#songwrier

[amontech]

Video: Oxlade - Bad Boy (feat. Mayorkun)

Nigerian singer and songwrier, Oxlade has released the video to his single titled “Bad Boy” featuring Mayorkun.,”Bad Boy” is a follow up for his previously released single “Ku Lo Sa” which went ahead to be one of the biggest songs in 2022.,Oxlade gears up his forthcoming project with this colorful visuals that befits the contagious song.,The music video was directed by Joe Penney.,Watch video…

[aebeats]

Solid interview with songwriter Kelleigh Bannen, talking about the song “Church Clothes”. You’ll pick up a thing or two if you’re a songwriter... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/58ebef16e4b081da6ad006c8

[catturnermusic]

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[iheartmoosiq]

We’re jonesing for Myylo, a Nashville-based LGBTQ pop writer and performer whose latest single happens to be named Jonesing! Get ready to swoon as this dashing up-and-comer spices up our night with his charming doo wop pop, swimming with janky classical guitar, idiosyncratic lyricism, lo-fi saxophone licks, and shimmering harmonies. There’s a 60s aura to his sweet candied, handsome wooing pop that combines saccharine BØRNS with the lyrical cadence of Alec Benjamin, all drizzled with a splash of Bruno Mars swagger. Jonesing was written about the hardships of long-distance dating and the unfortunate acceptance that the relationship won’t work out. Myylo juxtaposes mature lyricism with a playful and whimsical tone, exploring what it’s like to “want a boy who’s just too damn far away”. 2018 was already a big year for Myylo, having penned and performed the Starbucks 2018 National Holiday Campaign. Myylo also supported several major label artists over the course of the year. 2019 looks to be even bigger for Myylo, who stands tall on the back of this ace new tune.  Offering some insight into the new single, Myylo explains,“I decided to take a stab at the long-distance thing last year and for a while, I was digging it: Facetiming for hours, weeklong trips to each other's cities, and even the drama and tension of being apart. But, at a certain point, I just kind of realized that things had to fizzle out. "Jonesing" is me processing that against an energetic and whimsical soundscape.” Catch Myylo live on various intimate dates these next few months, including a Sofar Sounds living room show in San Francisco on January 31st. Listen to Myylo on Spotify, here.

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A CROWN FOR LUCY FRONTMAN DYLAN MATHERS CATCHES UP WITH ANDY MAITLAND TO TALK ALBUM PRODUCTION, FLORISTRY, AND JUST WHO THE FUCK IS LUCY?

