Jazz vocalist Kathleen Grace collaborates with legendary pianist Larry Goldings for "Tie Me To You," out April 17th.

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Jazz vocalist Kathleen Grace and renowned jazz pianist and songwriter Larry Goldings have made a Kickstarter video that is so funny, they may need to start making comedy records next. For now, their collaborative album Tie Me To You arrives on April 17th.

Amidst this love and loss that inspired Tie Me To You, Grace barely slept. Instead, she was flooded with music day and night — poems, songs, and melodies. She imagined recording this new music freely, in the moment, with no big production or fixes; she envisioned simple songs broken down to their most basic parts.

Soon, she picked up the phone and called Goldings, a legendary keyboardist who has worked with James Taylor, Norah Jones, John Mayer, and others. She said simply, “Listen, I need to make a record. And you’re the only one in the world I can make it with. Can you call me back?” He did.

Read more about Tie Me To You here.

Teenage Taiwanese-American songwriter Chance Emerson has racked up a million Spotify plays for his self-released EP; Debut album arrives March 6th.

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My Mandarin is pretty bad at this point,” says 19-year-old songwriter, Chance Emerson.

At 17-years-old, Emerson self-released his debut EP “The Indigo Tapes,” local radio got on board, the EP ascended the iTunes charts, and to date, songs from the “The Indigo Tapes” have racked up a million Spotify plays.

Currently attending college in Rhode Island, Emerson's rusty Mandarin is the result of being away from his homeland for nearly two thirds of his life now. Born in Taiwan to a Taiwanese mother and American father, Emerson moved to Hong Kong at seven-years-old.

“The concept of home has been very fluid for me,” he confesses. “Music has ended up being a huge part of how I ground myself in a place.”

The songs on Emerson’s upcoming debut album The Raspberry Men (March 6th) will ground you, too.

See the new lyric video by The March Divide at Dallas-based Central Track

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Central Track has picked up the new The March Divide lyric video for "Secrets" from "Distractions, Vol. 5." Jared Putnam just relocated from San Antonio to Dallas and this is his first bit of local press. Click through and see Putnam on tour throughout the rest of the year and into the spring, including a "new hometown" show at Adair's Saloon on Feb. 16th.

Samantha Sidley's "Interior Person" named one of 2019's best albums by Los Angeles Times

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The journey of Samantha Sidley's debut album Interior Person continues today by being named one of the best albums of 2019 by the Los Angeles Times. Congratulations to Samantha, her wife and producer, Barbara Gruska, songwriters Alex Lilly and Inara George, Release Me Records, and everyone else involved with this touching, timeless album.

Source: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts...

Belgian composer Thomas Jean Henri teams with Will Oldham and others for upcoming Cabane debut album, out Feb 28th

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Belgian composer Thomas Jean Henri will follow-up previous singles variously compared to “a faint but cherished memory” (Pitchfork), called “reminiscent of the light, transient nature of the beach” (Stereogum), and proclaimed as “beautifully constructed, wistful folk” (The Line of Best Fit) with a debut album Grande est La Maison on Feb. 28th, 2020. The album continues Henri’s collaboration with Will Oldham’s alias Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Kate Stables (This Is The Kit), and Sean O’Hagan (The High Llamas). Grande est La Maison will be preceded by the singles “Now, Winter Comes” on Jan. 17th and “Take Me Home (Part II”) on Feb. 14th.

From moving gear for a Heartbreaker, to moving the needle on his own tunes, Andrew Deadman arrives at "Santa Monica Airport 1987"

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Los Angeles-based guitarist and songwriter Andrew Deadman grew up dreaming of making albums not streams. “I miss songs and I tried to write an album’s worth of em.”

Deadman’s debut solo album Santa Monica Airport 1987 is that eclectic and electric collection.

“I wrote and produced the songs on this record hoping they don’t belong in any time or era,” Deadman claims. The album succeeds in calling back to more authentic days gone by. Days that saw Deadman dropping out of school at 17-years-old.

Traveling the world by busking, at 20, Deadman drifted to Los Angeles, taking up odd jobs while writing and recording in a home studio.

