The name Cranky George immediately brings a certain picture into your mind, more specifically the word cranky. I wouldn't let that throw you off in regards to the band with the name though.
Cranky George the band has a debut album out titled Fat Lot of Good. And indeed it is! A double album is a lot of music.
The featured track here is the marvelous "Nighttime." This is a great introduction to a tight band with good vocals and harmonies that knows how to play their instruments. Because of those basic tenets to success they are able to shape and mold songs of different flavors for a listener.
"Nighttime" is a perfect example of rock, pop and torch combined to show off their skills. Check out the stream and video and I think you will agree this is a band that has it going on!
The genesis of Cranky George dates back to 1989, when James Fearnley (accordion-player and founder-member of London/Irish band The Pogues) met, first, Dermot Mulroney (renowned actor, star and co-star of ‘The Family Stone’, ‘The Wedding Date’ and ‘About Schmidt’), and then Dermot’s brother, Kieran (erstwhile actor in ‘From The Earth To The Moon’ and ‘The Spitfire Grill’, now writer and director) on film locations in Colorado and Virginia...READ MORE...
India (lead vocalist), B. Rhyan (guitars) and Ivica (orchestrations) are the Astronauts of Antiquity (AOA).
"Future Back" is a step into the present day from a musical time machine made up of pop, rock and electronica sounds. India's even tempered and effective vocals float over the sounds creating digital pleasure.
Those who enjoy electronica or dance music will love this and listeners who like to turn on their radio to hear all the current pop hits will enjoy it as well. Give it your ear and see for yourself!
Fronted by the exquisitely articulated and cloud-penetrating vocals of the group’s NYC transplant and co-founder, India, the musical collective is propelled by the inventive guitars of B. Rhyan and orchestrated by the trio’s resident sonic wizard and programmer, Ivica ...READ MORE...
Hennie Bekker is an award winning artist with numerous recordings to his credit. His most recent release Beyond Dreams brings you Brain Entrainment and Relaxation Music. No, that is not a typo! Entrainment is the practice of entraining one's brainwaves to a desired frequency.
Bekker presents the desired frequency with the featured track here titled "Letting Go." The accompanying visual is purposely basic for a focus point, which is traveling through space. The music is beautiful and trance like. Bekker's piano is graceful and it expresses the feeling of floating away. All you have to do is listen and watch the video.
Hennie Bekker is an award winning, multi-platinum selling musician whose eclectic career spans decades, continents, generations and genres. Best known for his New Age sound on the Solitudes, Kaleidoscopes and Hennie Bekker's Tranquility album series, he was also a creative force behind BKS, one of Canada’s most successful techno/dance bands. READ MORE...
Cody Webb enters the country music scene with a lot of energy and charisma. His self titled EP says it all and when you hear his single "More Than A Little," it sounds like a polished professional stepping out from Nashville ready to take on this big world.
Watch out ladies, if those big pearly whites don't grab you his voice will. Cody's voice is spot on and clear concise country without a doubt and it's all radio ready.
Check out Cody Webb's country music it will make you smile and want to take a cruise down the nearest dirt road and breath in the country air.
Singer, songwriter, musician, and touring artist Cody Webb has played hundreds of dates across the East Coast, Midwest and beyond, earning thousands of fans with his expressive tenor and deft guitar work. Recently relocated to Nashville from his native South Carolina, he’s finishing work on his debut EP and has assembled a team of top music business pros for his first push onto the national scene...READ MORE
Angie and the Deserters will steal your heart and soul with their new EP Blood Like Wine.
The featured track here is "The Gift" and man is it ever a knockout punch! Angie's voice is sexy and emotive but it has just enough grit to make sure her point gets across with some impact.
The guitar playing really resonates and seems to bounce off the walls while Angie wails "I will cry for you, I will die for you."
Pure emotion with great alternative country is the right combination for this band. Check out this track, I guarantee it will satisfy and have you looking for more.
