Searching for freedom and putting his heart on the sleeve for us all to be inspired by, Peter Thomas-Warman looks for the vital enlightenment that has been hiding away for too long on Revolution Then.
Peter Thomas-Warman is an Australian indie folk bedroom singer-songwriter and radiographer who projects his vocals rather sweetly.
Soaring so high and with so much love and care, Peter Thomas-Warman is that underground musician who assembles poetic-like stories to warm even the coldest veins back to life again. Revolution Then encapsulates the feelings of so many lost humans, who are searching for that empowering light.
Revolution Then from Australian indie folk bedroom singer-songwriter and radiographer Peter Thomas-Warman is an emotional roller coaster and shall surely massage your heart awake. Lyrically aware and with melodies that are made from actual experiences in life, this is the type of song to play when meditation is needed.
When it’s time to stand up for what is right, everything minor falls away forever.
Listen up to this new single on Spotify and see more on IG.
To much anticipation, both the film and the soundtrack to Black Panther: Wakanda Forever has hit the theaters and streaming platforms. And to the surprise of many, Rihanna has shared her second song from the project, “Born Again.”
Initially not on the original release of the soundtrack, “Born Again” was added as it plays during a crucial point in the film. Written by The-Dream, the song is another ballad (like “Life Me Up“) about overcoming one’s obstacles. Both the single and soundtrack can be heard below.
Rihanna Shares “Born Again” Single was last modified: November 11th, 2022 by Meka
If you like running… and running to music, you’re in for a treat. CIMB is bringing back The Music Run after a three-year hiatus, and it will take place on Saturday, 3 December 2022 at Technology Park Malaysia, Bukit Jalil.
If you aren’t familiar with The Music Run yet, it’s described as a “music-infused ‘Sound Track’ running event”. Previous editions, which took place from 2017 to 2019, saw 18,000 participants each year. Participants would also be able to stay on after the run with the renowned Live The Beat show—which showcases local bands and contagiously energetic performances.
This year will feature a showcase of local bands, and guest DJs alongside DJ Sam Withers and DJ Jesse Lawrence from Australia. Looking at the photos from previous events, it sure seems like hell of a party.
All participants will receive a Run Pack containing a limited-edition finisher medal, a unisex micro-dry T-Shirt, a car sticker, temporary tattoos, and a re-usable drawstring bag along with brand partner goodies. You can collect your Run Pack from 25 to 27 November 2022 at Starling Mall—before the event day.
How do I get free tickets?
We’re giving out 5 pairs of tickets for free! Here’s how you can win the tickets:
Step 1: Follow SoyaCincau and The Music Run on Facebook Step 2: In the comment section of this Instagram post, tell us your favourite workout song and tag your running buddy followed with the hashtags #TheMusicRunbyCIMB #LivetheBeat
For a bonus entry, you can also share the post on your Instagram Stories and tag @mysoyacincau.
The contest period will run from today, 11 November, until Monday, 14 November 2022. We’ll announce the giveaway winners on Tuesday, 15 November 2022! Best of luck!
T&Cs apply. Valid for residents of Malaysia only. 1 winner gets one pair of tickets.
Advent Carolndar Will Offer Holiday Shows at Chelsea Music Hall
The show includes new songs written by Julia Mattison and Joel Waggoner.
Joel Waggoner and Julia Mattison in Advent Carolndar Live!
Advent Carolndar, a previously digital initiative where Broadway veterans Julia Mattison and Joel Waggoner wrote a new holiday song every day in the 25 days leading to Christmas, has announced their first live shows.
Featuring songs from the three previous years of Advent Carolndar, as well as one-time-only improvised carols, Mattison and Waggoner will stir up holiday cheer at Chelsea Music Hall December 12 at 7 PM and 9:30 PM.
“Advent Carolndar was first born out of a wild caroling party at Julia’s house in 2018 where we sang ‘Why is Sausage Not a Christmas Food’ until 5 AM, and neighbors threatened to call the cops,” said Mattison and Waggoner. “Now, we’re so excited to finally be caroling with friends again, bringing our hijinks to Chelsea Music Hall, and joining our wonderful fans for a night of laughs, booze, and holiday cheer. If the cops are called this time, we will be sure to make them join us in a singalong.”
Advent Carolndar is directed and produced by Tim Drucker, with associate direction by Joyah Spangler.
