Category: Fresh Tracks Mix

Pacific Radio – “Katie”

Based in the city of Los Angeles, the indie rock quartet, Pacific Radio, deliver a sound that “ranges from rock n roll to West coast ballad,” according to band member Kyle Biane.

Pacific Radio’s new single, “Katie,” is a bright, uplifting romp, highlighted by singer Joe Robinson’s well-honed vocals and the awesome talents of his band members. The second half of the track blossoms into a full blown, infectious celebration.

But Pacific Radio (not to be confused with Pacific Radio radio) is not simply an indie band that creates musical magic in the studio. In fact, the band has been very busy performing shows and touring.

Earlier this year, the band performed four shows at South By Southwest, including for showcases Red Gorilla Fest and the Midcoast Takeover.

Via Soundcloud: “Katie” – Pacific Radio

Joseph Eid -“One and Only” – Exclusive Premiere!

Southern California musician, singer and songwriter Joseph Eid‘s engaging new video, “One and Only,” was filmed on West Hollywood‘s famed Sunset Strip, giving the smooth, alt. folk rock ballad a nice touch against the backdrop of the city in his new video for the track.

Eid says the song itself “is about finding and longing for true love in a place where instant gratification and temporary thrills are the norm,” referring to Hollywood. He adds that the song could also be interpreted as a story about a common experience adults face in life – longing for a special relationship and holding on to it while fighting the temptations of the future.

“It’s the realization and confession that the short term fulfillment of a new thrill or adventure cannot compare to the true and everlasting fulfillment of a love that goes beyond the surface,” he says.

When making the video, Eid and director William Sanford set out to convey use the night lights of the Sunset Strip to convey the emotions and sense of loneliness in the middle of one of the largest cities in the western hemisphere. Brian Soucy co-produced the single.

His influences, not surprisingly, include Bob Dylan, Jackson Browne, Billy Joel, Tom Petty, Fleetwood Mac, Prince and many others. Eid has been performing around the Pacific Northwest for much of the year. He is working on completing the new EP, Watch It Fall.

Joseph Eid official website

Jack Kotz – “Orange Neon Nectar Juice”

Last spring we featured some exciting new tracks from Wilmington, North Carolina musician and ‘one man band’ Jack Kotz‘s debut album, What’s All The Fuss About?.

Kotz has just released his followup to Fuss with his sophomore album, Neon Orange Nectar Juice. For fans of guitar rock, funk inspired beats and rhythms, and psych pop, Neon is a tour de force of high order.

Here is the tantalizing title track, followed by an electrified cover of Jack Johnson, one of Kotz’s musical influences.

Via Soundcloud – “Orange Neon Nectar Juice” – Jack Kotz from Neon Orange Nectar Juice

Via Bandcamp: “Taylor” (Jack Johnson) – Jack Kotz from Neon Orange Nectar Juice

Jack Kotz official website

Aux House – “Antique Radio”

Based out of Grand Rapids, the DIY alternative rock trio, Aux House, offers listeners something more than the regular fare. And yet they manage to appeal to a larger audience with their fun and eclectic brand of alternative rock.

Perhaps founder, guitarist and vocalist of Aux House, Tristan Rudolph, explains it best as a revival of the “Bowian idea of the space-alien rock star.”

The Michigan trio’s debut self titled DIY album release contains a mix of rock and pop punk angst with sci-fi elements, and alt. rock overtones, creating a larger than life sound and stories about girls, cars love and troubles, which are no better demonstrated than on the irresistible “Antique Radio” and the delightful and unusual track, “Aliens Can’t Dance.”

Rudolph said the band’s top musical influences include Sufjan Stevens, Bruce Springsteen, Pavement, Wilco, and Bright Eyes. There’s a nicely suited eclecticism about that selection of artists and bands.

Aux House on Facebook

Kingsley Flood – “To The Wolves”

The Washington DC band Kingsley Flood, sports a gritty, and yet at times, sassy, sound on their new music video for the edgy track, “To The Wolves,” from the new album, Another Other.

The band was founded by Palestinian-American born singer and songwriter Naseem Khuri in 2009, and has won praise for his work from the press, including NPR, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Paste and American Songwriter.

The band has toured nationally, opening for artists like Grace Potter, Lucius, Langhorne Slim, Angus and Julia Stone, and Brett Dennen. They were also invited to perform at the 2011 Newport Folk Festival.

