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Saturday, December 30, 2017

UNDECIDED FUTURE



Breaking News! On Nov. 20 Undecided Future was chosen by Jason Derulo as the winner of his episode 3, a Ryan Seacrest’s global music competition called ‘Best.Cover.Ever.’ The video currently has over 7 million views and is exclusively on YouTube. 


Undecided Future’s dropped a new single, “Intoxicated” dropped December 5th, 2017 on iTunes.
Their fan base has been growing locally and organically for the past 6 years. They have become known for their feel-good lyrics with great hooks, genre-smashing compositions, a unique combination of vocal harmonies and a relentless energy on stage.

Inseparable from high school, Undecided Future is an Indie Pop band formed in 2012, all five were students of Commercial Music and Film & TV at Orange County School of the Arts, Santa Ana. They had professional musicians as teachers in high school and were taught at a young age, from the best in the business and were able to get a jump-start on getting booked at venues like Disneyland and Downtown Disney, even though they were so young. 

While still in high school, they recorded ‘Disco Balls & Mating Calls’ 2014, a 6 song EP on iTunes and all digital platforms. Their Back-to-School campaign summer of 2017 consisted of a new single “HMU” dropping to all digital platforms as well as 250 college radio stations across the U.S. with a good amount of spins and colleges adding their songs to their libraries.

Undecided Future has a regular gig performing for hundreds of people at the Disneyland resort properties. They entertained their largest crowd of 10,000+ opening for Smash Mouth at the Lake Mission Viejo Summer Concert Series last summer and have played the KAABOO Festival, the CoachHouse, LA & OC County Fairs to name a few. 

They have given back by performing for numerous, local charities in the area. Dear to their hearts is CHOC Hospital Cancer Center in Orange, as Hayden, the Bass player, had been diagnosed with cancer and spent a lot of time there getting cured this year. Happy to have him back on his feet, the band will be playing at Springboard Festival in Jan 2018 and SXSW in Austin, TX, March 2018. They have die-hard fans of all ages who are cheering them on and going to all their live shows. undecidedfuture.com


YouTube Kicks Off 'Best.Cover.Ever' Series With Demi Lovato, Katy Perry and Jason Derulo
The YouTube logo photographed on Aug. 9, 2016.
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11/20/2017 by Nicole Pajer

YouTube has long been the place where aspiring singer/songwriters have uploaded videos of themselves performing in their bedrooms with the hopes of following in the footsteps of Justin Bieber and being discovered. A new series hosted by the platform itself is helping to give these wishful artists the recognition that they hope for. On Nov. 20th, YouTube will premiere Best.Cover.Ever., a global singing competition that allows musicians to submit cover performances to their favorite artists in the hopes of being selected to perform alongside their idols.

The show, which is executive produced by Ryan Seacrest Productions and Endemol Shine North America, put out a call to artists around the world, challenging them to cover a song by one of the Best.Cover.Ever. season one superstars: Katy PerryDemi LovatoJason DeruloCharlie PuthKeith UrbanBackstreet BoysFlo RidaNicky Jam, Bebe Rexha and DNCE.

The established stars then sat down and helped to choose two finalists whose cover videos they were most impressed by. The finalists were flown to the YouTube Space in Los Angeles where they are given the chance to perform for their idol. The stakes are high, as the winner from each episode is given the opportunity to duet on the show with their favorite superstar.

According to Ludacris, the show's official host, the premise is unlike anything we've seen from popular talent search competitions such as American Idol, The Voice, or America's Got Talent.
"It's an interesting way of bringing new talent, not only to meet their idols but also to put the spotlight on them so they can help further their career," he tells Billboard. "You have the competition aspect, the music aspect, the finding a star aspect, and the people meeting their idol aspect."

And the submissions, according to the rapper, were definitely unique. "Covers have long been popular but these artists are really stepping it up -- playing with the arrangement of the song, melodies and everything," he says. Ludacris cites a group that performed on the show as an example. "They took a Keith Urban country song and made it fit to their R&B style." He adds that fans of the stars that the episodes center around will also enjoy watching the emerging talent challenge their idols to step out of the box and tackle new renditions of their songs during the winners' collaborations.

