Author: Kim Muncie

Posted on: November 4, 2022 Posted by: Kim Muncie Comments: 0

Global Rock Band Sick Puppies collaborate with ESPN to cover Paul Oakenfold’s ‘Ready Steady Go’

Global Rock band Sick Puppies are collaborating with ESPN/ESPN+ to launch their new single ‘Ready Steady Go’, a cover of the Paul Oakenfold hit song. The music will be used in National Hockey League (NHL) on ESPN promos on all their platforms through the end of 2022. Watch the initial ESPN promo spot here: The intense, driving version of ‘Ready Steady Go’ has been released on all streaming services and is sure to…

Posted on: November 3, 2022 Posted by: Kim Muncie Comments: 1

Dude Reppin Knowhere sits down with NeuFutur

When and where did you discover your passion for writing songs and raps? What made you want to pursue music professionally? Upon moving back to the East Coast from Venice Beach CA, I really took my raps to the next level upon hearing high energy electro beats made by Colormind. When I became part of the music production process, it revealed a deeper writing opportunity where I could act upon…

Posted on: November 3, 2022 Posted by: Kim Muncie Comments: 0

Matthew Squires and The Learning Disorders Releases New Music

‘I don’t know at which point the world stopped validating romance. Divorce and breakup rates are on the rise, the influx or responsibilities that no longer allow for intimate relationships due to stress or worry. It’s awfully present even in the music of today, breakup ballads, selfish examinations to skirt mutual responsibilities. For many like myself, it’s a little sickening. When a piece of art comes along that actively wants…

Posted on: November 3, 2022 Posted by: Kim Muncie Comments: 0

Meet Everett De Morier: Acclaimed Author with a Secret

If you know Everett De Morier, you know unpredictability. In a career that has spanned more than twenty-five years, Mr. De Morier has written everything from the Weekly World News’ My Wife Is Having the Reincarnation of Elvis to the Hollywood optioned Thirty-Three Cecils. He’s an essayist, an author, a humorist, a contributor, a thinker. And, a seeker. Because a decorated career that has included appearances on the likes of…

Posted on: October 28, 2022 Posted by: Kim Muncie Comments: 0

“I Was Told To Be Quiet” by MOMO

Marcelo Frota, aka, MOMO, has evolved from an experimental psychedelic artist, to a scorching Adult Contemporary Singer/Songwriter. His 6th album, I Was Told To Be Quiet, is being reissued by his record company, to celebrate its 3 year anniversary. It will be pressed to vinyl for the first time, which is a cause for celebration in many ways. The reemergence of vinyl has to be considered a major victory in…

Posted on: October 26, 2022 Posted by: Kim Muncie Comments: 0

Quarry Releases ”Positioning the Sun” LP

There’s a lot to be said about the last two years. For Quarry, they took the time between 2020 and 2022 to craft an album worthy of the times, soaking up every ounce of anguish, disarray, and togetherness; coming up with something that could not only portray the worst of times without the best of times was undoubtedly a challenge, but Positioning the Sun is a critical hit of a…

Posted on: October 20, 2022 Posted by: Kim Muncie Comments: 0

Taking a moment with Star 2

Did your upbringing impact your passion for music? When did you realize that music was something you could pursue professionally? Music was a way for me to express difficult emotions in my life. We came to the U.S. from a refugee camp in Thailand and had massive culture shock as well as constant financial pressure to pay rent, pay back our airfare from the camp, buy food and buy a…

Posted on: October 18, 2022 Posted by: Kim Muncie Comments: 0

Spending Time with The High Plains Drifters

Describe the formation of the group The High Plains Drifters, and the significance behind the group’s name? Christina Benedetto: This is more a question for Larry. But for my part, Larry and I have been friends and drinking buddies for ages. When he asked me to join the group I was over the moon. I love all the guys in the band. Just to give you a rundown, in case…

Posted on: October 18, 2022 Posted by: Kim Muncie Comments: 0

Elizabeth Sombart’s “Singing the Nocturnes” Prelude to a Grammy

The 21 different performances included in Elizabeth Sombart’s Singing the Nocturnes are a more than adequate overview and re-interpretation of Frederic Chopin’s vaunted Nocturnes written just before the composer’s untimely death. Sombart’s musical reputation is built on superlative piano playing that’s propelled the French-born pianist from her beginning at seven years old, multiple years of study in various major foreign capitals, and working alongside the finest music instructors working today. INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/elizabeth_sombart/?hl=en…

Posted on: October 8, 2022 Posted by: Kim Muncie Comments: 0

The Harmony Dreamers Project (feat. Bryon Scott) Release New Album

The Harmony Dreamers project, led by multi-instrumentalist and composer Byron Lee Scott, gathers musicians and vocalists from around the globe for a sprawling album release entitled I Come from Earth. The driving concept behind this release is gathering a collection of world musicians from North and South America, Europe, and far beyond to perform a song cycle laudable for its positivity and welcoming tone. This musical moment is meant to encourage…

