Music of the World

OFFICIAL : https://www.sarahdonner.com FACEBOOK : https://www.facebook.com/sarahdonner/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/sarahdonner MUSIC VIDEO: (PHOENIX) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j13Jwyb-AnA Written by Daniel Boyer, posted by blog admin Sarah Donner’s twelve song collection Black Hole Heart stands as the latest peak in this New Jersey based songwriter’s continuing musical journey. Donner’s unique mix of beautifully melodic vocals, folk, pop, and singer/songwriter tendencies comes together in an acoustic package with songs never threatening to tax listener’s patience with over-indulgence. She keeps everything focused and emphasizes a melody first approach, but these are songs are distinguished by top shelf lyrical content intelligently straddling a line between performed poetry and well-worded yet conversational lines. She works with a relatively small cast of supporting musicians and some key guest stars make their presence felt on a couple of the album’s ...

OFFICIAL: http://elliotschneidermusic.com/ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/elliot.schneider.1 Written by William Elgin, posted by blog admin The story behind an album like Don’t Put All Your Eggs in One Basketcase and its creative guiding light Elliot Schneider is the stuff of unadulterated rock and roll legend. Schneider came of age during a halcyon era in our national history, the now fabled 1960’s and 1970’s, and rubbed elbows with a number of iconic figures through fate’s unpredictable machinations and his musical ambitions. His personal history boasts brushes with giants like Les Paul, John Hammond Sr., and Murray the K, among others, as well as going down as one of the first acts to debut at seminal New York City venue CBGB’s on a Saturday night – a plum distinction Schneider and his then band the Pitts enjoy with such names as Blondie, Television, and Patti Smith. Schneider later left popular music behind and became a high school history and philosophy teache...

OFFICIAL: http://greggstewartmusic.com/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/gstewartmusic INSTAGRAM: instagram.com/thatgreggstewart Written by Bradley Johnson, posted by blog admin Gregg Stewart is full of surprises. One might assume that releasing a successful solo debut and intending on following it up in the same year with your second solo release entailed writing a new slate of songs. Stewart confounds our expectations, however, and shows himself to be a musician willing to follow his muse wherever it leads by, instead, making that second solo release a covers album. It’s, typically, the sort of release we associate with long-standing acts who, entertain themselves playing old favorites after a successful run with their original material. It isn’t what we’re used to, at all, from a indie artist making his first meaningful forays into the music world on his own and not part of a band. Based in California via New Jersey, Stewart organized this collection around selecting ...