"Finally Alone" describes what so many people go through today: the desire to be with someone you really care about but technology getting in the way. While it's sexy and makes you feel like a million bucks, there's a bittersweet melancholy to it lyrically. "Finally Alone" is the pop/R&B-crossover track that will help Mack transition to the R&B sound he truly belongs in in 2019.
Currently based out of the Seattle area, D.S. Wilson is an accomplished and well-rounded jazz musician who brings a wide range of experience and styles to his music, from rock. pop, and blues, to folk, contemporary Christian, and jazz.
D.S. began playing piano and saxophone at an early age and quickly became proficient, earning a scholarship to Berklee School of Music in Boston.
D.S. played in North Carolina-based rock bands from the mid-80’s through 2001, winning the North Carolina Battle of the Bands in 1983. In the late 90’s, D.S. was a key member of the band Dolo, which released the acclaimed album “Dolo” produced by Grammy-nominated producer John Custer.
After Dolo, D.S. Wilson embarked on a solo career, completing his first album entitled “Save Me” (which was not released) and most recently completing and releasing a jazz album entitled “Stella Rose” under his music label Big Splash Music.
Although D.S. Wilson focuses primarily on saxophone, piano and keyboards, he is a versatile and talented composer, performer, recording artist and producer.
Bridesmen is Los Angeles based Kenton Chen, an indie neo-soul, R&B singer/songwriter who has set out to encourage others to find power within themselves and use compassion to enact change. Known for his work on NBC’s Sing-Off, as well as his performances with Postmodern Jukebox and Scary Pockets, Chen’s latest project is a radical departure from his jazz/a cappella roots. Chen strives to explore the darker side of human nature, the dichotomy of morality and how to be a good person in a world that ostracizes you, i.e. a 'bridesmen' at a wedding.
The root of the new project Bridesmen, is an outlet for Chen to convey the artistic side of himself, unrelated to other people. With a running theme of expressing individual freedom and responsibility, the singer narrates the emotions of loneliness and the effect it can have on people. Chen reveals, "We hurt when we don't understand each other and we hurt when we are unwilling to change. The best thing we can do is be ourselves within the context of what we were given”. As a gay Asian second generation immigrant, he grew up feeling isolated, constantly hiding behind masks to protect himself. In Bridesmen, Chen aspires to uncover these masks in an effort to live a boundless and truthful life. "I want people to know that as I have grown and matured as an artist and a human being, I've come to realize that my specific experiences of being gay and Asian are not particular to me. My life story reverberates far beyond my specificities, and anyone from any race or sexuality can empathize with the need to belong and be understood”, expresses Chen.
Leading single, 'Someone Who Loves Me' highlights Chen’s warm silky vocals, enchanting modern R&B melodies and hypnotic instrumentation. Thematically the single addresses the loneliness we all feel throughout our lives and assures others that we are not alone. "It's okay to be sad, to be frustrated, even angry in our pursuit of life, love, and happiness. And the more aware and vulnerable we can be about it, the more we can be there for each other”, confides Chen.
The stunning visuals for 'Someone Who Loves Me’ features friends of the artist of all races and sexualities, from all parts of the US. One thing they all share in common is their deep need for love. Chen explains, "The idea behind having bare skin is pretty simple. Each person is beautiful in their own skin. I want to highlight that. In our nakedness, we can't hide behind any brand, or gadget and we have to face how we feel in our own bodies. When we come together at the end of the video, I want people to realize that we are on the this journey together”. Combined with Chen’s honest and raw lyricism, the result is a vulnerable yet empowering delivery.
Chen has found success performing/supporting with artists such as Katy Perry, Kesha, Sara Bareilles, Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson, as well as touring with Portugal the Man and Ben Folds. His work with Postmodern Jukebox has reached over 8.6 million views on YouTube, garnering attention from across the globe. Chen continues to deliver listeners with poignant storytelling and his indulging neo-soul infused music, with ‘Someone Who Loves Me’.
Nostalgia '93 is the first of six singles in a project entilted the 'Mack Summer Playlist'. Accompanying each single is a color coded instagram photo/poetry series, in which each song title is the summation of each poem. Nostalgia '93 specifically is a celebration of the beauty within the ugly through the lenses of Nostalgia.
Straight outta Brixton, London, Fabian Secon has had a rapid rise over the past 18 months and this week he’s back with another banger, new single “My Pain Locked Away”. As always, the track was written and produced by Fabian, and this time he also enlists the talents of mega producer/songwriter Jacob Manson(Rudimental, Ed Sheeran, Craig David).