Posted on: October 8, 2022 Posted by: Kim Muncie Comments: 0

Beasties Release “A Sci-Fi Rock Opera”

Gary Sohmers claim a long list of successful credits and collaborations during their long music career but their work together conceptualizing, writing, recording, and releasing Beasties: A Sci-Fi Rock Opera must rank among the most unique entertainment and musical experiences in recent memory. It harkens back to an early era in music history when the concept album reigned as the pop world’s flavor of the moment. Pop songwriters long ago began exploring…

Posted on: October 5, 2022 Posted by: Kim Muncie Comments: 0

“Eat the Bugs” by The refusers

The Refusers are a Seattle based five piece who’ve been around for a while writing and releasing angsty, entertaining, and guitar-driven diatribes. It is the sort of browbeating you get from many humorless clods masquerading as bands or songwriters – witness the title of their latest single “Eat the Bugs”. It is the sort of songwriting that no one else would do but these guys, tailored to the audience they’ve…

Posted on: October 5, 2022 Posted by: Kim Muncie Comments: 0

Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys’ “Goth Beach”

Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys’ new single “Goth Beach” the latest off-kilter confection from Sickert’s wonderfully skewed songwriting imagination. Sickert and his extended band of cohorts of Boston staples boast a long catalog of prior releases endearing them to indie music aficionados and tastemakers in the United States and beyond. The single “Goth Beach” gives listeners surf and beach music with unexpected Sickert twists. He blows away…

Posted on: September 29, 2022 Posted by: Kim Muncie Comments: 0

Little Hurt (Colin Dieden, Ex-The Mowglis) Releases New Single “Cooler If U Did”

2022 has been a busy year so far for Alt.Pop artist Little Hurt (Colin Dieden, Ex-The Mowglis) with touring ramping up again. He continues to explore the edges of Alt. Pop & Alternative Rock with new single “Cooler If U Did”, due to be released on Friday, 9/16. The song features a tight groove and a soaring atmospheric chorus that is instantly memorable. Dieden says “Cooler If U Did’ was a song that was written after I went…

Posted on: September 26, 2022 Posted by: Kim Muncie Comments: 0

Singer/Songwriter Paul Nourigat Releases New Music

Paul Nourigat isn’t going to let the world and life he loves sink down the drain, if that’s where it’s headed, without saying something about it. His EP collection of demos Complex Truths presents listeners with three tracks that tackle modern life with unsparing contempt for anything that strikes Nourigat as limiting individual potential. Potential is a wide thing. It’s potential for happiness, material success, and decision-making mundane and large, and Nourigat…

Posted on: September 25, 2022 Posted by: Kim Muncie Comments: 0

Les Fradkin Drops New Single

Les Fradkin’s return under the moniker California feat. Les Fradkin isn’t any attempt to cash in on a moribund but potentially lucrative musical brand name. The band’s original incarnation notched a few hits in the 1970s before bowing out at the dawn of the 1980s. Rejuvenating the band sounds and feels like unfinished business for Fradkin, however. The new single “Perfect World” is unquestionably pop. The harmony vocals, piano, guitar,…

Posted on: September 25, 2022 Posted by: Kim Muncie Comments: 0

Singer/Songwriter Ralph Curtis Releases “Man You Want Me To Be”

The newest single by Country Singer/Songwriter, Ralph Curtis, is an emotional trigger, in the quietest way possible. While that description may sound like something of an oxymoron, there’s just such a contemplative and gentile quality to “Man You Want Me To Be.” The song begins with a hollow and unobtrusive piano riff, yet it manages to immediately subdue your sensibilities. At 5 minutes in length, “Man You Want Me To…

Posted on: September 18, 2022 Posted by: Kim Muncie Comments: 1

Pistols at Dawn Release New Music

You could say that there are a lot of big concept pieces in mainstream rock right now and you’d be 100% right, if not understating the situation just a bit in 2022. Everyone hates the term progressive when it comes to contemporary rock aesthetics, but when it comes to embracing the qualities of storytelling and camp that made prog what it always was, most are going full-steam ahead; save for…

Posted on: September 16, 2022 Posted by: Kim Muncie Comments: 0

A few minutes with Sp8ce Owl

“Digital Breathing” has incredibly mesmerizing visuals! How do you feel all of the clips included came together to encompass the sound and feel of the track? I am very happy with how the video came together. This song is one of the more narrative based releases. I feel the video really encapsulated what I was trying to say, which I guess if I were to put it into words it…

Posted on: September 14, 2022 Posted by: Kim Muncie Comments: 0

Joe Macre’s “The Dream is Free” LP

No one will look at you askance when you say, “Who’s Crack the Sky?” I didn’t know the story behind this 70’s prog rock band bestowed with a breathtaking brush with ever-lasting fame only to end up defeated by circumstance and largely forgotten. It’s well-worth looking up and reading. The band’s members didn’t necessarily fold up their respective tents and abandon any hope of making music; many went on, in…