The show is something that YouTube's global head of original content, Susanne Daniels, has been wanting to make for some time. "Ryan Seacrest brought this pitch to me when I was at MTV, two and a half years ago," she says. "We couldn't work out the deal there but when I went to YouTube, Ryan was my first call and we realized the show works perfectly on YouTube for a myriad of reasons -- fans love music on YouTube, fans love covers on YouTube, and the platform allowed for the submission process to be interactive -- we could have them upload their covers on the site and enlist the artists to do call outs on their channels to inspire the fans to enter."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyhLwVuBqEg

Those call outs were well received. "We got submissions from tens of thousands of artists from all over the world," Daniels discloses, noting that finalists traveled to the Los Angeles set from as far away as Australia, Latvia, and the Philippines to participate in the series.

Twenty-one year old Katy Perry fan, Riley Biederer was one of them. "I'm a YouTube cover artist. I'm fairly active on YouTube. I saw the video asking for submissions and decided to go for it," she explains.
The Atlanta-based singer/songwriter's acoustic cover of "Firework" was hand selected by Perry and she was then flown to California as one of two finalists competing to impress the star. While she's hoping that the show will boost her exposure as an artist, for Biederer, the best part of the process was the chance to talk shop with her idol. "She gave me some cool advice -- to stay true to the writing roots of where I cam from," the contestant says, of meeting Perry. "It was really cool to have someone that you've looked up to and listened to for so many years tell you that they are inspired by your craft and are pushing you to continue to do what you love. I'm more inspired to push forward with my music now than ever before," she proclaims.

Southern California's Undecided Future, who call themselves a "future, funk, R&B band," had an equally positive experience as finalists on the Jason Derulo episode. The band put their own unique spin on "Trumpets," and were given the chance to perform in front of the song's performer himself.
While he was unable to divulge how far they made it in the competition at this time, drummer Matisse Pasillas did reveal that meeting Derulo armed the band with a 'behind' the scenes look at the business side of the industry as well as tips on how to perfect its stage moves. "He taught us how to be confident while performing and to have fun," he says.

Undecided Future's experience with Derulo will air on November 20th in the first batch of released episodes and the group is already preparing for the aftermath. "We're releasing a song in December called 'Intoxicated.' We're looking at the future now. We really want to continue to build on this exposure that this show has brought us and run with it," says keyboardist/vocalist Nick Stone. "And it was all because of a cover song."

Ludacris tells Billboard that aspiring artists should never underestimate the power of a cover tune. "I got my start doing covers of LL Cool J's 'I'm Bad' in a talent show when I was 9 or 10-year-old," he says, nothing that if Best.Cover.Ever. was around in his early career days, he would have jumped at the chance to partake. "I'd absolutely be submitting an LL or Outkast cover!" he exclaims.

"YouTube is one of the best places to discover new music and new artists from all over the world," says Daniels. "Best.Cover.Ever. is designed to discover the next big artists only on YouTube. We hope that this is an opportunity for these emerging artists to take their careers to the next level, not only by giving them a worldwide audience through the show, but also by providing them with invaluable advice from the superstar artists."

Best.Cover.Ever premieres with its first three episodes, featuring Jason Derulo, Demi Lovato, and Katy Perry, on November 20th on the show's official YouTube page.

Monday, November 13, 2017

Ace Lover



https://www.aceloverworld.com

Ace Lover is a New York City Based Indie recording artist, producer, & street/contemporary art painter.  His music is a fusion of  Progressive Indie Hip Hop, Dancehall, Sound Art, Alternative psychedelic funk, & Doo Wop creating his own unique style of music. Ace Lover released a Doo Wop themed limited edition collectible 7" vinyl through his own imprint, Ace Lover Productions, May 2015, which was distributed by Fat Beats. The 45 record release included the New York City underground scene favorite "Amazing Brains" that peaked at #8 on the top 40 Hip Hop Record Breakers chart.

Ace Lover, who makes his signature brand of hip-hop out of New York City, takes something from everything to get his characteristic sound. -S. McCauley

         Ace Lover's been Devlin' and javelin' celebrity-status style in the New York City scene for a minute. The Spanglish homeboy made a sudden splash with his debut single when he was still a teenage street art creator & Hip Hop MC. He was originally discovered by Indie record executive producer Phil Rust of Music Family at an MC battle in the Lower East Side of Manhattan at the age of 17. Phil helped develop him into a professional recording artist. Ace released two 12" vinyl records on the Music Family imprint which garnered a substantial amount of interest in the indie hip-hop market worldwide. After his contract was up at Music Family he was quickly picked up by Cajo Communications & continued to release music through Fat Beats Distribution. During his stint with Cajo Communications, he toured the USA & Canada & was named the next 100 upcoming artists to look out for by URB magazine. As the years went by he has cultivated his crafts & evolved into a uniquely talented, self-contained, musical recording artist & contemporary art painter.


