This week we feature an exclusive interview with Bishop Tha DJ about his new album ‘#trueOGseries Vol 2: New Day Co-Op’ and more. Also, premieres, exclusives, and new music and videos from Faultress, Heartour, Touchy, BrokenRail, Joker’s Hand, La Fleur Fatale, Richard Wølf, and Jim McHugh.
About Bishop Tha DJ
Jammerzine has an exclusive interview with underground legend DJ Bishop Tha DJ. Having just released his new album ‘#trueOGseries Vol 2: New Day Co-Op’, I get a chance to have a really good conversation about a diverse and informative, yes informative, album with one of the kings of collaboration. To say king of collaboration is an understatement. To say the least. Just check out the talent on this album. You have Bishop swapping swing with his mega-talent brother, Sun Zulu. You have Ashley S., Defcee, Eze Jackson…. I could go on. As we say in this interview, #trueOGseries is hopefully a roadmap as to where hip hop is going. Forward to its roots with a new perspective. Moving forward.
LINKS:
https://linktr.ee/trueOGseries
https://linktr.ee/SunZulu
https://empire.ffm.to/trueogseriesvol2
About Faultress
Faultress has premiered her new single titled ‘Sleep Child’ on Jammerzine. Faultress is an artist that, in my opinion, was most likely originated from that first note she gave to the world. And, with ‘Sleep Child’, that is only asserted even more. ‘Sleep Child’ has a dark and brooding sound. An emotional statement wrapped in a cinematic declaration in an almost operatic way, emotionally. Think Kate Bush meets subtle early Nine Inch Nails. To be honest, I actually thought the song was shorter than it was because of the way the music and Faultress’ beautiful vocals carry you. But no. The song is almost four minutes. When you lose track of time, it’s because you got lost in the moment. This was a moment.
LINKS:
https://www.faultress.com
https://www.facebook.com/faultress
https://soundcloud.com/faultress
https://twitter.com/thisisfaultress
https://www.instagram.com/thisisfaultress
About Heartour
Heartour has premiered his new single titled ‘When The Lights Go Down’, from his upcoming album ‘Divert The Asteroid’, out June 25th. ‘When The Lights Go Down’ is a truly musical surprise. One of those tracks you can’t predict. What I mean is there are sections you wouldn’t dream of being there but, there they are. And they fit. This is brilliance from the mind of a real musician. The verses flow into massive hooks and convey a layered and diverse audio landscape that is as divulging as it is diverse. This song ended way too soon.
LINKS:
https://heartour.com
https://www.facebook.com/heartour
https://twitter.com/heartour
https://www.instagram.com/heartour
https://www.youtube.com/user/HeartourTube/videos
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2nACA7rCxIJgd3UR4HytjQ
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/heartour/4310933
About Touchy
Touchy has released their new single and video titled ‘Secret Melody’. Feeling that retro dance, even partial disco vibe, feels all so much better being born and raised in that late 70s, early 80s era where video first murdered the radio star and everyone was into west end girls. With that flagrant regard for lush and vivid musical progression and wonderful droning quality of the genre, Touchy gets feely with the beat and gives the new decade a push in the right direction.
LINKS:
https://www.facebook.com/touchysounds
https://www.instagram.com/touchysounds
https://twitter.com/touchysounds
About BrokenRail
BrokenRail has officially released their new video titled ‘California’. Hook heavy hitters that they are, it’s little wonder that BrokenRail has dominated the hard rock and metal scenes with their guitar-heavy grooves meant for the arena. Guitar virtuosity set forth a barrage of sounds that define that sound meant to be an anthem for the new decade. COVID is ending, warm up the stage-lights.
LINKS:
https://brokenrailband.com
https://www.facebook.com/BrokenRail
https://instagram.com/brokenrail
https://twitter.com/BROKENRAIL
https://youtube.com/c/BrokenRail
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0hVmD9wRPmzj84Hlcygc4d
About Joker’s Hand
Joker’s Hand has just released their new video for the track called ‘War Profiteer’. That hook-filled magic that is the duo of Kevin Kawano and Matthew Lau releases a pop-polished lyrically dynamic feel-good hit for the summer.
The band is confirmed to perform at Beachlife Festival in Southern California this fall alongside such artists as Jane’s Addiction, Cage The Elephant, Counting Crows, and many more.
LINKS:
https://jokershand.com
https://facebook.com/JokersHandBand
https://instagram.com/jokershandofficial
https://twitter.com/jokershandband
About La Fleur Fatale
La Fleur Fatale has released their new video for the track titled ‘Skydancer’. Psychadelic in scope and beautiful in grandeur, La Fleur Fatale takes that underground psych and social status as one of the kings of the underground and solidifies that as the next level of their career. Who knew that cool underground could be so catchy?
