Welcome to our first Monday Mashup of the new year. We thank you so much for your response to our year-end articles last week, including the announcement of the LA Music Critic Award winners for the second half of 2018. Your responses pushed us over the 95,000 view mark, and set a new single-day record of 1,972 views on Friday. We love sharing these amazing indie artists with you.
LA MUSIC CRITIC AWARD WINNERS SHOWCASE
Our third annual LA Music Critic Award Winners showcase is set for Tuesday, June 18, 2019 at The Mint in Los Angeles, and it’s shaping up to be another great one. The showcase helps raise awareness and funds for the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund, and this year will feature our first international winner! More details to come soon, but Save the Date!
ALICE WALLACE SET TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM
Four-time LA Music Critic Award winner Alice Wallace will release her new album on January 18, her first on Rebelle Road Records. We will be featuring her in our Get it or Forget it reviews on that date. In addition, we are bringing back our Women in Entertainment series, and she will be the next artist to be featured. Don’t miss this one.
NEW SINGLES
Our first single this year comes from LA Music Critic Award winner for best EDM/Dance Artist/Band TNEO. It is the third single from their album, Robotish, and the best one so far (IOHO). Check out “Cold Grey Day.” We guarantee this one will have you dancing into the new week.
Next is the latest from mother-daughter duo Cliffs and Caves. They have a sweet indie folk/country sound with a full orchestra sound. We really love the sound of “Goodbye for Good” and think you will too.
Our third single is a rock instrumental track from the forthcoming album by the Hedvig Mollestad Trio. This one has everything lovers of rock and metal desire, and will also appeal to acid jazz lovers as well. Check out “Bewitched, Drawfed and Defeathered.”
Our fourth single goes to the opposite end of the spectrum, with the haunting voice and lyrics of Rié Fu on her song “Mirror.” She grew up in Tokyo, signed with a major label, but decided to forego that path, relocated to the UK and decided to go indie. We think she made the right choice.
https://soundcloud.com/rie-music/06-mirror
Our final single this week is the latest from Teachers with Guns, who we introduced you to back in November. This one is called “E.T.H.” and we like it a lot. It has an amazing instrumental track to kick it off, followed by reflective lyrics sung by a voice that means business. Check it out.
NEW MUSIC VIDEOS
Our first music video this year is from LA Music Critic Award nominees The Daybreaks. It was recorded live at Pentavarit, and gives us another reason to love this Nashville-based band. Check out “Flesh it Out.”
It’s been a while since we featured anything from the amazing young artist Olivia Millerschin. Here is her cover video of Taylor Swift’s song “New Year’s Day,” which was recorded live in studio. We think we’ll be hearing lots more great music from her soon.
Although it technically came out on Christmas day, we love the latest from LA Music Critic Award winning rock band The Guess Who. Here is their latest, “In America.” We love that they are still rocking after 40 years!
Our fourth single is an amazing cover of the 1926 blues classic “John the Revelator” from LA Music Critic Award nominee Jason Robert, from his forthcoming album Death of Stone Stanley. This one will appeal to lovers of classic blues rock.
We close out this edition of Monday Mashup with the brand new video from up and coming country star Kamber Cain. We love her song “Love Story That I’ve Already Read.” We think this one is going to be a hit!