Eventually, Deadman would release several self-produced records under the name The Temporary Thing, which eventually found their way overseas to the playlists of John Peel. Soon Deadman’s tunes were being heard on television shows such as “The New Girl,” “Love,” “Gossip Girl,” “Togetherness,” “Community,” and more.

Although Deadman was moving his music now, he was also continuing to move pianos – a different kind of music business – and a trade he was taught by his father.

Deadman developed a reputation in Los Angeles for his piano moving and also his ability to move giant vintage recording consoles.  Through these jobs, he worked with Keifer Sutherland and Mike Campbell of Tom Petty’s band The Heartbreakers, among others.

When he found himself giving guitarist Davey Catching (Eagles of Death Metal, Queens of The Stone Age) a ride from Los Angeles to his studio in Joshua Tree, a new opportunity emerged when Catching allowed Deadman to record Santa Monica Airport 1987 in his studio at a discounted rate.

Now, Deadman’s debut Santa Monica Airport 1987 is available via Chicago’s Minty Fresh Records.

Deadman compromised on the stream: hear it here.

The March Divide announces final entry in “Distractions” singles series; Plots year-end tour with label mate, Ryan Traster.

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The March Divide's "Distractions" series of two and three-song singles will wrap up on Dec. 13th with the release of "Distractions, Vol. 5" on Slow Start Records. These new tunes are a return to a band dynamic for Jared Putnam. Click to check the "It's Not Over" lyric video and watch out for Jared on the road with label mate, Ryan Traster later this year. Full itinerary here.

Dream System 8 returns with new single “I Like The Way That You Hold Me” on Nov. 1st

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Dream System 8 is back Nov. 1st with a new single “I Like The Way That You Hold Me” on Minty Fresh. David Klotz's vintage synth collection is also back after a tour of duty helping to create the much talked about "Neverending Story" scene in this season's “Stranger Things”. Klotz has earned multiple Emmy® awards for his work as Music Editor on that show (and others), but the real star of the new Dream System 8 single is Erica Elektra's moving vocal.

L.A.-based producer Josiah Mazzaschi revives his Light FM dream pop project, feat. Brett Anderson of The Donnas

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Los Angeles-based record producer and engineer Josiah Mazzaschi (Jesus and Mary Chain, Built To Spill) will celebrate the 20-year anniversary of his bedroom dream pop project Light FM this year with the release of a new EP “Tourist” on Nov. 15th.

The four-song non-stop bop is the first new Light FM music in five years and features the EP’s title track as its first single, along with the upcoming single “Dreamerz,” a collaboration with Brett Anderson of The Donnas.

A career-spanning Light FM compilation Turn On The Light FM, including the song “Friends Aren’t Friends,” is out on Oct. 25th.

Simone White re-visits "The Beep Beep Song;" Preps new full-length for fall release

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In 2007, Simone White’s just-shy-of-two-minutes tune “The Beep Beep Song” became the soundtrack for the Audi® R8 campaign, bringing the song to millions of ears, generating countless cover versions, remixes, and over a million views of White’s homemade music video (budget: $30.) The latest Audi® campaign launched this spring celebrates the ten year anniversary of the Audi® R8’s V10 engine and the “The Beep Beep Song” soundtracks the campaign once again, with an all-new string-accompanied recording of the song to be released as a single on Aug. 2nd. Simone White's new full-length Letter To The Last Generation follows this fall on Oct. 18th.

From the desert town of Landers, California comes new duo LANDROID

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Cooper Gillespie (vocals, guitar, bass) and Greg Gordon (drums, sequences) of LANDROID are veteran performers that have traveled the world as professional musicians. Now they live in the California town of Landers. Population: 2,632.

The music that Gillespie and Gordon are making as LANDROID, so named as a reference to their new home, is as vast as the environment in which it was created.

Influences on the Imperial Dunes sound include: David Lynch, David Bowie, outer space, X, Cocteau Twins, William Blake, Blade Runner, Led Zeppelin, Buddy Rich, scuba diving, Portishead, Pink Floyd, Angela Carter, the ocean.

Following years of playing variations on the Los Angeles-based punk and rock hybrid, Gillespie and Gordon settled in a desert land and became a desert band. The duo’s debut album Imperial Dunes arrives on Sept. 13th via their own Mojave Beach Records label.