Born in Upstate NY in a small town called Potsdam in what many refer to as the North Country, singer-songwriter Angie Bruyere spent her childhood running through the backwoods and roaming the train tracks, living the simple life that inspires imaginations of which lyrics and melodies are made. Settling in Southern California at a young age, Bruyere began a modeling career that took her on a journey around the world...experiences that can be felt throughout many of her songs. Pen and paper always in hand, she began writing poetry and playing her guitar, lending itself naturally to combining her two passions into what has become a body of musical work that she continues grow daily...READ MORE...
The Ann Wilson Thing #2 was released on August 12th. The second installment of classic rock covers takes some of the best songs you have heard over the years and gives it that Ann Wilson stamp.
Her name is synonymous in the world of rock and she continues to record quality music with Heart and her solo work is exemplary as well.
"Don't Give Up" is a classic tune from Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush however as the track begins she lets the crowd now she will be covering both parts which is not difficult for a Gemini.
It is a heartfelt effort that is given its due by Ms. Wilson and it goes without saying that the musicianship is excellent as well. I can say that I have always enjoyed her music and this is yet another one to add to the list.
As a songwriter and lyricist, she has created a truly impressive body of work ("Crazy on You," "Barracuda," "Magic Man," "Dog & Butterfly," "Straight On", "Even it Up," "Mistral Wind," and many, many more). However, her greatest gift, and first "calling" is singing. Her voice is considered to be among the best ever, with its vast range, amazing power and sheer musicality. It has inspired legions of great singers, across every genre of music. Witness the number of times "Alone" has been performed on American Idol! READ MORE...
Bill Wren creates an "Enchanted Kingdom" on his new release Road to Chiang Mai. The track is a new age and world trek through the great mountains in Asia. The music gets as wondrous as the challenging hike to the top of the magnificent Mt. Everest and the music consuming your body and soul, pushing you the one additional step on your journey towards the clouds.
World instruments combined with new age textures and orchestrations make this anexciting musical journey.
I felt the emotion and beauty of nature come over me while listening to this superb music! Stream it now and feel the music.
All of my life I have loved the magic and mystery that music creates. At times, I have been so entranced in beautiful melodies that my imagination runs wild. And it is only then that the muses in my mind paint and display a perfect tapestry, a musical picture, and display it before my eyes. One Day in a Life was meant to take the listener on this same type of journey. Sure, the album reveals the feelings and events of my own life. However, more importantly, it causes one to ponder their unique journey in life...READ MORE...
Charles Wright is "Looking For An Ugly Woman" so he can get some respect and keep his money!
Yes Charles is back with his sense of humor intact and his own special brand of vocal delivery and funk and R&B to get your body in motion and the laughs rolling.
Of course many beautiful woman are featured in the video and he never does find that ugly one to take the place of the doll causing him so much grief.
Good funky music with a great storyline is what Charles provides again. He always seems to come through.
Check the stream and the video, a double shot for ya all!
Charles Wright was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi, where he grew up and was musically inclined by playing the guitar and singing in several doo-wop groups including, “The Twilighters, “The Shield” and “The Gallahads”. Wright briefly worked as A&R Director for Del-Fi Records and was responsible for the "Hit" recording of "Those Oldies But Goodies" (“Remind me of you”) by Little Caesar and the Romans in 1961. By 1964, Wright formed his own band called Charles Wright & the Wright Sounds which included, John Raynford, along with Daryl Dragon, "Captain" of Captain & Tennille.READ MORE...
Project Grand Slam has a new album out titled The Queen's Carnival. One of the classic cover tracks is The Kinks "You Really Got Me" featuring the expressive sultry vocals of Lucy Woodward.
The track starts off with their jazz influences making it sound like it was their own song and then a razor's edge guitar enters giving it that definitive rock influence. With that element it still sounds like their own creation giving you no indication of the original with the exception of the lyrics.
For this listener that is what makes a good cover tune great! I appreciate jazz rock fusion as well so that helps if you have an ear bent for that genre. So turn it on and give it a listen.
Project Grand Slam is an acclaimed jazz rock fusion band, led by bassist/leader/composer Robert Miller, combining the power and beat of rock with the complexity and improvisation of jazz, with a jam band sensibility. The band plays Robert’s original compositions plus selected unique covers of classic rock songs that Robert has reimagined...READ MORE
Peter Sterling's new release Sacred Visions is filled with instrumental music featuring his harp and many other sounds. "Eclipse" is one of the album highlights. It is a beautiful track accompanied by male and female vocalizations. There is also some saxophone intermingled in the mix towards the end of the track.