LINKS:
https://www.facebook.com/LLYrecords
https://www.instagram.com/lovely_records
https://jakobmind.bandcamp.com
https://llyrecords.com
About Richard Wølf
Richard Wølf has premiered his new video for the track titled ‘Seeking’, from his new album ‘Hybrid’. To say that ‘Seeking’ is cinematic would be misleading. Even a misnomer. Richard is an artist with a vision. A vision in music with a reach into the visual. A multi-talent in the truest sense of the word. You could easily separate the sound and the sight and have two completely different works of art. But, together, you have magic. That magic we get when we leave a theater after watching a brilliant film. That ‘aha’ moment when we discover a new favorite artist. That layer upon layer of sounds and orchestrations that come from that unique blend of music, mind, and madness.
LINKS:
https://richardwolfofficial.com
https://www.facebook.com/wolf.richard.official
https://www.instagram.com/richardwolf_official
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCli48i0tw0NiZ5JWgGRPHhg
https://open.spotify.com/artist/447yQ8sUQTahnJ3xJtkv9l
About Jim McHugh
Jim McHugh has premiered his new album titled ‘Pretending To Wake Up’. Jim has that ‘wear his heart on his sleeve’ approach to his music. His lyrics are earnest and honest. His music, sometimes contradictory, ranges from gritty to heartfelt to very open stylistically. And that, I think, is the magic to his music. As varied as it is with each track, there is that overall style that is Jim’s signature. The hooks are many and diverse, but each has that special personality that is both comforting and commanding.
LINKS:
https://jimmchughmusic.com
https://www.facebook.com/jimmchughmusic
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgTYhPwSdWYeXjUof1j2pEQ
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Bailey Coats Releases ‘No Other Way’ Single (The Week in #Indie Segment)
Bailey Coats officially releases her new single titled ‘No Other Way’ as of today (June 19, 2020). Beginning as a vocal exercise, Baily starts the song off with a subtle bang of reminiscing of life and love with that message of no other way, sent to us just in time as a pick me up and mental reassurance that is well needed and deserved with the state of things being the way they are.
Featuring a unique duet between the percussive yet melodic vocals versus the staccato beat and lush piano-driven music, ‘No Way Out’ showcases a solid artist at the introduction of her career.
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Bailey Coats makes her return with the heart-felt pop single ‘No Other Way’, June 19th. Having consistently released singles in 2020, Bailey never fails to deliver inspiring anthems when duty calls. Having built an award-winning team around her, ‘No Other Way’ proves her affinity for sublime pop music and takes the pop sensation to the next level.
Having worked with vocal coach Robert “RAab” Stevenson (Justin Timberlake, Dave Matthews, Rihanna, Pharrell Williams, etc), Grammy-award winning producer Wirlie Morris and renowned songwriter Traci Hale, Bailey has a strong team around her that never fails to deliver addictive pop tracks, complete with Bailey’s captivating vocals.
Accompanying the release is the stunning music video shot in Malibu, USA.
Speaking more about the new single, Bailey explains: “’No Other Way’ was written during a season of new beginnings. Just as the world prepares for summer and life after a pandemic, ‘No Other Way’ serves as a euphoric summertime anthem for new beginnings in journeys of both life and love.”
Having built solid foundations over the last year with ‘SNACK’ and ‘GET Low’, Bailey now returns with her strongest track to date, showing again her genius through sincere lyrics and pop harmonies.
LINKS:
https://www.instagram.com/baileycoatsofficial
https://www.facebook.com/BaileyCoatsMusic
https://twitter.com/bailey_coats -
An Interview with Kat Leon (The Week in #Indie Segment)
Holy Wars is a band that is as diverse as it is determined. That is ever more evident in this exclusive interview with Holy Wars’ frontwoman Kat Leon. Kat survives by thriving from her life and putting into her craft. That is a talent I wish everyone had. We would be in a much better world, I think.
And what we learn in this interview is how the music of Holy Wars, as well as Kat’s solo work, are part of an anthology of life. Some of it is dark, some of it light, but all of it real. And what we get in the end is a life in progress. We are all in our own personal holy war, whatever that may be, and what we get through Kat’s voice and the music of her and collaborator Nicolas Perez is a reflection of progression through originality and creativity. This is the very definition of what music is, or at least what it is at its best.
Watch the entire episode of ‘The Week in #Indie’ HERE.
