STRATEGIC ARTIST ADVOCACY SINCE 1997
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 'I Can't Listen,' written by Inara George, is about struggling with depression. But the Los Angeles-based jazz singer is positively ebullient about the black-and-white, noir-styled video." Billboard premieres this beautiful slice-of-life clip by Nigel DeFriez. Interior Person is out now from Release Me Records.
Light FM put a bright-colored spin on recovery" with a song that MXDWN goes on to call "a brilliant piece of laid-back psych-pop." See the music video for “Horrible Friend,” shot in and around Echo Park by Zoey Taylor and Lauren Rocket. It's from the "Tourist" EP, out now.
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.
BTRtoday featured Jersey City's J Hacha De Zola as part of its "Spotlight On The City" earlier this year, and now the episode, with a track from J's latest album as the opening cut, is named one of the Best of 2019.
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.
Eleven minutes of Reverse Engineered Urban Junkyard Reductive Synthesis from Mr. J Hacha De Zola The "UnPOPular" EP is J's take on hits by Billie Eilish, Halsey, and Lorde, which Ghettoblaster Magazine proclaims "are now his," showing off his deep respect and love for these songs and songwriters. Streaming everywhere today.
"With rolling drums and almost-mariachi trumpets, it gets into that dusty corner of desert rock Americana."
If you haven't heard Samantha Sidley's killer cover of Ry Cooder’s "Drive Like I Never Been Hurt," go over to Americana UK right now. Link in bio. It's a snow day on the east coast. This is the only driving you should be doing.
Samantha Sidley has just released a cover of the Ry Cooder track “Drive Like I Never Been Hurt.” Closed Captioned says “you need to hear its beautiful tones. What Sidley does here is not only take a beautiful song from Cooder’s catalog to cover, but she makes it her own… She’s an incredible singer." Thanks for the love!
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.
Samantha Sidley recently chatted with Music Connection, telling the site, “I want to relate to now. I want people who say, ‘I hate jazz,’ to listen and say ‘I like jazz because I can understand this.’ You have to tell your story. The easiest way to do it is to find a focal point. Your job is to give the message and move forward with it. That opens up such a world.”
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.
“Samantha Sidley's bubbly, LGBTQ-friendly jazz-pop belies a traumatic journey,” says the Los Angeles Times today in its interview with Sam about her life and debut album Interior Person. Sam speaks with Mikael Wood about the ‘quietly radical” record and the life that led up to it. It's a powerful read. Sam plays The Hotel Cafe in Los Angeles tomorrow evening at 7PM PST.
Check out the trippy new lyric video for "Automatic" by California's desert-based “paranormal punk” (Aupium) duo LANDROID. Debut album Imperial Dunes is out now. LA area fans can see the band live at the Moroccan Lounge this Mon., Oct. 21st. Grimy Goods says: “Haunting croons… Otherworldly melodics… somewhere between Pink Floyd and Beach House.”
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.