Author: Elicit Magazine

Photo Credit: Marcella Ruiz Cruz Austrian songwriter/producer filous returns today with the music video for “Monday” featuring LA singer-songwriter Ashe (who’s been featured on records by Whethan, Louis the Child and toured with LAUV, QUINN XCII). With playful plucked guitar melodies, earnest lyrics, and an easy-paced four-on-the-floor beat, the track conveys a youthful, starry-eyed optimism about new love. The comedic video directed by Tobias Pichler finds Percy (filous) donning his best Austrian 70’s attire and a persistent awkward smile in his video profile for an old-fashioned Austrian dating program. A self-described “musician and lover of gardencare,” he plays various instruments in scenic imperial gardens and a gnome-filled backyard around the district in Vienna…

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Superstar Maren Morris leads this year’s list of Country Music Association Awards nominees with six nominations. This is Morris’ second time leading the CMA nominee list in four years, and the strongest showing by a female nominee since Miranda Lambert garnered nine nominations in 2014. Morris is in the running for Album Of The Year, Female Vocalist Of The Year, Single Of The Year, Song Of The Year, Music Video Of The Year, and Musical Event Of The Year. The 29 year-old singer-songwriter from Arlington, Texas recently debuted an Alex Ferrari-directed music video for “The Bones,” which features footage of Maren vacationing with her husband, singer-songwriter Ryan Hurd. Watch/share HERE. The single was most-added at Country radio…

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STREAM / SHARE “TEA & SYMPATHY” LYRIC VIDEO VIA YOUTUBEPRE-ORDER/SAVE SO FAR Songwriter and vocalist Ego Ella May releases “Tea & Sympathy” today, the first single taken from So Far the debut album out September 18 via Tru Thoughts. Hailing from South London, she has an all-encompassing love of music, which she channels into her own neo-soul and contemporary jazz compositions; “music is freeing, healing and all things good and I’m here for it.” Her incandescent sound has gained press accolades from FACT, The New York Times, DAZED, Noisey and Clash as well as support from the likes of Gilles Peterson(BBC 6Music) – who included Ego in his ‘School of 2019’ radio show, Mary Anne Hobbs (BBC 6Music), Jamz…

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Photo Credit: James Hand Fresh off winning an Orlando Weekly Award for ‘Best Local Album,’ Orlando, FL-based garage-soul outfit The Sh-booms will kick off the next leg of their The Blurred Odyssey Tour in support of their critically-acclaimed LP The Blurred Odyssey. The band is supporting KOLARS on this run of dates throughout the Southeast, which runs from September 17 to September 28. Band leader Al Ruiz says, “We’re excited to embark on the next leg of the Blurred Odyssey release tour supporting our mates, KOLARS! Joining us on tour is projectionist Pez D. Spencer of Man Or Astroman?. With the addition of his visuals to our set, the live show…

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LISTEN”JACQUES” Following the announcement of her highly anticipated forthcoming album Sunshine Kitty, due on September 20 on Island Records [PRE-ORDER], Tove Lo has released a brand new track, this time with Polydor/Interscope artist Jax Jones. “Jacques” is out everywhere today. Listen HERE.Available on both Tove Lo’s forthcoming full-length Sunshine Kitty (out September 20) and Jax Jones’ album SNACKS (out September 6), “Jacques” was born out of a mutual admiration for each other’s work, with the collaboration cooking for quite some time. Detailing a fun and flirty exchange told by Tove Lo about a rendezvous she once had with a French guy called Jacques. The alluring anecdote and sultry pop vocals are underpinned by an underground heavy house…

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