Khuri tackles a number of issues in his music, including the lingering – stoked by presidential candidate Trump – bias against Arab born Americans, who he says, don’t deserve to be treated as “one” – Khuri reminds people that the vast majority of Arabs, or Muslims, are peace-loving, law abiding hard-working members of society.

“At the end of the day, I’m American,” he asserts. “The only Arabic words I know are foods and swears. It’s just that more jarring to somehow always be labeled ‘an other’ when you don’t even see yourself that way.”

Via YouTube: “To The Wolves” – Kingsley Flood from Another Other

Kingsley Flood official website

Pomonasounds – “The Girl (After Midnight)”

As children growing up in London‘s crumbling, post-industrial Southend, the band members of Pomonasounds, know all too well about hard economic and social times and the struggle of the working class in the age of globalism and an increasingly oligarchical world order.

The band’s dark, minimalistic, Velvet Underground-like, lo-fi rock sound, as evident on their premiere debut single, “The Girl (After Midnight),” has a haunting and mysterious allure.

According to PomonaSounds’ guitarist Lee Smith, his band mate, songwriter, guitarist and vocalist Andrew Blake, wrote the song about a broken up relationship that he was having difficulty overcoming.

“For a while he found himself experiencing crippling realistic dreams of her and her presence,” Smith recounts. “So apparently he wrote this song in an effort to combat these dreams, and it worked. The girl after midnight being that of the girl in his dream.”

The other band members, also from the same area of south London, include bassist John Bailey, and a revolving door of drummers recently as the band looks for a permanent replacement.

“The list of our musical Our influences is nearly endless and mainly originate from the punk, new wave, classic rock and the indie/alternative rock scenes, including bands like AC/DC, Jesus & Mary Chain, Nirvana, Joy Division, and The Clash, among others,” according to Smith.

The band named themselves after Alistair McDowall’s play Pomona, in which all roads lead to where journeys end and nightmares begin. Meanwhile, the band continues to work in the studio on their debut EP, expected to drop later this fall, and perform at gigs around London.

Pomonasounds on Soundcloud
Pomonasounds’ official website

Alx Kawakami – “Count From Ten”

Hawaiian songwriter, producer and musician Alex (or ‘Alx’) Kawakami, has overcome many challenges in his life. One of the most profound has been his struggles musically.

As a child, defying the Hawaiian ukulele masters (including Roy Sakuma) he schooled with, Kawakami would return from lessons and practiced by playing ‘upside down.’

As Grammy nominated songwriter and world-renowned pianist, Jim Brickman, recalls: “The first time Alx grabbed a ukulele, he held it left-handed but kept the strings tuned right handed. That was the start of a very upside down journey into the music world.”

After high school, where he continued his musical pursuits, Kawakami left Hawaii for the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he was soon discovered that he was not allowed to move forward in the music program “because he played upside-down and backward,” according to Kawakami. So, he decided to return home to Hawaii and founded the musical project ManoaDNA.

Since then, ManoaDNA has recorded five albums. In the summer of 2014, Kawakami co-produced a cover of the famous Men at Work’s song, “Land Down Under,” which made it onto the Billboard Top 40 list.

As a preteen, Kawakami went on to study with one of his idols, Jake Shimabukuro (became one of the first YouTube sensations in 2007 for his ukulele cover of George Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”), a ukulele virtuoso and composer known for his fast and complex finger work. In the course of his studies, Shimabukuro encouraged Alx to play the ukulele in whichever way made him most comfortable.

Kamakami’s newest single, “Count From Ten,” is from his solo debut album, Rise & Shine, which dropped officially on August 9th.

Via Soundcloud: Listen to Alx Kawakami’s  Rise & Shine

Alx Kamakami on Facebook

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Norwood – “Notes To My Blood”

Based out of Queens, New York, Norwood is an acoustic indie rock band founded and fronted by guitarist and vocalist Chris Norwood. The band’s new single, “Notes To My Blood,” is, according to Norwood, for the ‘middle children of culture.’

“They are the people who are constantly being told what’s cool and how they should think,” he insists. “These songs [on the band’s new release] are for people who take life on a person-by-person basis rather than lumping people into easily marketable groups, cliques, races, social classes, genders…for anyone who feels pinned down by a thousand voices telling them they aren’t good enough for a million bullshit reasons.”

The other band members include Keith Michael Pinault on bass; Max Maples on drums, and Hajnal Pivnick on guitar.

Norwood describes the band’s sound as one “rough and tumble.” He was inspired to pick up a guitar and start writing music after listening to Sublime Acoustic: Bradley Nowell and Friends.

