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Chance Emerson is featured in the South China Morning Post today. Just 19-years-old, Emerson was born in Taiwan, spent part of his childhood living in Hong Kong, and now attends college in Providence, RI. Click to see the video for his "How Can I" single (shot in Hong Kong by his 11-year-old brother) and look out for The Raspberry Men album, coming March 6th.
The FADER calls Cabane's "Take Me Home (Part 2)" "graceful and delicately arranged" and says that the artists that Belgian composer Thomas Jean Henri has "brought in to work on the project read like a team of cult music superheroes." The song features Will Oldham (Bonnie "Prince" Billy), Kate Stables (This Is The Kit), Sean O'Hagan (High Llamas) and more. See the video now, single streaming everywhere.
Chance Emerson shot a live video for his single "How Can I" in his dorm room, performing it solo on his grandmother's banjo. Check it out now at Americana Highways and then give a listen to the album version: https://fanatic.lnk.to/ChanceEmerson-HowCanI.
Brooklyn Vegan calls the latest Cabane collaboration with Will Oldham (Bonnie “Prince” Billy) "gorgeous" in its premiere of "Take Me Home (Part II)," featuring a "crest of swelling harmonies, classical guitar and vibraphone." The track is out everywhere tomorrow and the full album Grande Est La Maison (feat. Oldham, Kate Stables of This Is The Kit and string arrangements by Sean O’ Hagan of High Llamas) arrives Feb, 28th.
Chance Emerson chats with American Songwriter today, which says, "When Chance Emerson sings 'Everything will be alright in time' at the close of his new single, 'Annabelle,' it’s easy to believe him. The Providence, Rhode Island-based singer-songwriter delivers the line with wisdom and assuredness that belie his age."
"It serves as a superb vocal performance as well as further evidence of her status as an exciting, emerging voice," says PopMatters this morning about this solo-vocal take by Samantha Sidley on one of her favorite childhood songs. The video shows off Sam's phenomenal voice, which she brings to NYC later this week, kicking off a three-night residency at The Green Room 42 supper club (just west of Broadway in the YOTEL New York.) Come on out to see Sam Thurs., Feb 6th through Sat., Feb. 8th. Tickets: http://bit.ly/SS-NYC-020620-020820.
“Kids love mud,” says D.B. Rouse. “I sat down to write a kid’s song about mud and this thing came out instead.” A constantly traveling troubadour, poet and novelist, the Milwaukee-based migrant musician (he actually says home is wherever the van is parked) will release a new four-song EP “Nobody” on March 6th, 2020. Read more about D.B. Rouse and “Nobody” here.
Samantha Sidley is coming to NYC Feb. 6-8, with a three-night residency at The Green Room 42 supper club just west of Broadway in the YOTEL. Broadway World has the details. Link in bio.
Sidley’s debut LP, Interior Person, is out from Release Me Records now.
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.
This Monday's show at Zebulon featuring Samantha Sidley will be one of this week’s best according to LA Weekly. Falling James has some powerful words, stating that Sam’s debut album Interior Person is startling, “not because she’s radically experimenting with new sonic ideas but because the proudly lesbian L.A. vocalist upends romantic jazz-pop tradition by infusing it with long-missing tolerance and empathy."
Samantha Sidley is one of Grimy Goods’ 20 Los Angeles Artists to Watch in 2020!
Angelenos can see her live with Release Me Records label mate Alex Lilly on Mon., Jan 20 at Zebulon.
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.
"Jersey City’s J Hacha De Zola hit the Trifecta this year, with three startling, different and compelling releases. Like a latterday Screamin Jay Hawkins, DeZola brings a spooky voodoo mojo to his music. It’s thrilling to imagine what he might come up with next." Jim Testa, NJ.com
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.