Buzz Track: Ashes of My Paradise
Electro-pop singer Kelly Sweet who we featured last year as an emerging artist is still creating a buzz since MTV “The Hive” premiered her video Ashes of My Paradise. She has received coverage in Seventeen Magazine and Elle. She falls between Ellie Goulding and Florence and The Machine. She is performing at Club Moscow in Hollywood on June 19th.
Contact: mikesavage123@gmail.com
Buzz Track: Way Back
News Update: Kings favorite Chicago based Super Happy Fun Club new record “All Funned Up” was released on iTunes debuting at #82 on the Top 100 Rock Charts. They have UK dates lined up in the fall. Also check out our other favorite track My Life’s A Mess.
Contact: stubhy@me.com
Buzz Track: Old Wine In A New Bottle
Nashville based duo, One Arm Train (comprised of of young singer/songwriters Grant Vogelfanger and Witt McKay) have been singing and writing songs together since they were ten years old. The duo recently relocated from Memphis to Nashville, TN and continue to work with some of the biggest names in the business having already collaborated with the likes of writers/producers like Richard Marx, Mike Busbee, Nathan Chapman, and Ashley Gorley just to name a few . The duo’s self titled EP produced by their long time producer Trey Bruce (Carrie Underwood, Faith Hill) was released in February of this year and has charted on the iTunes Top 100 Country albums reaching #78 as an unsigned artist which makes them an artist to watch.
Contact: johndwarren1@gmail.com
Buzz Track: The Way We Are
Kate Boy is comprised of Australian singer-songwriter Kate Akhurst (vocals) as well as Swedish musicians. The video for “Northern Lights” has received over a half million views and the video for
“In Your Eyes” has climbed to almost 200,000 streams. This will be their first North American tour, set dates at Brooklyn Bowl in NYC, Santos Party House in NYC, Schuba’s Tavern in Chicago, The Echo in LA, and Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco. You can check them out on June 11th at the The Echo in Los Angeles.
Contact: alex@iamsoundrecords.com
Buzz Track: The Sight of Fire
New York City pop rockers The Jim Ivins Band have been making a name for themselves since their 2008 inception, scoring write-ups from publications like The Aquarian and Absolutepunk.net, sharing the stage with national acts like Rooney, Parachute, Carolina Liar, and The Rocket Summer. The bands latest single “The Sight of Fire” was produced by John Seymour (U2) and Mark Santangelo (Neon Trees). The track “Everything We Wanted” was just featured on MTV’s The Real World. The band will perform The Bitter End (NYC) on Saturday June 29th.
Contact: thejimivinsband@gmail.com