The Phil Edwards Band are back in action with their epic new single “Baby.” The song brings together a range of elements to create a unique sound that you will find yourself head over heels for. You can hear the acoustic-driven guitar and warm soft vocals which allows an easy listening experience, while having the ability to lift the listener up. Although the song is about moving on from a relationship, it brings a positive spin to the experience.
Bill Fever is an independent British songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in Kettering, Northamptonshire.
Bill Fever’s 3rd EP ‘III Weights’ was self-released on the 16th of December 2022. The 5-track EP was created in May 2022 as part of an Album Writing Club run by Brighton-based indie record label Lights & Lines. The challenge was to write and record an album or EP within the space of a month and this was the result. In July it was announced that the EP had won the Album Writing Club’s Judge’s Choice Award. The EP was written around the time of Mental Health Awareness week – Bill tackles the subject matters of anxiety, fear and depression. ‘Weights’ being a key idea/theme, looking at mental health being a weight that everyone has to carry.
‘I Could Be King’ the opening track to the new EP isn’t a commentary on the monarchy in the UK, but rather a look into the mindset of someone experiencing waves of doubts and fear about being worthy or good enough.
Heavily influenced by alternative guitar music of the 90’s and 00’s, Bill’s eclectic sound has been compared to QOTSA and Radiohead (New Music Saturday Podcast) with “a Jack White-esque freewheeling sound” (Northampton based blog New Boots Music) and songs such as ‘I Could Be King’ feature synthesizers and electronics “reminiscent of New Order and MGMT” (Marc Schuster, Abominations Blog) .
Having relocated from London to Kettering, his ambitions to form a new band in 2020 were thwarted by the pandemic. Deciding to carry on writing solo, he self-produced and recorded his debut 4-Track EP “Money Goes To Bloody Money” at his home studio in Northamptonshire. Bill sings and plays all instruments except drums, bringing in the remote talents of drummer Joe Montague.
Not afraid to approach big subject matters – there’s no escaping the politics in Bill’s music and he certainly doesn’t pull any punches with his first two EPs ‘Money Goes To Bloody Money’ & ‘A New Low’. BBC Radio Northampton Introducing DJ Kerrie Cosh said “I really love that about him as an artist, he often writes what he’s feeling about the political landscape… he doesn’t beat about the bush”. In August she made the song ‘Sleaze’ from his 2nd EP her Track of the Week saying “His instrumental skill is absolutely out of this world… that guitar riff alone has my heart”.
Last year the title song from his debut EP ‘Money Goes To Bloody Money’ opened the BBC Radio 6Music’s Introducing Mixtape and host Tom Robinson described it as “an amazing track” picking him as his Tip of the Week for local BBC Introducing shows.
Looking ahead into 2023, Bill is recruiting local musicians to take these songs to the stage and is working on what will become his debut album.
For more information head to billfever.co.uk
“Highways” is the latest song off of Astronaut Husband’s highly anticipated release, “Down the Road” which will see the light of day on January 27, 2023. It’s a 14 track album that looks fondly to the past, to warm summers spent catching frogs and swimming with friends. But what’s that lurking beneath the surface? It’s the inherent sadness in everything! Bittersweet. A final ode to childhood as we turn away and continue walking down the road. Astronaut Husband has been recording under the moniker for over 10 years now. All of his music is self-recorded. It’s acoustic driven, endearing bedroom type stuff. Patient and textural.
A bandcamp veteran, Alec Grefe, known as Astronaut Husband, has been steadily recording and releasing music since 2012. Through the years he has garnered over 10 million streams on Spotify, and also had a song featured in the film “Baked in Brooklyn”. He flew to LA to perform at the Crest Theatre for the premier. Alec writes, performs, and produces/records/mixes all of his music. Alec lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he can be found playing around the city with his other band, Haunter. At the moment, his biggest musical influences are Mazzy Star, Acetone, King Krule, and a ton of other stuff.
2023 is the year of Astronaut Husband and we can’t wait!
