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In the vast panorama of British Blues and Rock scene, constantly moving forward the sound of such genres to new and exciting musical territories, the new EP of the Shropshire-based quartet Rainbreakers called Rise Up fits right in to this concept. The follow-up of their first and very well received debut EP Blood Not Brass is the natural progression of the band's musical evolution, from a songwriting point of view and a sonic one.
Rise Up includes 5 brand new songs channeling sounds of 4 different decades of music altogether. From the soul of the '60s to the blues and R'&B' of the 70's and 80's, right to a 90's garage-rock style. The result is an interesting combustion of rich melodies, bringing back fond memories of the Stax Records period combined with a more aggressive and heavy guitar riffs and wah-wah's usage.
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Veteran rockers, Matt Leitl and Croix Clayton, form Wild Hunt - from Amherst, Massachusetts. Their recently released EP put some smooth vibes into the Pioneer Valley atmosphere, lifting our liberal spirits. Precision harmony vocals and acoustic breeze guitar sets invite you in to deep dream fields. Follow the twisting lyrics to their Band Camp page:
"Wild Hunt are Matt Leitl and Croix Clayton, former guitarist and singer of Minneapolis punk rock and rollers The American Monsters, after which Leitl played with The Young Flyers, (Amherst) and Clayton with Thank You and Bravo Team (Minneapolis). As Wild Hunt, they write psychedelic pop in the tradition of the Velvets, Syd Barrett, Spacemen 3, the Left Banke, Mazzy Star, Beck, and Colin Blunstone."
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Scandinavia is a part of the world that keeps producing music artists of incredible level releasing records of remarkable quality. One of those many great artists is, without a doubt, the Finnish Blues Queen Erja Lyytinen which, at her 10th studio album, releases one of her best and most mature records of her whole career to date.
Stolen Hearts, Lyytinen's new album due to be released on 7th April, reveals new and fascinating sides of the Finnish artist's musical vocabulary. It's a record that digs deep, from a lyrical perspective, into several takes about love, the way in which it is lived, profoundly or irrationaly, wildly or tenderly.
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2015 had been already a very successful year for the British singer/songwriter Sean Taylor, thanks to the big popularity that his album The Only Good Addiction Is Love gave to him in the United Kingdom and many parts of Europe.
The pressure coming by delivering the follow-up of that album must have been a lot to take on board for this young artist but that was not certainly Taylor's case. A highly gifted lyricist, the British Troubadour had already tested with his audience, in the last couple of years and whilst touring, some of the material that he intended to release on his next album but at that time, Taylor had not yet made up his mind about the direction that his sound was going to take on the new record.
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Our website has not, very often, come across to artists of such an age like Quinn Sullivan that, at 17, has got already a decade of intense music activity behind him. Blessed by the cream of the music industry (B.B. King and Buddy Guy, among others) and labelled as the next giant of blues music to come, it must have not been easy to carry such pressure lately for somebody that, although blessed with enormous talent and great experience like Quinn Sullivan, still remains, after all, a seventeen years-old young man.
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German guitarist extraordinaire Michael Schenker must be feeling himself pretty good lately. His latest project Temple Of Rock doing remarkably well and last year’s successful live album have clearly helped to infuse Schenker's musical DNA with a new found enthusiasm, in a career span close to reach 5 decades of hard-rock militancy of the highest level.
Schenker has heavily contributed, through the years, to keep the hard-rock genre alive and kicking through a series of inspired musical projects like Scorpions, UFO, Michael Schenker Group and McAuley Schenker Group, amongst others.
Read more: Michael Schenker Fest Live - Tokyo International Forum Hall A
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A record born as a devoted homage to her mother. This is certainly one of the many ways to look at the Ohio-native Lisa Biales brand new album, called The Beat Of My Heart.
In a career span as a solo artist that started back in 1999, at the time that Biales worked on her first album called Music Box, there were already clear signs back then of the talent and class of the American singer as the next Rising Star in the music industry. Now at her 9th solo album, Biales has not just fulfilled the expectations of critics and music fans as one of the most talented performers worldwide but she has also, through her new record, managed to achieve something that this wonderful artist wanted to do for quite some time. Biales has always secretly loved to merge classic and contemporary styles in her music by making an album made of songs of fellow artists she always loved and respected. The inspiration to finally reach this musical goal came from the finding of a 78-record, a very old album that was recorded in 1947. The album contained a song called Crying Over You, written and performed by her mother, Alberta Roberts, whose vocal delivery sounds nowadays as strong, passionate and vibrant as it was 70 years ago.
