias Backhaus called Love Through the Stained Glass. Founded on jazz standards and classical piano trio sounds, the three set out in search of new forms, sounds, and colors. With mutual trust, great joy in playing, and always willing to take risks but never losing focus on the common language, the Uri Gincel Trio creates an intense, multifaceted world of musical improvisation, sound, and tradition. Gincel says of the trio’s second album, “We tend to look at our past loves through the filter [...]
Lola Kirke is known for singing, songwriting, and screen performances (Mistress America, Gone Girl, or Mozart In The Jungle). Kirke is releasing her 10-song sophomore album showcasing her songs filled with lyrics of unselfconscious titled Lady For Sale. With the aid of producer Austin Jenkins, the album is an exploration of glam country twinged with tv commercial synth stylings and a high-spirited casualness that feels refreshing and familiar. The music is decidedly more easy-going and fun-loving than what we’ve expected from the country genre and the world in general, and Kirke’s vocals lead us to a feel-good space in a country [...]