Fly into his world here:
Nashville rock band, Roxercat debuts their new EP PEARLS via 9 Dog Records. The album will be available on all major streaming platforms JAN. 13th and offers progressive rock sounds.
Following the release of two well-received singles, Roxercat debuts their six-song EP “Pearls.” Roxercat is a progressive rock band based in Nashville, Tennessee, led by singer and songwriter Price Jones, guitarist Stan Lassiter, and bassist Bill Francis. Various guest musicians also appear on the recordings. Roxercat’s sound features the imaginative storytelling and stellar musicianship expected from such a seasoned group of Nashville creatives. Recorded at Nashville’s Sound Emporium Studios with overdubs at Cat Tracks Studio, the EP was co-produced by Price Jones and Grammy® award- winning engineer and producer Clarke Schleicher.
Price’s gift for storytelling and composition and the band’s polished musicianship come together to provide a very satisfying listening experience. The songs touch on many themes, including life’s challenges in a digital age, love, relationships, the paradigm shifts of life, and living through uncertain times. The title song, Pearls, embodies Price Jones’ worldview as a simple message: no matter the current status of relationships with the people who come and go throughout your life, you can still wish them happiness. “Life is about surrounding yourself with people that believe in you – and you in them – and always holding on to your dreams,” says Price. With each lyric, Price takes us on an emotional journey through life, constantly reminding us to stay in our
power. Walk away from relationships that don’t serve you, stand firm in your beliefs and resist outside influence, be aware of inevitable changes coming throughout your life and meet them with positivity in the knowledge that our hearts can and will heal. “That’s just life.”
Price Jones began making music as a young girl growing up in Kentucky. She spent summers performing musical theatre professionally across the metro Louisville area. By her late teens, she would discover the classical guitar and move to Nashville, TN, to deepen her studies at Belmont University. Her relocation to Nashville in 1982 marked the beginning of decades-long songwriting, recording, producing, and composing careers. When Jones was not on the road, she owned and managed Cat Tracks studio in Nashville, where she spent ten years producing and engineering. It was there, in 1997, that Jones composed the rock opera, The Fortunate Few.
Stan Lassiter is a native of Nashville and a classically-trained guitarist. Considered by many to be the city’s premier jazz guitarist, he is committed to the expression and expansion of music. He has performed with some of the best musicians of our time, including the legendary saxophonist Sonny Stitt. He has opened for Spyro Gyra, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Eric Johnson, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and numerous others.
Bill Francis, a Pennsylvania native, first picked up the bass at 12 years old and two years later was playing out professionally with local rock bands. After graduating high school, he toured throughout the United States and Central America with the internationally known company “Up With People.” Bill earned a degree in Jazz Performance at North Texas State University and, since then, has played and toured in a multitude of bands. He has also participated at the Bass Collective in New York City and studied privately with John Patitucci. Bill’s true music passion is jazz, but he enjoys playing almost all genres.
Stan, Bill, and Price have been playing together since 2017. After finishing up a rock opera project they were all involved in (The Fortunate Few: the rock opera written and produced by Price), they decided to pool their talents once again to form an original rock band, Roxercat.
Roxercat also filmed two music videos for their first single releases. View them on their YouTube channel here.
For more information on Roxercat, visit www.roxercat.com.
Pearls Track Listing:
1. Pearls
2. Crime
3. Baby I Tried
4. I Will Not Lie
5. I Changed Today 6. 2020
Harvard-grad sibling rockers Jocelyn & Chris return with “Sugar and Spice,” “a bluesy romp showing off their knack for classic song-craft” (American Songwriter) and their first release since the world health crisis took hold last year. This is a taste of their forthcoming eighth studio album. Channeling the powerhouse-style vocals of iconic female rockers like Janis Joplin and Stevie Nicks blended perfectly with guitarwork calling back to greats like Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix, Jocelyn & Chris deliver a psychedelic 70s style on this funk-driven track about realities of a hot and cold relationship.