“Music was something outside of everything,” Norwood says. “And the bands I clung to were the bands that couldn’t be clearly defined.”

“Sublime was my first really favorite band,” he says. “They were punk, but not. They were ska, but not. They were even kinda pop sometimes, but definitely not too.” Norwood contends that his mantra became, ‘I am not a genre.’

“That album [Sublime’s Sublime Acoustic] made me want to pick up a guitar and play music,” Norwood says. “That led to all kinds of bands – ska bands, singer-songwriters, classic rock, R&B, and whatever They Might Be Giants would be called.”

Via Bandcamp: Stream Notes To My Blood

Norwood on Facebook

Beth Marlin – “Railroad”

With a background that includes writing and recording children’s’ music (Bethie; Disney TV, Sesame Street Live), San Francisco songwriter, musician and vocalist Beth Marlin turned a new leaf over a decade ago, dedicating herself to folk music in most recent years, with an particularly recent revivalist Americana roots focus, she says.

Marlin’s new EP, Railroad, is an ode to the traditions of the American folk singer of yesterday, as her own special cover of the title track implies.

Marlin is well aware of the history of the song, with its original late 1800’s racist lyrics. In the folk tradition, Marlin explains, it’s not uncommon to take such a song and reconstitute it to preserve the musical aspects of the song – which is a derivative of an African slave spiritual. In the 1880’s, the original spiritual from slaves was taken and corrupted with disgustingly racist lyrics.

Other songs on the four-song EP include “Juliana Valentine” – written for one of the child victims of 9/11 who was on her way to Disneyland when the plane she was on crashed into one of the Twin Towers in NYC, and “Califor-ni-an,” about Marlin’s falling in love with the Golden State when she first arrived there years ago as a young musician.

Marlin is experiencing positive reviews for her new EP, which includes contributions from many LA musicians and artists.

Via Soundcloud – Stream Railroad on Soundcloud

Beth Marlin on Facebook

David Jacobson and the Space Wizards – “8 AM”

With heavy melodies, soaring electric guitars and drum-bass jamming, David Jacobson and The Space Wizards, which is really the one-man band of Jacobson, recently let it hang out on the single, “8 A.M.” from the Brooklyn indie psych rock project’s debut album. The band has opened for other local bands like The Main Squeeze, Foxtrax, Best Behavior, The Magic Beans. Their album was released on July 3rd.

Via Soundcloud – “8AM” – David Jacobson and The Space Wizards

David Jacobson on Facebook

Mr. Thundder – “I’m The Conquering Lion”

Twenty-five-year veteran musician and award-winning Los Angeles songwriter, Mr. Thundder, recently dropped his new single, “I’m The Conquering Lion,” a follow-up to his last EP, With The Love, which was DIY released in 2014. It’s available on Spotify here.

His breakthrough song from the EP was “Rolling Thundder.” He has performed at L.A. venues such as Amplify and Angel City Cafe.

Red Kitchen – “Drummond Heights”

The pop rock of Seattle band Red Kitchen reminds us a lot of The Kinks (circa 1966-1971) when Ray Davies‘ prolific, and genius, songwriting spree produced some of the most beloved and well-known songs in British rock, including “Waterloo Sunset,” “Tired of Waiting,” “Dedicated Follower of Fashion,” “This Time Tomorrow,” and, of course, “Lola.” But Red Kitchen is definitely not The Kinks at the same time – just influenced, directly or indirectly, by the band.

Pacific Northwest musician Matt McClure is the one man band behind Red Kitchen, playing, recording and mixing all of the instruments himself. In 2008, McClure wrote and released the album, The Second Person, an audio novel of sorts that follows the life of an elderly man who lost his wife and ends up in a nursing home suffering from dementia. It’s an interesting listen, that’s for sure, and shows McClure’s ability for creative songwriting and instrumentation, vocals and mixing. The album’s lyrics have an accompanying unpublished novel.

The album features guest spots on vocals by the Swedish front man for The Open Up and Bleeds, Joel Segerstedt, as well as bass and production work by Canadian producer Jonathan Piche. The song “The Flag Makers” was featured on a Silver Jews-related compilation.

The track is really zany, upbeat, melodic and fun. So much so we have played it a number of times. Other standout tracks from his first album include the catchy, hook-filled “Right Subject, Wrong Day,” and the mysterious lo-fi of “Fake Estates,”.