For someone who is a self-proclaimed ‘spotlight avoiderer’, Dylan Mathers is doing a wonderful job of handling the new attention being thrust his way.          ‘I never wanted to be a frontman,’ he tells me over coffee at his local. ‘But I guess that’s just kind of how the pieces fell.’ Lead singer, guitarist, and main lyricist for newcomer A CROWN FOR LUCY, Mathers has had a lot on his schedule penning the band’s debut release and preparing for their first headlining tour. He’s gracious enough to remind me of the hard work his fellow band member put in when I mention this, and I’m once again reminded of how put together he seems. We last met hot off the heels of the band’s supersonic rise in popularity, and both times I’m struck at his modesty. It/s no wonder the band has positioned him to be the frontman - he has the marketable good looks and the talent, but he’s never willing to overshadow the other members.          ‘Lucy has never been a one-man-show,’ he says. ‘Never has been. I’d be nothing without the guys.’ The guys are of course bassist Miriam Fasil, drummer Rupert Faulks, and rhythm guitarist Allison  Ishikawa. A group of people who met whilst in detention, the comparisons to both The Breakfast Club, and the DCOM Lemonade Mouth are plentiful and unavoidable.          ‘It’s not like we were fucking around cleaning and suddenly realized we were jamming,’ Mathers is quick to clarify. ‘It was more like a gradual realization and acknowledgement. I think Ali wore a shirt Miri and I commented on, and Rupe later mentioned something about a new kick drum he had to get. But we didn’t, like, put it all together for a while afterwards. It took us following each other on TikTok to see the potential.’          And TikTok is, indeed, what has helped their career. It was thanks to a series of videos in which they created short songs based on followers comments and suggestions that really propelled them into the stratosphere.          ‘We got a comment that used the word bardolatry and it just kinda of ... stemmed from there. We posted it and the next day my sister called me saying it had blown up. She was like ‘Fuck, I should have got your signatures for eBay.’          Making songs from random words found in their comments does seem on-brand for the singer-songwrier - not only is his mother a high school English teacher; he shares his name with a famous poet. ‘Dylan Thomas, yeah,’ he nods. ‘The ‘do not go fearful into that good night’ guy. Mom was reading him when she went into labor with me, I’m pretty sure.’          It’s insights like this that make one think Mathers and the band are open and public about themselves - after all, they found fame through a social media app. But then I remember that the insights given are curated in such a way that, whilst they seem open, don’t divulge too much. We still don’t know the true origins of the band’s name, though many have asked - myself included. Is it a Narnia reference? A Beatles reference? A Xena: Warrior Princess reference somehow? They stay tight-lipped about it, smiling knowingly. As their audience, we can know the color of their bedroom walls, but not, who LUCY is.          Still, we will take any and all insights we can. I ask him how the debut is going, and if he’s excited for the upcoming tour. ‘Real nice,’ he replies, a fervent glint in his eyes. ‘I think it’s gonna be something people’ll really like. Or maybe not, you know. Music’s subjective an’ shit. You like what you like and you don’t what you don’t. If you like it, fuckin’ great. If you don’t - that’s cool too, and I hope you find something you vibe with.’ He takes a moment to talk about how so many people base their opinions using other people’s as a metric, which almost always skews their own in a certain direction. I ask again about the tour. Their first headlining tour, with their own opening act.           ‘Absolutely nuts,’ Mathers says with a nod of his head. ‘If you’d asked me a year ago what I’d be doing, I would’ve said helping Dad with his floristry business. Miri was gonna go into Medicine. I still don’t think her parents have quite got over her telling them she’s not going to Med school and instead gonna see how this band thing’ll pan out.’ He grins. ‘And we’ve got an opening act! For me, that was like ‘oh, yeah, I think we might be something here.’ I’ve been a fan of their for a little bit so it took me by surprise when we found out. It’s gonna be great. I think people‘ll really enjoy it. I know we will.’

TICKETS FOR THE BACKWARDS AND IN HIGH HEELS TOUR GO ON SALE APRIL 15TH.

[joemuggs]

I Don’t Wanna Go

J Mascis is one of the best rock stars ever, I love him so much. I was reminded by this great Rolling Stone interview how great his (incredibly dry) chat is so I dug out this thing I did with him for the late lamented The Word mag in 2007.... actually not sure this ever ran...

FILM/TV: I’ve been watching a lot of DVD TV series, the whole series in one go. Gray’s Anatomy has been good, I like long, long dramas – things like seem like a really long, long, bad movie. I like just the quantity, the fact you can watch it for so long; I can get into just about anything if it’s long enough, if it’s really bad it might take 8 episodes to get into, but I’ll get into it. I started watching Dawson’s Creek recently, having never seen it before; the first series of that was actually really good, but I’m on the second one now and it’s getting horrible quite fast – I don’t know if I can power through another seven seasons or so. The girls all seem to break up with Dawson for absolutely no reason, it’s just not believable, they’re in love one day then the next they want to break up just for drama’s sake. A lot of these long series get horrible as they go on – I’m fed up with the Gilmore Girls which is on its seventh and last series now, and it seems all the talent on the series has been pushed out and the whole thing is just melodramatic and cheesy, where it used to be full of banter, full of people drinking a lot of coffee and talking fast, which is something I really appreciate. Same with The OC this year, it’s got pretty bad – Marissa has died and it’s gone boring. I watched Pan’s Labyrinth and Last King Of Scotland this year – but I was surprised how violent both of them were. I almost wish I’d left before the horrible stuff started – I hate that inevitable violence… I like random violence in movies, non-sequitur violence, slapstick violence, guys losing arms randomly, stuff like that. I loved Grizzly Man, the guy who got eaten by the bear, that guy was just so wild; I love Crumb too, for the same reason: that I like watching people who are crazier than I am. My favourite films are Crumb, Rushmore and Harold & Maude, they all speak to different parts of my life.