The song “Nightdrive With You” gives you a taste of French producer Slowz‘s forward-thinking sound. His is a brand of future soul music heavy on electro pop influences.
Itself, “Nightdrive With You” is filled with enchanting melodies, engaging bassline and alluring female vocals. Emotional just as its danceable, this track is utterly irresistible.
“Nightdrive With You” is taken off of an upcoming EP that Slowz will be releasing on 18th November. That project is titled Good Old Times.
Creating ample anticipation for his upcoming dream folk album releasing in early 2023, the acoustic folk artist Peppler exposed his old soul in his lead single, Blessed.
Entwining the warm vintage tones of 60s and 70s folk with a modern signature dream pop sound that only Peppler can call his own, Blessed is effortlessly efficacious in beckoning you into the beguiling grace of the release. Which needed no more than accordant acoustic guitars, a harmonica and Peppler’s consolingly dulcet tones to lull you into gratified catharsis.
Lyrically, Blessed optimistically reinforces the message that we are blessed within ourselves and that trust that it will all work out is never misplaced. It’s a simple message, but one worth reiterating, given our tendency to curse every downfall and diminish everything positive. Notably, artistically thriving within pure, simplistic minimalism is Peppler’s gift, one that he’s worked tirelessly to perfect after eight years of performing live and crafting albums with various projects.
Watch Blessed live from the G7 Recording Studio on YouTube.
This Friday (Nov. 11). rising talent GloRilla will release mer major label debut project Anyways, Life’s Great… via Yo Gott’s CMG/Interscope Records imprint. Led by the singles “F.N.F. (Let’s Go)” and “Tomorrow 2m” the Memphis musician shares one more focus track in “Nut Quick.”
I get to take care of the people that I love, all my family and friends. I used be broke… I ain’t broke no more. And it’s by doing the thing that I love,” GloRilla said to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe. “I’m making money doing what I love to do. So, that’s everything. Yeah. I just stay prayed up, you know what I’m saying? Do right by everybody. I try not to let too much get… I try not to let everything just get to me so much.”
GloRilla Drops “Nut Quick” Single was last modified: November 8th, 2022 by Meka
MUMBAI, (IANS) – Multi-hyphenate Farhan Akhtar, who made his acting debut with the musical film ‘Rock On!!’, feels that rock music is what keeps the maximum city of Mumbai alive.
He seems to be right as the cosmopolitan is a melting pot of different cultures and rock music keeps it pulsating.
The ‘Dil Chahta Hai’ helmer is a die-hard rock’n’roll fan and was thrilled to perform along with Indian rock band ‘Parikrama’ at a music fest which returned to Mumbai after a hiatus of nine years.
He spoke about the need to keep the fest like I-Rock a normal fabric of a city, “The fact that the quintessential rockfest got such a response is so reassuring. The city needs rock music to stay alive. I’m glad that it’s happening again.”
As the voice that represents youth, Farhan feels that “we need to keep the fire of rock music burning”. He added, “Just keep the fire burning. Rock always represents freedom. It represents independence. It represents having your own voice.”
Farhan’s ‘Dil Chahta Hai’ actor Saif Ali Khan too attended the concert along with his son Taimur.
Almost Famous, Cameron Crowe’s semi-autobiographical film in which a 15-year-old aspiring journalist cuts his teeth on the road with an up-and-coming rock band, is not an obvious choice for a Broadway musical despite being predominantly about music. Or, more accurately, about musicians and devotion – a charitable reading of the film, whose fans I’m not convinced overlap that much with musical theater, would say it pondered the ineffable qualities that make a star. The difference between a good band and a great one, a solid night onstage and magic, poser and cool.
Like just-good bands, the new Broadway version, adapted by Crowe with music and lyrics by Tom Kitt, has some of the right ingredients – overall convincing performances, kinetic choreography, the sheen of nostalgia, both for the 2000 film and 70s rock’n’roll. But the overall chemistry is lackluster, bound to elicit more shrugs than screams.