The colorful cover is a hint at what the intent is. It is about relaxation, centering and meditation. What is pleasant to the ears can be healing for the body.
Have listen the stream now and let it carry you away....
Musical artists come to their recording careers in lots of ways, many of them rather typical, e.g. listening to music as a teen, joining or forming bands, hearing a particularly influential album, and then setting off to find fame and fortune. Peter Sterling's journey to where he is now, as one of New Age music's premier harp players, was less conventional. Propelled by equal parts happenstance, serendipity, and spiritual epiphany, the tale of how he arrived at his current place in life would make quite a movie, although some would no doubt state "Now THAT would never happen in real life!" However, they would be wrong...READ MORE
Sounds of the earth and meditation for the soul comes to mind with the music. Al Jewer and Andy Mitran and their recent release Transmigration...a journey with friends is instrumental bliss.
The feature here is the title track. And you get a good taste of their relaxing sounds that are both worldly and new age wrapped into one nice package. Flutes, sitars, drums, female vocals and more merge to form musical beauty.
This album speaks of a journey that these very special people are taking with us. It is a journey that starts with a simple introduction that leads to a conversation and ends with the metamorphosis of that conversation into a formless beautiful piece of music that contains elements of us all. This CD has been about two years in the making and includes a rare and awesome group of collaborators and friends. They are among our most admired artists and composers and we are thrilled beyond belief to have worked with them to bring you this album.
Jazz collective Sasha’s Bloc has earned the best reviews of their burgeoning career via coverage of their new CD ‘Heart On Fire’ and recent LA concerts. The band, conceived by bassist Alex Gershman and featuring guest vocalists Jane Monheit and Alvin Chea, evokes the Big Band Jazz Sound of the 1920s-40s: “Gershman and his Sasha’s Bloc serve as a reminder of the reason we fell in love with jazz in the first place. It makes you feel nostalgic and free.”
Alexi Musnitsky's debut album Zia features many memorable piano based tracks. "Dream Catcher" is one track, which is the closer for the album, that runs for over seven minutes.
His grace and flow on the keys are focused and determined on the track. It is a perfect example of how one instrument can pull you into another dimension.
I had the pleasure of covering the entire album however it is interesting to zone in on one track to recognize the talent of an artist. Alexi has a bright future ahead. Have a listen to "Dream Catcher" now.
Alexi was born in New Mexico and spent most of his life in Paris, France. He has been playing piano since the age of 4, trained as a classical pianist in the Russian style by Marina Ravor and won a first prize at the Flame International Piano Competition. Playing for others started as a young child in Paris, Catalonia and Amsterdam. Alexi began composing his own music in 2013.
Rachel Sage's most recent release Choreographic was released at the end of April this year. Among some of the more catchy and attractive cuts was "Try, Try, Try." I am familiar with her work and have enjoyed it in the past and this one track is so energetic and unforgettable that you will want to hear a lot more than just one time.
There are snappy hook fills from the six string and a violin to give it an Americana edge. When all is said and done it turns out to be a marvelous combination of pop and rock. Give it a listen and leave your thoughts! Keith "MuzikMan" Hannaleck
Rachael Sage is an American singer-songwriter and producer, visual artist, and founded her own record label at the dawn of her musical career. As a youth, Sage dabbled in a variety of the arts, from dance to poetry, but it is as a musician that she is best known. Sage has shared stages with A Great Big World, Semi Precious Weapons, Sarah McLachlan, Judy Collins, Marc Cohn, The Animals, Jamie Cullum, and Ani DiFranco, and was named one of the Top 100 Independent Artists of the Past 15 Years by Performing Songwriter magazine. Her performances combine music with musicianship with between-song banter, which The New York Times dubbed Sage's "inner Fanny Brice", and "Jewish Norah Jones"—even going so far as to call her a comedian.
Ashley J looks and sounds like a pop diva in the making in her photos and with the latest single "Dare Ya." The track is a high energy blast of pop magic and the ladies voice has the power to make it all happen. The consistent beat supported by a thumping bass and dance like beat helps the vocalist get her word across to listener.