BOOKS: I read a lot of rock biographies. All of them, in fact. Just now I was reading the Mick Fleetwood biography – I was really interested to find out about Peter Green and also Stevie Nicks, and about the middle period between those eras. I read a book about the Ramones that their road manager wrote, that was really interesting. I read a lot of kinda spiritual books as well, I like to get different perspectives on what different people are thinking about – recently I’ve read some parts of books by [Amachi] who’s an Indian saint, and Dalai Lama books. I don’t really like it if it’s some yuppie guy who’s decided he’s New Age. I don’t like the New Age, I’m more interested in things that have stood the test of times. I also like Image Guitar Magazine, geeky stuff – I like to know about effects, and see the latest prices of old guitars, just to shock myself. Especially lately it’s really accelerated, a guitar can go from $20,000 to $100,000 in two years in these weird stores that are dedicated to rich people who collect guitars as investments, putting so much money in that they’re afraid to pick it up in case they wipe off a hundred grand in value!

MUSIC: The Fleetwood Mac thing is a big interest for me, I have a thing about the blues kinda rock of the time – Peter Green, Taste, Rory Gallagher, Free, Groundhogs, stuff like that. Dinosaur Jr was always a combining of all the eras we loved, so there was that blues rock, then Beach Boys, Black Sabbath, and from the 80s Birthday Party, Minor Threat, the first Jesus & Mary Chain records, My Bloody Valentine, even REM – these are all things I listen to sometimes, kinda in cycles. For more recent stuff I see a lot of bands play in my town, there’s a scene of all these people playing together, which I see live rather than listening to, a small scene so every show is different, improvisational. MV&EE are a part of that, which is how I came to play the mellotron on their album. Witch, another band I play with, came out of that too, though they’re a bit more Black Sabbath, a bit more song-based than the “free folk” guys like MV&EE. Some of these new metal-influenced bands with drone stuff, that guy from Sunn 0))) for example, are involved with this scene too, and Japanese bands who visit, like Acid Mothers Temple and Boris. Everyone has the same influences, it seems – Black Sabbath, Bert Jansch, Velvet Underground, but the way they combine those have quite different results. It’s still underground, definitely for kids who aren’t fitting in, these are pretty intelligent people, left-wing people, not mainstream at all. I saw Jeffrey Lewis recently, a really funny video of his about Will Oldham, about how all the hip kids on the New York Williamsburg scene are looking for a Jesus figure to give them all the answers. I saw (Smog) solo for the first time the other day, and I was so impressed, he’s funny too, but a great songwrier. Joanna Newsom was following but (Smog) was just in another league. He writes a real pop song.

[2ne-sone]

I am so confused as to why people never fail to forget that BROWN EYED GIRLS will be celebrating their ELEVENTH, I repeat, ELEVENTH, anniversary this year and have never had any lineup changes. 

Girls’ Generation is not the last nor the longest running second gen group standing. Everyone always forgets that BEG exists and it’s really sad tbh

[jasntodds]

Opinion on singer-songwriters like Taylor Swift/Ed Sheeran?

I love them!!!!!!! Singer-songwriers literally put ALL of themselves out there for people to just judge. Like, they write the lyrics and the lyrics MEAN something to them and yeah, they might mean something to whoever listens to the songs but it’s not the same. They’re incredible, especially those two.

