R&B
Premiere: Joseph Luca shares ‘Full Time Lover’ video with new EP imminent
This song’s been kicking around for a little bit (originally released in January 2021!), so it’s nice to see it folded into the first of a triptych of new EPs from Los Angeleno Joseph Luca. A few weeks back, we shared its lead single ‘Nowhere’, and have been getting to grips with the imminent new …
News: Award-winning Melbourne blues stalwarts, Checkerboard Lounge set to release new album, Roller Coaster
Following on from the 2022 release of the acclaimed SUN Sessions album (recorded at the legendary Sun Studios in Memphis), Checkerboard Lounge have just announced the upcoming release of Roller Coaster on the 8th December, with the new album being co-produced by Jeff Lang and released via Cheersquad Records. The album is preceded by the …
Premiere: Joseph Luca announces new EP and shares soulful lead single ‘Nowhere’
Since getting back on it after understandably hitting the skids in 2020 (who didn’t?), LA-based Joseph Luca‘s been honing his skills via the medium of quickfire single releases. He’s put three out this year so far, and one of them, ‘Green Lights’, is going to be on his debut EP. There’s plenty more to come, …
Premiere: Sid Seth hones his pop instincts further on irresistible new single ‘Sunday’
You should get to know New Yorker Sid Seth. He’s only got a handful of singles out, the most recent being March’s ‘Hopeless War’, but it feels like he’s really starting to hit his stride. There’s a little Bollywood and Indian classical influence in there, a little R&B, but what he hasn’t done yet is …
News: Chase Atlantic release new single ‘Mamacita’
The Aussie-born, LA-based trio are authors of their own genre, once again blurring the boundaries of modern, Gen Z-inspired pop music. Here, they cross-pollinate Latin beats, hip-swaying, tropical percussion, fresh and sunny soundscapes, and sweet vocal melodies. If there was ever a track to extend the summer, it’s ‘MAMACITA’. You’ll find yourself loving and needing …
Album Review : And Is Phi – ‘Double Pink’ : Vibrant and vital nu-jazz vocalist opens up a new chapter.
Vocalist, song writer, dancer and visual artist, Andrea Isabelle Phillips (aka And Is Phi) talks about her first album ‘Double Pink’ out now on Albert’s Favourites as something that’s been cultivated over time. Well it may have been simmering in her imagination for a while but that doesn’t mean we have a recording that’s stewed, …
Gallery: Teddy Swims / Saibh Skelly, 3Olympia, Dublin 17.07.2023
On Monday, July 17th, Atlanta-based singer-songwriter Teddy Swims took to the stage of Dublin’s 3Olympia Theatre, for a sold out show. The singer, who performed two sold-out Academy shows last year, performed a 90-minute set full of originals, unreleased songs, and cover songs. Support on the night came from Dublin-based rising star Saibh Skelly, who …
Track: Temptress Share The Velvety Summer Sizzler ‘Cuppa Tea’
London R&B duo Temptress share the ethereally produced, sultry and effortlessly infectious new single ‘Cuppa Tea’. Having already received mass acclaim for previous releases, the duo’s new single adds to their growing catalogue of gorgeous electronic-R&B-alt-pop offerings with another track of warming sonic arrangements and melodic ear-worm melodies. Swiftly constructing a pillowy musical backdrop which …
Live Gallery: Rising Festival – Liv.e and Obongjayar, Forum Theatre, Melbourne, 15.06.2023
Feature photograph: Ian Bickerstaff
News: Mahalia announces Dublin / Belfast dates
In the world of music, there are shining beacons of light – artists, producers, musicians – that make us happy listeners and effortlessly provide us with inspiration. One of those UK artists is undoubtedly Mahalia. Her debut album ‘Love and Compromise landed in the summer of 2019 and soon became a critically acclaimed introduction. Through …