Healing is not linear. It doesn’t come in a specific shape or form and it happens differently for everyone. Santa Barbara-based noir pop artist Alexandra Riorden knows this, and harnesses her own experience with darkness and healing in her new single “Dirty Mirror.” READ MORE…
Sonja Midtune is an artist and songwriter from Minnesota located in Los Angeles. She received her BA in Music Theory and Composition at St. Olaf College in MN with additional training from The European American Musical Alliance at La Schola Cantorum, a Juilliard affiliated program taught by their grad professors such as Phillip Lasser.
Sonja writes all her original music. She is known for her poignant lyrics and storytelling, with an organic sound that incorporates her composition skills. She’s played all over the Los Angeles area including venues such as the main stage at the Hotel Cafe, a 9-month residency Bar Lubitsch, Vibrato Jazz Club in Beverly Hills, The Viper Room, The Bootleg Theatre, etc.
Sonja teaches Songwriting levels 1 and 2 at Cal Poly Pomona and Intro to Songwriting at Mount Saint Mary’s University. Her new 4-song EP “Dreams Melt Away” was released April 2nd, 2021
Brooklyn-based folk rocker Jon LaDeau’s new video for his song “Cemetery Road” begins in a cloud of smoke, a police SUV burning and cops blasting protesters indiscriminately with pepper spray as they flood the streets, demanding justice and accountability in the wake of yet another senseless and disturbingly casual murder—another black life snuffed out at the hands of police.
Lyrically and visually, “Cemetery Road” shines a light on American civil unrest in response to the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and so many others, amplifying the modern struggle for civil rights against a backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic, police violence, income inequality, homelessness, poverty and general injustice in America.
The footage—culled from last summer’s nationwide BLM protests—captures America in turmoil, collectively experiencing some of the largest demonstrations in the nation’s history.
There’s no denying that Matt Jones who performs as Two Cent Revival has a knock-em dead voice that permeates with the rustic flair towards the north of the border 70’s singer-songwriters mixed with certain familiar outlaw country stalwarts. It’s a trusty gravitas that stirs alongside a storytelling knack in the vain of Colter Wall and Ryan Bingham. Two Cent Revival comes full circle with its sound on its new album Demons (out September 3rd, 2021). READ MORE…
Based right here in Austin, the drummer-producer’s provided percussion for the likes of Turnpike Troubadours and John Fullbright, even racking up a “Best Americana Album” Grammy nomination for the latter.