Ashley J sounds just as good as any other popular artist you will hear in the pop genre on the radio or internet stations across the globe so check her out now.
Ready and eager to soar through air waves across the globe with her infectious new single “Dare Ya”, Ashley J brings a fascinatingly diverse background, artistically, musically and otherwise, to her emergence into the pop-world. ...READ MORE...
Hearts are stolen and "Hearts Collide" with the young rising talent of the beautiful Lexxica.
The songbird gets it all together with pulsating beats and alluring vocals.
If you enjoy dance, electronica or dub step you will find your happy zone with the music of Lexxica. Of course if you enjoy looking at a lady that is easy on the eyes that puts the icing on the cake as they say. Lexxica has it all going on! Keith "MuzikMan" Hannaleck
Set to release her follow up EP this spring, Lexxica enchants her audience with her riveting hooks and free spirit. Lexxica’s productions cross a wide range of EDM styles -- house, indie-dance, electro, and dubstep. A significant new talent, Lexxica owns her unique and expressive individual style. ...READ MORE...
"January" is Jonathan Cavier's first solo released single off his upcoming album Premier expected in June this year. Cavier's hook filled pop and folk catch your ear and his easy going delivery makes it all the more appealing for the story he is telling.
The title obviously indicates the first month of the year but that is not what the song is about. It happens to be about a beautiful young lady that steals his heart.
If you listen to the stream you come to realize this and then it really comes to life when you watch the video. That is why I have provided the stream and the video for you to check out.
Phoenix-based singer-songwriter and pop performer Jonathan Cavier is no stranger to writing catchy tunes that blend wide-ranging influences into a multi-faceted yet cohesive sound.
Originally from Northern California, Cavier (“cav-AIR”) moved to Phoenix, AZ where he performed as Alan Clark in the atmospheric pop duo, EyeTalk. Over the course of 10 years and five albums, this venture saw their music reach international audiences in Italy, the UK, and Australia. After five albums and hundreds of shows played throughout the US, Alan Clark reintroduces himself under the pseudonym Jonathan Cavier. Cavier re-forms his musical identity on his debut solo album, Premier. In addition to his musical endeavors, Cavier is a semi-professional tennis player and a member of the USTA and IFT. Cavier says practicing and playing in tournaments is “the fountain of youth.” ..READ MORE..
RJ Comer's music and vocals have a way of grabbing you without fail. He has the look of an old soul, someone that has lived the songs that he sings.
A good example of that thought is "The Moon Ain't Fallen on Me Yet" from his Nightly Suicide album. The music is dark and mesmerizing and the message hits home. He is saying that regardless of the late night rolls of the dice in whatever frame of reference one can think of, the bright globe above has not fallen down and extinguished his love of the night and taking risks.
One listen pulls you right in so check out the video now. Keith "MuzikMan" Hannaleck
RJ Comer is a Los Angeles city boy and storyteller with the backwaters of Americana and Blues running through his veins. He started out singing
in church and around the campfire, but ended up in a lot of bad places at wrong times. RJ’s music reflects the witty, gritty, tender and tough guy he is. From downtempo gritty songs that cut deep with self-deprecating humor and jagged memories to upbeat songs that swagger even when they swing, RJ’s music is both meaningful and entertaining...READ MORE...
Thanks to the Free Music Archive I discovered this wonderful music from Russia - Check Out Pianochocolate and their recent release Blueberry now.
Keith "MuzikMan" Hannaleck
Pianochocolate is an electronical musical project created in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, in 2008. Pianochocolate is an amazing combination of classical piano music, ambient electro rhythms and chocolate delights bringing the feeling of amorousness and tenderness. The project was created for those who try to escape from big city life with its vanity and fuss and sink into a world of sweet dreams and pacification. In its new album Lilac Pianochocolate presents the new material that is more mature and wise, telling us about the things important for each ofus with no words. Senses and emotions are the instruments making us feel better with the first few sounds of Pianochocolate music. It grows with its listeners, filling itself with new thoughts, visions and tints, giving us joy and happiness. READ MORE