This is mostly due to flaws in the source material, to which Crowe’s stage adaptation stays faithful, and a fizzling indecision over its audience. Who is an Almost Famous musical for? Assumedly for fans of the movie, which is beloved by many though never a blockbuster, and for which the musical theater treatment adds little. It could be for older classic rock fans, the kind jamming along to hits like Elton John’s Tiny Dancer at the Bernard B Jacobs Theatre, though it’s not a rock musical. The majority of the show’s 2.5-hour runtime (including a 15-minute intermission) are indistinguishable musical theater numbers by Kitt, who won a Tony and Pulitzer for the score to Next to Normal. If it’s for fans of musical theater unfamiliar with the film, then … there’s not much to recommend. The classic rock covers (Deep Purple, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Allman Brothers) provide sugary adrenaline hits of recognition, while Kitt’s original music is melodically interesting though never memorable enough to stick.
Crowe has chosen, with middling results, to frontload said story with jokes and lean into the film’s occasional silliness; from the top, we learn 17-year-old William Miller (standout newcomer Casey Likes) is belittled at school and at home, on account of being actually 15, lack of pubic hair, and puritanical mother Elaine (Anika Larsen). A nerd at heart influenced by rebellious sister’s records, he precociously wins a reporting assignment from curmudgeonly, rock-is-dead critic Lester Bangs (Rob Colletti, the show’s most consistent comic relief) to profile Black Sabbath.
Buoyed by a high-minded crew of groupies called the Band-Aids, he instead ends up embedded with Stillwater, a small-town rock band about to break big and already simmering with tension between hammy lead singer Jeff Bebe (Drew Gehling) and swaggering, amenably conflicted lead guitarist/sex symbol Russell Hammond (Chris Wood, doing a spot-on and thus enjoyable impression of Billy Crudup as Russell Hammond). William hits the road as a wide-eyed friend/foe and a hapless, naive third to the love/sex triangle between Russell and Band-Aid leader Penny Lane (Solea Pfeiffer).
Director Jeremy Herrin and choreographer Sarah O’Gleby play this cacophony – the “circus,” as Russell calls it – with a sense of playfulness. The show’s physical dynamism – rock stars banging through floating doors, groupies in 70s costume (designed by David Zinn) swinging from scaffolding, live instruments, head-banging – is energizing if entirely within the realm of pastiche or tribute. It buoys the score’s lackluster lyrics and even blander characterization of Penny Lane, the icon if not the protagonist of the film.
Crowe makes some wise edits to the film story – gone is the scene in which lovestruck William kisses an unconscious Penny during her quaaludes overdose – but adding dimensions to Penny isn’t one of them. The show seems self-conscious of her status as a classic “manic pixie dream girl” trope – an effervescent, mercurial and inscrutable female character who exists to inspire male protagonists to appreciate life more. (The term was coined by critic Nathan Rabin to describe a space alien female character in another Crowe movie, Elizabethtown; Crowe has, in press for the show, pushed back on this characterization of Penny.)
Penny’s indefinability gets unconvincingly reframed here as a strength: she brings the best out of people, says one of the Band-Aids, makes “a hotel feel like a home”, says Russell in a song that’s supposed to add backstory to their romance but supplies little. Pfeiffer has a velvety voice and plays Penny as more bohemian romantic than Hudson’s fragile nymph, but her performance, and the show as a whole, struggles to overcome the fact that she’s difficult to root for, a cipher in service to others.
It is easy, in a show trying on half-baked ideas about authenticity versus inauthenticity (it’s musical theater!), to harp on the misfires, how it’s not hitting the way rock landed for Penny Lane. But Almost Famous never sinks below passing and is, at times, engrossing. Broadway newcomer Casey Likes demonstrates impressive stamina as William, his adolescent awkwardness more endearing and believable than it should be. Larsen is genuinely funny as his chagrined mother, understandably concerned about what tour life will do to her child. Still, solid performances alone do not justify a musical adaptation. It’s almost fun, silly, coherent, convincing, but not enough.
Her first single in two years, New York singer-songwriter B.Miles‘ “One Track Pony” was long overdue. But artists also have personal issues to deal with.
In fact, “One Trick Pony” candidly delves into those low moments when she felt engulfed by a feeling disillusionment. It all had to do with the apparent difficulty in replicating earlier music success.
But she’s learnt to confront such thoughts and embrace change. “I’m working to shed a past version of myself and figure out what truly makes me happy,” B.Miles says.
Musically, this indie-pop track feels warm. The artist’s velvety vocals lay smoothly atop the melody-filled instrumentation. “One Track Pony” is magnificent in deed.
