STRATEGIC ARTIST ADVOCACY SINCE 1997
“I’m gay and I’m proud, and I want to sing songs that are about being gay and proud,” Samantha Sidley tells After Ellen, which says, "Sidley’s voice in 'I Like Girls' is playful and velvety, a perfect mood-setter for a cocktail hour. This song does not disappoint." I say, "This song is a damn anthem as far as I'm concerned!"
Sam's debut album Interior Person is out Sept. 13 on Release Me Records. A US tour with The Bird and The Bee and Alex Lilly launches Aug. 11.
Described by MXDWN today as "inspired by the desolation and isolation of the desert," the vast sound of LANDROID now has a fantastic visual accompaniment. The music video for "Yellow Sea" is more like a short film. Be on the lookout for the Imperial Dunes full-length out Sept. 13th.
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.
"With many Beach Boys songs, it seems impossible to record a version that betters Brian Wilson’s immaculate original productions. I’d argue Samantha Sidley’s jazzy version surpasses the original."
Hell to the yes, Cover Me! Check out Sam's cover of "Busy Doin' Nothin'" now. The track is streaming everywhere tomorrow. Her US tour with The Bird and The Bee and Alex Lilly launches Aug. 11, while Sam's debut album Interior Person is out Sept. 13t from Release Me Records.
Is is 2019 or 1979? "Glistening synths waves, grounded by sonorous trumpets. Irresistibly catchy." Glamglare weighs in on the The Late Innings with the premiere of "Our Secret" from the upcoming album Wild Places, out Sept. 6th. Single available everywhere now.
Ryan Traster has a new single "Lost in a Sound" out today via Slow Start Records and it is the "Song of the Day" over at Minnesota Public Radio's The Current. Go and listen to what Austin Town Hall calls "those classic 80s left-of-the-dial pop touches" that make you "immediately feel like you’re home." Traster's new album Choses Obscures is out July 19th and he plays a record release show at the Turf Club in St. Paul on Sat., July 6th.
"Imagine if Aimee Mann decided to pick up Adam Franklin’s guitar and made the most lucid decision to create songs within a spectrum of sound where the only prerequisite was listed as, 'Challenging post-dreamy shoegaze.'" Hear the title song from BLUNDERBUSST’s new 2x7" EP over at Ghettoblaster Magazine now. The track is everywhere tomorrow and orders for the vinyl version (see it here: http://bit.ly/MOTM2X7) go live tomorrow, as well.
Samantha Sidley likes girls and Jazziz Magazine likes Samantha Sidley. Listen to the low-key anthem "I Like Girls," featured over at Jazziz here: http://bit.ly/SIDLEY-JAZZIZ. Tour with The Bird and The Bee and Alex Lilly launches Aug. 11th. Sidley's debut album Interior Person arrives via Release Me Records on Sept. 13th.
"You ever press play on a track and immediately feel like you’re home; you immediately get that feeling of maximum comfort?" Austin Town Hall is talking about "Lost in a Sound," the upcoming new single from Ryan Traster. It'll be everywhere on Friday, but you can listen here right now. Traster's new album Choses Obscures is out July 19th from Slow Start Records.
Los Angeles-based jazz singer, Samantha Sidley, shares "anthemic lyrical content for an evolving culture" via the single "I Like Girls” today with Grimy Goods. The first single from Sidley’s upcoming Interior Person album (Sept. 13th, Release Me Records) is a Pride Month essential. "I Like Girls" is available on all platforms tomorrow. Sidley launches a nationwide tour opening for The Bird and The Bee and label mate, Alex Lilly, on Aug. 11th.
"Going crazy on stage is what J Hacha De Zola does best." NJ.com's Jim Testa chatted with Hacha De Zola ahead of his show this Friday at WFMU's Monty Hall supporting The World/Inferno Friendship Society. RSVP: http://bit.ly/JHDZ-0621.
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.
In its premiere coverage of the music video for “Mercy!,” Cowboys & Indians Magazine describes Sisters & Brothers, the latest album from Atlanta-based band The Pinx, as a collection of "shameless Southern-simmered, whiskey-soaked rock anthems."
The 15-year career of the noisy, Reno, Nevada-based shoegaze-pop band BLUNDERBUSST has included more time off than on. The group sticks to an edict of not only letting the songs be what they want, but also when they want. The band formed in 2005, released its first album in 2010, and a follow-up EP in 2014.
Essentially, BLUNDERBUSST makes music when the time is right, and that time has arrived again as the band returns with a new EP this summer. Songwriter Jen Scaffidi (vocals, guitar), Carolyn Gates (drums), and Carson Cessna (guitars/synths) will release “Monarch of the Mountain,” which may or may not precede its next vacation, on Aug. 9th via San Antonio’s Slow Start Records. The six-song collection will be available digitally and as a 2x7”.
Is Vincent Sinex a pseudonym?
It may be hard to convince you otherwise after listening to Wild Places, Sinex’s upcoming new solo album as The Late Innings, out Sept. 6th. The Los Angeles native’s music sounds like his name. It rides that edge of time when the late 1970s became the early 1980s. When pop became new wave. When AM became FM.
“I have been recording since my early 20’s when I first got a four-track cassette recorder, a couple of guitars and a drum machine,” Sinex says. “I was inspired by the performances in the 1982 concert film ‘Urgh! A Music War,’ which captured the energy, intensity, and diverse sounds of 80’s new wave bands. When I saw groups like XTC, Magazine, and Echo and The Bunnymen in that film, it made me want to pick up a guitar and try to make that kind of music myself.”