Review by Jamie Glenn Helen O’Shea releases her 10 track sophomore album titled “Turning Tides.” This hopeful blues style folk record incorporates messages of love, loss, hope, and fear. The opening tracks “All That You Do” and “Moments” sound lighthearted and is a quick moving folk with an upbeat guitar instrumentation. The strongest lyric comes in the chorus of “Moments” O’Shea sings “But now here you are, like a true north star, You’re light guidin’ me in, is a sign. In your shelter, I can breathe once more. A critical moment in time.” The sound delivery and external instrumentation match…
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LOS ANGELES, April 25, 2018 – American songstress Fia NyXX will release her debut music video for the emotional ballad “Maybe Just Love Me” on June 1, 2018. The video is following the March 23 release of her first solo EP, “Everything Girl,” celebrated with a sold out party at The Mint in Los Angeles on March 29, 2018. “Maybe Just Love Me” will be premiered on June 1 (location TBA) and screened at Street Food Cinema’s 75th Anniversary of Casablanca. “Maybe Just Love Me” was filmed at various locations in Los Angeles and Colorado and includes a uniquely choreographed…
Review by Jamie Glenn Artists Wade and DulaMula team up as part of an Avaz Studios production to create a recently released track titled “They Wanna Know.” This song is both a modern rap release that’s decorative, yet comfortingly familiar in its execution. The song production throughout this track presents listeners with a bit more a punch. The lyrical content surrounding topics of sex, drugs and gun violence is what stabilizes the song. Lyrics like, “They wanna know, hold me top from a rope” hard-hitting, yet realistic lyrical content could take some listeners by surprise. At times the lyrics are…
When Chris Cron moved to Tennessee a few years ago, he was done with music. He got a job with the YMCA and put his 11 years as the front man of the Warner Bros.-signed rock band Melee behind him. Focused on his marriage and being a good dad to his young son, Cron thought the page had turned. Then a mutual friend connected him to a music publisher, and suddenly he was writing songs again. Content to be behind the scenes, Cron lent his words–and his production skills, too–to a number of artists, including Craig Wayne Boyd, Kerrie Roberts,…
Review by Emily Smith Imagine being in front of the stage of a dimly lit indoor venue, right in front of a band with backing vocalists and a thrilling horns section, all behind the striking presence of the lead singer as she gives a soulful performance that brings the house down. That is the feeling the listener gets when listening to the latest release by Fia Nyxx, Everything Girl. Fia Nyxx gives her R&B/pop style a unique flair by peppering her sound with a soulful Motown vibe that leaves a mark on the audience. “I knew I wanted an old Motown influence and…