Ask me my opinion on ___

[crownsings]

rolling  stone  magazine  april  2021

A CROWN FOR LUCY FRONTMAN DYLAN MATHERS CATCHES UP WITH ANDY MAITLAND TO TALK ALBUM PRODUCTION, FLORISTRY, AND JUST WHO THE FUCK IS LUCY?

For someone who is a self-proclaimed ‘spotlight avoiderer’, Dylan Mathers is doing a wonderful job of handling the new attention being thrust his way.         ‘I never wanted to be a frontman,’ he tells me over coffee at his local. ‘But I guess that’s just kind of how the pieces fell.’ Lead singer, guitarist, and main lyricist for newcomer A CROWN FOR LUCY, Mathers has had a lot on his schedule penning the band’s debut release and preparing for their first headlining tour. He’s gracious enough to remind me of the hard work his fellow band member put in when I mention this, and I’m once again reminded of how put together he seems. We last met hot off the heels of the band’s supersonic rise in popularity, and both times I’m struck at his modesty. It’s no wonder the band has positioned him to be the frontman - he has the marketable good looks and the talent, but he’s never willing to overshadow the other members.         ‘Lucy has never been a one-man-show,’ he says. ‘Never has been. I’d be nothing without the guys.’ The guys are of course bassist Miriam Al-Fasil, drummer Rupert Faulks, and rhythm guitarist Allison  Ishikawa. A group of people who met whilst in detention, the comparisons to both The Breakfast Club, and the DCOM Lemonade Mouth are plentiful and unavoidable.         ‘It’s not like we were fucking around cleaning and suddenly realized we were jamming,’ Mathers is quick to clarify. ‘It was more like a gradual realization and acknowledgement. I think Ali wore a shirt Miri and I commented on, and Rupe later mentioned something about a new kick drum he had to get. But we didn’t, like, put it all together for a while afterwards. It took us following each other on TikTok to see the potential.’         And TikTok is, indeed, what has helped their career. It was thanks to a series of videos in which they created short songs based on followers comments and suggestions that really propelled them into the stratosphere.         ‘We got a comment that used the word bardolatry and it just kinda of … stemmed from there. We posted it and the next day my sister called me saying it had blown up. She was like ‘Fuck, I should have got your signatures for eBay.’         Making songs from random words found in their comments does seem on-brand for the singer-songwrier - not only is his mother a high school English teacher; he shares his name with a famous poet. ‘Dylan Thomas, yeah,’ he nods. ‘The ‘do not go fearful into that good night’ guy. Mom was reading him when she went into labor with me, I’m pretty sure.’         It’s insights like this that make one think Mathers and the band are open and public about themselves - after all, they found fame through a social media app. But then I remember that the insights given are curated in such a way that, whilst they seem open, don’t divulge too much. We still don’t know the true origins of the band’s name, though many have asked - myself included. Is it a Narnia reference? A Beatles reference? A Xena: Warrior Princess reference somehow? They stay tight-lipped about it, smiling knowingly. As their audience, we can know the color of their bedroom walls, but not, who LUCY is.         Still, we will take any and all insights we can. I ask him how the debut is going, and if he’s excited for the upcoming tour. ‘Real nice,’ he replies, a fervent glint in his eyes. ‘I think it’s gonna be something people’ll really like. Or maybe not, you know. Music’s subjective an’ shit. You like what you like and you don’t what you don’t. If you like it, fuckin’ great. If you don’t - that’s cool too, and I hope you find something you vibe with.’ He takes a moment to talk about how so many people base their opinions using other people’s as a metric, which almost always skews their own in a certain direction. I ask again about the tour. Their first headlining tour, with their own opening act.          ‘Absolutely nuts,’ Mathers says with a nod of his head. ‘If you’d asked me a year ago what I’d be doing, I would’ve said helping Dad with his floristry business. Miri was gonna go into Medicine. I still don’t think her parents have quite got over her telling them she’s not going to Med school and instead gonna see how this band thing’ll pan out.’ He grins. ‘And we’ve got an opening act! For me, that was like ‘oh, yeah, I think we might be something here.’ I’ve been a fan of their for a little bit so it took me by surprise when we found out. It’s gonna be great. I think people‘ll really enjoy it. I know we will.’