LINKS:
https://www.holywarsmusic.com
https://www.facebook.com/HolyWarsMusic
https://holywars.bigcartel.com
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2dTOWcCL0cYviin0Uz1lj4?si=g4oe1jMzQA67awHSFaBa6Q
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/holy-wars/987826411
https://instagram.com/holywarsmusic
https://twitter.com/holywarsmusic
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKpgMRG6ocgGYRS750lo0LA
https://www.iamkatleon.com
https://www.instagram.com/iamkatleon
https://www.facebook.com/iamkatleon
https://twitter.com/iamkatleon
https://soundcloud.com/iamkatleon -
An Interview with Earthset
Jammerzine has an exclusive interview with Italian band Earthset. This band, to me, is one of the reasons I created Jammer Direct and Jammerzine. Their music evolves deeper and deeper into the truest form of originality and their career takes them to original places others rarely go.
And in this interview we talk with Luigi Varanese and Ezio Romano, two of the masterminds behind the music, about their upcoming album ‘Bound’, their recent single and video ‘Pills’, and how they got from there to here on their own terms.
‘Bound’ releases on March 8th, 2022 (pre-save links below).
Check out our other features with Earthset HERE.
About Earthset
Luigi Varanese, Costantino Mazzoccoli, Emanuele Orsini and Ezio Romano are Earthset, an alt-rock quartet from Bologna, Italy.
Together since 2012, after their debut in 2015 with the concept album “In a State of Altered Unconsciousness” and the EP “POPISM” two years later, in 2018 they made the soundtrack of “L’Uomo Meccanico”a 1921 Italian-French silent film restored by the Cineteca di Bologna.
A tour was organised as a result of this experience, in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna, which led them to play the soundtrack around Italy and abroad.
Some of the highlights of this tour were the presentation of “L’Uomo Meccanico” at the Pesaro Film Festival; the show at Franco Maria Ricci’s Labirinto della Masone; the opening night of the Soundscreen Film Festival of Ravenna 2019, in which the band also had the opportunity to play together with the director Abel Ferrara; the shows in Brescia and Pisa, in collaboration with the local Universities; and, abroad, the closing evening of “Les Rencontres du Cinéma Italien” festival, which hosted soundtracks made by Italian groups such as Massimo Volume, Julie’s Haicut and Giardini di Mirò in previous editions.
Following the show’s success, the band released the soundtrack’s LP, recorded live and published by Dischi Bervisti and Koe Records.
The album was released on January 31, 2020 and was officially presented on the same day with a show in Rome, at the Salle du Cinéma of the Institut Francaise Center Saint Louis, in collaboration with the French Embassy. However, the subsequent tour, scheduled to support the release, was canceled due to the COVID-19 crisis.
Thanks to the experience with “L’Uomo Meccanico”, they produced a new cine-concert for Murnau’s “Nosferatu”, commissioned by the Ravenna Soundscreen Film Festival and presented exclusively at the 2020 edition of the Festival.
In February 2021, however, they recorded “Retour au Ciné” a film of the “L’Uomo Meccanico” cine-concert, shot live at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna and produced by Fonoprint studios, with the contribution of the Emilia-Romagna Region and the collaboration of ATER Foundation.
The film premiered at the Univerciné festival in Nantes and was then broadcast as part of VIRALISSIMA, the online event format of the Emilia-Romagna Region, which brought together the best of the regional production. In the second half of 2021, work on the new album “bound” was completed.
About ‘Bound’
In Earthset’s vision, “Bound” isn’t just an LP, but a full audio-visual-performative work of art. The album is made up of 11 tracks, each with its own video, each song and video connected to the previous and the next both visually and musically, creating a unitary 42-minute-long audio-visual narrative.
The concept that binds the whole project together, songs, images and videos, is a reflection on the value of relationships as the foundation of existence and is revealed in the title itself, “bound”. Coherently, the album works best together in its entirety, as it was envisioned as a whole.
As a matter of fact, while each song perfectly stands as a valid single, it is in its relation with all the other elements that make up the audio-visual project that the experience is justified and reveals a completely different meaning. The focus is not on the single elements but in the relationships between them, as the relationships bear meaning and are justified in themselves.
“The act of making music has its value in the infinite series of interactions that lie within it and acquires further value in the potential interactions that may come from it. It is, after all, an attempt at communicating and connecting with a potential listener or viewer. Therefore the whole album was recorded live in a single take, without breaks or cuts and no edit; it is a key feature of the work and is in line with the mindset Earthset adopted for it. This is documented in a video of the full recording session, which is extra content.”
Bound will be released in March 2022 via Dischi Bervisti/Costello’s.
LINKS:
https://www.facebook.com/Earthset
https://www.instagram.com/earthset_
https://open.spotify.com/artist/27FihPbgJOaSdAyq9kgb9t
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCflPJZXoRcY5hGvGrXZbEeQ
https://earthset.bandcamp.com
https://orcd.co/pills
https://open.spotify.com/album/5YYJf90FktsQTRRMZWNInT
https://music.apple.com/it/album/pills-single/1593429471
https://www.deezer.com/it/album/270196352