STRATEGIC ARTIST ADVOCACY SINCE 1997
"Mike Viola has spent a large part of his career making music with others and for others. His newest single, 'Ordinary Girl,' off his forthcoming album, Godmuffin, is one of a handful of new tracks the pop-rock musician wrote by himself and for himself. Well, actually, he wrote it for his daughters, who both sing background vocals on the track." Check it out over at American Songwriter!
Beyond proud of Mark Bryan and Midlife Priceless, the album he's going to be delivering next year. We've got a bunch of singles coming your way first, including tunes co-written with Wyatt Durrette (Luke Combs, Zac Brown Band), and Stephen Fiore (Young Mister), along with the first official single "Wanna Feel Something," out Oct. 30th. For the Hootie & The Blowfish fans, Mark closes the album with a vocal and acoustic guitar version of the band's 1998 song "Wishing" and Americana Highways has just posted it up!
Blesson Roy continues the trip towards the release of Think Like Spring on Nov. 27th, with more trippiness! There's a pattern here, and the video for the latest single "Stays With You" follows it. This clip by visual artist, Malone, makes quick work getting into your mind, just like the song itself. It's a sweet 1:52! Put it on repeat over at New Noise Magazine!
Inara George’s “Sex In Cars” - the Road Angel Project version featuring Dave Grohl - is an editor’s pick at Atwood Magazine! “The stirring duet between Inara George and Dave Grohl is a breathtaking release from innocence filled with intimacy, movement, and space. Pulsing and tender, the recording adds a burst of invigorated energy to George’s vulnerable composition.”
Du Jour recently caught up with the multifaceted Mandy Moore, who appears in Mike Viola’s new video for “Drug Rug.” Viola and Moore have been working together since 2009, most recently on her LP Silver Landings.
According to Moore, “He’s a genius and the video (directed by my sis, Caitlin Gerard) is hilarious and so dang good.”
Go to MXDWN for the premiere of “Stays With You,” the newest single from the upcoming Blesson Roy LP Think Like Spring. The site calls it “intricately-arranged pop” and says “the song features a distant, delicately-picked guitar riff at its opening and Borden’s vocals low in the mix, recalling his biggest influences like Creation Records, 4AD, and Rough Trade.”
Think Like Spring is coming at the end of November from Slow Start Records.
Treble Zine has shared the “hazy yet lo-fi” clip for “Bungleweed Motherwort” by Figg, which it calls a “lovely, stripped-down dream folk tune.” The video was produced by the band’s Gilden Tunador and edited by Hector Gallardo of Subharmonic City.
According to Tunador, “the video’s visuals are a nod to My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless album cover…”
Mike Viola - you probably know his voice from That Thing You Do, Walk Hard, or his band The Candy Butchers; or, perhaps you’ve heard his production on Mandy Moore’s Silver Landings - has a new LP, Godmuffin, due later this year. Evan Toth of WFDU recently interviewed Mike for The Vinyl District’s Radar podcast, finding that “2020 may have been one of the weirdest years that most of us have experienced in our lifetime, but it’s been musically fruitful for Viola.”
"Organic-meets-synthetic... pure class, indisputable elegance, compositional invention and, above all, rich emotional rewards," says Folk Radio UK about Speaker Face. The trio's album Crescent is out today! Vinyl at Bandcamp. Listen: https://fanatic.lnk.to/SpeakerFace-Crescent. Read: http://bit.ly/SPEAKER-FACE-PR-100920.
This morning, Rolling Stone premiered the epic new video from Mike Viola. Directed by Caitlin Gerard and featuring the talents of Mandy Moore, Christian Lee Hutson, Allie Buckley, Sharon Silva, and Tim Adams. Legend has it that vampires can’t expose themselves to sunlight, but Viola begs to differ
“Drug Rug” comes from Godmuffin, his upcoming LP available Dec. 11 via Grand Phony and Good Morning Monkey.
Thanks to American Songwriter for not only premiering the new Christopher The Conquered non-album track “Paper Man” but for sharing it with such stunning praise. According to the site, it’s “an opus, reminiscent of the soulful cabaret of Anohni (Antony and the Johnsons) and the operatic range of Freddie Mercury (or perhaps more accurately, Hedwig) merged with a piano bar pianist who just had his heart handed to him on a platter."
Austin-based brother/sister duo Charlie Belle have bee praised by NPR, The Austin Chronicle, NYLON, Noisey, and more. Now, Glide Mag has the video for their new song “Looking For Magic.“
Glide writes, “With a feisty and funky guitar line, the song captures the duo’s penchant for writing radio-friendly songs that still feel rooted in indie rock. There is a smoothness to the song that is conveyed both in the laid back groove and in Jendayi’s effortlessly cool vocals that linger in your mind long after listening. Jendayi and Gyasi Bonds also harmonize in the way that only siblings can do, and as the song builds, it veers from indie rock into R&B territory. The video captures the close chemistry between brother and sister, and the fun that they can have together making music.”
The first official music video from the upcoming Blesson Roy album Think Like Spring is live now over at Treble Zine, which calls it "Hypnotic... ["Undertow”] blends strings, electronics and a classic pop sound into something both psychedelic and highly accessible."