Speaking on the track, Fabian says, “People often don’t like talking or being open about their struggles, which is where ’My Pain Locked Away’ came from. Just because a person may appear OK from the outside, it doesn’t mean that they are. You never know what someone may be going through internally.”
Having recently surpassed 12 million streams, Fabian is gearing up to play his first headline shows throughRobomagic/Live Nation in 2019.
“My Pain Locked Away” is available to buy/stream now from all digital outlets.
Gabrielle Aplin has released her brand new single ‘My Mistake’, the first song to be taken from her forthcoming third album due for release next year. Having just signed a major global deal with AWAL, the release is the first through the new partnership between AWAL and Gabrielle’s own successful label Never Fade Records.
A beautiful and raw piano ballad, ‘My Mistake’ finds Gabrielle baring her soul with a powerful and emotionally gripping voice – one that is sure to resonate with her ardent fanbase.
Regarding the single Gabrielle says, “I’m really excited to release My Mistake. I’ve always found writing a therapeutic escape from real life, but this song gently forced me to be brutally honest. This is a song about finding a strange sense of comfort in admitting to yourself that you’re not feeling 100% and completely owning it.”
Gabrielle Aplin will be performing live at the annual celebration of her label Never Fade Records at Union Chapel next month (Dec 4th). Never Fade artists and friends will join her including Hannah Grace, Lauren Aquilina, Lewis Watson, Orla Gartland, Sonny and more as they perform together in a very special show kicking off the festive season.
Gabrielle Aplin will be releasing a brand new album via her new deal with AWAL, while continuing to develop incredible music talent on Never Fade Records.
Speaking about working with AWAL she says, “AWAL was the first company that I started working with when we launched Never Fade Records in 2010 to release my first EPs, and I’m really excited to be working with them again on my third album! It’s an exciting time to be an independent artist, and I know that this partnership with AWAL will bring a huge boost to the label and the acts we work with as well as myself and my own projects.”
An authentic rap artist with a personally dignifying story to tell. Norfolk based hip hop sensation King Hoffa has released the new music video for his latest track ‘From Da Blok’, featuring Styles P. King Hoffer’s story reflects that of an artist whose honest authenticity stanches from a regular and underprivileged modern citizen. The music video represents a raw and uncut sequence of brotherhood, mate-ship, and societal struggle.
Launched from the independent label TRB Monster Music; the powerhouse entertainment company who propelled artists such as King Hoffa, JBoBack, MoneyBabby and JMixx. From Da Blok’ gives us an unapologetically evocative hip-hop track. The track’s music video literally takes us backstage into the studio of King Hoffa and Styles P, giving us a sense of honest energy, almost as if we were just sitting back, hanging out with our mates and making some fresh dope music.
In a recent interview with Sharef McDowell (King Hoffa), he stated that the story behind his latest track to be about his battle with inherited poverty and societal hardship.
“From Da Blok is about taking your family out of a financial situation and putting them in a better one before you change your own”.
As the foundation of his music, particularly in his new track, King Hoffa entwines a definitive sense of ‘brotherhood’, incorporating his love for his closest friends and his family within his passion for music and song-writing.
“Brotherly loves overrides oppression and the destruction of society. If I had to sum my music up all in one up it would be that of love and loyalty.”
Berlin based, Vienna-born songwriter and producer narou returns with his latest single ‘Prophecy (ft. Hannah Jenkins)’ to be released on 30th November via Chrome Music. Having worked on numerous notable collabs spanning over a dynamic range of emotions and moods, his latest offering lives and breathes on its own, with a singularly strong yet minimalistic vibe.
Having grown up with music from a very young age, with his father also a music producer, narou’s love for writing has continued to evolve. In 2014, he started producing and performing with James Hersey and supported Milky Chance on their European Tour. After moving to Amsterdam to study Sound Engineering, his next steps took him to Berlin, where he further explored and discovered his songwriting and singing.
narou is delving into an electronic-soul and rnb sensibility with renewed perspective in the process of creating an album that will feature his talented friends. As well as numerous collaborations with James Hersey, narou is also a featured artist on a soon to be released single from Berlin based Australian James Chatburn.
'Prophecy' co-writer and vocalist Hannah Jenkins, is a New York-born, Berlin-based singer and songwriter. Coming from a strong soul background, Hannah creatively collects influences from early exposure to greats like Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Bill Withers, Stevie Wonder and Otis Redding, to name a few. She takes these deep roots to a place of gentle modernity, crooning over a simple yet strong beat, and bringing the listener into a place of honest resonance.