        
 Riding off the momentum of his 7" release in 2015, he released a series of visual music art videos with a steady release of underground singles & Eps. Ace Lover will be making his contemporary art debut in 2017 with his 1st exhibition after years of paying his dues as a New York City Street Art creator. He will also be debuting in an online pop-up shop with limited edition Ace Lover art products. Sign up to the mailing list to receive updates on new releases.   https://www.aceloverworld.com/bio

Ace Lover is a historically significant New York City recording artist, producer, & contemporary street all city graffiti artist with a music career spanning over a decade.
  1. He started making a name for himself when he was only 16 years old entering MC battles, writing his name on the walls throughout New York City and recording underground classics.
    He initially started making underground Hip Hop music at the turn of the century when he released his 1st 12" vinyl single that had garnered a substantial amount of interest in the indie Hip Hop market worldwide.

    When Ace Lover became a young adult, he & his family moved to Uptown Bronx on E.228th Street which is a predominately Jamaican/West Indian Neighborhood in the Bronx. They moved there because of his niece, who is blind, attended Lavelle School for the Blind, the only all blind children's school in the whole entire New York City. In this neighborhood Ace Lover was influenced by the Uptown Bronx Dancehall Scene. He was influenced by modern dancehall artist like Sean Paul, Vybz Kartel, Blak Rhyno, Alkaline, PopCaan, Dexta Daps, to classic reggae acts like Delroy Wilson, Gregory Isaacs, & Dennis Brown.

    The Ace Lover "Think About Her" record is a single released by Mt Vernon New York Independent Dancehall Record label We Are One Productions. The music Video features incredible Disney style rotoscoping by New York City Modern Contemporary Pop Street artist Dyani.

Friday, November 10, 2017

NST - Happy Birthday To You Xuân Thắng - Hoàng Thái Mix By Hoàng Thái ✪

New show by Hoàng Thái ✪


NST - Happy Birthday To You Xuân Thắng - Hoàng Thái Mix

Một món quà nho nhỏ dành tặng anh Thắng của em nhân ngày sinh nhật nha 😗 Chúc anh thêm tuổi mới luôn vui vẻ, hạnh phúc và thành công hơn trong cuộc sống !! Happy birthday to you ❤
Có bài nhạc hơi lỗi mong a không chê ❤❤


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Sunday, November 5, 2017

Joe Walsh's veteran rock for VetsAid

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Joe Walsh's veteran rock
Guitarist Joe Walsh talks about turning up the volume for VetsAid, and then goes on to tell Goldmine his forecast for the future of the electric guitar. Read more... 


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Interview with Firefall bassist Mark Andes
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Mark Andes (at left) played bass for Canned Heat, Spirit, Jo Jo Gunne, Firefall and Heart from the mid '60s through the early '90s. In recent years, he has returned to Firefall, with two of the band's original members.
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Sunday, October 29, 2017

The James Carratt Project


The South, known for fried chicken and country music!  Yet North of the Mason Dixon the brand of country is a little rougher, dirtier and topped with the taste of Chicago Blues.  

Band Name: The James Carratt Project
Album Name: Yankee Pride
Year Released:
Email Address: jamescarratt@gmail.com
Website: www.jamescarrattproject.com
Music Style: Country
Influences: Jamey Johnson
We Sound Like: Jamey Johnson
Performing Rights Society:
Label Affiliation: Unsigned
Geographic
Hometown: South Beloit
Country:United States
Touring your Region?: No
Band Description

The James Carratt Project is a compilation of over 45 musicians, both signed and unsigned who have come together to record material written and produced by James A Carratt Jr.

Wednesday, October 18, 2017

C.E.O. BUSINESS

Musik Radio Promotions
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C.E.O. BUSINESS

Genre
Urban, Pop, Dance,Happy Reggae Feel

Location
United States

Label
C.E.O. Business

Website:  http://www.ceobusiness.net/

Songwriter/Publisher
C.E.O. Business/ASCAP

C.E.O. Business Bio

C.E.O. Business was founded in Little Rock, AR, in the summer of 2011 by Mike Davis Jr. The acronym "C.E.O." served as an "inner ego" (motivational/inspirational tool) for a young Mike D. who was so confident in himself and so ambitious that he did not put anyone above him. Mike D. overcame every obstacle that awaited him and used every failed moment that he encountered to mastermind plans, granting him the opportunity to conquer any goal(s) that he had originally set for himself.

