“We can play a country church in Mississippi, or we can draw a crowd at a hipster club in Brooklyn. We connect with a wide-ranging audience,” says veteran musician Walter Parks, speaking of the music on his debut LP album, The Unlawful Assembly (out via Atomic Sound). “The joy, gratitude, pain and yearning in these songs is universally felt.”
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From childhood Georgia always had a passion for music, especially with a piano readily available in her home. “I liked creating jingles and melodies on the piano, and I also played clarinet in band.” READ MORE…
Takénobu wrote a song depicting everyone’s dream over the past year: quitting the draining and time-consuming traditional job in exchange for something more freeing—the ability to ‘travel light.’
“Traveling Light” is the opening song on Takénobu’s new album, Always Leave a Note. Nick Ogawa, the man behind Takénobu, was inspired to write the song based on his own decision to leave his job in marketing to pursue music full time.
“In 2011, I was really really lucky to have my songs start to take off on Pandora radio and I started to be able to pay my rent from iTunes downloads. When that happened, I was able to quit my job I was unhappy with and pursue music full time. I took a pay cut to do it, but I’ve never looked back or felt regretful about that aspect of things,” Ogawa tells American Songwriter. “I’ve always thought about how liberating it was and with ‘Traveling Light’ I wanted to express both the feeling of being trapped by work and the liberation from feeling exploited by it, even if it means having less or living more simply.”
All Bite’s debut LP, Get Well Soon, is an endearingly raw, emotional odyssey of anxiety, self-loathing, homesickness, and reckoning with past trauma, backed by explosive melodic pop-punk. READ MORE…