RICHMOND, CA, USA, June 12, 2019 — It may be summer break but for college math professor and hip hop artist Chad Rico school is back in session! Chad plans to drop lesson plans all season long with his “12 Weeks of Summer” EP project on Gold & Gems Records by releasing a new single every week. With intentions to keep his international classroom of music fans interested and engaged during the upcoming heatwave, “Legend in the Coupe,” the debut track, hits on June 14 and is a banger for the books! Follow up song assignments for the first four…
Author: Elicit Magazine
Multi-instrumentalist producer and fine-artist, Lomea has released his second album Echoes in Bloom on May 31 via Here & Now Recordings. Previous single ‘You Are Your Memories’ garnered significant attention on release, premiered by Electronic Groove, with the video premiering on Son of Marketing. Lomea’s music has been championed by the likes of Nick Luscombe from Late Junction on BBC Radio 3, as well as Nemone from BBC 6 Music’s Electric Ladyland and an array of blogs. Lomea has also featured on Listen on Repeat’s Staff Pick for his track ‘Three Graces’. While this album is self-produced, Lomea has worked…
Montreal-based alt-pop artist Claudia Bouvette bids you a warm welcome to her transfixing sonic world. Stepping into this realm, listeners will discover vibrancy and earnest moments. She now introduces another side of herself in the form of “Don’t Like It,” the second single off her debut EP Cool It. The new single arrives with an accompanying music video directed by 27-year-old Montreal talent Caraz (L’Oréal, Lady Speed Stick), who’s known for portraying women as powerful, seductive beings, without having them look oversexualized. It was shot in Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Quebec at a village near the Saint Laurent river by emerging Montreal DOP Derek Branscombe, whose experimental work has been featured at festivals like Cannes and Tribeca.…
‘Nothing ever really changes in American society,” says musically expansive artist, IMANI COPPOLA. “It only gets stupider and we’re becoming more accustomed to accepting that as the new normal.” It’s this sentiment that inspired Coppola to evoke the influential neo-expressionist and graffiti artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, in her new video for “SAMO,” out today. The video hints at the presence of Basquiat himself, and features Coppola’s own artistic work while using graffiti art to comment on the tribulations of struggling artists. The graffiti displayed describes “benefits” to the artist lifestyle including “Depression,” “Unstable Income,” and culminates in the cosmic declaration, “It doesn’t ever end. It…
Today, NY’s Charly Bliss have shared a video for their critically acclaimed sophomore album’s title-track “Young Enough.” High Snobiety, who premiered the video today and profiled the band, is saying Young Enough finds the band “confronting some of life’s most distressing and unexpected twists head on with pure rage, positive energy, and even paralyzed joy.” Young Enough is out now via Barsuk Records. Of the video, Charly Bliss’ Eva Hendricks says, “This video is so magical and unlike anything we’ve ever made before. I told (director) Henry Kaplan that I was feeling inspired by the video for Running Up That Hill by Kate Bush, and he took that…