In February 2009 Angie Arsenault released her fan funded album “Once Upon a Dream”. While she is raising funds for her new EP on SellaBand she is going to release another EP to the public in November. The EP will be available for free or “Pay What You Want” via her website. This is what
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Unbelievable! Over 100,000 visitors on www.50kmusic.com since I started the website. Thanks to all readers, supporters, critics, lovers and haters. Although some may say it’s not worth celebrating I’d like to start a little competition. The only thing you have to do is answer two simple questions: 1. When did 50K MUSIC website start? 2.
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Last week they won the AMADEUS Award in category Hard & Heavy. And KONTRUST definitely deserve this award. I talked to Manuel about their experience at the awards show and a funny mistake…
Actually not really independent music but absolutely worth mentioning here are these two guys hailing from Stockholm. About two years ago I listened to their “18 Karat Gold” during my summer holidays near Gothenburg when SR P3 played this song every day. After I (re)discovered Johnossi on PSL (talked about it on Friday) I browsed
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In the past few weeks, TalentCast interviewed a few artists who have just released their albums funded on SellaBand. This time they have interviewed an artist who is just finishing working on her debut: Natalia Safran. Natalia is a successful model and actress, but music is her biggest passion and she is working hard on
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In April this year PSL (which stands for Per Sinding-Larsen I think), a SVT (Swedish Television) programme about music, chatted with Shout Out Louds about their plans to sing in Swedish and a crisis which peaked out in a band meeting last Christmas and how they emerged stronger than before. Sadly the interview is in
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About one week ago APRA celebrated New Zealand’s premier song writers with the Silver Scroll at the Auckland Town Hall. And Kiwi Rapper Maitreya has won the APRA Maioha Award, the award that “recognises excellence in contemporary Maori music”, with his song “Sin City”. Check out the English version of the vid: If you prefer
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A few weeks ago I reported about their upcoming debut single “Find The Sun” and CMT’s feature about Lisa Prokop and Paul Jefferson, meanwhile better known as The Jeffersons. And here is the video to “Find the Sun” …
His new album brought me back to the Blues. I listen to songs of Tom Waits again now and of course to Woody Russell’s “Up Against It”. And you should have a listen too if you are a real Blues fan. Here is part 2 of my interview with him…
He was definitely one of my favourite artists on SellaBand, although I joined SellaBand too late to invest in his first album “Circles & Squares”. Btw, he is still one of my favourite artists. Yesterday Francis Rodino has released his new EP, again funded by his truest fans. I asked him a few questions –
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