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London's 4am Kru keep their 2021 momentum up with fierce jungle banger Good Time. 4am Kru's 10th release in less than a year (with plenty more to come) Good Time is a nostalgic rollercoaster ride - authentic both in sound & spirit - paying homage to the 90s UK rave scene. Good Time is poised to make waves with fans, as the seminal genre continues it's resurgence into the 2020s.

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American composer, pianist and violist, Sharon Ruchman, announces the launch of “Simply SONORO,” the first album she composed for SONORO, a musical ensemble reflecting a combination of classically trained musicians juxtaposed with those steeped in Latin, jazz, and blues. Rooted in classical with a combination of 10 original tracks, the versatile album defies genre, displaying a multitude of layers filled with colors, tones, textures and rhythms.

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Artist shared few words about song inspiration:
"I wrote this song while walking with my niece and nephew at my grandparents beautiful home and realizing that now 4 generations of my family will have memories of this house."

Dylan Landau

“Combining folk roots with musical theater storytelling, Canadian-American newcomer Dylan Landau is a breath of fresh air in the female singer/songwriter scene. Her songs are fresh, honest, simple, poetic.”

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“Parallel Parking” has accumulated over 1.7M streams on Spotify to date and has already been featured in multiple editorial playlists to date: Fresh Finds, Fresh Finds: Pop, Front Left, Good Vibes, New Music Friday, Pop Sauce, softly, Summer Chillout, Varsity Bars, and young & free as well as charted on the Viral 50 – Australia and Viral 50 – New Zealand Spotify charts. The track has accumulated over 5.5M plays across 2.4K videos on TikTok since its release on January 21st, 2021.

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“While ‘Parallel Parking’ is undoubtedly a love story, I also wanted to express my gratitude for everything I have going well in my life and hopefully emit and spread positivity through my music.”

-Arden Jones

“Parallel Parking”

On the surface, the upbeat car-themed track perfectly captures the feeling of infatuation and excitement in a new potential love interest and budding relationship, but beyond the lyrics, Arden aims to spread positivity through his illuminating outlook on life and undeniably infectious energy.

The music video offers a new perspective to the narrative, with Arden playing the seemingly unimportant and background role of a golf caddy while his love interest clearly isn’t being treated right. The vibrant visual accompaniment offers a triumphant, happy resolve and a pleasantly surprising role reversal, ending with the love interest handing him his car keys instead as they happily walk off into the sunset together.

BIOGRAPHY

Meet Arden Jones, the 19 year old Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter and rapper. The Bay Area area native grew up around a multitude of seasoned musicians and listening to hip-hop on heavy rotation. Jones cultivated his musical talents while singing for various bands, which inevitably led to his impassioned pursuit of recording music at the young age of 16. Shortly after moving to Los Angeles for college, he dropped out to pursue music full-time once he signed with management. Jones combines his youthful vocals with keys and guitar, focusing on bringing a new and modern take to music, while keeping it something your mom and dad would still bump.

Arden considers Mac Miller and Rex Orange County to be significant influences on his musical style and strives to capture the feel-good sound of indie music and bedroom pop, all the while cultivating his own sonic landscape.

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Artist shared few words about this song with our magazine:

"This music was composed long time ago, in 2013. The inspiration started during a snowing night in Belgium, while returning from a very good jazz concert in Leuven (Bollani and others). I was inspired by some notes I heard during a performance and I kept them in my mind. During the night I started to compose and then it took some months to complete the entire piece. In the meanwhile, while trying to finalize the music, I was impressed by the news coming from Istanbul, namely because of the people protesting against the destruction of the Gezi Park, with the following brutal repression by the State security. The entire event let me think about how things evolve in life, and how everything is unpredictable at the end. "

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Innocenzo Genna, called also Inno, has always lived music in multiple dimensions: as a musician, firstly performer and entertainer, and then composer, but also as a technology scholar. His interest in music is not only artistic and emotional, but also professional, because for years Inno has been working in the Internet and technology sector as a lawyer and policy expert, so as to be involved in the major political debates concerning music and technology: from P2P to online piracy, from online platforms to the liberalization of collecting societies, up to the recent European copyright reform.

