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Bruce Sudano – ‘Back In The Neighborhood’

July 22, 2020

Veteran songwriter and guitarist Bruce Sudano has been a practitioner of pop-rock for nearly 60 years, seeing it as not just a place for big sounds and big beats, but big ideas too. He topped the charts back in the 60s with ‘Alive N Kickin’, and wrote country-pop gold for Dolly Parton, disco and electro-funk for wife Donna Summer, and and priceless radio ready tracks for Michael Jackson. In his solo career however, Sudano tackles those issues that others don’t touch. Things like every day life difficulties, mortality’s grip on us all, human experiences we all have in common.

Pinegrove – ‘Endless’ 

July 21, 2020

New Jersey four-piece Pinegrove has so far put out three albums, and all three have that timeless quality which typifies a great record, one which could just as easily have come out 20 years ago, or 20 years in the future. Their most recent album, ‘Marigold’, was the latest to explore the human interaction and community which goes beyond music, and was described by Pitchfork as, “an intense work about one of the most important things imaginable: how to make friendships really matter.” Pinegrove are all about community, they actively encourage their fans to re-imagine their songs, and also provide guitar tabs to facilitate the musical experimentations of their supporters.

Sonarpilot – ‘Fossil’ And ‘City In The Sky’

July 21, 2020

Michael Moppert performs as Sonarpilot, and takes his inspiration from the sonic risk takers who pushed back the boundaries of music from the 1970s onwards. Rock legends such as David Bowie, Pink Floyd, and Roxy Music, and pioneers of electronic music, such as Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, Brian Eno, all provide plenty of fodder for thought for Moppert, who sees them as astronauts disguised as artists, who explored the very reaches of musical space.

Pennan Brae – ‘Pay Dirt’ (Lyric Video)

July 7, 2020

Pennan Brae’s sound is steeped in the sound of classic American rock and blues, storytellers such as Muddy Waters, BB King, and Elmore James. He’s also influenced by the likes of Elton John, and the sounds of the 80s: in fact he describes himself as the kind of rocker who “travels back in time yet remains unmistakably contemporary”. He builds huge rock songs, based on three or four chords, and gives them a timeless classic quality, turning humour, nostalgia, pleasure and pain into intense pop-rock and piano-driven ballads.

Psycho Village – ‘Unstoppable’

July 6, 2020

Austrian post-grunge rock band Psycho Village have been around for more than a decade, having been started in 2009 by lead singer Dani Wagner. They released their first ever single in 2013, which reached the top 10 on iTunes, and the top 40 in their homeland. By the time 2019 hit they’d played more than 15o shows all around the world, and signed with Pavement Entertainment in the US, Seven Us Media Group in Europe, and partnered with Sony for distribution.