Mary at Midnight - "Songbird" New Video

                           "Songbird" New Video

Mary st Midnight
Somewhere in between day and night comes Mary at Midnight.

A little bit Indian, a little bit English, Mary at Midnight couples live instruments with dreamy sampled beats, blending them with words often born from the chromosomes of too little sleep and an over-active imagination.

The odd tabla beat or harmonium drone is wrapped up in a comforting blanket of satisfying electro beats and ethereal vocals.

Influenced by previous musical projects within a wide range of genres, from intimate folk to a bit of the louder stuff, Mary at Midnight draws many references but maintains very much her own sound.

Currently writing tracks with Talvin Singh, and plotting the first few gigs with the live band, Mary at Midnight will very soon be floating around the ether somewhere between daytime and the magic that only the depths of a dark night can provide.   - Sonia Zhuravlyova

Listen to Mary at Midnight now!

Find out more about Mary and Midnight 

www.maryatmidnight.com

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encypher

encypher

"encypher" is all about transforming the guts of a situation to the beauty and perfection of a song. To create a world where we can pull out the emotion in any given situation and evoke a visceral reaction through an audience. 

"encypher" means to convert a message into cypher. Cypher means a message in code only fully understood by the author. 

That’s what encypher does, transforming the pain, to where it becomes pleasurable to go through it once again into the positive outlet of music… 

 Listen to  encypher now!

"New September" will take you back to a time when it seemed as if summer would last forever. Reminisce about the days when the bond of friendships was the only thing that mattered and how those are the memories that remain in your heart forever.

Find out more about encypher

www.myspace.com/encyphermusic

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Streets of Hastings

"We're just a drinkin' band with a rock 'n roll problem..."

Streets of Hastings

How many bands do you know that can pull off a two-set show, in front of over 100 people, within a mere 6 weeeks of forming?  I mean, for a 6 week old band to be playing 17 songs in front of an audience?!?!  That sh*t ain't normal! 

 

And to make the best of it, Streets of Hastings didn't just pull it off... they lit it up!

 
Formed in December 2009, S.o.H prides itself on not being conveniently fit into a genre category.  They write, compose and perform their own originals, but also add a few covers to the set for the crowd to have fun with some familiar tunes... but make no mistake, this ain't no cover band... not S.o.H.   

Get yer arse unstapled from the couch... come out and be part of the S.o.H experience.

Listen to Streets of Hastings now! 

Robin Coleman
Like a resourceful explorer, I filled this emptiness with discoveries of music, alcohol, nicotine, caffeine and the occasional bout of sport... but it was never enough. At the age of 17, I started out on my own... sans family... to seek out that which would satisfy the neverending hunger inside me. Then, in a tent in the Gatineau Hills, I found them! BOOBIES! The abyss was closed!.... briefly.

Shortly after the discovery of women... I learned that everything has a dark side. Events that I dare not divulge - as they would spoil the movie ;) - took me down the grittier path in life. I found myself living as a street kid, a drifter, a vagrant and a transient. It was awesome, but it was not without it's share of hardship. You wouldn't believe how hard it is to find a shower when you don't have your own. This journey has made a story teller out of me, and there is nothing I love more than to make new stories. This is where Streets of Hastings comes in...  Read more

Philippe Plouffe

I was born in North Bay Ontario until the age of 3, when my parents attempted to immigrate to civilization, but failed miserably and ended up in Rockland. I have been here ever since. I guess that’s not a bad thing when you want to be a musician, because when you have nothing else to do, you practice.
 
I’ve been playing music since the age of 6, starting off on the piano, taking classical lessons until the 6th grade, where I fell out of love with the instrument, because of it’s lack of adaptability to the ‘hardness’ of what I was listening to at the time. About 6 months later, I started to harrass my parents to fork out some cash to buy me another instrument, but had not decided which one yet. I picked the guitar because in every musical instrument store I would walk into, they would be everywhere on the walls. You can say I found my voice with guitar, and have spent the last 10 years or so playing it as my main instrument, while tabbling on about another douzen random ones... Read more
 

Jason Bedard

Born and raised in Rockland, Ontario, I started playing hockey at a very young age. As my involvement in the sport continued, I began to expand my social horizons, getting to know just about anybody in Rockland who had already made a name for him or herself via the hockey community. 