MP3: “Drummond Heights” – Red Kitchen

Bonus: “The Flag Makers” – Red Kitchen from The Second Person

Red Kitchen on Facebook

Beach Gossip – “Stupid Surf Song”

Beach Gossip is a Los Angeles duo founded by songwriter, vocalist, producer and guitarist Nick Coffey earlier this year.

The energetic and angst-filled mix of punk, garage and surf rock on Beach Gossip’s debut single, “Stupid Surf Song,” rings out as a calling to all skateboarders, surfers and other dare devils who like their music fast, hard and raw.

But the song also weaves in elements of pop and has a wicked hook and chorus. It is meant to be lo-fi, rough and a summer anthem for DIY-loving punks.

In fact, “Stupid Surf Song” is almost custom made for any number of skateboard and other thrill sports videos that are fast, daring and dangerous. In fact, there are plans in the works for just such a video.

As a skateboarder and enthusiast growing up on the legendary streets and pool pits made famous in the 1970’s and 80’s by LA’s Z Boys and Bones Brigade, Coffey earned his skateboard creds. In his teens, he broke his neck in a car accident.

The single is the lead advance track from Beach Gossip’s upcoming June release. Coffey recruited drummer Brendan McQueeney in March of 2016. The duo are rehearsing in order to play live shows in the Los Angeles region.

MP3: “Stupid Surf Song” – Beach Gossip

Beach Gossip on Facebook

Navigation Day – “Town”

Leeds indie-rock duo Navigation Day‘s new track, “Town,” is the lead single from the upcoming release of the duo’s debut EP, entitled Mid-Decade Blue, on May 27th. The EP marks the first collaborative venture from songwriters Spencer Bayles and guitarist Tim Hann, despite having contributed to each other’s musical projects over the past few years.

Bayles based the song “Town” on “lyrical snapshots about the constantly changing face of the modern city and how we find our own place within it.” The video for the single captures the scenes of the duo’s adopted town of Leeds. Songs like the title track, “Mid-Decade Blue” and “Formed Into Armour” delve into questions of identity and belonging, asking ‘what you’ve achieved at this middle point of a decade that’s proved turbulent in so many ways?’

Hann previously fronted the alt. rock quartet I Concur, whose debut album, Able Archer, was championed by Radio One’s Huw Stephens, leading to a Maida Vale session and appearances at the Reading and Leeds Festivals. Bayles formerly fronted indie folk bands Last Night’s TV and Low Moor Rising.

MP3: “Town” – Navigation Day from Mid-Decade Blue

Bonus MP3: “Formed Into Armour” – Navigation Day from Mid-Decade Blue

Navigation Day on Facebook

Magi – “Mercy”

Indianapolis musician Magi, aka Terence Smith, has been recording since he was 13 years old and is most influenced by Lupe Fiasco, Flying Lotus and Flo Rida. Magi’s new upbeat single, “Mercy,” is a feel good pop/rap track for spring produced by Da Saintz, and mixed and mastered at Azmyth studios.

MP3: “Mercy” – Magi

Listen to more Magi on Soundcloud

Day Hustle – “Dreams”

The origins of Day Hustle date back to 2012 when musicians Steven Weston and Lisa Hickox met in Boston. After performing throughout New England with the band Rich People Food, the two parted ways. Hickox moved from Brooklyn after receiving a music production degree from Berklee College of Music, while New Hampshire native Weston, stayed in Boston.

After a year apart, the pair reconnected over their love of good old fashioned indie rock and began writing the songs for the EP, sending ideas over the internet, and eventually coming up with a catalog of music. “We united west coast twang with east coast grit, both musically and aesthetically,” Hickox says. Soon after, they began recording in a Brooklyn basement, she says. “It was in this basement, riddled with graffiti, that we made out the words ‘Day’ and ‘Hustle’ in the cluster of illegible tags.”

MP3: “Dreams” – Day Hustle from Day Hustle EP

Day Hustle on Facebook

Ryan Lee – “With A Wolf”

Wisconsin native musician and singer/songwriter Ryan Lee is a musical storyteller, a folky innovator, a guitar-wielding poet; the artistic offspring of Woody Guthrie, Tracy Chapman, Rufus Wainwright, Joni Mitchell and Cat Stevens. And that’s also encompassing his travels around the world, from Thailand to Ojibwa, Wisconsin; writing, performing, teaching, creating and sharing his emotional, captivating songs of the sometimes challenging, frequently joyful, always engaging human experience.