“I wrote ‘Prophecy’ at a time when I was letting my own sense of self get clouded by other people's expectations or definitions of yourself - whether it's a romantic partner or even friends and family. Once you let go of that, get in touch with your own currency and give yourself unconditional love, that's where the magic lives for real. Deep down I knew narou would do an awesome job in realizing the full potential of it because I really dig his sort of weird and simplistic style in a lot of his earlier stuff so I ran it by him and he made it what it is.” - Hannah Jenkins
“In the beginning we struggled with the structure and overall mood of the song. I always felt like it needed a stronger hook so I decided to write something and sing it myself. Surprisingly our voices fit together perfectly. The Idea for the Lyrics were to answer to Hannahs cry for love. Saying that no one involved really knows whats going on and that both sides seem confused and hesitant over what to do with their feelings. We hope people resonate with it and see a way out of their own patterns of destructive thinking. And know it's not the end of the world when shit happens to you. You gotta dive deep and find the answers within yourself. And yeah we want people to be nice to themselves and identify and own their own beauty.” - narou
Sara Diamond has been given the gift of song through her family lineage. Starting at the age of 5, singing songs on her mother's children's record label, Sara has come to appreciate the healing power of music. Music has been a constant that, through the trials and tribulations of life, has stuck around.
Sara's goal with music is to inspire others to look inwards and appreciate the myriad of feelings that come along with being human. In accepting the beauty of who we are as individuals, we can learn to love each other without judgement and fear.
Over the past year, Sara has amassed over 13 million streams, through her own projects and collaborations with other artists (Adventure Club, Paris & Simo, Naji). Her debut EP, Foreword, can be streamed on all platforms. The Updates can be found through her Instagram (@iamsaradiamond)
Drawing from a broad base, After Funk's forthcoming LP Santa Barbara nods to R&B, disco, jazz, soul, Latin, and, well, funk. Nothing feels contrived; these myriad modalities are stylistic colors in their compositional palette. Gilding above and grooving in-between it all is the records’ keystone; the velvet, dynamic voice of Yanick Allwood.
Before After Funk, Allwood (who also plays keys), drummer Jaime Rosenberg, guitarist Phil Tessis, and bassist Justin Bontje lived parallel lives steeped in music. Their paths first crossed at the University of Western Ontario. In 2014 they released a self-titled EP and hit the road. Word of their electric live show started to spread, and soon the band was playing alongside Snarky Puppy, Lettuce and more, and gracing the stage at major festivals such as Electric Forest, Harvest Jazz & Blues, and Evolve in Canada.
In 2015 the band released the ‘Til The Sun Comes Up EP, followed by 2017’s FREAK single. In early 2018 After Funk completed their first coast to coast tour of North America. The bulk of Santa Barbara was written, rehearsed, and workshopped in the band’s house on Santa Barbara Road in Toronto.
In addition to the core quartet, the record features performances by: vocalists Kyla Charter (Alessia Cara, July Talk), Stacey Kay, and James Bailey (July Talk), bass clarinetist Jacob Gorzhaltsan (Jack Dejohnette), tenor saxophonist Julian Nalli (Fred Penner), trumpeter Tom Moffett (BadBadNotGood, Arkells), flautist and alto saxophonist Rob Christian, and Cuban percussionist Rosendo “Chendy” Leon (Sultans of String). The record was produced by Jeff Hazin (Yoko Gold) and mixed by Gabe Gallucci (Shawn Mendes).
An imminently engaging, fully-wrought record that takes the listener by the hand and sprints off into a heady journey, Santa Barbara is nuanced, articulate, and profoundly satisfying.
Following the release of his album "Next Level", TeeFLii is back with a brand new single titled "Exit" along with guest features from Knotch & Donye'a G. Produced by JustJosh. Tune in & comment below!
This is a track off Fevra’s debut LP "Villanova Junction" released on the Singapore based label Darker Than Wax.
All vocals written and performed by Joon Jukx.
Produced, mixed & mastered by Fevra.
This is the latest track from South African recording artist Teyar Flow.
New single by Derez De’Shon featuring Mozzy titled “Whaddup Doe”. Tune in below.
Keithian isn’t a name most would recognize, but the next time you hear it, you will. This New Orleans native has written and produced for some of music’s biggest names and was signed to Virgin Records. But after two failed attempts to release music through them, he decided to take control of his own career and give the label system the “bird.”
“Birds,” the first single from Keithian’s upcoming EP “... to my Pain,” comes off the heels of his “Power” EP which was released in 2016. This past summer, Keithian connected with Caribbean producer and keyboardist Oliver Delcros-Sainville during a session working on music for Rhianna. The pair spent a week in the studio and discovered a connection. Out of those sessions was born the beginning of the songs that would make up Keithian’s upcoming EP.