As high school slowly crawled to a halt, my hobbies also slowly started to turn toward a more artistic and creative avenue. In an attempt to satiate my thirst for a more creative lifestyle, I quickly decided to move away from sciences at school and tread closer and closer to literature and the art of rhetoric. After a couple of years as an English Literature student at the University of Ottawa, I then decided to dive even deeper into the world of creativity and picked up music, more specifically the bass. While the instrument choice may have seemed odd and obscure at first, I quickly came to realize that bass was a perfect choice, as a complimentary and vitally necessary part of any serious music group. Honing my talents not only technically, but also theoretically, I am now able to say that I am the bass player for Streets of Hastings... Read more

 Larry Peyton

A proud Newfoundlander of Irish & English descent, I left St. John's as a teenager to attend university in Nova Scotia. With a degree in hand, I returned to the Rock to work for a few years, until my profession moved me around the country, including posts in Saskatchewan, Alberta, and most recently, Ontario.

Being from Newfoundland, listening (and drinking!) to traditional Irish music has always been a big source of enjoyment. Playing a musical instrument, though, wasn’t a part of life… instead I was more of an athlete, primarily playing competitive hockey and soccer. I enjoyed music, but never saw myself as the artistic type to have ability, or much interest, to play an instrument.

That changed in 2008, when my eldest daughter (who is most certainly set to be a professional musician) prompted me to try drumming. March of that year was the first time I ever held a set of drumsticks… and I really haven’t put them down since...  Read more

Find out more about Streets of Hastings

www.streetsofhastings.com

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Leanne Louise - Heading Into "Open Mic UK" Reagional Final

Leanne Louise

"I recently entered a competition called openmicuk and made it through the audition stage if you want to see me perform tickets are £7.50 and you can get them from me email:leannelouise93@yahoo.co.uk the regional finals are at basildon's towngate theatre! :) "

Listen to Leanne Louise now!

Find out more about Leanne Louise

www.myspace.com/leannelouisemusic

Open Mic UK

Open Mic UK is the biggest music competition in the UK for singers and solo artists.

 Over 8,000 acts from across the country auditioned last year ..... Are you good enough to enter?

Open Mic UK gives you plenty of opportunities including the chance to perform live in front of some of the country's top producers, Label execs, promoters and DJs.

And if you make it through the audition stage of the competition YOU COULD BE PLAYING THE NATIONAL GRAND FINAL!

Over £50,000 in prizes are up for grabs along the way with the winner offered a recording contract and up to £30,000 investment!- www.openmicuk.co.uk

Phildel - Upcoming Shows and "The Wolf" Video

Shot in the darkly picturesque winter woodland of the New Forest, this is the latest hand-crafted collection of visuals to accompany my music. The track is the sinister dance mix of The Wolf. Silhouettes and shadows set the scene for this video. The picture quality is low and deliberately juttery in an attempt to capture the style of old-school horror films.

- Phildel

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Phildel's Upcoming Shows

09/18/2010 6:00PM 

Live on BBC Radio 4 "Loose Ends" London, London, UK

09/15/2010 7:00PM

Lunidea productions present "Once Upon A Thames" London, UK

09/16/2010 3:00PM

Lunidea productions present "Once Upon A Thames" London, UK

09/17/2010 3:00PM

Lunidea productions present "Once Upon A Thames" London, UK


Find out more at www.myspace.com/phildel   

Phildel is a truly unique artist creating music that is inspired by imagination. As a child, playing the piano and even listening to music within her home was forbidden - as her strict, religious step-father believed music was an unholy distraction from prayer.

Despite the difficulties, Phildel devoted her free time at school to playing and writing songs on the school piano. Finally, at the age of seventeen she ran away from home, leaving only a letter behind in explanation. 

Determined to pursue the creation of music that she loved and had nurtured in secret for so many years, she created a basic studio in her tiny bedroom and recorded her first demo.

In 2007 Phildel's track Piano B found it's way on to one of the year's biggest tv advertising campaigns, bringing her to the UK's attention for the first time. Soon, in 2008 the same occurred in France with another two highly popular, filmic television campaigns. She was quickly signed to Warner Chappell Music Publishing in early 2009. 

With sell-out shows arranged through Earls Court Festival, combining surrealist art and music, word of the deeply enchanting live shows of Phildel also began to spread throughout the art world. 

