The brilliant new album by Mark J Gidden! Full of indie goodness, stunning songwriting and edgy guitars. Featuring the acclaimed singles "Best Last Chance', 'Catch Me Out' and 'Caesar'.
Sounding like a particularly English mix of Suede and The Feeling - 'Have You Heard' encapsulates all that is best in British Indie - beautiful guitar melodies added to Mark's distinctive vocal and a killer choruses!
Mark J Gidden is a singer songwriter who has been actively involved writing and recording music since the 90s.
Originally influenced by bands such as Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins and Pixes, Mark fronted Peterborough based band Traveller and won that city's Band of the Year competition in 2001.
Other projects followed, including playing drums for Emery, and as singer / guitarist for North London band Twenty81.
Now based in St Albans, Mark has more recently focussed on solo recordings and live acoustic performances to try out new material.
Ezra Tennen is tired of the monotonous bland state of pop and is ready to get back to euphoric bops drenched in catchy hooks, candy coated choruses and pure pop escapism.
Ezra has played countless dorm rooms, campus bars, and house parties to a growing audience. These performances have quickly taken on a life of their own, filled with audience participation and emotional engagement, encouraging Ezra to write catchy music inspired by the early works of pop superstars Kesha, Lady Gaga, and Katy Perry in order to heighten the experience.
Inspired by pure fun, late nights, best friends, and passionate desire, Ezra’s music is a fantastical non-stop party where the spontaneous urges of youth run wild and free. Ezra Tennen has recently partnered with Hamilton-based independent label Maisonneuve Music to release a series of singles set for release in 2019 and beyond.
Duncan Ivany & The North Coast Band formed in November 2018 with a mission to bring soulful music to Canadians and music lovers all over the world. While living and recording in a cabin in the hills of Erin, Ontario, three gentlemen have been making Indie-folk-rock music. They are letting their true musical personalities shine and it is showing in their new music. The music is inspired by the likes of: Bahamas, Bruce Springsteen and Jack White. Check out their first single “Restless” available for pre-order on all major streaming sites.
New EP released 31st May 'The Cabin Demos'.
They have listeners in California, USA and amazingly Aberdeen, Scotland
They can be 'found' on
Hey Guys I have added 2 of your songs to this playlist
Watch your stats grow over the next week
Kevin Ray began his music journey as a teenager when he wrote with his brother. Later he joined the Air Force, after 21 years he shares his passion for music,worship and Jesus.
Specific Moments is a happy go lucky band from Bergen Norway. Still, their songs are about real life issues. This is music suitable for both that really good party mood and those moments when a proper song is what you need to get things going
Fly Me Away is about finding a sanctuary or a peaceful place to go when you are overwhelmed with either stress or negativity. Fly away to someplace different that lets you find your own inner peace.
Fly Me Away is the first offering from their forthcoming EP, released by Lekrofon. This is a guitar driven sing along funky pop song that really sticks! We hope to see it hit the airwaves and suitable playlists.
Release 7. June 2019 : Fly Me Away 3:28 : funky indie pop
The following is a copy of their facebook bio which I have translated in google translate
Minimumskravet til musikkonservatoriet i København er en utdannelse innen musikk. Heldigvis oppfylte ikke Martin dette kravet, da han og Fredrik kun har en bachelor som musikklærer. Dette medførte til at bandet som kun skulle være et prosjekt for å prøvespille på konservatoriet fikk en mer permanent status, og fikk navnet Specific Moments.
Med på lasset kom også Ben og Kenny, som en stabil og trygg rytmeseksjon. Denne kombinasjonen av musikere skaper en sjangerforståelse og musikalsk retning som er unik innen bandmusikk. Specific Moments er influert av det positive og dansbare, og har som filosofi at uansett hvor mørke temaer det blir skrevet om, så skal det alltid være en "silver lining".
Translation
The minimum requirement for the music conservatory in Copenhagen is an education in music. Fortunately, Martin did not meet this requirement, as he and Fredrik only have a bachelor's degree as a music teacher. This meant that the band that was only going to be a project to test play at the conservatory got a more permanent status, and got the name Specific Moments. Ben and Kenny came along as well, as a stable and safe rhythm section. This combination of musicians creates a genre , understanding and musical direction that is unique in band music. Specific Moments is influenced by the positive and the danceable, and has as a philosophy that no matter how dark themes are written about, there should always be a "silver lining".
Atonal music is a generalizing term used to define music that seems to lack a clear tonal centre. Nearly all music in the western classical tradition is considered 'tonal': that is, its harmonic structure is primarily triadic and hierarchically organized around a prominent tonal centre
I do my best work when I cobble things together, if had tried to plan this I would not have been able to make it work.
If you dont know the difference watch this little video.
Here is what the score looks like.
If you want more info then have a look at this article on wikipedia.
Fashion Week describe themselves as an alternative rock band. They originate in Columbus Ohio
Their top track Scars has had over 200,000 streams Dark of the Cinema and Everyone Pretends have both had more than 20,000. They definately are making an impact. According to their stats they enjoyed a significant increase in streams recently. Well Done!!
Well its 20 to 4 in the morning and I've just moved all my artists blogs away from my merchandise blog on to this new Artist Blog.
Listening to songs from my heartache and love playlist.
Got my headphones on too (Bluetooth is awesome)
Sunday tomorrow so I'm going to mum's for breakfast, then church.
Church is a major part of my life.
Sunday morning during the worship is when I pen my daretobelieve blog source material. I say source material but the words just form in my head. I just tidy up punctuation and spelling at home the next day.
When things are flowing, punctuation and spelling are the last things I need to think about.
I have 29 blogs already written which are still in draft mode.
So Im ahead of myself when it comes to material.
I plan to read them over some suitable composed music. So thats my next project over the next few months. Not sure how many? As long as it takes I suppose !!