Accompanying the rocking, retro-funk anthem is the official music video. With a kaleidoscope of colors, the track’s retro influences are on full display with Jocelyn’s vocals taking center stage supported by Chris’s organic, riff-driven guitar.
Eight albums, continual touring, and their “millennial spin on classic rock” (NBC TODAY) has earned Jocelyn & Chris three consecutive commercial radio singles in the Billboard AAA Top 40 and two #1 records on the Relix Jambands Top 30 Album Chart. Their 2019 album The Fun in the Fight landed them their national TV debut with The TODAY Show and features with Huffington Post, NowThis, Paste, The Daily Beast, People, Hollywood Reporter, and numerous others.
Following “Sugar and Spice,” Jocelyn & Chris released “Run Away,” an anthemic pop-rock track that channels the all-too-relatable feeling of losing hope – and then finding it again through a fresh perspective and a musical escape. “Run Away” premiered with Relix and has quickly garnered press and adds from MTV, Celebrity Access, Guitar World, and more. The infectiously powerful track impacts Triple A radio on June 14th.
Jocelyn & Chris and their band will showcase music from the new record on the road this summer with tour dates across the US for their “Favorite Ghosts” tour, including a first-time appearance at Bourbon & Beyond in Louisville, KY, and a return to Milwaukee’s Summerfest.
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ABOUT JOCELYN AND CHRIS
Sibling rockers Jocelyn & Chris learned long ago that every cloud, no matter how dark, may just have a silver lining – and as they prepare to release their eighth album Favorite Ghosts, they’ll emerge from a world on pause with a ferociously original work that might just be bottled modern-rock lightning. Instead of falling idle during the dark clouds of 2020, the siblings embraced the chance to create the most authentic, meaningful songs of their career. The album’s producers, long-time Jocelyn & Chris collaborator David Bourgeois and seven-time Grammy winner Joel Moss, were happy to facilitate the chaos, resulting in a varied, dynamic work that always chooses the power of telling a story over the temptation to conform to any one genre or style. From anthemic single “Run Away” to emotionally stark closer “My Favorite Ghost,” these songs reflect on the memories and emotions that refuse to let us go, suggesting that while we can’t change what haunts us, we can welcome it as part of who we are. For Jocelyn & Chris, who have been making music together since they were children, Favorite Ghosts is a powerful, undeniable set of songs that carries these siblings forward into a new chapter as they continue to chase their shared dream.
FOLLOW JOCELYN & CHRIS:
Official website: http://www.jocelynandchrismusic.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JocelynandChris/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jocelynandchrismusic/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_AenhmVbsJWLG1qjWpAN3A
Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jocelynandchris
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jocelynandchris
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2haWKVf4SjBUrihzS4ul3R?si=gcoF2ws7T4OdX3zahqLVGA
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/jocelyn-chris-arndt/1067985739
Ukulele. Literally, “leaping flea”, probably from the Hawaiian nickname of Edward Purvis, who was short and quick and popularized the instrument brought to Hawaii by the Portuguese in 1879.
To extend the summer, PETITSOLEIL offers you ten swaying Latin songs joyfully painted in pop colors in the language of Molière!
Supported by the swaying swing and the crystalline sound of the “Ukulele”, by the percussions of Japy Lo Pinto, and the “tremolo-twangy” electric guitar of Piero Bégot as talented accomplices, the songs of Roberto Lozano take us from “La Grande Bleue ” (Southern France, Spain) and Latin America (Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Havana, Dominican Republic). On heady refrains that celebrate life, love and the intoxication of Latin fiestas, the three boys, their heads in the sun, delight us with their songs without age and without borders (between original compositions and covers from Latin folklore ) …All performed with heart and soul!
Ukulele. Literally, “leaping flea”, probably from the Hawaiian nickname of Edward Purvis, who was short and quick and popularized the instrument brought to Hawaii by the Portuguese in 1879.
To extend the summer, PETITSOLEIL offers you ten swaying Latin songs joyfully painted in pop colors in the language of Molière!
Dive into the new release below!
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