While the entire music industry is scrambling to come up with creative ways to keep business afloat and continue creating, My Black Ram has come up with a unique method of releasing their self-titled debut album. With a total lack of venues, the band has instead taken to serenading supporters at their doorsteps around the Fredericton area as they’ve gone about delivering purchased CDs, vinyl and T-shirts. Continue reading My Black Ram Takes to the Street with Driveway Delivery Concerts
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Single: Rube & Rake Suffer from Bicoastal Heartache on ‘Somewhere’
St. John’s, Newfoundland-based multiple Music NL award-winning Americana Folk duo Rube & Rake have been keeping relatively busy, or at least relatively productive, in the time of COVID. They’ve traded their long hauls on the road into something a lot closer to home via Home Routes and turned that time into songcraft. They’re releasing the first new material since their 2017 debut album, Back and Forth. On the heels of two previously released singles, “Fleeting Moment” and “What Will” comes “Somewhere,” a song about knowing where to rest your head. Continue reading Single: Rube & Rake Suffer from Bicoastal Heartache on ‘Somewhere’
Music Video: Soap Opera Record an At-Home Version of ‘Tension Mountain’
When Soap Opera recorded their latest album, Be Fire, in the summer of 2019 it was with a certain level of uncertainty in mind. Bandmates Adam Engram and Peter Lannon found themselves going through a period of big changes while the songs were being written. But it was the normal everyday kind of changes they were experiencing: love, work, school, and the other usual events that make up a life. They weren’t expecting the kind of unifying changes that could halt any plans for touring a new album and re-recording and re-releasing a new at-home version of their single “Tension Mountain”, but here we are. Continue reading Music Video: Soap Opera Record an At-Home Version of ‘Tension Mountain’
Music Video: Keonté Beals Challenges Toxic Masculinity on ‘KING’
Keonté Beals is back with a new video that hammers home the idea that if you’re not going into 2021 as a more empathetic person you have wasted your year. “KING” frames stoicism as toxic masculinity, the weight of which can negatively impact anyone’s mental well-being, but as Beals explains, under societal pressures and rigid scrutiny as a black man it can become a lifelong prison. Continue reading Music Video: Keonté Beals Challenges Toxic Masculinity on ‘KING’
East Coast Music Awards Announce Final Nine 2020 Award Winners
The East Coast Music Association rounded out a weekend of socially-distanced festivities with a broadcast awards show and a slew of performances. Having already announced the bulk of the 2020 award winners, the final night set aside some of the ECMA’s biggest categories. Among the biggest winners this year were Wintersleep and Tim Baker.
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