Raised in a Baptist family in Wisconsin, he attended a small Christian school for 13 years with only two students in his graduating class and attended Northwestern College in St. Paul, where he majored in theater and was introduced to the exciting Twin Cities music scene. His new single, “With A Wolf,” is s wicked and well produced track, and thus why it’s on this playlist.

MP3: “With A Wolf” – Ryan Lee

Ryan Lee on Facebook

Night Talks – “Green”

Night Talks is an alternative rock band based in Los Angeles that creates powerful vocals, shimmering guitars, driving bass and drums as expressed on their new single, “Green.” With vocals that are equal parts angelic and razor-tipped, the band might remind you of the first time you stayed in your room all night listening to a record that became special in your life. Members of the band are Soraya Sebghati; Jacob Butler; Josh Arteaga and Cris Arteaga.

MP3: “Green” – Night Talks

Night Talks on Facebook

Lionel Lodge – “All She Wants”

From the culturally rich streets of Vienna, and the fertile highlands of his birthplace of Scotland, comes to the music of songwriter Lionel Lodge. For a number of years, Lodge toured Canada with The Corndogs and built a reputation as a gifted songwriter/musician.

“Over 15 years in Europe my innocence was dragged across and through many countries, many bars and clubs and many festivals and music halls,” Lodge says. His new album, Human Heart, drops officially on May 18th. The lead single, “All She Wants,” should attract some to watch out for the full album drop.

MP3: “All She Wants” – Lionel Lodge from Human Heart

Lionel Lodge on Facebook

Marah in the Mainsail – “The Traveling Man”

“The Traveling Man” is the new single from popular Minneapolis ‘cinematic’ alt. folk band Marah in the Mainsail‘s new debut album, Thaumatrope, just released on vinyl in select U.S. record stores. The band’s sound on the single and album plays to their strengths, featuring an aggressive sound with eclectic instrumentation.

The band has been carving a name for themselves in the midwest United States and beyond with their subtle nod to blues and punk music, played with an eclectic and unique instrumentation.

MP3: “The Traveling Man” – Marah in the Mainsail from Thaumatrope

Marah in the Mainsail on Facebook

Jack Of None – “There Was A Crooked Man”

You almost couldn’t get more further away on planet earth than are the heavily U.S.-influenced capital city of Manila in the Philippines and Chicago. But the experimental art rock project Jack Of None between siblings A.G. Syjuco (songwriter, guitar, bass and synths), Maxine Syjuco (songwriter, vocalist), and Julian Syjuco (guitar) straddles these two locales in the creation of the band’s new album, Who’s Listening to Van Gogh’s Ear? . Here’s the zany track, “There Was A Crooked Man,” from the upcoming drop.

MP3: “There Was A Crooked Man” – Jack of None from Who’s Listening to Van Gogh’s Ear?

Jack of None on Soundcloud

Alice Sweet Alice – “Daredevil”

Longtime Kansas City, Missouri band Alice Sweat Alice grinds out genre-bending music that resists description or categorization – yet sounds intimately familiar. There are definite rock influence with overtones of electronica, jazz, blues and post punk that explode with elements of progressive rock. “Always killer, with no filler,” the band’s motto, is fitting for their newest release.

ASA took a hiatus beginning in 2014 when band leader Scott Martinez traveled to California to care for his father. That experience caused him to rethink ASA’s direction, resulting in a new and impressive nine-song album, Viola Organista and Other Impossible Dreams, which marks a new beginning for the group.

ASA has shared the stage with such notable acts as Collective Soul, Adrenaline Mob, Chuck Mosley (Faith No More), Blameshift, Mushroomhead, Hurt, and are fans of artists and bands like Killing Joke, Cocteau Twins, Bowie, Warpaint, Portishead, Garbage, and Pink Floyd.

Connor Roff – “Turn On The Dark”

British-born, Canadian citizen folk pop artist Connor Roff‘s earthy acoustic tones and well-honed voice come out on his new single, “Turn The Dark On,” the follow up track to his successful release of the title track from Roff’s debut album, Chasing Dreams.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=e3eL6sIynTY

Roff’s well-polished sounds emote deep-seeded feelings and experiences with a voice that demonstrates a wide range, spanning from heartfelt fragility to soaring refrains. He plans to tour the UK this spring. His musical influences includes James Bay and Hozier.

Connor Roff on Facebook

The Bourgeois – “Black Church Or No Church”

Guitarist, singer and songwriter Zach Mobley and drummer Ty Clark grew up in rural Oklahoma where they coped with the oppression of the Bible Belt in different ways. Mobley (guitar/vocals) spent much of his adolescence holed up inside listening to punk rock and plotting his escape, while Clark, who also found solace in music, got caught up in the nation’s growing opiod epidemic.