Such an intense professional activity enriched Inno’s musical vocation, while adapting his classical practice with modern and pop piano, blues and jazz, so as arranging the various genres into a personal compositional style. The many trips in Italy and abroad have contributed to creating the context of images, memories and fantasies from which his compositions are born.

In 2007 Inno settled in Brussels where it found new creative inspiration through the contact with the dynamism and the international ésprit of both capital city and European institutions, the creative Belgian surrealism, and also because of the rainy and melancholy climate of the place. In 2016 he completed his first collection of piano compositions "Brussels Stories", while a second CD is scheduled to be released in 2020.

The piano compositions of Innocenzo Genna fall within the categories of minimalism and modern classic, with frequent combinations into blues and jazz. He is similarly conservative as a composer, for his music drawing heavily on harmonic and melodic practices found in 18th and 19th-century European compositions. His repertoire is freely accessible through his website and social networks such as Youtube and Soundcloud, while being available also on streaming platforms such as Spotify and Deezer.

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a Greek Latin bossa nova song

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Artist said about this song:
"Penniless is a short and sweet, poetic like song about the love of my life and is a quick and consice representation of the feelings I have for her."

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The Rose Petals, fronted by songwriting partners Peter Donovan and Elijah Ocean, take off their rose-colored glasses in favor of a historical lens on the folk rock "Military Man," the latest release from the band's debut album American Grenadine.

Donovan says the song was written about the Eisenhower era and the false notion that there was ever a time when everyone was living the good life.

"American Grenadine is an album about American legends and tall tales, specifically those involving our Presidents and First Ladies. Most of these stories are inspired by actual events. But, over time, the details become tailored and exaggerated to the point of mythology - their subjects commemorated as our de facto American gods," says Donavan. "'Military Man' was written about General Dwight D. Eisenhower and the myth of the 1950s. The Eisenhower era is often remembered as a time of great prosperity. But in reality, not everybody was enjoying the good life. One in four Americans was living in poverty. However, after fleeing to the suburbs (via a brand new Interstate Highway System), the flourishing middle class was able to largely ignore the growing urban decay. Today, we usually think about the picket fences and the two-car garages. We wax poetic about the 'good old days.' We find the past much easier to digest through rose-colored glasses."

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American Grenadine, the debut record from Los Angeles pop-rock band The Rose Petals, has been over a dozen years and thousands of miles in the making. The group’s songwriting duo, Peter Donovan (All the Real Girls) and Elijah Ocean (Rolling Stone named his 2018 single, “Down This Road,” one of its top 10 best country and Americana songs of the week) first met in 2008, but it wasn’t until Donovan embarked on a cross-country tour of U.S. Presidents’ graves in 2016 that The Rose Petals came to fruition. On that trip, Donovan and Ocean wrote over 20 songs, 11 of which comprise the group’s debut record, American Grenadine. Using jangly guitars, sparkly tambourines, and tantalizing harmonies, the album tells the unseen stories of 11 U.S. presidents and their wives, from Warren G. Harding’s postmortem scandals (“The Kids All Sent Their Pennies”) to Dolley Madison saving irreplaceable valuables like a copy of the Declaration of Independence and a painting of George Washington when the British came to attack the White House (“Chesapeake Leopard”). Far from a political statement, though, the songs on American Grenadine are not intended to be a celebration or an admonishment of their subjects. They’re stories about life, love, power, and death. They’re snapshots of threads in the American tapestry, as seen through the eyes of our very fallible American presidents. Ultimately, American Grenadine, through crisp layers of guitar and emotive vocal lines reminiscent of both R.E.M. and Gin Blossoms, proves that these powerful men — these seeming American gods — were just as imperfectly human as the rest of us

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You & I was written about the battle we often feel within ourselves, those unrelenting anxieties that can feel so alien and confusing to who we really are. It lives inside a part of your mind you don’t really understand, that doesn’t serve to help you in any way but thrives on making itself known at the most inconvenient of times, without invitation. This song is about facing that voice in your head, calling it out and realising that it does not define or control you, and knowing that you can break free from it.

