Tiny Habits is an American folk-pop group formed in Boston in 2022. The trio consists of Berklee College of Music students Cinya Khan and Maya Rae and alumnus Judah Mayowa.[1] Their first EP, Tiny Things, was released in April 2023. Their debut album All For Something was released May 24th, 2024.[2]
After a few months of hibernation/renewal JOHN DOWLER’S VANITY PROJECT emerges to play a series of shows over the next six weeks. They have been variously described as “power pop with a hard edge” “purveyors of the hard jangle” and “jangly guitars with a passionate beat and allusions to something half forgotten”. Playing selections from their acclaimed albums SPLENDID ISOLATION (2016) and 12 STITCHES (2021), the band will also preview some new songs destined for release later in the year. There’ll also be a few choice covers to complete two sets that will astonish and delight.. JD’sVP: Justin Bowd, Julien Chick, John Dowler, Mark McCartney & Michael Stranges
Jack Gray (born 23 June 1998) is an Australian singer and songwriter. Gray gained recognition with the release of his first single in 2017 titled ‘Red Rental Car'.
Gray started his career in 2017 with the release of his debut song ‘Red Rental Car’ which gained him mass recognition as an up-and-coming indie artist. Another one of his songs that gained mass acclaim was ‘My Hands’ that conceptualized the idea of sexual benefits outweighing unhealthy relationships. Jack Gray has also been featured on tour in the US, UK and Europe with Dean Lewis.
In July 2022, Jack Gray toured Australia and New Zealand with Canadian pop sensation Tate McRae in Perth, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Auckland, with all shows sold out.
Houston native David Anthony Burke, aka d4vd, started posting videos of himself playing the video game Fortnite while still in his teens. In 2021, after teaching himself how to make his own music on BandLab, he also began posting his own music, including laid-back indie pop productions like "You and I," "Life's a Dream," and "Take Me to the Sun." In July 2022, he uploaded the darker, more emo-influenced production, "Romantic Homicide." The song went viral and by that September had peaked at number 33 on the Billboard Hot 100, leading to a deal with Darkroom Records. Several more singles preceded d4vd's full-length debut, Petals to Thorns, in 2023.
Sesame Girl, the four-piece group from Australia, has been gaining traction on streaming platforms in just the last couple of weeks, reaching over 20,000 plays on Spotify and finding themselves a spot on the “Fresh Finds” playlist.
“Get Up” sports upbeat instrumentals and guitar riffs that could seamlessly double as the instrumentals in a song by The Cure. And like the 80’s new wave band, Sesame Girl is able to make both sadness and joy sound hauntingly beautiful. The song’s lyrics touch on feelings of getting older, dealing with mental health struggles, and teenage emotions. The soft and gentle voice of band member Heather Duncan adds to the song’s hazy, dreamlike feel, while the rest of the band, comprised of Blake Bashfield, Angus Higuma, and Yasmine Hossei, develops the delicately passionate ambience alongside her.
The band has released a stunning music video to accompany this debut release. It reflects the many iterations of ourselves that we try on as we grow up, hoping to fit in or stand out at some point along the way, doing a great job at amplifying the emotions they intended to convey on the track. In the coming months, the band looks forward to releasing new songs from their upcoming debut EP, so be sure to keep an ear out for more dreamy hits from Sesame Girl soon.
Lonnie Holley (born 1950; Birmingham, Alabama)
Since 1979, Holley has devoted his life to the practice of improvisational creativity. His art and music, born out of struggle, hardship, but perhaps more importantly, out of furious curiosity and biological necessity, has manifested itself in drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, performance, music, and filmmaking. Holley’s sculptures are constructed from found materials in the oldest tradition of African American sculpture. Objects, already imbued with cultural and artistic metaphor, are combined into narrative sculptures that commemorate places, people, and events. His work is now in collections of major museums throughout the world (The Museums of Fine Arts, San Francisco; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Smithsonian American Art Museum; The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and many others), on permanent display in the United Nations, and been displayed in the White House Rose Garden.
Holley did not start making and performing music in a studio nor does his creative process mirror that of the typical musician. His music and lyrics are improvised on the spot and morph and evolve with every event, concert, and recording. In Holley’s original art environment, he would construct and deconstruct his visual works, repurposing their elements for new pieces. This often led to the transfer of individual narratives into the new work creating a cumulative composite image that has depth and purpose beyond its original singular meaning. The layers of sound in Holley’s music, likewise, are the result of decades of evolving experimentation.
Holley has released five critically acclaimed albums––Just Before Music, 2012; Keeping a Record of It, 2013; MITH, 2018; National Freedom, 2020; Broken Mirror: A Selfie Reflection (with Matthew E. White), 2021. His sixth album, Oh Me Oh My, produced by Jacknife Lee, which includes collaborations with Bon Iver, Michael Stipe (REM), Moor Mother, Sharon Van Etten, and Rokia Koné, comes out March 10, 2023, on Jagjaguwar.
He has toured extensively throughout the United States, Europe, Brazil, Australia, and New Zealand, and shared stages with Bon Iver, Animal Collective, Deerhunter, Bill Callahan, Saul Williams, Tinariwen, Daniel Lanois, and many others.
He has also experimented with film, photography, and video throughout his career. His directorial debut, the short narrative film I Snuck Off the Slave Ship, premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.
The 2023 podcast, Unreformed: The Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children, follows the history of the infamous reform school in Alabama (which many refer to as a “slave camp for kids”) and profiles Holley’s early life and the struggles he and so many others suffered at the hands of the state of Alabama.
In 2022 Holley was named a USA Artist Fellow. His visual art is represented by Blum & Poe Gallery (Los Angeles) and Edel Assanti Gallery (London). He continues to make art and music from his home and studio in Atlanta, Georgia.
Major Bummer woke up one evening and decided to place an ad in the Musicians Wanted section of their local guitar shop. It read: “Own gear own transporting no time-wasting band require member(s) to create grand musical project kinda like The Replacements playing Wilco's Being There with Malkmus and Mascis replacing Nels and the other guy while Beach Boys overdub harmonies from their death beds via Skype.” Over the course of a year they received no replies; all 28 tear-off tabs (with landline phone number) remained attached. So they decided to go another way, and just asked their guitar playing friends to join. With world peace, universal harmony and first contact with extra-terrestrials at stake, particular special care was taken on Party Time to get the Guitar Solo / Chorus ratio just right, all the while building intergalactic yet microscopic layers of resonating transmissions that can be sent into space with ease and still sound OK on the white headphones you get free with your ...
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