Tacron John have this week released their album Truthful, You Make Me Scream which features singles “Saw You At A Party”, “Retro Dance”, and “On Your Way”. It's available on all platforms from July 7th.
The songs was recorded in San Diego, CA at Anticline Studios, produced by Eric Cathcart, and performed by Dan Morilak (Drums), Frank Hankin (Bass), Joe Arlauskas (Lead Guitar), and Tony Casciano (Rhythm Guitar & Vocals).
Tacron John releases their new album, Truthfully…You Make Me Scream. This is a follow-up to their debut album It’s About Time…Don’t You Think? released in 2021, reflecting the band’s penchant for light and hard rock, blues, ballads, R&B, and country.
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We have the second single from the Cincinnati based artist Henry James House. After recording and touring in various incarnations under the name Pop Empire, House steps to the forefront of these recordings recording under his own name. Last Lights Off The Black West is a fascinating exploration of a distinctly American mode of soul-searching. A kind of Darkness at the Edge of Town / Last Picture Show glimpse of the vanishing natural world and fading American dream that seems to be the domain of Midwestern artist.
While possessing a distinctive Marc Bolan swagger and stomp, these tracks feel and sound haunted by a deep sense of ennui and spiritual hunger that undergird the Blues that House covers on Last Lights...Blues is a broad tent here that extends to the 19th Century Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins (God's Grandeur), Memphis Slim (Mother Earth), Rev. Thomas Dorsey (Rock Me) to The Jesus and Mary Chain (Living End) alongside seven of House's original compositions.
"Lagan Dream" is an immersive reawakening of a beloved traditional Irish air, blending a trip-hop foundation in the drum and bass, haunting vocals and keyboard layers, deliciously melancholy guitar, drums interplaying masterfully with drum machine, and smoky saxophone. The lyrics, which weave an excerpt from Alice In Wonderland into traditional verses, reinforce the dream-like atmosphere of the song.
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Welcome to the brave, new world of music, performance art, and cinema that is Samantha Harlow’s new project, By A Thread. Or rather, meet Veronica LaMorte, a dreamy-eyed lounge singer, murdered and then rebuilt by her mad scientist husband. Don’t worry, no spoilers here!
As a collection of songs alone, Harlow’s By A Thread, produced by Grammy-nominated, Dex Green, sonically leans into mid-century pop/rock n roll somewhere in the orbit of The Ronnettes and Nancy Sinatra. “I wanted to stretch out beyond Nashville country, and felt more drawn to the sounds of 60s girl groups, beach pop and surf sounds,” says Harlow.
But it wasn’t until the album was fully tracked at 3Sirens Studio in Nashville, that Harlow had a broader vision to create a companion short film series, where she stars as Veronica LaMorte, and takes inspiration from filmmakers like Ed Wood and Mel Brooks. The result is a Song Cinema collection exploring horror, humor, vulnerability and not being bound by societal norms.
Make no mistake, midwestern Harlow, raised in a suburb of St. Paul, Minnesota, is no typical “girl-next-door.” She may have spent Sunday mornings singing in church alongside a large extended family, but on other days found fascination with 80s hair metal and the oldies station. “I wanted to be Steven Tyler,” says Harlow. An artsy kid that enjoyed dressing up, Harlow went on to study classical and jazz vocal performance in college, followed by an intensive program at Martha’s Vineyard for songwriting and recording. The Sixth Installment of the By a Thread Series, “I Gotta Go,” Arrives July 22, 2026.
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Scottish singer-songwriter Alex Amor today shares latest single 'Aquamarine' - a new taste of her forthcoming debut album Heavenly Bodies, out 21st August via New York independent label VERO Music. Alex Amor today also announces an intimate in-store and signing at Rough Trade Denmark Street on 26th August. New single 'Aquamarine' began with an unlikely encounter in Los Angeles, where an oracle card reader told Amor she'd "find her answers near a body of water". That encounter led her to an impromptu recording session with Australian producer Matthew Neighbour (Role Model, Lord Huron) in his LA studio.
Built around burnished guitars, featherlight percussion and an easygoing Americana pulse filtered through modern indie-pop, 'Aquamarine' sees Amor look back on childhood summers along the windswept beaches of Scotland's west coast.
Speaking on the song, Alex said: "I was in LA on a writing trip and an oracle card reader at my hotel told me I'd find my answers near a body of water. So I did what all completely sane and rational people do: I listened to a random guy I'd just met. I ended up cycling to Manhattan Beach, where the first lyrics to Aquamarine came to me. Right after I wrote the lyrics, Matthew Neighbour saw on Instagram that I was in LA, invited me to his studio, and we finished the song during the final days of my trip. Sometimes, you just have to do things before they start making sense.
"The lyric 'west coast air' has a double meaning. It refers to LA, but also to growing up and spending my summers on the west coast of Scotland - especially around the peninsula of Carradale Bay. Aquamarine is a love song, but also an ode to that summer feeling: salt in your hair, wanting summer to last forever. When I think of my happiest moments, where I felt true freedom and peace, it's on those Scottish beaches: a child running around wild, being dragged out of the sea blue from the cold, never wanting to leave the ocean."
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Last month, the Athens, GA-born Futurebirds released their first-ever double album Far Out Country via Dualtone Records. In a physical-first rollout, the full 18-song collection was released exclusively on vinyl, while just the first 9 songs that comprise Far Out Country I arrived on streaming services. Today, the band announced that the second half of the album Far Out Country II will arrive digitally on September 4 and also released the album’s first single, “Sober Somewhere.”
About the song, Thomas Johnson explains: I wrote “Sober Somewhere” for my partner of 17 years. It’s about being in love and what that means over the course of so much time. Some things get stronger, some things fade. Daily life changes dramatically, and the threat of the road is always looming to drop a bomb in an otherwise peaceful lagoon of love. More than anything it’s a statement of commitment. “Despite all that we’ve been through, and all that we’re sure to go through in the future, you can count on me being here for you and our family. To love and support, always.”
The first verse celebrates the strange and amazing relationship we have. As in, I don’t know how this works and I don’t know of any other like it, but I don’t think I could love you more. The second verse ruminates on the inevitability of growing apart, at least in some ways, over the course of such a long time, but being attentive and self-aware enough in those moments to reel each other back in and rediscover the fire that makes our love so special.
I actually wrote the bridge/outro years earlier than the rest of the song, but it’s also about my partner. It’s about wanting to be with her anywhere, doing anything, instead of being where I was at the time (in this case, a dive bar in Georgetown). It touches on the challenges of balancing two things I love immensely (my lover and my music), trying to give both the nurturing they need and deserve without draining myself completely or going insane.
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