STRATEGIC ARTIST ADVOCACY SINCE 1997
Du Jour recently caught up with the multifaceted Mandy Moore, who appears in Mike Viola’s new video for “Drug Rug.” Viola and Moore have been working together since 2009, most recently on her LP Silver Landings.
According to Moore, “He’s a genius and the video (directed by my sis, Caitlin Gerard) is hilarious and so dang good.”
Mike Viola - you probably know his voice from That Thing You Do, Walk Hard, or his band The Candy Butchers; or, perhaps you’ve heard his production on Mandy Moore’s Silver Landings - has a new LP, Godmuffin, due later this year. Evan Toth of WFDU recently interviewed Mike for The Vinyl District’s Radar podcast, finding that “2020 may have been one of the weirdest years that most of us have experienced in our lifetime, but it’s been musically fruitful for Viola.”
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Jedd Beaudoin chats with Inara George for PopMatters: In a mere three-song bundle, "exemplary of George's musical diversity and unique brand of songwriting.... one can find various strands of the American songwriting tradition throughout, whether blues, radio pop or the brand of songwriting that elevated Cole Porter to a pillar of the form." Listen to "The Youth of Angst," out now on Release Me Records.
"Delicately weaved in textured instrumentation and melodies... pensively moving through different twists and tangles." Deep dive today with Figg over at American Songwriter as writer Tina Benitez-Eves finds out what the band's debut album is all about and what happened during the decade between it being recorded and being released.
Chance Emerson's debut album came out just as everything was closing down. His record release party was actually one of the last shows at the Middle East in Boston and Chance left his freshman year of college and the country soon after. Today, Chance chats about this and more with Ditty TV from his home in Hong Kong. Click to read the interview and see the video for the "Annabelle" single which American Songwriter says shows “wisdom and assuredness that belie his age.”
The Orange Peels have lots to say to LA Weekly today about the upcoming 40-track reissue of the 1997 debut album Square (Minty Fresh, June 26th), the upcoming brand-new double-album (out this fall), and the upcoming state of the world. Read it here.