In 2010 award-winning London Fashion Week designer, Henrietta Ludgate asked if Phildel would create the music for her 'enchanted woodland' catwalk show with London Fashion Week. Just days later, 'The Kiss' another one of Phildel's moving pieces was selected for yet another major advertising campaign. 

With the world's leading fashion designers, writers and major brands, eager to share in the magic of her sound, it is clear that this is just the beginning for this gifted artist. From this point onwards the world is undoubtedly going to hear more and more of Phildel, as her incredibly unique work inpires growing numbers of all ages everywhere.

Find out more about Phildel

www.phildel.com

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Diane Birch - Concerts on the Green @ The Village Green

September 11, 2010 

Concerts on the Green @ The Village Green
One Village Green North Plymouth, MA

Free Show.   Supporting the Gin Blossoms.
For more info please visit dianebirch.com

The official video for "Rewind" off of Diane Birch's critically acclaimed debut album "Bible Belt"

Diane Birch

Singer-songwriter Diane Birch took half her lifetime, and traveled across the globe, to get to America, where she literally found her voice and made her remarkable debut, Bible Belt. Though only in her mid-twenties, Birch likes to think of herself as an “old soul,” and indeed there is a startling maturity in her singing and a veteran’s self-assurance in her writing. Hook-driven songs like “Fools” and “Valentino” offer more than just instant gratification: they’re like your new best friends – you’ll want to get together with them as frequently as possible. Birch mixes piano-playing virtuosity with easy-going soul, and she can strike an uplifting groove on even the most melancholy tune. Her work bears hints of Laura Nyro (when she was hanging out with LaBelle) and early 70’s Karen Carpenter (when she was ruling the charts), while effortlessly incorporating New Orleans second-line rhythms, gospel fervor, doo-wop harmonies, country-blues guitar and classic AM radio-style melodies. Read more.

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www.dianebirch.com

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Lyva Music - "LYVA FEST" Kicks Off on November 10, 2010

Lyva Music Fest 

kicks off in Brooklyn, New York at the legendary Knitting Factory on November 10, 2010. Lyva Music Fest showcases original musicians who represent the true musical nature of music, creativity, high energy performance and upbeat grooves. This is a unique festival that brings together talented artists and the latest digital media distribution techniques with an emphasis on social media. It is a collaboration between the music industry and digital media in the vibrant technology community that is New York.  
- The Knit

Get your tickets here - The Knit - bk.knittingfactory.com

LYVA's music includes songs that are co-written by Lynda McLaughlin and Valerie Gurka, two friends who have formerly been involved in separate projects that have appeared on NBCs Morning Show, SXSW, Sean Hannitys Freedom Concert and NPR.They have collectively shared the stage with Billy Ray Cyrus, Michael W. Smith and Gordon Gano. This project includes adult contemporary songs that represent a fusion of pop, rock, alternative, R&B, Latin and dance grooves. LYVA is not afraid to show its true colors in a variety of different forms, which include traditional musicality using contemporary techniques. Its hooks are powerful, vocals are passionate, lyrics are thoughtful and the grooves are fun. 

- The Knit

LYNDA MCLAUGHLIN

is a seasoned musician who has worked in everything from theatre to pop-rock bands. She has been trained in music, but voice came naturally, and that instrument has not been tampered with or modified. Some things are better left in their natural state. She has toured throughout the United States and attended and participated in well known music events, such SXSW and ACL. In an original project with her family, LDM Music, she appeared on NBC’s morning show as the musical guest, performing the hit off her first album Just When You Thought, “You Are Mine.”

VALERIE GURKA

is a music producer, songwriter and live music performer. After performing with several cover bands in New York City, Gurka pre-released her retro-style original debut demo album Planet Girl in 2008 which resulted in a full-page feature in the New York Resident and the Hamptons Resident magazines. She officially released the album on iTunes and Amazon.com in 2009. She has also performed with Gordon Gano and The Ryans at The World Cafe in Philadelphia, broadcast on WXPN and NPR Radio.

With her passion for soundtracks, electronica, world music and pop music production, she has joined with seasoned artist and songwriter Lynda McLaughlin for this new project. The songs are a merger of two personalities and life experiences. Stay tuned for updated news!

  

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 Find out more about Lyva Music here

www.lyvamusic.com

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