Month: October 2023

Emerging singer Naomi Sharon has announced her debut album, Obsidian, will release Oct. 20 via Drake’s OVO Sound. According to the album’s tracklist, shared by Sharon, Obsidian will feature 13 tracks, including the bonus track “Hills,” released in 2021.  Obsidian is preceded by the singles “Another Life” and “Definition of Love.” The album’s next single, “Regardless,” is set to
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When is a Finnish melodic death metal band, not a Finnish melodic death metal band? When said outfit, As the Sun Falls, was actually launched in Switzerland during the pandemic. So, even though the members—Mikko Voutilainen (vocals), Jani Mikkänen (guitars/vocals), Lauri Unkila (guitars), Oskar Englund (bass), Paul Rytkönen (drums)—are Finns (who sometimes sing in Finnish), we’re gonna go
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The new song “Everything is Possible” is a collaboration by two musical legends from different fields. Randy Edelman, who I have had the pleasure of interviewing previously, is a multifaceted composer and singer known for soundtracks such as Ghostbusters II and Gettysburg, as well as for contributing songs to the likes of Barry Manilow and
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German-born soul singer Joy Denalane makes her triumphant return with her new album, WILLPOWER. It extends her affiliation with Robert Dio Gioia and Max Herre, two of her longtime studio partners.  Denalane’s first studio album since her Motown Records debut, Let Yourself Be Loved, reflects several life changes, including the loss of her father and
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British death/thrash overlords Overthrow will haunt the metalverse ahead of Halloween with their new EP Ascension of the Entombed, available, conveniently enough, this Friday the 13th through Redefining Darkness Records. Formed in 2011 as a gritty thrash band in the London underground scene, Overthrow has evolved into an edgy, brutal, and merciless blackened death metal
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On this date (Oct. 9) in 1993, chances are good that Vince Gill was celebrating. It was that day that his single “One More Last Chance” became his third No. 1 hit. The comedic “One More Last Chance,” which Gill wrote with famed tunesmith Gary Nicholson, comes from Gill’s multi-platinum-selling album I Still Believe in You. That record spawned four
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