2019 has been a fairly productive year so far for Los Angeles artist Benji Lewis. He’s already given us three widely successful stand-alone singles (Ride, Is It Love & Away), as well as two remixes of the latter by Two Lanes & Spirix, while also giving promise of more new music coming our way soon.This week Benji Lewis is making good on that promise with the warm, nostalgic, summery sounds of “Fast Forward,” which also comes with a Chris Weigen directed music video and is the first taste of Benji Lewis’ brand-new EP, Here, Then And Now. Benji started working…
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LISTEN HERE “Two Times” has everything we have come to expect of Arliston, and quite a bit more. When Jack (Singer/Guitarist) played a rough phone recording of a piano idea to the band, they realised a TV gently murmuring away in the background had whispered out some pithy statements that had been picked up in the recording. “It all started from there,” admits Jordi Bosch (Drummer) “Those accidental voices filled the piano idea with all the meaning a song could ever want.” Initially, the listener is greeted by sparse, eddying piano and the muffled voices of fishermen. As their voices and…
Photo Credit: Aaron Crossman The UK’s Astronomyy has dropped a new single, “Flamingo.” Written, performed and produced in its entirety by Astronomyy (aka Arron Davey), the track is released on the label he founded in 2015, Lunar Surf. Lo-fi beats and organic percussion brush up against a falsetto hum and the hypnotic hook, “She’s like a flamingo…she belongs in the wild.” Astronomyy notes, “I had this idea somebody can be like a flamingo. A flamingo is very pretty, but if you try to cage it, you realize it’s a wild animal and shouldn’t be contained. It’s also tongue-in-cheek and pokes fun at people in Britain, because ‘Bird’ is a…
LISTEN: Chantitown – Sinking into Blue (KRONO Remix) British singer-songwriter and producer Chantitown will release a remix of her single “Sinking into Blue,” courtesy of French producers KRONO, on August 30. French producer KRONO have made some extraordinary waves since their inception. With an impressive play count of over 400 million via YouTube alone it is no surprise that respected DJs such as Junior Sanchez and Miguel Campbell took stirring notice of them. KRONO has worked on various remixes and collaborations with respected like-minded artists such as Aaron Smith, Luvli, LinYing and VanJess gaining them a considerable amount of exposure…
Written By Ashley Friedman Jerry Jacobs is back! After releasing two new singles this year, “Backroads In Backseats” and “Making Of A Memory,” Jacobs doesn’t fail to release what seems like a hit right from the get-go. “This song happened in kind of a funny way. I was writing a completely different song with my friends Haley Mae Campbell and Mitchell Lee and we totally hit a wall. We went across the street to grab some coffee, and while in line we were discussing how we all grew up in South Carolina. We were actually picking on Haley cause she…