Photo Credit: Jorde Diomande Ryahn – Sad Boy Twenty-one-year-old singer/guitarist Ryahn grew up listening to her parents records of Al Green, Minnnie Riperton, Deniece Williams, and The Delfonics, records that would inform her own soulful music. “I call it soulful music cause it comes from my soul,” Ryahn says. In middle school, Ryahn taught herself how to play the ukulele from watching videos on YouTube and from there she picked up the guitar and started writing songs in her bedroom. It was her father’s passing that would be the impetus for Ryahn to start sharing her music publicly and in 2015 she…
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LISTEN HERE Nineteen-year-old hip-hop/rock newcomer Nick Thrice has just released his debut album Boy Simulation. The 10 track effort is a concept project based on the philosophies of Alan Watts, St. Thomas Aquinas, and the late great Stanley Kubrick. From the second the listener presses play, they are thrust into the ecosystem of “The Simulation,” a world that feigns unlimited possibility but ultimately manipulates its subjects into hellish situations as a new pedagogical method. Listen HERE. “Boy Simulation,” as Nick puts it, “took a year to conceptualize, and a year to execute.” In 2017, while studying at an acting conservatory in New Jersey,…
Stream on Spotify, Apple Music & SoundcloudBuy on iTunesWatch on YouTube “Mephistopheles,” one of the more somber tunes from Crywolf’s widow [OBLIVIØN pt. 1] album, sees an irresistibly dark recreation from New Zealand-based producer Ian Munro. Munro’s recreation is the eighth installment in Crywolf’s OBLIVIØN[Reimagined] series, a weekly string of remixes that has showcased some of electronic music’s top up-and-coming talent. Ian Munro’s reimagination to “Mephistopheles” sees a cascading enhancement of raw emotions, capitalizing on Crywolf’s melancholy vocals. When choosing which song to remix, Munro explains that “choosing only one track to work with was next to impossible.” After listening to the album on repeat for a few days, he felt that he most connected with “Mephistopheles” and it…
Photo Credit: Rony Alwin WATCH: https://katy.to/SmallTalkVidPR “Small Talk” follows Katy’s summer hit, “Never Really Over,” which marked her first new solo music since 2017.“Never Really Over” was the biggest streaming launch of Katy’s career and has been certified Gold. In her 10 years with Capitol, Katy has racked up a cumulative 35 billion streams alongside worldwide sales of more than 45 million adjusted albums and 135 million tracks. With the singles “Roar,” “Firework,” and “Dark Horse” each surpassing the 10 million threshold including song sales and streams, Katy became the first artist to earn three RIAA Digital Single Diamond Awards. She…
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN Rising singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Cris Cab today releases Diamonds, his five-track genre-bending EP that fuses Latin music with contemporary pop and urban sounds. Diamonds is available now on all digital streaming platforms worldwide via Epic Germany/Sony Music Germany. To coincide with this announcement, Cab also released the official music video for his latest single “Sorry,” which he co-wrote and co-produced. CLICK HERE to watch. In addition to “Sorry,” Diamonds also features Cab’s major 2018 hit “Just Wanna Love You” featuring Latin superstar J Balvin, which has since amassed 25 million worldwide streams and propelled Cab onto Spotify’s Pop Rising, Apple Music’s Breaking Latino, and YouTube’s Latin Pop Before…