LISTENIMMUNITY Following in the footsteps of Billie Eilish, as well as Grammy Award-winning artists Khalid and H.E.R, Apple Music has announced FADER label artist Clairo as the latest artist to be featured as part of their wildly successful Up Next campaign. Geared towards identifying, showcasing and elevating rising star talent, Clairo joins some of today’s most exciting and promising artists around. “There’s a depth and truthfulness to Clairo’s songs that can’t be faked. I think people connect with her because she’s very clearly a music obsessive, she’s a realist and she’s an incredible storyteller,” said Apple Music host Matt Wilkinson. “From early beginnings making catchy pop songs in her bedroom, to singalongs on festival stages and…
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WATCH THE VIDEO HERESTREAM HERE “Spotlight,” out today (August 21) is the sensual new single from Parisian band Oracle Sisters. Flange drenched guitar licks – straight out of a noire thriller- drive the song, which tells of the journey through the “world of the night.” Set in a world of Parisian drag queens, the women who fascinate the lonesome cowboys of the night, the video touches on the expression of rebirth through the dark smoke of feminine attraction. “Spotlight” evokes the imagery of that bar you find yourself in at 3 A.M., with no recollection of getting there (“sticky tables, tattered suits” runs…
Rapping math professor Chad Rico is prepping for quarterly semester exams with the release of the final four singles from his “12 Weeks of Summer” hip hop music project on Gold & Gems Records. The last assignments include “Still Wit It,” August 9; “Success with the Shade” on August 17; “Wonder,” on August 23 and “Sleep in the Phantom” on August 30. Rico’s “12 Weeks of Summer” has really added up, bringing the sum total of this musical equation to a blast summation. Altering the geometry of the rap game, Chad Rico enters the music classroom as an entrepreneur, financial analyst, clothing manufacturer/designer, filmmaker and world traveler. When he dropped his first EP Myth last year…
Steve Lacy — best known as the guitarist of space-soul band THE INTERNET – announces his highly-anticipated solo headline tour this fall, culminating in a very special show at The Wiltern in Lacy’s hometown of Los Angeles this October. The tour follows on the massive critical success of his debut album Apollo XXI which was released on 3qtr via AWAL earlier this year. Click HERE to listen to Apollo XXI One of the most eagerly awaited debuts of the last couple years, Apollo XXI instantly won acclaim from critics with The Fader calling it “one of the most anticipated releases of this year” and The Guardian describing it as “a casually confident kaleidoscope.” Lacy has also recently been…
Dearly Beloved is the creative braintrust of vocalist/bassist Rob Higgins and vocalist/percussionist/Theremin abuser Niva Chow and the Toronto band will release Times Square Discount on October 25 via Aporia Records. VIEW / SHARE “RACE TO THE BOTTOM” VIDEO ON YOUTUBE They share the video for album opener “Race to the Bottom,” an anthemic salute to the mom-and-pop shops and the families that run them. The track and video is inspired by Higgins and Chow’s shared experiences working in their first-generation immigrant grandparents’ small businesses as teenagers. Higgins adds, “The song is a tribute to our grandmothers, who both ran convenience stores that Niva and I worked in as kids growing up.…