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GOLDHOPE are an ethereal alt-pop duo from North London comprising of members Zelah Van-Gowler and Elliot Neale. Encapsulating a distinctive blend of moody, raw and electronic soundscapes with soulful vocals and a focus on sultry, introspective lyrics, there is an all-encompassing range of human emotion and feeling to be found within the music. Prominent influences include BANKS, London Grammar and Sharon Van Etten.

The pair met whilst studying at university, with Zelah a keen writer and solo artist, and Elliot a budding lead guitarist and producer, and, having experimented with different sounds and projects of their own over the years, including their previous joint project under the name ZELAH, the two are now further refining their identity as collaborative artists in 2021 under their new name GOLDHOPE.

They are set to kickstart the year with their sophomore EP ‘Divided’ due for release in May, in the hope to build upon their previous successes in 2020 which saw them support Asgier at Shepherds Bush Empire back in February, and their debut EP ‘I’ receiving pick up from BBC Introducing in Cambridgeshire, CLASH mag and Spotify’s Alt.Pop and New Pop UK playlists.

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Sophie Hutchings is an Australian composer who flourishes in an outdoor lifestyle. She embraces and thrives in both the calm and sometimes chaotic aspects of nature. Sophie is slowly working towards the release of her Love & Keep EP. The EP brings tranquillity into an uncertain space and looks at the value life and friendships can bring no matter what you are facing. The two segments released so far came in the form of the softly nostalgic injection, Elysian Days and Not Alone. Both hold similar qualities of appreciation and connection. The third injection, also named Love & Keep, nods in solidarity to world sleep day. As an insomniac, Sophie embraces the calm that her music expresses. As she’s learnt more and more about her insomnia, Sophie utilise this routine it to aid her nighttime rituals.

"I guess it's just allowing time to contemplate, reflect and breathe, to free us of extra anxiety to what has already been brought upon us and to not feel alone in that"

Instead of leaning towards the (arguably) traditional outlets of a teenager, Sophie grew up drawing on the mindful, meditative benefits of the ocean and the environment around her. It came naturally to Sophie to weave elements of this medicinal effect through her work. When Sophie wasn’t riding the waves, or absorbing the changing scenes of the horizon, Sophie was thrown into her Father’s vast jazz collection or her older brothers’ love of heavy indie rock.

Although creating, crafting and tweaking her music comes naturally, Sophie prefers to work internally, immersing herself in sound, rather than launching herself into the world of the stage. Her music has been described by The Guardian as holding “an intimate contemplative quality; sometimes melancholic, often with an exhilarating beauty.” Having amassed over 80 million streams on Spotify alone, Sophie has crafted her trademark sound and has collected accolades that include a play on Jorja Smith’s Tearjerker podcast as well as support from 6 Music, Radio 1’s Chillest show in the UK and ABC in her home country, Australia.

"Though it initially felt like a challenge, once I got going the experience became unique doing something opposite to the routine of others. It was peaceful, like a moment in time had stopped and I was documenting that moment."

Love & Keep is a body of work that exposes a profound self-discovery journey that analyses connection, embracing the unpredictable, sometimes volatile, nature of the world, and how sleep is fundamentally intertwined in everything we do. Recorded in the dead of night, this six-track EP looks at the sometimes expanse of sleep as a quiet, reflective beauty, through the unique lens of the insomniac, Sophie. Sophie’s delivery holds a reminiscent feeling, a longing for the support of your loved ones, rather than another soulless, endless, scroll through the social universe.

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