TICKETS FOR THE BACKWARDS AND IN HIGH HEELS TOUR GO ON SALE APRIL 15TH.

[anastasiabeaverhousen87]

if you dont mind me asking what is it about singer/songwrier B!D that you're uncomfortable with?

Is not that don’t like it , i just don’t feel it man. Is not that it’s uncomfortable, it’s just something that doesn’t make me feel like siting down and write about .Just don’t know what to write nothing comes to mind. I tried to come up with an idea or something but nothing happened. It doesn’t make sense to me. If it does to you or someone else that’s cool. It’s a concept that I cannot relate with in any kind of way. Sorry but that’s the way I feel on that .

[beautifuljellyfishnightmare]

"Gettin' Closer..." Live #Acoustic #CountryMusic #Songwrier #therapy #Ra...

[iheartmoosiq]

Today’s a truly magical day, because today, a truly magical musician has unveiled an intoxicating new song to light up our lives. French-Canadian singer songwriter and producer Josie Boivin, better known as rising star MUNYA, dashes out of Montreal to enamor us with her first bilingual song, Benjamin, the second single from her third EP Blue Pine. The EP is the final release from a trilogy of EPs, all featuring her own hand-drawn artwork, and which will culminate in a self-titled compilation. Benjamin, her first song sung both in French and English, is a dreamy whirring melange of MUNYA’s genre-blending sounds. It fuses her honeyed groove, her ethereal indie pop, and her warped heady psychedelics to create a silky plush and lacey chiffon sonic treat that feels like we’ve surrendered ourselves to a surreal dream or a teasing, shimmering mirage. “Many times in my life when I thought I had found love it turned into heartbreak,” Boivin explains. “Like most people, it has made it harder for me to be vulnerable with new experiences and people. In this song I take a step back and realize it's how we all feel. I make fun of my own vulnerabilities, try to just push them to the side and enjoy my new love.” MUNYA will be performing at New Colossus Festival in NYC on March 7th and she’ll be making her SXSW debut in Austin the following week, where we’ve made it a priority to catch her live even though we just took in her dazzling stage presence here in San Francisco late last year when she opened for Cults. New EP Blue Pine follows on 2018′s North Hatley and Delmano. It’ll arrive on March 8th via Luminelle. Pre-order the EP, here. 

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[iheartmoosiq]

Over the years, I’ve developed a massive fondness for artists like Damien Rice and Ben Howard. That’s probably one of the reasons why I find myself falling for Mark Wilkinson’s Thought You’d Be Around, though its heart melting folk is dusted with more pastoral allure, as well as a mellifluous tone that recalls the music of Don McLean and a hint of Tracy Chapman. The single is the first offering from the Australian singer songwriter’s forthcoming full length album, Blue Eyed Girls. Through it, Wilkinson tells tales of lost love and heartbreak, expressed with his warm, effortless acoustic touch. New album Blue Eyed Girls arrives this March. Mark Wilkinson will begin an Australian tour to coincide with its release, after which he’ll head over to the US in June with dates already confirmed in Chicago and right here in San Francisco.  Says Wilkinson: “’Thought You’d Be Around’ is about packing your bags and heading off to somewhere new. I think we often find ourselves in situations where we are waiting for something to happen, whether it's love, change, success, happiness. Often things are beyond our control and that sense of waiting can be paralyzing. This song is about letting go of the past, moving forward and embracing the now. I wanted the music to have a lightness to it and for the track to feel free and hopeful like you’re driving on an empty freeway that leads you somewhere beautiful.” Tour info and album pre-order links can be found, here. His San Francisco show is at the Hotel Utah Saloon on June 2nd.