          Growing up, Mike D. highly admired some of the world's Greatest men such as Michael Jackson, Barry Gordy, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, Jay-Z, Dr. Dre, Jermaine Dupree and many more,  Mike D. always felt that he was destined to be great and that one day he would be mentioned with those list of names. Mike D. developed the urge to give back not only his community but to the world in all that he did.

          Although there were positive influences on Mike D.'s life, Mike D. was also inspired by the stories of some of the world's most notorious gangsters. Mike D. was most influenced by the drive, ambition, determination, and intelligence of the works of Al Capone, Frank Lucas, Pablo Escobar, Joaquin "El Chapo Guzman, and Terry "Big Meech" Flenory. While Mike D. did not agree with the lifestyle and life choices these men made, Mike D. could not resist the fact that each of these men were intelligent and self-driven.

          Mike D. set out to use each of these individual influences to mastermind his own plan in "Taking Over the World", legally and within the laws of the land. Mike D., also vowed to develop his own brand and be a positive role model, motivation and inspiration to all people of the world, regardless of any classification.

         Thus, C.E.O. Business was born. Conquering Every Opportunity "C.E.O." Business  was created to serve as a "Global Empire". This empire was designed to be significant, powerful and successful in every aspect of Production and Entertainment.

Micfreeze

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Micfreeze



Genre
Pop - Hip Hop with R&B flavor

Location
United States

Label:  Indie

Website:  https://store.cdbaby.com/m/cd/micfreeze2

Songwriter/Publisher
MicFreeze

From the hard-hitting streets of Eastside Detroit hails rapper Micfreeze, who has made it his mission to conquer the world of rap music. Since the age of 16, Micfreeze has been steadily climbing up the charts with his music, as rap music has always been a part of him.

The artist spent his years of youth playing various instruments and writing poetry here and there. Once he discovered his lyrical gift, Micfreeze decided to buckle down and become more serious about the musical road ahead of him.

Major industry icons such as Tupac Shakur inspired Micfreeze, which further sparked his desire to become the rapper of his generation. This sort of journey to the top was significant to the artist, as breaking away from a poverty-stricken area and rising to the top was at the forefront of his mind.

At the age of 17, the rapper dropped his first-ever mixtape, which included hit single "Money is My Motivation". The artist remained committed to making more hot music, which led to him releasing his second major project, "Chills on the Block", a year later.

This mixtape featured yet another hit single called "Have a Sip", which showcased his individual, unique sound. "I would describe myself like this... I'm a Detroit rapper that doesn't sound like a Detroit rapper," said Micfreeze. "I have my own original style at the same time." Though his career was headed in the right direction, Micfreeze refused to succumb to complacency and kept striving to be the best rapper he could be. After collaborating with Young Gator and Dej Loaf, Micfreeze knew that with hard work, anything was possible.

Currently, Micfreeze is putting the finishing touches on his next major project titled "Chills on the Block 2", a follow-up to its predecessor. He is confident the mixtape will produce much success, specifically with the highly anticipated singles "Split It" and "Cousin Skeeter". "One thing about me is that I rap and come up with my own concepts.

I'm always developing new ways and angles to put out a different type of music for every crowd," said Micfreeze. He said it best, as his ability to wow any crowd is undeniable. "Even if you don't like music in general, you'll still vibe with my music," said the artist. This rings true, as his popularity has drastically increased over the past few years. His high-quality sound fused with his knack for attention-grabbing concepts is partly what makes him so successful.

Looking ahead, Micfreeze is in it for the long haul. He is not merely here to put out album after album; he wants his fans to get to know him through his decision to vulnerably open up through song. "About me... It's all original, raw talent.

Everything I say comes from my soul, and showcases what I've been through, and what I will go through," said the rapper. "It's been a long ride, and that's what makes me different. I want to explain myself, and show everyone exactly who I am." Through his steady hustle with his full-time job followed by his tireless hours making new music, Micfreeze will only continue to get better and grow as an artist exponentially.

For Micfreeze, this is more than just rap music. His desire in getting his point across is for everyone to take something from the message he delivers. This artist definitely possesses five-star quality and talent and will continue to go far.

Micfreeze's new singles "Split It" and "Cousin Skeeter" are sure to be crowd pleasers, so follow him on social media to stay tuned: