April 12, 2021 | 11:15am ET Editor’s Note: On April 12th, 2011, Foo Fighters put out their seventh album, Wasting Light. At the time, Dave Grohl saw it as a chance for the band to get back to the project’s humble garage roots. Now, a full decade later, Grant Sharples examines just how successful the band were in achieving Grohl’s aim and what the record ultimately meant for the veteran band…
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Elohim and GRiZ just released their first collaboration together, “Bring Me Back,” a pure and uplifting contemporary house effort that melds both artist’s respective styles. “Bring Me Back” dances in a beautifully culminated space as GRiZ and Elohim’s lasting friendship and love for each other’s creative mission shines through. The song is led by Elohim’s gorgeous vocal performance, which melts into the track’s makeup as GRiZ lays down a keyboard…
Get To Know Singer and Songwriter “Monica Ortiz” Get To Know Singer and Songwriter “Monica Ortiz” How did you come by your stage name? It is my name so it was easy. For me, it was just keep it simple. When did you discover your love for your craft and what made you realize you wanted to pursue a career in it? I started singing when I was young.…
Making music can be a completely isolating experience. So isolating, in fact, that it’s easy to forget that what we’re doing is for the benefit of other human beings if we choose to share our work. If you’re a musician who’s been at it for years, you might be tempted to have an “it’s me against the world” or “it’s me and my bandmates against the world” mentality when you…
After a whole lot of teasing and an even longer wait time, Space Jam: A New Legacy finally has a trailer. LeBron James, Bugs Bunny, and the Looney Tunes crew show off their basketball skills in the clip and set the bar high for the anticipated sequel in the process. Watch it below. James will follow in the footsteps of Michael Jordan once again, and this time it’s not just…
Late last year, Spotify expanded access to Spotify Canvas—a feature that lets artists visually brand their tracks with short looping videos. This was great news for every artist who’s keen to increase streaming time and draw listeners in deeper, but you may have noticed that there hasn’t been a whole lot of advice available on HOW to make them. So let’s fix that! Here are the three main methods available…
Vicky Cornell, her lawyer, and a former band manager have all hit back at the remaining members of Soundgarden following the filing of legal papers earlier this week demanding Vicky relinquish the band’s social media and website passwords. The surviving band members claim that Vicky has let Soundgarden’s social media pages fall into disrepair. They said they’ve been locked out of the various social media accounts ever since go-between company…
Exclusive Interview with Award-Winning Songwriter and Artist Erick Duran Manard How did you come by your stage name? Allow me to give some background with the answer. I’m a one-man band, literally. I’m compositional, a studio artist, and not a touring act. I don’t play my music live, since it would be impossible for me to play all instruments simultaneously, and I can’t afford to hire musicians with the…
Pop-rock singer-songwriter and producer Natalie Joly released the brand-new single/music video for “Yours to Stay” not long ago, the third single from her forthcoming full-length LP. A potent ballad, “Yours to Stay” narrates the delicate fragility of love – what might have been and what is. “Why, would you let it go to waste? / Instead of telling the world I’m yours, and yours to… / Stay, I will…
Next week, Consequence of Sound is relaunching as Consequence with a fresh rebrand and newly designed website. In celebration, Consequence is presenting a two-day “Protect Live Music” livestream benefiting independent music venues in their ongoing recovery efforts. Consequence of Sound was founded in 2007 with a focus on live music. Much has changed in the decade and a half since, but Consequence’s passion for live music remains as strong as ever.…