“‘Birds’ was written about me trying to fall in love, but realizing I’m not fully there,” Keithian said. “My heart and mind was on other shit, like hoes and bullshit. I mean, I’m a guy of nature and when I looked at birds at that time in my life, they reminded me of how I should’ve been flying away from bad behaviors and being honest with that someone I was participating in fake love with.”
Keithian fought over the years to stay true to his culture and heritage in his music. Being Cuban and a Jazz musician, the record labels didn’t know what to do with him. They told him it was hard to gain mainstream success in those genres, and were not willing to support his endeavors. So he went back to Louisiana and created an Urban Pop, R&B and Spanish sound that was natural, authentic and felt “damn good” to him.
“Ultimately, I want my music to be known for good vibes, humility, inspiration and truth,” he said. “My soul is a gumbo of music, just like the world we live in. And since I make music for the people, and there’s people of all kinds of taste and stories, I’ll let them choose what music they want from me. The first song I’d like to give them is ‘Birds.’”
Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/0YJVjw2CC9CHmy11opv77e
To listen to Keithian’s music or to follow him on social media, please visit: https://fanlink.to/Keithian
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APPLE MUSIC: https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/keithian/512259168
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Keithian - “Birds” (official single)
SPOTIFY:
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APPLE MUSIC:
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Queens’ own Bobby J From Rockaway cooked up a new banger with producer Statik Selektah on the keys-heavy “Walter White,” a lyrically rich single paying homage to one of TV’s best anti-heroes.
Beyond the clever wordplay and cultural references, what’s most impressive about Bobby’s raps on here is how he pulls in the listener and walks atop Statik’s keys and drums with such a low-key confidence. His bars are sharp throughout his verses, but it’s the way in which he spits them and ramps up his delivery that makes “Walter White” feel so raw.
The track is a follow-up to his August single “Hometown,” which was produced by living rap legend, Kwame. Kwame is also now the head of Make Noise, a boutique record label that, among other projects, is releasing Bobby’s music. The two have been working closely in the studio for years now, so be on the lookout for more from them in the coming months.
“Walter White” is available now through all digital retailers and streaming platforms via Make Noise. Be on the lookout for the visuals dropping soon!
Smart URL: http://smarturl.it/walterwhite
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• Bobby J From Rockaway: https://twitter.com/bobbyjrockaway
• Statik Selektah: https://twitter.com/StatikSelekt
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• Website: https://www.bobbyjfromrockaway.com
• Spotify: http://bit.ly/BobbyJFromRockawaySpotify
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bobbyjfromrockaway
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bobbyjfromrockaway
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/bobbyj
• SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/bobbyjfromrockaway
AWAR is a stalwart soldier of this subculture that was born in the Bronx 45 years ago. Since he arrived on the scene with his underrated debut Glory Days in 2005, this devotee of the drum loop has shown unflinching dedication to fly lyricism and sample-based beats. And you want to talk about prolific? Between 2008-2014 he dropped two EPs, two joint albums (one with Vanderslice and one with iCON), as well as his lauded sophomore Laws of Nature.
AWAR is part of a tight knit faction committed to leading New York Hip-Hop back to dominance. If you’re not familiar with his name, just know he has rapped with the best of them — including Roc Marciano, Evidence, and Freddie Gibbs — and has more than held his own.
Today, AWAR delivers the lead single from his upcoming album, "Spoils of War." The track is titled, “Bricks Like ’86” produced by Vanderslice featuring 2/3 of The Lox, Styles P. and Jadakiss. The single is now available for streaming on all platforms, and is also available on a coke white 7" featuring a non-album cut titled, "The 87 Getback" on the B-Side that is also produced by Vanderslice. It should be obvious from the titles, these companion tracks are a throwback to the Coke era, when the rise of crack first made millionaires out of street hustlers.
AWAR's album, "Spoils of War" is scheduled to release October 26, 2018.
Stream "Bricks Like 86 (feat. Styles P & Jadakiss)" here: http://smarturl.it/brickslike86
Purchase the 7" Vinyl here: https://awar.bandcamp.com
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D-Mobile is a indie artist on his grind. Right now he’s based out of New York. He’s building a network by throwing events in his city. He’s managing a way to create a platform to support other artist brands and the culture. With saying that, his latest release “Hit My Line” is picking up momentum on the blog scene. The beat make different it from most. D-Mobile grabs up Cap Colorado for one unorthodox record. Check it out for yourself below.
Hit My Line, a song by D-Mobile, Cap Colorado on Spotify