After a stint in prison, Clark turned his life around, met up with Mobley through an ad, and the two founded their band, The Bourgeois. Recently, bassist Vance Young was added to complete the trio. The guys draw their influences from bands like Nirvana, The Talking Heads, The Smiths and The Violent Femmes.

The video for their first single, “Perverting The American Dream,” was produced by Delo Creative (The Flamling Lips, Broncho) and has racked up more than 200,000 plays. The band is working on their sophomore album expected to drop sometime later this year.

Their new single and video is “Black Church Or No Church” is quite interesting and definitely shows their rock and roll talents and ethos.

Jamie Borrowdale – “I Need Music”

Singer-songwriter Jamie Borrowdale‘s new single, “I Need Music,” opens with a haunting audio scene – howling wind and violins – before the dance beats, funk-inspired rhythms, rock guitars, indie pop elements, scratches and rap sequences jump in and take over for a sonic journey where you might be dancing the whole way. It certainly makes it hard for critics to pigeonhole his genre or target audience.

After gaining recognition from the BBC, Borrowdale has received an enthusiastic reception from fans on his UK tour while making his name increasingly known internationally. He pulls from musical influences that include Led Zeppelin, Plan B and Rudimental.

Jamie Borrowdale on Facebook

Tom Shaner – “Vanessa The Vegan Murderess”

Tom Shaner is a New York musician who just released a new music video for his terrific new single with the awesome title, “Vanessa The Vegan Murderess,” from Shaner’s new release, I Hate To See Your Spirit Fade, produced and mastered by Grammy winner Brian Lucey (The Black Keys, Beck, The Shins, The Arctic Monkeys).

The album was recorded mostly in Williamsburg, with some parts recorded in Ireland and Vermont. His songs range from rockers, ballads, waltzes and cinematic stories. His sound ranges from influences like Leonard Cohen and Radiohead, with deeper music roots in American acoustic and electric blues, Sun Records, the British Invasion, punk, new wave, hip hop, and indie rock.

My Silent Bravery – “Ride With Me” (Nelly)

Boston musician Matthew Wade has been performing as My Silent Bravery for the past 10 years to inspire people with a fun, positive, and uplifting message. Nelly’s “Ride With Me” has always been a fan favorite at MSB live shows so Wade wanted to bring this cover to life and share the good times he has singing this song with all of his fans and anyone else, we assume, that would want to see it.

His new album was produced by Anthony Resta (Collective Soul, Guster, Shawn Mullins) and Warren Huart (Aerosmith, The Fray, Augustana).

My Silent Bravery on Facebook

Justin Sosa – “Again”

Chicago resident Justin Sosa is a young musician who shows some promise. His debut album, Change, features eight tracks in all, including the fantastic, memorable single, “Again.”

MP3: “Again” – Justin Sosa from Change

Sosa just announced a new singles series to include “alternate versions of songs, outtakes, collaborations, covers and just about anything fun and different that I’m working on outside of my albums.”

Justin Sosa on Facebook

The Euphony Machine – “Trial & Error Ravenous”

The Euphony Machine is an example of the sounds that can be produced in ‘The Euphony Room,’ a studio run by musician Mike Smith from Vineland, New Jersey. Along with help from close friends, Smith crafts eclectic, passionate music as found on the interesting single, “Trial & Error Ravenous,” featuring Eric Shorter and Marty Maar.

The Euphony Machine on Facebook

Justin DiFebbo – Skin and Bones

Philadelphia musician Justin DiFebbo‘s sophomore release, Skin and Bones, set to drop next month, is more of the seductive, dreamy music found on his acclaimed debut, Turn Out The Light, Turn On The Stereo.

DiFebbo’s style brings to a festive table the songwriting sensibilities of Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys, the vocal vulnerabilities of Neil Young and the simplistic complexity of artists like Simon and Garfunkel. It is a fitting comparison. His new singles, “Blue Melody” and “Adrift” feature “Good Vibrations”-like organ riffs, The Doors’ style electric piano solos on songs like “Riders On The Storm,” as well as tremolo guitars and booming bass. His vocals, such as on “Adrift,” are soft and yet high pitched.

“Adrift” – Justin DiFebbo from Skin and Bones

DiFebbo definitely is channeling a bygone era when music was more organic and trail-blazing. He also plays with the band Summer Fiction.

https://soundcloud.com/justind/blue-melody