1) Please introduce yourself Oh, Hello. We’re Aabaraki — an Alt-Soul band out of Brooklyn, NY. Our sound is described as a sort of Gnarls Barkley meets The Black Keys kind of sound. and that really only scratches the surface. Akie Bermiss on keys and vocals; Brian Forbes on guitar; Ari Folman-Cohen on bass; and [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2012’
An Exclusive Interview with The Mad Things
1) Please introduce yourself. Hi, how are you? We’re The Mad Things, it’s nice to meet you. What did you say your name was again? Really? That’s a weird name… 2) How did you come up with your stage name? Our parents actually named us The Mad Things at birth. It’s a pretty sensitive subject [...]
Recording artist Machine Gun Kelly released a music video
INTERSCOPE/EST 19XX/BAD BOY ARTIST MACHINE GUN KELLY COLLECTS 2CHAINZ, MEEK MILL, MYSTIKAL, FRENCH MONTANA, YO GOTTI, STEVE-O AND MORE ON ”WILD BOY (REMIX)” MUSIC VIDEO Cleveland native and Interscope/EST 19XX/Bad Boy recording artist Machine Gun Kelly released a music video to the remix of his highly successful “Wild Boy” single yesterday, April 25th. The music video features an incredible collection of [...]
An Interview with Ukranian Composer Sergey Rybytskyy
Grew up in a small mining town in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, composer and keyboardist Sergey Rybytskyy is a mining engineer by day and a composer by night. Sergey has always known that his true passion is music, but life has led him to pursue a career in mining engineering. While earning his degree in a duo program in [...]
An Exclusive Interview with Derrick N. Ashong & Soulfège
1) Please introduce yourself I’m Derrick N. Ashong, my friends call me DNA, and my band is called Soulfège. 2) How did you come up with your stage name? The band name comes from a way of teaching vocal music using the “Sol-fa” syllables. So when you hear Julie Andrews singing “doe-a-dear, a female [...]
The eclectic and compelling world of Derrick N. Ashong & Soulfège
If you find that your musical and cultural diet has felt a little bland lately, and have been wondering where you might find fresh sounds and ideas that surpass in sum and substance the increasingly monotone world of urban music today, well search no more—welcome to the eclectic and compelling world of Derrick N. [...]
Rockie Fresh drops “Into The Future”
Rockie Fresh drops “Into The Future” from Driving 88 release April 23, 2012 - Today, Chicago MC Rockie Fresh premiered a music video for the song“Into The Future” off his latest release Driving 88. The Nem Perez directed music video is the third visual off Driving 88 following “How We Do” that features King Louie and “No Fear.” “Into The Future” picks [...]
DERRICK N. ASHONG & SOULFЀGE’S ‘MILLION FREE DOWNLOAD CAMPAIGN’
DERRICK N. ASHONG & SOULFЀGE’S ‘MILLION FREE DOWNLOAD CAMPAIGN’ CREATES OPEN SOURCE MOVEMENT TO EMPOWER ARTISTS & AUDIENCES WITH INNOVATIVE MUSIC BUSINESS MODEL New York, NY, April 23, 2012—Ghana-born Derrick N. Ashong & Soulfège’s Million Download Campaign (MDC) is much more than merely a single campaign, it’s the concept of open source empowerment and a [...]
An Exclusive Interview with Gio
1) Introduce yourself Hey my name is G/O, Pop sensation, the future face of world music. 2) How did you come up with your stage name? I just took the first three letters of my name Giovannie and since I am character diverse ball of fun all around artist with multiple styles split down the [...]